Movie Mashup - Land of the Lost:BlackHawk Down - Gauravcg

[gauravcg]

I am in.....this theme is awesome
Here is my concept...ill be doing a black hawk down in the land of the lost ......this is going to be fun.... :wave:


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Good luck everyone! :haha:

[gauravcg]

here is a quick update.... :)

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[hulahuga]

Cool concept :D.
Works with each other :)

[chunkymunky]

Good start already, what's your polycount gonna be like? You gonna go all out and really high res?

[gauravcg]

@chunkymunky:thanks,yes ill try to make it as close as possible....so i dont think i will be trying to save polygons but it depends how much my system can handle :lame:
thanks hulahuga...

[hulahuga]

Hmm are you going to depict the scene in the poster or are they trying to defend the heliwreck??? :)

[gauravcg]

Hmm are you going to depict the scene in the poster or are they trying to defend the heliwreck??? :)

im thinking of heliwreck but cant say now...will see to it as i progress.....rest of the scene will b the same except the helicopter !

[gauravcg]

another update.....
Golden gate bridge...addition :wave:

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[Tarik2d]

Good start, this is coming along nicely

[paulius-st]

progres looks good. i like the idea. the final image should look epic :)
good luck

[hulahuga]

Neat :D

[gauravcg]

thanks guys......
will try to make it up to the mark!

[Dann-O]

Making some rapid progress here looks good.

[chichiri]

Nice model, good luck for the next.

[chris_solo]

nice! keep it up!

[gauravcg]

Dann-O, chichiri, chris_solo thanks alot guys....:max:

here is a quick update on low poly little bird helicopter....
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[Tarik2d]

your links dont work

[gauravcg]

your links dont work

are they working now?
i re uploaded my updates!

[chichiri]

Yes, they are working and th model is really clean.

[chunkymunky]

Yeah, nice clean modelling, coming along great :)

[hulahuga]

You would probably need to lengthen the back of those supports... Otherwise neat :D

[gauravcg]

thank you guys...
@hulahaga: yea will move some vertices..Thanks!

more updates coming soon!

[BSPjunkie]

Looking good so far! Helicopter is looking pretty sweet :D

I really need to get around to watching Land of the Lost - got some good actors in it :D

[gauravcg]

thanks BSPjunkie...
here is a small update..
added shipwreck, Sydney opera house and Hollywood sign....
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[hulahuga]

First off the phonebooth doesn't match in proportion-wise at all right now... It is a fifth of the golden gate bridge right now...

Otherwise good to see how the scenes comes together :;)

[gauravcg]

yup ... ill correct it...thou im not sure where to place it :P
Gonna crash the blackhawk.....!

[Tarik2d]

Nice sense of scale and distance

[gauravcg]

thanks tarik...
First update on Black hawk....
This is the main rotor...

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[chunkymunky]

Lovely clean wireframes, great modelling so far! :)

[gauravcg]

thanks CM
working on black hawk now....and im not sure weather it is going in correct direction or not...:wall:
What do you think?:wave:
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[hulahuga]

Pretty solid :).

A bit long perhaps...
Look at as much refs as possible when doing this...

[gauravcg]

thanks hulahuga...
im going with the reference right now....

wasn't happy with the model so far so remodeled it...this time it looks better ...

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[Tarik2d]

agreed, much better well done :)

[hulahuga]

Much better :).
Perhaps a tad to many intersecting edges to the upper right corner of that lower window... Since you don't really have to care about the number of polys all that much you could divide the loops there to smooth it out a bit...

[chunkymunky]

Coming along nicely there

[Cordero]

hey there mate!
I really love the composition for your scene, it works for me.
don't know much about helicopters, but your last update looks better then the first try, so you are definitely improving :D

keep it up, i would like to see this one finished.

[chichiri]

I like you're models, they're really clean and beautful, waiting to see the textures.

[gauravcg]

thank you guys...really appreciate your support...
@halahuga: actually i rendered wire on low res model and then overlapped it on the high res....so its looking like overlapped edges...am i right? :???:

Progressing....on walcott's bird.....:dance:
:faces:
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[hulahuga]

Look at the latest render. The window in the lower left corner... To its top right there are about 7 edges all going to the same vertex...


Progress looks great :). This is coming out really good!

[gauravcg]

Thanks...
oh that...the door is separate...many of those are created in parts :P

[gauravcg]

messing up with the weapons... and rotor..:evil:

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[hulahuga]

Great update :). Way cool chopper, make sure to show it in the scene properly :D


Anyway here is what I was talking about... Note the vertex in th middle of the ring...
You could make that into two lines instead..

[Dann-O]

Nice work and good job keeping the polycage low.

[gauravcg]

thank you guys....
@halahuga: did you notice my last render.....i tried to solve this thing...is it okay?

[gauravcg]

almost done with blackhawk......but i may not be able to post some updates for 3-4 days ....currently working on an institutional project.....but will be back with full throttle .....here is the update so far...

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What do you say?:max:

[hulahuga]

Neat! An odd vertical crease on the beginning of the tail (as you probably know ;)).


PS: See pic..

[gauravcg]

Thanks buddy...your help is really appriciated...:lurve:
is this the odd vertical crease you are talking about???
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[jac3d]

nice idea

[Akim]

Waiting for updates! Can't wait to see overal view
Good luck with it

[hulahuga]

NP :D.

Nah I was talkin about the crease that appeared in the division between high and low poly on the tail... You have a lot of edgeloops coming in and only like half of them afterwards...

[xxxcubanxxx]

pretty nice modeling so far, keep it up.

[gauravcg]

thanks jac3d, Akim, hulahuga, xxxcubanxxx....
@Akim: Over all view is coming soon...
@halahuga: that is just another part..i make things in parts so that it is easy to manage with too many edges :P
thanks again....

[gauravcg]

ehm....
done with blackhawk...did i miss anything??? :haha:
C&C welcome.....as always :P
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[Cordero]

nice chopper :D
but you should move one in order to finish this piece!

[gauravcg]

@Akim: Overall view is here :haha:
@Cordero: moving on....;P
here is the overall scene update...hope you all like it :D

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:wave:

[JAPO]

Aiiiiii... main rotor - helicopter crashing into position like you have it (case of Wolcotts helicopter from the film) would shatter its main rotor to pieces. You need to level it to position of Durands helicopter or destroy the rotor :)

But very nice otherwise :)

Edit: While at it... ram the landing gear into the fuselage. Its not designed for crash landing and woudl be destroyed in any case.
Edit edit: Maybe remove the pilots door. They dont have those in the film if I remember propery. It makes sense. You can leave the helicopter faster and there is no risk of jamming in case of accident.

Edit edit edit off topic: Did you notice that in the film all the pilots are in the wrong seat? :D

[Turvs]

That looks great, but what i think you could do with the blackhawk is to break off the blades. Like what happend in the movie.

Other than that it is looking really good.

[gauravcg]

Thanks guys
@JAPO: i just placed the chopper there...damage is to be done..this is nothing but the combined mesh of the chopper.....
yes ill remove the pilot door....thanks:D

@turvs: yea ill try to make it like that only....

Off-topic: the movie contained more than 5 factual errors as one of them is..when the walcott's bird hits the ground its blades strike more than 4 times to the ground and still 2 were left intact when the crash finished :P

[JAPO]

its blades strike more than 4 times to the ground and still 2 were left intact when the crash finished :P

Those blades did actually cut through the ground. Those were made of TIE Fighter alloy acquired from one that crash landed in Nevada... is that CIA at my door? :D

Its nice picture anyways. I dont think I would dare doing Black hawk. Must be because my modelling of vehicles is exhausted from work.

[gauravcg]

whoa...how did you get that much info about it....???

[JAPO]

Joking :D Of course all blades should shatter. But after Michael Bay´s Pearl Harbor I am not surprised by anything :D

[gauravcg]

LOL... :D

i modeled it(Blackhawk) but now i feel that texturing and unwrapping is going to be real pain!!! :(
you have any idea about some unwrapping plug-ins?....
Roadkill kills my files and crashes maya :P

[JAPO]

I find Unwrella useful - www.unwrella.com

The trial is for 30 uses, not 30 days. Be careful you dont accidentaly save it in some important scene as it could end up locked (guess how I know that :D) . Got full version now.

[gauravcg]

Unwrella hmmm...ill give it a try...
did you loose something really important in it? :D

one ques...it locks up whole maya or just the things done by the plugin itself?

[JAPO]

hehe I did not lose anything. I liked the plugin from seeing it, I loved it when trying it, so I got the full version in the end. It only caught me by surprise when scenes I used it in locked when the trial expired. I have nearly reinstalled my PC before I realised its just some scenes. :D

It locks only scenes where it is used, not entire Maya.

edit: hopefuly. I am Max user :)

[Cordero]

gauravcg: i wouldn't recommend unwrella unless you are already familiar, and "pro" in uvw mapping. relying too much on plug-ins can cause you trouble later on.

you should do it the traditional way: start uvwing by hand, you will see its much faster then it looks for first glance.

[gauravcg]

@cordero: hmm i guess you are right, but i will learn it it looks cool to me...
will texture black hawk only when im done with rest of the scene :)

Thanks guys!!!!

[JAPO]

Relying on plugins can backfire that is true.

I do not have the plugin for long, so I havent put it to really serious use yet, but I intend to do so very soon. I am aware it is not allmighty solution and I will have to interfere, but it has been useful already on objects where I did not need so much control over the material. On those it has been a real time saver.

But like I said... real challenge still awaits :)

[Cordero]

there is not much to learn on that program :D you click, it unwraps :D

but alright, looking forward on the textures.

[JAPO]

there is not much to learn on that program :D you click, it unwraps :D

but alright, looking forward on the textures.

Hehe true :D And I love it for the simplicity as I do not have the time to unwrap everything by hand (not mentioning this and rigging are the least popular in my books - I can do it for living, but I do not like spending evenings with it). I just need to find where I cant use it.

[hulahuga]

Bend that upper blade a bit... They are quite heavy actually :)

[gauravcg]

thanks everyone....
have been busy for some days...and still for 1 or 2
some how managed to texture some things in the scene...
i dont know but it looks okay to me(normals are missing here)
what do you think?:hmm:

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[chunkymunky]

Looking nice.

[Tarik2d]

looking good, needs more varioation in the texture though :)

[Cordero]

I'm not sure about the scale of the bump, right now it looks like giant dust pieces all over the place.
If they are supposed to be stones, tweak the colors a bit, and if not, increase the tiling, and it should be fine.

[gauravcg]

thank you guys...
@Cordero: yea i just used the texture it self as bump map...and texture scale is low i think...will tweak it up soon :)
thanks

[gauravcg]

here is an update on desert texture....

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[Tarik2d]

I watched this film last weekend again at a mates house, its so funny. Its ur own Damn vault