Work in progress

gaganraj

Here is an illustration / work in progress i'm working on.

initial sketches:

sketchup and vray work:

I'm goign to try and populate the scene as fully as I can. any feedback/thoughts are welcome.

thanks

remus

Good stuff, always nice to see some new tihngs. Mind sharing your workflow for this?

gaganraj

work flow:

quick idea sketches
refined drawing
scan into photoshop and do a quick tonal/color pass
bring into sketchup and use photomatch to set up basic shot.
start building model based on photomatch - try and match lighting to sketch

i play around at this stage a lot with new lighting and structure stuff.

created some custom textures and apply
vray render
photoshop manipulation to match tonal arrangment.
paint over in pshop to add detail, texture and populate.

i'm going for a 'matte painter' or photoreal look.

pbacot

oh man, I like this. Great art. I don't think it needs much populating.

Frederik

Awesome stuff..!!
I assume that the elephants are imports from another 3D app, cause I can't imagine SU is capable of making so detailed high poly figures...

dolphus

Absolutely spectacular, very good, impressive keep it up

gaganraj

thanks guys. I'll keep you posted on the final product.

the elephants are pictures with some sloppy painting over in photoshop. I will have them cleaned up and more resolved for the final.

EddyNL

Great stuff!
Looks like the new Prince of Persia game!

Oh... and keep the red flags on the towers!

tomislavm

It is nice, how did You make the second picture?

princedragoncok

Very nice! Especially like the 2nd and 3rd images. The populated last image I'm not feeling entirely - the green sketchup bushes and figures detract from the realism imo. Great work overall

marked001

wow...yhis is definitely something new for us...its awesome.... the hand drawn stuff even more so than the computer stuff..haha...

gaganraj

thanks again. I'll continue to work on it and show you when its all complete. The sketchup blob plants are just place holders - replacing them with photos/paintovers. same with the elephants and people. thanks again. if you see anything you would change don't hesitate to let me know.

the second image was a quick photoshop painting using a wacom tablet and pen.

Gaieus

My only crit would be (in the two first pictures) that above that big, arched gateway, there should be some arched texture, too - you cannot "cut" a hole like this into a wall.

Other than that the whole thing is amazing!

gaganraj

getting close to being done... i just don't have enough time...

feedback is welcom.

HFM

That is fantastic! Love the way you use 3D and 2D and make it all work

[don't overdo it , it is pretty much perfect right now]