Making Of 'It Comes a Time of Death'.pdf

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Making Of 'It Comes a Time of Death' .............................................................................................................................. 1

1. Surface ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5

2. Grass .......................................................................................................................................................................... 5

3. Small Tree on the right .............................................................................................................................................. 6

3. King(cloth) ................................................................................................................................................................. 6

4. Big Tree ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Making the Background .............................................................................................................................................. 10

Making Of 'It Comes a Time of Death'

By Radoslav ZilinskySoftware used:3ds Max


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Hi, my name is Radoslav Zilinsky and my Internet nickname is radoxist. In this article, I would like to present to you

the process of making my picture "It comes a time of death".

I'm going to tell you how I proceeded with the creation, modelling, texturing and composition. I will also pay a closer

attention to some details which I find interesting.

One of the most important things for me is, to have a good foundation, on which I can base my image. As an

inspiration could serve a photo, nice picture or my own sketch. In this case, I was inspired by a small cover picture from

one of the RUNELORDS series book.


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So let's begin with the creation of the picture. My very first step

during the creation was:

1. Camera placement

2. Modelling of basic composition(mass)

3. Scene lightning.

I find it very important to have this three steps at the beginning. It is

something like making foundations for a scene. It is important, becauseeverything that follows, will be affected by lightning and camera placement. It

basically means that from now on, I can model and design materials for exact

camera view and lightning. At this phase, I don't care how the model looks

when I'm rotating it in the viewport, but I put more emphasis on how it looks

from my camera view. The same applies to material design. Now it's time to

show you, how the picture looks in the first phase.

As you can see, the mass and the

objects are only roughly modelled, but they

are good enough to set 80% of the final

lighting. Basically, there are three lights in

the scene - on the right side there is one

small rectangular light with orange colour

and higher intensity and another much

bigger light with blue colour and lowerintensity on the left. The third sky dome

light of red colour and lower intensity is

oriented from right to left and its purpose is

to add an extra colour variation to the

picture. From now on, I will not move the

camera at all.

At this point, I would like to talk

about the chosen renderer and the method

of rendering.

As for the rendering, I have used

Vray renderer and as a method progressive

path tracing (PPT), which was ideal for this

picture. The reason for this is that in the

scene there are many objects with Vray

displacement, and this method handles

them very good, especially in combination

with object isolation (alt+Q). As a result,

material testing was very fast.

As an illustration, I rendered three

pictures (tests). All of them were done in 4-

5 minutes (and already in the first minute I

could see most of the details), which is a very good result especially when talking about rocks and trees taking into

consideration their detailed displacement. The rendering was with "Normal" Vray GI method (other than PPT), forexample IRR + light cache, would take much longer than PPT. Here are the above mentioned test pictures.


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So now we have set the basics of the

picture so from now on I will describe the

phase in which I have started to substitute

objects for final models. For the latter I have


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unwrapped and made the materials right away. I have split everything nicely into layers - great thing, especially if you have

a shortcut (I have shift+space), which helps you to open and close it.

As for the material tests, in most of the cases I have used camera view as I have already mentioned before.

Now lets talk about the individual objects in the scene.

1. Surface

Here I would like to tell you how I proceeded in the creation of the texture for the surface and show you this

texture as well. The whole diffuse texture was done from 5 different textures such as grass, earth, leaves etc. I loaded

them all into Photoshop and drew the whole texture mainly using the clone stamp, dodge and burn tools and with

different type of brushes and adjustments. From this diffuse texture, I made the displacement texture by desaturating it

and using the burn and dodge tools. I have also used different selections from the diffuse texture made with colour range

and than it was adjusted with brightness/contrast.

On the next picture you can see a little piece of this texture. The texture itself has 8000x8000pix resolution

2. Grass


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For this I recommend my tutorial at (http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/grass_tut/grass_tut.php)

There are only two

differences. The first one

is that I used two kinds of

textures for grass.

I put them together from

Total Texture v10 cd. The

second difference is, that

it was not deleted withthe texture, but by hand

which is because it

wasn't such a large area

and I wanted to have it in

the exact position as I

wished.

3. Small Tree

on the right

Here I found an

interesting way on

placing the leaves on this

tree (I want to thank

bontakun, who helped

me with this). The

procedure is that you

make one leaf and then

place a point helper at

the bottom of its stem

and link it to the leaf.

Finally make a particleflow exactly the way as it

is on the next picture.

You will see, that all the

leaves will be placed on

selected faces of "small

tree on the right" and

they will be

perpendicular to them.

3. King(cloth)

At the beginning

I made this cloth only

with diffuse and bump

map, but fortunately, my

friend Marek Denko

persuaded me to model

the whole cloth for which

I want to thank him.

It's very important to

have a good reference.

One of my references isthe next picture.
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/grass_tut/grass_tut.phphttp://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/grass_tut/grass_tut.phphttp://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/grass_tut/grass_tut.phphttp://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/grass_tut/grass_tut.php


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4. Big Tree

I wanted this main

tree to be really nice, and

therefore I have spent most of

my time creating it. The first

thing was that I took a pencil

and drew the tree in a way I

wanted it to look in the scene.

Than I scanned the picture in,

took it to Max, placed it on a

plane object and then place it

in the scene where I wanted

the tree to be. This sketch

worked as a blueprint for me -but not for the front and side

view, but only for the camera

view! Generally speaking, I

modelled this tree, so that it

looked like the tree on the

sketch. During the modelling I

used two viewports -

perspective and camera view.

While creating the

texture, I had first spent a few

hours searching for interesting

shots and nice details of trees,which I could use for the

texture. By doing this I found

very nice textures, from which

I chose the most beautiful one.


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As you can see there are two kinds of moss and two kinds of bark. I find that getting a few references images

makes the job of painting the texture so much easier. Here are the textures also with the unwrap.


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Here I would like to tell you how I made the displacement map, which I wanted to add as a line structure to the

tree. As it was quite difficult to draw it in the Photoshop, I did it the other way and I simply modelled it from a plane object

with a high number of faces by using paint deformation in editable poly. I did it three times on three different planes with

different brush sizes and strengths. You can see something similar on the next picture (image a).

Further on, I transformed this model into a 2d displacement map. I did it by rendering a z-depth map from the top

view to this object. So it became a map which I have then used to displace some parts of the tree. Here is the rendered z-

depth map (image b).

image a

image b

I made the long leaves with standard max hair and fur which was causing me a headache:) I had to redo them 4

times until I was fully satisfied. The small leaves were done with the same method as the small tree on the right.

When it was nearly finished, I rendered it out and connected it in Photoshop. This was just to check the composition again.

After I checked it I decided, that it would be cool to have some darker bushes in the foreground to lead the viewer's eye

into the scene. So I drew the shape directly on the picture in PS and then modelled the bushes from this. The last step was

the creation of background and post production

Making the Background

I spent some time searching on the Internet for nice skies and mountains. The final background is a composition

of 5 different pictures. There was then added, a volume light and colour correction in the post production and final picture

was done:)


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