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Published: 2019-09-15 00:41:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 749; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 0
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Another conversion, this time using the floor as the scene's key surface. The concept of a key surface is the one that draws you into the scene and tricks you into believing there is more detail and work there than the artist actually put in. The walls and other mid-to-background objects are simple bump resurfaced materials, not really close-up quality but in the distance and darkness they look good enough to look realistic.The floor though, close-up, has all these bumps, cracks, and imperfections that set the stage for your mind to go 'oh everything must be this cool' when really I put in 'just enough' work for this shot and let the viewer's imagination do the rest. Once I do close-ups near those walls, yes, I need to do more work there, but for here this is cool, good enough, and works well.
Get the panel done, save a little setup and render time, and move on to the next one.
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Thanks, it has one hole for light in it up there, and nothing was getting in. Just a single spot on the floor, which is realistic, but uninteresting. I had to go Hollywood on this set to make it sing.
There are some really subtle paper-like effects going on, just enough to make this not look too mathematical and perfect. They are meant to throw your eye subliminally, or trick you into seeing patterns that may not be there but are really. They are based off the printing effects in old 1970's horror and sci-fi fan magazines and print color reproduction and imperfections, along with some subtle photography tricks based on lenses and lens bodies in my horror style filters.
It looks like 3d, but then again, in some ways it doesn't. Which is cool. Imperfections make this perfect.
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Lighting on this was one cube, flattened, with an emissive light shader thrown on it and shoved up in the ceiling area- that's it. Think "where would a Hollywood lighting technician put a light?" and just do it. Could I have put more? If I wanted to, but I liked the concept of the background falling off into darkness because that is a very strong and spooky concept. Our minds are programmed to put all sorts of nasty things in the darkness, so that psychological effect works well here in lighting.
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