Major Project Elias Rodriguez

Welcome to my Final Project A Lost Traveler.

Enjoy.

Weeks	TASK	DESCRIPTION
Week_01	PRESENTATION	IDEA WITH SIMPLE REFERENCE TO THE PROJECT
Week_02	PHOTO SCANNING	CONCEPTS AND REFERENCES FOR THE PHOTO SCANNING
Week_03	CONCEPT IDEA & REFERENCING	PHOTO SCANS ALREADY ALIGNED AND READY TO MESH
Week_04	PRESENTATION BASIC SCENE	3D SCENE BASIC OF THE LAYOUT OF THE SCENE, SIMPLE ANIMATION, AND MOCAP APPLIED
Week_05	3D LAYOUT	LAY OUT OF THE ASSETS ON THE SCENE
Week_06	3D RETOPOLOGY	RETOPOLIGISE THE ASSETS, TO REDUCE THE POLIGON COUNT AND MAKE THE SCENE LESS HEAVY, BIKE, BRIDGE, AND TREES.
Week_07	3D ASSETS PLACED ON THE SCENE	PLACE THE ASSETS ON THE SCENE WITH THE CHARACTER NOT YET ANIMATE
Week_08	MOCAP CHARACTER	APPLY THE MOCAP, TO THE 3D SCAN, OF ME AS A TRAVELLER.
Week_09	TEST / SIMULATIONS	CHECK HOW EVERYTHING LOOKS ON THE SCENE. START WITH THE FIRE AND SNOW SIMULATION WITH BIFROST
Week_10	SIMULATIONS	KEEP WORKING ON THE SIMULATIONS.
Week_11	SIMULATION PLACED ON THE SCENE	PLACE THE SIMULATIONS ON THE SCENE WITH THE REST OF THE ASSETS.
Week_12	RENDER & LIGHTING	SKY, FOG A LIGHTING FOR THE FIRE, AND SHADOWS. RENDER THE SCENE.
Week_13	COMPOSITING	BRING THE RENDER TO NUKE AND COLOR GRADING, ADDING THE LAST DETAILS.
Week_14	PRESENTATION	FINAL OUTCOME.

Idea:

The idea comes from a Vfx competition created by Pwnisher a VFX artist that use to work in Corrido Crew a VFX company.
The concept will be a simple animation focused on the render, and Its different elements on the scene making it photorealistic.
Using photogrammetry and Lidar, I will fill the scene with the elements that I will need to compose my scene.
In addition to the scene’s various simulations.
Single shots of interesting areas in the scene like the simulations.

References:

Basic concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKBs9l8jS6Q&t=27 9s
The idea of using photogrammetry, panos, and Lidar: https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/photogrammetry-and-star-wars-battlefront
Samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1stc-SYzA&t=590s&ab_channel=pwnisher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1hCKI-dv44&ab_channel=SekaniMotionDesign

https://www.youtube.com /watch?v =4gxYqS4bZTk&ab_c hannel=pwnisher

Softwares:

Unreal Engine
Maya/ Bifrots
Sustain Painter
Nuke

Things to photo scan:

DAVE: he will be the main character.
PROPS: Backpack and axe, to put on the backpack.
VEHICLE: DAVE’S motorbike
ENVIRONMENT: Trees, a destroyed building, a bridge.

The images below show a small workshop I run to explain one of the tools that I was using for my projects called the Lidar scanner.

The things I scanned for the Traveler project:

Planning of the motorbike scan.

Planning for the scan of one os the states I wanted to add to the scene, later I decided it wasn’t really working with the environment.

The main character Dave the Traveler, Is one of my colleagues at work. I chose Dave because of his experience with the outdoors and traveling. The scan includes a backpack and an axe as extra scans. These two props were chosen for the project because they are related to the environment. The 3 scans below show how you see the Traveler inside of Reality Capture, the software I used to align all the images taken to create the 3D assets for my project.

The next few renders that you will find below are from Arnold Maya, Alrady textured with an AIstandar Surface, which will give the material a soft shine on the jacket. Although this material will not be in Unreal Engine, We will create the material inside of Unreal Engine. These renders are just an example of how the Character looks in Arnold.

This short recording shows the quality of the scan already in the scene.

The video also shows the snow particles system I created for the environment.

Motor Bike, in Reality Capture, without textures, and with textures.

Renders of the motorbike in Arnold Maya.

The bridge without textures in Maya

The bridge used in the background on reality capture. All the white rectangles are the different camera shoots taken to create the mesh. I used Reality Capture to reduce the polygon account, from 1b to 500k. Then I wrapped and textured. exported as an obj.