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Entry for Neil McBean ( neilm )

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Milestone: Final Image
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: it's a WIP
Notes: OK, I was joking about the glow, but then somehow I couldn't resist....
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Milestone: Final Image
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: pods man, pods
Notes: And here it is...maybe I should have added some glow...and a lens flare....
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Milestone: Post Effects and Compositing
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: post treatment
Notes: This is the final image, so I'm putting it in twice just to be certain. Post effects were adding a background (which is a combination of painted stuff and photographs), colour correcting the rocks to match the ambient light, and adding some spill from the new bg image.
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Milestone: Rendering
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: rendering 1
Notes: I rendered in two sections, one for the rocks, one for the pods. Trying to keep things simple (rendering entry two is essentially what's in my lighting image)
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Milestone: Lighting
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: lighting
Notes: Lighting was mostly used to enhance the surface look that I was going for. Everything here is ramplights (about 20 of them), with key directional light.
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Milestone: Texturing
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: texture render
Notes: The textures were the tricky part for me. I wanted to have translucent surfaces with SSS. The hard part was that Maya doesn't really do that, so I had to figure out some tricks. My solution used info nodes to control refraction, trans, and lumin chanels. If anyone has a better way please let me know...
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Milestone: Modeling
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: wireframe
Notes: A very simple model. Almost entirely NURBS with some smoothed polys. Not much to say....
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Milestone: Concept Sketch
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: canyon
Notes: Background environment for the pods. It's a simple canyon sketch in photoshop.
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Milestone: Concept Sketch
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: concept pod
Notes: I'm attempting to create something that's organic, but not necessarily alive. I wanted it to be unclear whether or not we ar elooking at fossils, crystal structures, plant life etc....
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