Watch Your Step

[coolpranz]

hi folks,
Every Ant must be having this nightmare,............so always watch your step carefully...................;)
3ds Studio MAX 9, Vray

This artwork was my final submission for cgarena Nightmare challenge.......though i lost it, i feel very proud that i have made an artwork which is very different from my archvisualisation profession.....this artwork was 2 months work for about 30 min daily
challenges improves your work...:)
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1549/watchyourstepfv3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[warriorash]

very very good! work
I wonder how u lost!!!

nice to see that u have paid attention to all the details like adding DOF &
good texture maps
i guess u were going for the cartoony feel ...

anyways its an awesome work

tell us more about in how u made this! .. like posting wires, lights and techniques used etc
it will benefit the other members of the community and people wd have more things to comment on ...
Hope to see more of ur wrks!

[coolpranz]

the competition was very tough with lots of stunning entries and the judge was Steven Stalhberg..........and i think my artwork was not so impressive to him at that level.....i tried hard to make my artwork stunning tough!...........no worries......i will be uploading a short workflow of this artwork in this thread:) very soon:)

[mukks]

congrats my friend.. finaly u finsihed it...

good job man...

[ankita_kh]

Very nice work...!!

[archie3d]

Wow too good lighting, keep it up ... very nice work ...

[coolpranz]

thanks mukks, ankita and archie.......:) here are some screen shots and textures i used for the artwork

[ankita_kh]

Hey...Can u plz tell me wat does depth of field map do....i hv never used it my works n hv never saw anybody using it...

[coolpranz]

i will try to explain, zdepth is the zth distance from your camera view, just go to render elements in your render dialogue box and add Zdepth in it, apply the minimum and maximum values of camera distance and then when you render, the zdepth map will pop out....save it as bmp and use it in DOFpro or photoshop.......i have used DOFpro cause i can adjust the focal distance very properly in it

[mukks]

depth map can be used to create varies effects, for example DOF, fog etc etc..

here he used that to create 2d DOF ( depth of Field) as post work.. i think he used PS for that..

in photoshop add ur depth map on alpha channel then give a lens blur filter ...on lens blur -select depth map source as alpha... then clik on where u need to focus.. thats it....

give a try,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[coolpranz]

exactly mukks is right, i have used DOF generator pro instead of photoshop

[ankita_kh]

Okay...I'll definitely give it a try....thx...

[vaibhav shah]

i really like ur treatement., which is very fresh with sm international looks :) !

may be u can do more improvement with antz char.

[sureshkmaya]

Awesome work .can u just show me the shader network for ant which u have used. finally its cooollllllllllllll........


Ksuresh,
www.sureshkmaya.blogspot.com

[coolpranz]

i never knew texturing and i learned some video tutorials of texturing during the challenge, but i was pissed with the uvcoordinates so i decided to use Shellac and Vray Fast SSS shader in combination, i wanted to show gloss along with the skin like material on the ants body because ant body is usually hard here are some screen shots of my material editor........

i used shellac and in that used VrayfastSSS and Vray material in combination, Vraymaterial was for the gloss reflection and FastSSS for skin......the outcome was a toon effect and i also applied Vraytoon shader to the ant character

[sureshkmaya]

Thank's for giving me the shading network its cool. basically iam doing all my shaders in maya in maya same as v ray mental ray shader is there.


Thank's
K.suresh.
www.sureshkmaya.blogspot.com