Beauty Approximations

3d render handed over to out art department Marcus Forsberg. He will now paint over this and give it a more stylized look which we will then recreate in 3d.

Distance fog, more forests, more hills, ground more detailed, ground textured and overall more details.

Smoke in scene.

Some of the procedural elements applied to the scene geo.

Started a procedure to dress up the landscape and make it's shape a bit more interesting. Some grass, stones and trees in there so far. Before/after in the picture.

Quick test to see what's needs to be done.

Mist to be placed on the lakes.

Did some work on the lighting on this setup. Also tried to compute the kind of type of "stretched reflections" you offen see on water, but as maya/vrays shading interface is frustratingly limited I only managed to do this in Houdini (top picture).

Found through a meeting that we need to get fairly close to some pinetrees so I started on this setup. They feel a bit saggy but some tweeks and they're good to go.

Tree model dev. This will do.

Lighting started.

Trees WIP for intro shot.

Quick concept for environment in intro shot.

New test here. Added some smoke and a test credit that lights up some snow around it. Currently, the white snow doesn't receive this new pink light and it's also rendered using a different focus distance. With some typography work the credit text should get a 50's neon sign look.

First test on snow element . No dynamics, all movements is just noisy jiggles.

Test on composition of a bunch of lines. Half satisfied with it and I reckon I rest this until I got the proper scene to work on. Here's the comp , and here's the input animation .

Test one. Test two. Same animation, different settings on apperance. Changed to a more man made animation method to match reference videos. Will now draw up a more complex composition of animated lines. Btw- visited the shoot yesterday and pictures looks great so I left with new inspiration.

Progress. Think I got this fairly under control now. Compression takes away a lot of details but it's there. Need to work on the large scale anim now.

Comped particles from yesterdays anim.