My Cinema 4d stuff :)
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lawriejaffa
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Hi mate - in fact the bump maps are a god send really in 3d modelling eh?
Yep the crow (its a chicken raptor!!!) is part of the weather vane for the building lol - i have no idea what the significance of it is but that tower used to be a Customs House (and prison) well its a Tollbooth. My version is slightly different as its er the pre-exploded version! (In the 1690s a drunk guy dropped his pipe in a barrel of gunpowder - oops...)
Yep the crow (its a chicken raptor!!!) is part of the weather vane for the building lol - i have no idea what the significance of it is but that tower used to be a Customs House (and prison) well its a Tollbooth. My version is slightly different as its er the pre-exploded version! (In the 1690s a drunk guy dropped his pipe in a barrel of gunpowder - oops...)
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lawriejaffa
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Here is a cell from under the building - first interior and like a wimp ive gone for a very very simple er interior room. The finished scene, ill insert a prisoner or two to sit on the floor moaning 
Poor things
This is how it looks presently (mines when its finished will be as it should look in the late 1690s.)
Poor things
This is how it looks presently (mines when its finished will be as it should look in the late 1690s.)
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Gord.T
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Looks good. I hope you post the final doc when it's done. I liked the reel on your site too.
I think what your doing is right on par for documentaries. Jeez, I'd like to sit down and watch you do some texturing some day. Maybe you'll do a video tutorial or something? Are you using a tablet? I 'have' to get one someday.
Anyways, how many more shots to do yet? I'm intersted in seeing this. Any detalis on the due out date?
I think what your doing is right on par for documentaries. Jeez, I'd like to sit down and watch you do some texturing some day. Maybe you'll do a video tutorial or something? Are you using a tablet? I 'have' to get one someday.
Anyways, how many more shots to do yet? I'm intersted in seeing this. Any detalis on the due out date?
bmxbud4130
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This is a pretty sweet thread. And inspirational, as I too am just starting to teach myself C4D. This thread has given me hope! haha
lawriejaffa
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Work on progress for the street scene, still a bit to go - got to add more natural deformations to things like the roof - not graded yet either.
I just use photoshop for textures/mouse - no tablet or anything and cheers glad its inspirational - i mean im a total noob still, theres so many work arounds i keep having to use
but im getting there Now the scene is far from finished, ive got to add props and other goodies in the street, and finally er people! Oh and you flatter me Raptor, i just wish i could er do modelling better! Im using a lot of splines and extrub nubs now but there never as er fun to manipulate afterwards as normal primitives etc.
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lawriejaffa
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Hey there, just updating, now ive still got loads to do on that town cross scene, and theres some buildings ill change in it (the tower looke neat) but some of the houses look a bit rubbish really so ill have to change that.
In the meantime im also working on one for the harbour, in this case i will also be using a background matte.
In the meantime im also working on one for the harbour, in this case i will also be using a background matte.
lawriejaffa
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Yep updating as we go along and along - still very basic
lawriejaffa
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Well i had to rush this one off a good bit faster than i meant too (ive hardly had time to work on it hrmph but ill come back to it) This like so many of the other scenes are yet to have the footage of people milling about / etc added to the scenes yet. I intend to do more work on my er rather crude background matte for this - and the lighting is messy too.
Next i'll be going back to that unfinished town cross scene with the Tollbooth Tower
lawriejaffa
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Hmm or is this better?
Gord.T
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The first one looks better. The background in the second one is a little too out of focus. If it was meant as a DOF to focus on the ship for example, I think the rolloff should be smoother. It seems too abrupt of a change from focused to unfocused.
Also, if it's for NTSC or PAL then some blurring like in the first would be normal. If your target is TV I think you'll be fine with the first although there is no point of interest in the scene which comes back to DOF. Depends on what you have planned for the shot, dolly maybe? But the first one I like better.
Also, if it's for NTSC or PAL then some blurring like in the first would be normal. If your target is TV I think you'll be fine with the first although there is no point of interest in the scene which comes back to DOF. Depends on what you have planned for the shot, dolly maybe? But the first one I like better.
lawriejaffa
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Hey there mate - yep there will be a slight dolly and then folks milling about in the scene - yah your right the background in shot 2 is a little too out of focus. Though to be honest they both seem a bit hmm.... well of course ive not done their lighting properly but hrmph.
Its just not 'right' whaaa lol so ill keep at it and post some more pics today!
Its just not 'right' whaaa lol so ill keep at it and post some more pics today!
lawriejaffa
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haha! Cheers mate - yep we do take our New Years really seriously in Scotland - though not to get too depressing but i tend to find myself more reflective on new years than (drunk and merry on xmas!)
So this New Years i'll be taking extra effort to relax though i'll be working hard around it doing these FX and others!
Welcome to the thread ChipG! Its astonishing how much you can learn with Cinema 4d quite quickly but also - it is infuriating just how difficult it can be... so easily to do some tasks that say in premiere or aftereffects (like opacity) that are simple.
Of course there completely different software and its a learning curve that is somwhat inevitable - but eager to learn quicker!
Im also looking forward to making a character - but theres a lot more buildings to be done first!
So this New Years i'll be taking extra effort to relax though i'll be working hard around it doing these FX and others!
Welcome to the thread ChipG! Its astonishing how much you can learn with Cinema 4d quite quickly but also - it is infuriating just how difficult it can be... so easily to do some tasks that say in premiere or aftereffects (like opacity) that are simple.
Of course there completely different software and its a learning curve that is somwhat inevitable - but eager to learn quicker!
Im also looking forward to making a character - but theres a lot more buildings to be done first!
lawriejaffa
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Yep still alive Raptor! Been doing a bit more video shooting - if anyones interested i can post some shots here as well with the 3d footage (I think the user films section would bring a bit too much attention) and i still want to focus really on the 3d element overall here.
So nothing too new. I reworked the harbour a bit - the actual shot will be a slow 6 - 7 rotational pan (er crab) and ive still to add all my little green screen people (who i'll thrust onto 3d squares) to fill up the scene with extras.
As you can see we're still going with a kind of romantic sepia / paintish based idea.
So nothing too new. I reworked the harbour a bit - the actual shot will be a slow 6 - 7 rotational pan (er crab) and ive still to add all my little green screen people (who i'll thrust onto 3d squares) to fill up the scene with extras.
As you can see we're still going with a kind of romantic sepia / paintish based idea.
lawriejaffa
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Cheers mate - I certainly will post some bits and bops of the footage eventually - the film has to be finished for the start of April (it will be part of a community history education programme for kiddies and there will be a more adult version possibly for adults ie. scenes of violence!!)