WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Background blitz: A wreck

Cassiebsg · Mon 09/02/2015 00:00:46

Thanks guys for the vote of confidence.

Been playing a bit more with it, and have now added a few trees (they were easier than I thought they would be). I think it starting to look somewhat better, even if am still not sold on my stone texture (but I better not focus on that right now, or I'll go insane). Am still needing to add a few bushes and a proper background image (which oddly enough is proving harder than it should...

) if all else fails, I'll just try and export the image with an alpha transparency for the background and the add it with PhotoPaint.
Here's a sneak peak:

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Never mind the brown leaves, I accidentally used the bark texture instead of the leaves on those ones.

I promise I'll change it for the final version! This is also the longest render I've done in Blender so far at nearly 48 minutes (yes, I found the render quality settings!

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[IMGzoom]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/Cassiebsg/Jake/wrecktest2.png[/IMGzoom]

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(*cough* the kind of things I've always dreamt to do but never got a chance to learn *cough*)

You joking right?
You did an amazing BG in 1 day! I'm the one dreaming about one day being able to do such a feat!

Monsieur OUXX · Mon 09/02/2015 08:18:47

Quote from: Cassiebsg on Mon 09/02/2015 00:00:46
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(*cough* the kind of things I've always dreamt to do but never got a chance to learn *cough*)
You joking right? You did an amazing BG in 1 day!

I'm talking about 3D skills.
by the way there is a weird noise on your pictures. did you add a "noise" filter or did you render in a limited number of colors? (65000 colors?)

GreenBeams · Mon 09/02/2015 09:01:26

That's looking really nice, Cassiebsg! I know you didn't ask for a crit but i'll offer one anyway

At the minute, everything's coming together really nice and, although you may not think it, there's a lot of positive difference between this month's entry and last month's entry. It looks like you've got a Depth of Feild issue, though. At the minute, the focus is on a small portion of the ruin and a lot of the image is blurry. This much DOF gives the scene the impression of being miniature. I don't know the story behind it and maybe that's what you're going for but that's what immediately hits me about it. I found this tutorial on DOF in blender and it may help =)

Anyway, like i said, you didn't ask for a crit so i apologise if i'm stepping over my bounds here. You're doing some really nice work and are definitely improving as an artist =)

GreenBeams · Mon 09/02/2015 09:03:50

Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on Sun 08/02/2015 18:30:34

ONE

WEEK

LEFT

Pressure Pressure.

Argh!! plants and trees and plants and trees and plants and trees... paint faster!!!!

Cassiebsg · Mon 09/02/2015 15:57:03

Thanks for the input you two.

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Yes, I was playing with the depth, focus and distance of the camera last night, then set it to render just to realize that it was just the opposite of what I was trying to do!

At that hour I wasn't on the mood to fiddle with that again, and wait another hour or so to get a new render... I went to bed past 1AM... and had to get up at 5.30AM to go to work...

damn that! So yes, the DOF. I wanted the focus on the doorway, and all past that to be gradually out of focus... wasn't meant to get out of focus on the foreground and focus on the BG....

Thanks for the link.

Will take a look at it once I get the chance.

And feel free to give critic, even if it's not the Critics Lounge... but if it fills too much, just PM.

I always welcome constructive criticism!

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Layabout · Tue 10/02/2015 04:25:51

You could probably speed up your render by reducing the number of light bouncing and only render with full ray tracing when you are happy with the DoF.

Cassiebsg · Wed 11/02/2015 21:10:32

Old post:

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Here's my submission, I might still do a few changes/additions if I have the time before the dealine...

[IMGzoom]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/Cassiebsg/Jake/wrecktest4.png[/IMGzoom]

PS - Moving to the other computer has saved me some time, this one took under 18 minutes to render.

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Monsieur OUXX · Thu 12/02/2015 07:59:30

Real nice. Neat progress since last time and last iteration.

GreenBeams · Thu 12/02/2015 08:51:48

@cassiebsg - that's really nice!

I love the lighting choice of having the golden yellow sunlight behind the ruin. It puts the front wall in shadow and really highlights the doorway in. It's a very big - here's where you go next - kind of player/composition clue =) Well done and some great improvement!

GreenBeams · Thu 12/02/2015 12:33:20

8 days of painting jungle:

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Crashed planes in the jungle is a well-known trope! To stand in that tradition, every hour is well spent!

Special thanks to selmiaks walkthroughs for gathering all those planes in adventure games

Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom	Flight of the Amazon Queen (FotAQ) (recommended: selmiaks walkthrough for flight of the amazon queen)	BROKEN SWORD 3: The Sleeping Dragon
Where Time Stood Still	Lost Horizon (recommended: selmiaks walkthrough for lost horizon)

Do you plan to use it for a first-person adventure like Myst...

Cassiebsg · Thu 12/02/2015 20:37:04

Okay, think am finished! Consider this my final submission (unless someone has some clever tips on how to improve it). It's now pretty much how I envisioned it.

[IMGzoom]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/Cassiebsg/Jake/wreckhouse_final.png[/IMGzoom]

Now to go work on that portal...

GreenBeams · Thu 12/02/2015 21:13:02

@cassiebsg - wonderful! Adding the background really puts you in the picture and makes the ruin feel like it has a place in the space there. Well done for sticking with it, i know how infuriating rendering can get =)

@amy - Ah, broken sword, my favourite! (although possibly not The Sleeping Dragon, but my favourite franchise hands down) The plan was to just use the competition to help me learn how to paint, learn about composition and also how to get some story into a picture. So, and sorry for waffling here, to answer your question, there's no game attached to it.... yet

Andail · Fri 13/02/2015 10:18:51

Original ship model nicked from the sketchup warehouse website, rust texture also stolen, but hey, I was pretty stressed while making this

Probably wouldn't have participated here if it wasn't for the fact that this scene is something that could fit my next project...
Might consider it a WiP; could probably refine it quite a lot, and add things in the sky or on the ground...

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No idea why I uploaded a pre-magnified version of the bg instead of the original 320x200... but can't be bothered to change it now.

GreenBeams · Fri 13/02/2015 17:56:21

@Andail - nice work! with the cold sky and huge ship, the whole piece feels barron and inhospitable. Sort of like "oh, no... I'm in the poo this time" kind of thing. Lovely, atmospheric stuff =)

OK, i'm calling it a day on this one. it's easily the biggest thing i've ever painted but that's because it started big and I couldn't half arse it when i'd alrady done some of it. I tried to make the thing playable and ported it into AGS. I noticed a perspective problem at the start of the rope bridge as it's not directly stright. Lesson learned with that for future!

Anyway, i had a load of fun and love this compeition for pushing me to paint hard or go home (that's a saying, right? xD)

it's meant to be scrollable 640x480 screen that was painted at twice the size:
[imgzoom]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107389340/AGS/BG_Blitz/WRECK/final_480.png[/imgzoom]

Cassiebsg · Fri 13/02/2015 18:40:17

You guys are just awesome!

Incredible nice work!

Kasander · Sun 15/02/2015 23:46:02

I did a sketch few days ago, but somehow couldn't get back to it until Sunday. Sorry I couldn't finish it on time

To be honest I'm not sure if I'm not too late in this Blitz. I've always had this problem with the exact meaning of 'until'.

Mandle · Mon 16/02/2015 00:45:40

Kasander that is truly beautiful! Wow, you really know how to draw light reflecting off metal! Just wonderful!

Misj' · Mon 16/02/2015 06:49:11

Quote from: Kasander on Sun 15/02/2015 23:46:02To be honest I'm not sure if I'm not too late in this Blitz. I've always had this problem with the exact meaning of 'until'.

I always thought it just meant: until voting has started; which will be around <date>

Monsieur OUXX · Mon 16/02/2015 12:36:40

TIME IS OFF! (actually since yesterday night)

I'll now gather all submissions