Jimmy San Invoice 09.25.09

re-working the coke commercial w/ a 3D cup

Matching the lighting scheme

To save render time on recreating a similar lighting scheme to my reference photo, I created a new layer apply a lambert to the entire scene except for my final gather emitters.

reference photo

Lighting and Texturing

These are a few test renders of what I got so far. I’m still dealign with refraction issues, but for the most part, I’m getting the hang of using the mia material x in Maya.

With final gather emitters, I was able to get the light box, working.

With the tikki mask, I used the cutout opacity tool to create those holes in the mask.

Here is an example of the glass shader, with textures on it. For bottle textures, I used logos I found online, brought them in as color, then converted the photoshop file to black and white (white being the transparency of the bottle) and filed it into the transparency of the shader.

Christmas Lights

In testing these new lights for my scene, I decided to experiement with Final Gather in Mental Ray. I decided to use Final Gather in lighting the scene with the christmas lights.

A few basic lights

To save render time, I’m going to approach this preoject by lighting the scene first, and texture it afterwards. I believe if I were to fully texture it first, I’ll end up waiting for render time that isn’t needed. Using my reference photos, I started to set up some of the different lights. There aren’t any hard shadows in the scene, due to all the bounce lights.

in this test render, I’m attempted to mimic some of red light that spreads from what would be the illuminating Neon sign.

My  goal with these lights are to capture that warm mood I’m refering to from my photos.

Finally!!

Because I’m not too fond of modeling, I am very happy to say it is done. I believe there are a few things that could be added here and there, but for the most part it matches the look I’m going for.  It took quite a bit of time, and there are still things that need to be troubleshoot, but here it is for now.

Bottles, Bottles, Bottles!

At this point, some would think I’m an alcoholic, considering my latest post shows 20 different liquor bottles modeled to the T using Nurbs.  I basically googled every bottle that could be found in the Rail, brought it in as reference in Maya, and modeled it using a revolved curve. I’m currently working on the draft beer dispensers, and will continue refining details over the rest of the week whenever I can make it back to the Rail to take more pictures.

Starting fresh

So after a few complications on the worm project, I’m currently on the back-burner for the next few weeks. Until then, I’ve decided to make this my new and main priority project. The project consists of me modeling, texturing this local bar in Savannah, the Rail. So far I got most of the basic layout done, and currently working on making the bottles. Details will progess this week after I make a trip back to the Rail to take more pictures.

So far, I got the stools/ chairs done, the christmas lights, and the basic layout on everything else. I’m currently obssesed over this Kabookee mask I want to model well. We’ll see where it goes.

New Script and Renders