I went out of time, but decided to still make a post. I was too ambitious, but w/e.
Had no time to even make a map view, not even talking about everything else, so this is not a full entry, just a funny thing to watch, will finish it after the challenge.
I apologize for little amount of posts, cranking up the speed tremendously rn, but i will try to find some time before posting the final submission and put some more explanation on the workflow. 🙂
In short: i remade large corner pattern, made ahtamangala symbols to be manifold and not having any cavities. Did a sculpt pass on them, decided to go with low poly through decimation, made some quick 5 min material test on one of the symbols.
Hi there, some progress, trying to speed up 🙂
I didn't really want to make a post until i finish one of the parts completely, but whatever, at least you'll know i am still alive and participating xD
let it be...
3 symbols left, then some decoration modeling and populating, then sculpting in zbrush.
Quality of different parts may vary, but i am going to average them out later on at the sculpting stage.
Just some work in progress update. 🫣
Just a fancy picture of pattern creation thought process, for sure i don't do such images every time i make such breakdown. Usually i do it in text or just keep it in my mind, this is just for demonstrative purposes.
Next step is this pattern as you may already guessed. 😃
This post, as being promised, is gonna be about small environment to be made for prop presentation purposes.
Make this beauty tile, then somehow i need to make an environment that would fit this prop and make sense of it being there. By environment i mean slightly different tiles, that won't grab the viewer's attention on itself but rather will work on a whole look of the scene, so the hero tile won't be lonely and just floating in the air.
Regarding materials of the tile
The single stone material will definetly look dull so i will have to find a way to incorporate some tasty colors in it, whether it will be metallic (less possible) or color accents. To find what details to be colored won't be a tough task since there gonna be lots of interesting patterns and shapes, including 8 symbols, center figure and ornamental elements.
The first version of the envrionment i already discussed in the beginning, but while i was thinking about the richness of colors and materials in the scene i started to doubt my first guess, so let's try to find another way of presenting a future artwork and better circumstances for it to be.
It can be as simple as it is on the reference itself - just laying on some kind of stone or wall in may be an excavation area, this way the colors will be dusty and dull, less contrast, but we already see this in the reference. If i want the colors to be more catchy and brighter this circumstanes probably won't fit.
So i just thought about the scale of the scene and i want this hero tile to be presented in an epic way, for it to be done i need a specific environment or supportive props that would help display a scale of the hero object. Yes, it may seem that the work starts to lay more to an environment, than a prop, but i ensure you it's only for the sake of presenting the main prop. By the way, talking about the prop, i need to bare in mind the threat of making the environment too dense and taking too many attention on itself, though it can be solved by using camera focal distance.
Hi all, wish best of luck too all of the participants!
I have done some research yesterday and have chosen the concept i would like to go on with.
I guess like many others first thing that you i've got stumble on while researching the challenge theme is phurba knives or other similar pieces of culture like vajra thing. I find these pieces to be very inetersting and actually fitting well to be an object to choose for such challenge, because it's literally dotted with intricate details that would instantly make your work pop.
Though for my work i decided to keep searching for another type of object.
I got really inspired by the artwork that serves as a backround for the challenge, i mean the piece made by Joe Arellano.
First of all i like the scale of the object, in conjunction with lighting setup it have a sense of epicness in it. So i thought i want my object to also be a large scale one, at least relatively.
I went through pretty standard process of gathering references using search engines and checking different travelers diaries because i find them often posting some good photos of interesting cultural pieces in their blogs.
There were many of images, as well as phubra knives and vajra thing. I got them all and put in PureRef where i started my brainstorming process.
First thing that i liked in my references was this large plate, because i wanted to create something made of stone, like the stone circle in Joe Arellano's work
But obviously as it is this plate looks very boring. So i kept looking through my references as well as searching for new ideas in the web and found the second piece of the puzzle, which was the idea of 8 aspicious symbols - Ashtamangala. So i started to count cells in my plate and yes, this is it, 8 cells to fit 8 symbols.
Name: Ilia Bogomolov
Country: Georgia
I am participating for fun
I decided that i really like this picute and the plot that may lay behind it.
A small hall with an altar being assembled at one of the walls. At the opposite wall there is a large fake doorway with grid pattern holes in it passing light from the outside. The altar is made of kind of small rock formation, two columns placed at each side, and main hero plate/tile piece placed above the pedestal. Candles are scattered across the altar, may be some additional niches for them.
See the column leftover? I can put two of them, but not exactly the same and not broken ones aside of the altar.
Another note: try to make an altar to be not uniformely square, add some interesting shapes to the the silhouette.
That's it. Future updates are gonna be about modeling progression...
The Ashtamangala differs slightly through distinct religious confessions. I haven't chosen yet the specific one but i guess i will go with the basic one, which i believe is from Hinduism but i can be wrong.
If you will take a look at the center of main plate reference you will notice that there is an empty space, which i decided to fill with one of these shapes. Probably will go with the first one, the lotus pattern, because i already have flowering motif in center of the plate.
I got pretty satisfied with the idea, in the next post i will talk about suitable environment ideation process which i already have done yesterday, of course it can be changed later on, but currently i like the result.
Thanks for reading of my everflowing talk!
