Cauldron Bubbles - Stylized Organic Trees Continued

Here are a few more renders of the progress on the trees.

Cauldron Bubbles - Stylized Organic Trees

Yesterday and today I have been working on some stylized trees that will be used mostly in the opening shot. I am working to make them very organic and somewhat natural looking, but also disproportioned and stylized.


Here are just a few screen shots of the proxy, proxy smoothed, and my tree.

I am still working on this, but wanted to post an update since the Super Bowl is this afternoon, and I probably won't get much done later. :)

Also, the tree on the far left is my tree with about 515 faces at the moment.

Cauldron Bubbles - Modeling and Water for Moat

So for this weekend and since I last left off, I have worked on adding more details to the cottage. This includes making the moat have sharper edges and a steeper slope, as well as adding boards to the outside along with an extra window on the roof.  I haven't imported the RealFlow mesh in this shot, so it is just the default Maya mesh I made as a place holder.

The stones on the chimney will be done with a displacement map, so I will post an update of that soon.
I have also been working on using Realflow 5 to create a realistic moving water for the moat. I hope to post a short video of it in action when it is done simulating.


All tips and comments welcome.

Bryan

Don't Lose track----------->

This post is to help me keep track of projects that I still need to finish and to show what I have completed so far.

First up... Shrek....!  Those of you who know me, know I love Shrek. I even have a tattoo of Shrek and the Gang! But well I have only modeled his head and body but still working on the arms and hands, but as you can see its not looking to shabby.

Second is a demon that was concepted by Edward Taylor. He has an amazing talent and there are so many models I want to make from his art, but well as of right now I had to choose one! So I chose the Naberious Demon as my final project last semester. I know I didn't finish it, but it takes a tremendous amount of time to do these things, but I will finish it. I am very happy with the way it is looking at the moment. I just need to work more on his legs and face but not to bad!

Let me know what you guys think!

Bryan

Next project - Flight of the navigator

So as I'm sitting here about to work on my cottage for Cauldron Bubbles, I decided to update my profile for blogger, and was putting in my favorite movies.

My next project is going to be the space ship from Flight of the Navigator! I want to do the inside and the little computer guy that talks to him, Ralf. :) It's going to be super sweet.

I'm posting my ref images below just so I have them all in one place, so when I get ready to start ... its all here! Oh, and also for those of you who have never seen the movie :)!! Shame on you!!

Cauldron Bubbles - Roof

Here are a few screen shots, I have added roof tiles as well as opened the windows on the side of the house, added a bridge over the moat. I still need to add windows on the top of the roof, and add window dividers to the front windows.

I'll work on that tomorrow!

Bryan

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