Common Art: Dorothy Must Die F Stage

First Pass Lighting

I wanted to make the mask feel as though it had glowing eyes. I chose to use warm lighting for that to emulate some of the references I used. I like how the main character is rim lit from certain angles. I also wanted the more dim or distant areas to have an unnerving green light to still pay homage to the feeling of the Emerald City. 

Initial lighting with LD's materials

 Adjusting the lighting in the SunMoonDaySequence Actor was more laborious than I imagined it would be. First I went into the Post-Process Volume and turned off auto-exposure, which created a funhouse effect with all the LD's lights. I decided to delete all LD lights and re-do them from scratch. I wanted the environment to feel more sinister. I focused on creating areas cast in blue shadows. I had to adjust the exposure of the directional light as well as its color. Then I re-did the fog and added a bit of a green cast to it. 

Creating Proxy Matte Grey Material

Creating a proxy glass material involved a bit of research. I had to make sure the IOR was the right value, among other things. It took some iterating to make it look passable, but I still have some work to do with it. 

Proxy Mask Wireframe

Proxy Mask Arnold Render

Camera Matching While Modeling in Maya

Perforce Directory

Reference Board for OZ's Mask / Face

3D Art: Cannon Project (Proxy)

Final Layout In Unreal

Wireframe in Maya

Camera Matching

Reference Board

Common Art: Make it Stick

Final Viktor Stickers

 

Tech Art: Animation State Machines

File Structure

character BP viewport (remember to add a camera)

 

Animation State Machine

animation BP event graph that calls controls

character BP setting up controls/booleans for kick/camera movement/WASD

  

3D Art: Wayfinder Chest Final

 

In-Engine Unreal Render

Final Poly Count: 4650

 

 

Common Art: Use of Composition

 

Final Render with Illustration

Arnold Render

Arnold Render Test (Black and White)

3D Art: Making a Gameres Mesh

 

BPR Render in Zbrush of Hi-Poly

Low-poly render in Arnold

Hi-poly bake (rendered in Iray)

Low-poly wireframe

Zbrush Final Progress