Animation: The Erlking's First Appearance .05

1. Luminance Depth Pass

2. Render layers.
This time I tried splitting the elements between few more layers to discover if it makes the post-production process easier.

This scene is currently rendering. Time to move on!

Animation: The Erlking's First Appearance .04

The Forest of Two Daughters - Compositing Test .01

A test render with basic puppet tool and single detail traveling from left to right. For the final animation the fog puppet movement will be refined and more floating details shall be added. Next step is to check how the character look when placed in the environment. 

The Environment - Texturing the Assets .02

1. Brushstroke Planes on the Scary Forest Trees

2. Willows

The Environment: More Fog Designs

The fog is an important feature of the environment that appears in majority of the scenes and for that reason more designs were required. 

The Forest of Two Daughters - Developing the Set .01

Figuring out and developing the Forest of Two Daughters set will help and speed up the future post production process that will be applied to other sets.

1. Lighting

2. Fog

3. Luminance Depth/Depth of Field Pass Test (to be corrected)

4. Further Development in Maya and After Effects (to be continued)

5. ...and also this psychodelic image that got accidently created: 

The Forest of Two Daughters - Pretty Dress Scene Textured

The scene assets modelled by PG and textured by me.

Edited and split between two slides.

The Scary Forest - Texturing the Assets

With the 'happy forest' lighting process being still in progress, the time has come to move to texturing the 'scary forest' that had been modelled by Peta-Gaye. I have also followed Phil's advice about trying different ways of presenting the textures and below are some very early and basic tests. This process can also help with figuring out the layout for the Art of books that soon will have to start being taken more seriously. 

The Forest of Two Daughters: Progression

Texturing and splitting the background is now completed. The next step is to light the set. 

The Forest of Two Daughters: Texturing

There are not lights in the scene yet, and set is rather basic so far. I am going to finish texturing and then decide whether it needs more elements or not.

Texture maps for the environment:

Environment Modelling

I wanted to test if we could bring our trees into mudbox to add extra detail but the displacement maps would make our world to heavy therefore I think that we will use bumpmaps to add extra detail to the models