Thursday, April 21, 2005

#4Four

Stage: Scene Preparation

The Landscape (Landskaap is the working terminology; with vague reference to Afrikaans) is important because it is featured in the whole film (well, almost all). The crucial part of the modelling is contours, meaning the texture file used through the displace modifier to model the landscape; we make it from scratch through Photoshop.

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That was version 6 of the texture file, out of 10 versions. The other crucial of the landskaap set-up is the lighting, my least confident field in the genre. I made a reasonable omni-light arrangement for the landskaap and turned one of them into the sun, the working term for which is sonnenchein, with reference to German. Two other lights are arranged to illuminate the sky dome and the ground. And so there you have it: Land, Sonnenschein, Landlight and Skylight, all fitting perfectly into one Landskaap.
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Charming rendition of the sky and clouds. The original map was downloaded through Turbosquid.com, and edited through a tortuous session in Photoshop.

Gotta start work on animation soon!

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