The Town Gate - Kris Turvey WIP

lightpunk · 21-09-2011, 08:46 PM

Decided to go with the American Old West suggestion.

Started collecting up some historical photos of towns and buildings for general design reference:

Drewsen · 22-09-2011, 06:08 AM

Nice, I'm going the same route, except set in Mexico instead of the US, nice and hot and dusty, should be fun

nickmarshallvfx · 22-09-2011, 02:11 PM

Its encouraging to see that you guys are thinking very real world and not immediately going for something really crazy. The reference images look good there Lightpunk, look forward to seeing what you come up with.

lightpunk · 22-09-2011, 04:15 PM

Thanks @Drewsen - looking forward to see what you do as well!

@nickmarshallvfx - thanks Nick! Will do my best!

nickmarshallvfx · 27-09-2011, 12:11 AM

Hi Kris,
Can you let me know whether you got my pm, the forum timed out as I hit send, and I'm not sure whether or not it sent properly...

Cheers

WaNDerEr · 27-09-2011, 08:14 PM

hey kris,
good to see you back for the last time....nice reference collection.good going!!

lightpunk · 28-09-2011, 03:51 AM

Thanks WaNDerEr!

Here is first rough WIP, experimenting with putting in some wood textures

Drewsen · 29-09-2011, 04:14 PM

Hey looks good, I was considering having a similar background rocky area but was unsure if this breaches the composition rules, if not I'll go for it I think.

Looks great, very old west already.

nickmarshallvfx · 29-09-2011, 05:34 PM

@ Lightpunk - Good to see this one getting kicked off, look forward to seeing the progress!

@ Drewsen - Definintely go for it! As long as you are utilising the main 3D layout and not totally diverting from that, you can add whatever you choose to make it real and immersive.

lightpunk · 04-10-2011, 12:42 AM

Thanks Nick and Drewsen.

Here's another very rough WIP. At the moment just trying out different bits of photoref for storefronts etc. At this stage still experimenting with layout haven't done much in terms of colour correction or integrating in neatly yet.

aharnett · 04-10-2011, 09:38 PM

Hi Kris,

Thanks for the encouragement to keep going. Kind of made me feel like we're in a matte dept all on the same team.

I like your old west theme and also think it's interesting how you're starting with textures. I think I'll throw some building textures on mine later after I get off work and see what starts to happen.

What's the next step for you?

Adam

nickmarshallvfx · 05-10-2011, 02:20 AM

Looking good so far Kris, will be good to see some lighting in there once you are finished prepping the textures.

Looking forward to updates,

N

Rockhoppermedia · 06-10-2011, 02:22 AM

wow loving those textures!! great sense of place! really looking forward to how this is going, can feel the heat, taste the dust and that ghost town vibe,

keep going as this is going to be awesome

Rich

lightpunk · 07-10-2011, 05:15 PM

Thanks for comments everybody, and glad you have got your motivation back Adam! Its great that there is so much camaraderie on this forum.

Been out of town for a few days but going to do a lot on this over the weekend.

miragenz · 09-10-2011, 03:52 AM

thanks for the comment kris... looking forward to your next wip... its been a while

wondering what the large building will turn into?, the buildings are hard to keep track of huh? I numbered mine from left to right but still get lost in my mega layers... dave

lightpunk · 09-10-2011, 04:23 AM

Thanks Dave! Yep, been away for a few days but back on the case now! The large building has been giving me trouble, its a big giant for the scale of the other buildings, trying to make it into a big saloon/hotel as we speak...

Rockhoppermedia · 09-10-2011, 04:29 AM

the facade can be bid lower the roof down a storey and you have a large hotel sign, put in a water bucket behind the sign, then you will get away with the size.

Rich

http://satireworld.com/wp-content/up...owboy_Town.jpg

http://www.bed-breakfast-maui.com/im...restaurant.jpg

http://www.rrart.com/originals/images/Elite_Hotel.jpg

lightpunk · 09-10-2011, 06:08 AM

Thanks Rich, thanks for the photo ref that's really helpful! I was thinking a similar thing with the facade.

Here's another WIP, I'm thinking of making the gate 'wall' more into a stockade, this is v. rough for now just to see what it might look like

miragenz · 09-10-2011, 06:16 AM

cool, I like it... I'd push the first hills back further tho, seem a bit close to town... looking good! dave

Rockhoppermedia · 09-10-2011, 12:50 PM

i agree with dave.

Rich