Started work on the under landscape which was reasonably simple as far as modeling goes. The texturing was an opportunity to try out the new micro-displacement in Blender 2.78. which can be run off the graphic card – except not for me, as it requires over 4 GB memory.
To make it even more impractical I also tested some Volume scattering…
Character refresh…
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Admit this is a more enjoyable character to make, but dealing with the curve modifier and particles in Blender – well that’s maybe another matter. The image below is pretty much a work in progress …
I’ve tried various approaches to this character over the years – this somewhat smaller guy is the latest. He is rigged, but at this stage he is just for testing…
The little island is easing into creation. I hope to add more junk eventually…
…and some details reveal, base texture ain’t good enough for close-up.
At some point I will need to start creating the world below street level – the home of our ‘missing’ character. The idea here is to merge gloomy and magical…
My character called ‘Contact’ is the digital face of the man in the room. Besides just having some fun, I was looking at how to represent a skin of circuits. There is an inner and outer material using the same UV mask which does not always behave as expected. Would love to explore this with more detail but think it might be a bit too much for my current system…
