Unit 2: Secret Lairs Final Crit

Secret Lair Final Crit 13.12.13

Secret Lairs: Avian Dictator Final Render

Secret Lairs: Definitive Influence Map

Secret Lair: Hero Prop & Scene Final Concept Art

Hero Prop final concept: Statue Head



Scene final concept: Temple

Secret Lair Submission Disc

Avian Dictator Secret Lair Progress

Progress on my Temple scene, originally went for a boxed area but found this limited my space too much.

I modeled the beams to be more curved which opened up more space for me. I also removed some of the pillars as it felt too cluttered. Modeled the statue head and added it into the scene. The bird skulls are currently being modeled on the side whilst I UV map and get the textures down.

Secret Lair: Orthographic Views [Thumbnails 32-41]

Decided to make the Statue Head the Hero Prop for my scene. This is currently getting modeled, although I'm not entirely sure how well this is going to work.

I also decided to make orthographic views for other props in my scene to help me model.

Secret Lair Thumbnails 5-31

Collection of thumbnails from pre-OGR and after.

These I messed around with the hue and saturation for different highlights, however this design has had lots of changes since.

Secret Lair: Temple block out

I had a quick play around in Maya today to try and get to grips with how I want things placed. Will probably work with the placement of the outer pillars more. I also collected a few screenshots of different perspectives to do some overlays to get more of an idea of how I want this shot as well as the lighting.

Secret Lair: Pillar base model

Secret Lair OGR 20/11/2013

Secret Lair OGR 20/11/2013 by Gemma Titchmarsh

Secret Lair: Avian Dictator Development 2

After speaking to Jordan regarding my previous idea, I realised that it brought a lot of limitations to what I'd be able to do for a Secret Lair. After discussing it a bit more his advice was to focus completely on the avian aspect, with a dictator touch to it.

My first thought for the type of bird was a crow, and as Jordan said as well they do look very malicious which was perfect.

To add the "dictator" touch to it we also discussed what could be used. They wouldn't be able to have banners but the use of red leaves or torn cloth from humans would be more than acceptable to use.

The idea of the secret lair for the leader of the murder is either its nest or the inside of the a tree. Here I want to use the characteristics of the crow (which is hoarding shiny things) and relate it to what the Nazis did during WWII by hoarding art work, so the between avian and dictator will still be apparent.

Secret Lair Research

I've compiled together some references for my character's secret lair, focusing on bird environments:

Journey to the center of the Earth Submission Disc

Cinematic Spaces Final Critique

Cinematic Spaces Final Critique

Journey to the Center of the Earth Scene 3

Journey to the Center of the Earth Scene 2

Journey to the Center of the Earth Scene 1

Cinematic Spaces Thumbnails: 65-76

Here I've selected my favorite 4 thumbnails from the past few sets. 65-68 is a combination of the crystals and lava described in the first extract (which I sketched out separately first).

Using a separate layer set to "overlay", I painted over the B&W thumbnails. Once I was happy with the colours I then created another layer on top set at "luminosity". With the airbrush tool I lightly painted over to either give it a glowing/smokey/light effect to them. This worked especially well with the lava & crystal set.

I can see from this set my favorites emerging to be used as my final pieces. However, as much as I like no.69; I'm not entirely sure it will alongside such an impacting orange mix and green. An experiment would be for the best before I set on that if I want to use it as a final image.

Cinematic Spaces: Extract 2 Influence Maps