This week we have continued with applying new battlefield concept to the demo shots. We have made it till the shot 35, which was reworked in the 3D fashion.
Agian, Nikolay Mamashev end up with some amazing pieces of animation (as usual based on Eeonora’s drafts). Here’s one of them.
And when it all comes together it looks so yummy!
At the same time Vyacheslav Yastrebcev is working on adding details to the new battlefield concept.
That’s all news for the past week. Stay tuned, because we have prepared a few tasty things for the next few days!
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I’m so proud of this kind of Open Source Projects…
You guys are doing an amazing work with Morevna! .
Well I know that is very dificult go ahead with this kind of proyects, because of that you have all my respect.
I want to offer my help to this proyect (if you let me), I have been using Blender for about 8 years and counting, so I’m wishing be helpful to you.
Greetings
PD: My e-mail is: erik90mx(arroba)yahoo(dot)com(dot)mx
Thank you, erik90mx! Of course we do need help. ^__^ Will contact you by mail.
@erik90mx:
P.S. Now I remembered! – it’s you the author of those great soldier models at blendswap – http://www.blendswap.com/blends/characters/low-poly-modern-soldier-rigged/. I like them very much. ^_^
waaaw!! I didn’t expect that jejeje
but yes, it is my Low Poly work but my bases are the creation of High Poly meshes like this one that I did for an Open Project similar to yours:
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa341/erik90mx/Zeniel9.png
in the 2D side:
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/536/heroe.png
Guys I really love the anime style!! was the great of my infancy 🙂
will be great that I can contribute with something to your project.
Greetings
PD: I will check my e-mail for sure
Hi, Erik!
I like the barbarian artwork. In fact we really would like our soldiers to have similar bandit-like “widgets”/props on their uniform – http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/062.jpg XD
The boy model looks fine as well.
In fact you already started contributing – we have your soldier model commited in morevna repository since June. ^__^
I’ll explain a little what we need this model in the first place.
As you might know, the Morevna Demo starts when the main character (Ivan) is found on the street which is covered with soldier bodies – https://morevnaproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ushot01.png
Then Morevna founds him, gives him a hand and helps to stand up.
And here goes the very complex shot (number 07) – http://www.mediafire.com/file/chdwh3321023l1i/07-20120131-133721.avi
Ivan and Morevna standing on the street, camera turns around and the soldiers starting to get up from the ground. So Ivan and Morevna got surrounded by freaky-beasty-angry-headache-suffering soldiers. (Definitely this is a kind of hangover you don’t deserve ^__^). Something like on this image – http://morevnaproject.org/wiki/File:09-Soldier-11.png – but of course that should be in 3D (because we have camera turn).
So, we need 3D animation of soldiers getting up from the ground. What we have now is one rigged soldier model.
This task should be accomplished in following steps:
1. Apply colours/textures to this model. Use this image as a guide – http://morevnaproject.org/wiki/File:09-Soldier-11.png
2. Make animation of this (one) soldier model. That will allow us to test the rig capabilities and do necessary tuning if required.
3. Create soldier copies and add variations.
4. Animate them as well.
5. Gather everything together on the scene.
What do you think about this task? Would it be interesting for you?
Well, If you want, I can create a new soldier model that fix perfectly what you need, improving the rigg system to your better understanding or manipulation 😉
You just need to give me a base image of all the proportions in the character desing, like this one:
https://morevnaproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/07-sisters-varya.jpg
About the texture in the soldiers… you need a shader like this one, no?:
I could try to get something like that for you.
Greetings
In fact I’m pretty much satisfied with the current model. ^___^ And the rig is just fine! It’s perfectly understandable and controllable for me. So I don’t want to waste resources – let’s continue with this model.
The only thing I would like to see changed in the model mesh is boots. They should be like on this image – http://morevnaproject.org/wiki/File:Demo20-s3-4-b.jpg .
Here’s a few more soldiers images for inspiration:
http://morevnaproject.org/wiki/File:Demo13-04.jpg
http://morevnaproject.org/wiki/File:Demo13-05.jpg
http://morevnaproject.org/wiki/File:Demo19-soldiers-background.jpg
http://morevnaproject.org/wiki/File:Soldiers-01.jpg
(Notice the boots on the last image are different – this is a first version and it’s outdated now. But I like the mood of this image very much. ^__^)
And one more thing: maybe the head could be a little bigger.
About shading – that would be great to achieve something like this. Currently we use standard Edge function of Blender renderer. I haven’t dig into outlines produced by nodes yet… And don’t know if we should – maybe we should go with Freestyle rendering when it will come to final render…
Actually I think that Freestyle right now is very stable to make the previews of the shots in 3D-2D.
http://freestyleintegration.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ichiotsu_persp.png
This is just to be very sure what kind of texture\shader I will apply to the soilders.
I will work him in some days don’t worry 😉
Greetings