Alien Cloudscape - Rafael Falconi
 

Hi everybody,

I have just entered the community and the challenge itself!´m happy and willing to share my work with you and I hope to have your feedback as well.

I´m a matte painter with lots of interests in VFX industry in general, specially 3D Environment and Concept Art.

I don´t know if its recommended here, but I´d like to post several WIPs/studies I´m doing inside Vue for this matte painting. I haven´t started painting already like most of you guys because I want to make it mostly in Vue to have a final image that can be animated later.

So... here is my first WIP, the 3D environment rendered in Vue.


http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/4...perafaelfa.jpg

Alien Cloudscape - Rafael Falconi
 

After some tests in Vue, experimenting with atmospheres, cloud materials and modeling, I realised it was time to set up the scene to use as reference.

So I went back to drawing the concept art to use as a guide. Now it´s in 8k and ready to be better developed.

I will make a final image using this concept art as a base and add high quality photography and 3D renders to it.

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/4...perafaelfa.jpg

Nice to see you here Rafael. Gotta squeeze that Vue to the limits for this one hey? It's a though challenge but I will join you too. Good luck mate, nice progress!

Yeah, managing 3D to match 2D concept regarding animated atmosphere with realistic environment will bring me a nice challenge. Lots of previews, RAM limits exceeded and different cloud types to manage =/ Good luck to you too!

Another wip, rendered in Vue.

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/4...perafaelfa.jpg

Adding a more dissolved cloud layer to cover a little bit of the light source and create a contrast between the density and shape of the clouds.

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4...perafaelfa.jpg

Boosting the details and playing with the scale of the main cloud material, and adding height the same layer to see if I can manage the concept basic shape. I hope I can manage those cloud "holes" right!

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4...perafaelfa.jpg

After several tests and experiments I came up with 3 different texture maps to control the cloud layers to follow the concept art of MPC.

This is the first one.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/431...perafaelfa.jpg

After struggling a lot with different cloud types, material and scene scaling to try to create one material that work out the cloudscape... I decided to work with several layers, each one with close characteristics, like density, opacity and cloud type. I still need to find a more detailed look to them, but the general mood will be like this.

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/4...perafaelfa.jpg

Another wip... still need to solve the planets better, so as the "vertical" circles. Keep moving forward!

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/431...perafaelfa.jpg