Synthesis project n.2 :: Theater Decor

For this projet, I am making a theater decor for my classmate Nadia Mitcheva .

I will be fallowing this sketch that she provided:

 

 

 

 

The innitial blocking of the stage:

 

For the trees, I had to research something that would go best with the concept of a theater decors + druids. Here is an attenpt that dont work ( too cartoony ):

 

 

On the other hand, a big, magestic and realistic tree would provide too much details and I need to consider that the attention must be on Nadia's character. So this is way too busy:

 

 

A good compromise would be a stylised, magical tree, and going for realistic details, but not too busy. Silhouette and texture would play an important role, as a trade off for less dense leafs:

 

Here is a a wip of that type of tree:

 

For the leafs, I am aware of a methode that makes it very fast and effective once confortable with the technology. It concist of at least one leaf "prototype" that uses a point cloud to replicate onto at least one branch prototype, wich replicates itself onto the tree's modelled branch. The advantage on this methode, is the ability to have a very high poly count that generates at render time. I might do some reasearch on this methode, or ask for help.

 

 

For the rocks, I will probably fo for this type of material. It uses a lot of displacements:

 

 

For the silhouette and, most importantly, the holes in the sacral stones, I will be using boleans operation at render time, in conjustion of texture bombing for the displacement in the holes ( since they will not be actual geometry ).

 

Rendertime boleans:

 

 

 

 

assets so far:  

 

 

 

Lighting will be using a rig that simulates typical studio and theater settings:

 

 

 

Some progress:

 

 

A little start with lighting

 

The Lamp has a cover to limit the falloff of the light

 

Leafs are gona be re-done. Considering the look I am going for, they will have to be placed and bented one by one.