FINAL | WORLDS | 3D | Wall Town | blackspire

blackspire 2017-08-24 10:55:23 UTC #1

Hi all! This is our final piece for the contest

and a flythrough video

Hi all and thank you for the chance to join this contest! We had a lot of fun and we worked hard on this piece. We are happy with the result and we hope you will like it too.

We are posting some infos about the prodution of the piece.

Our scene is built in Unity. The lighting is in real time, unfortunately we didn't have time to bake all the lights!

Our production pipeline was this:
-concepts and turnaround in Photoshop
-modeling in Maya and Zbrush
-texturing in 3d-Coat and Photoshop
-scene building and lighting in Unity

We used both external assets and buil in Unity features and plugins to improve our workflow for the scene building:
-Octave3D, for prefab placement
-Fog volume 3, to achieve our fog effects
-Terrain composer 2, for the desert shot
-Post Processing Stack, for adding some nice camera effects

We created the shots for the video with Cinemachine, and recorded them with Unity Recorder.

Personal details

Blackspire team
-mail blackspirestudio@gmail.com
-twitter https://twitter.com/blackspire17
-sketchfab https://skfb.ly/6u6LG

Valerio Bellia
-twitter @ValerioFere
-artstation https://www.artstation.com/feremax

Massimo Di Leo
-twitter @massimodileo3
-artstation https://www.artstation.com/dileomax

Here is the first concept art for the piece

blackspire 2017-08-24 15:16:34 UTC #2

fast concept of the girl with her vehicle

blackspire 2017-08-25 14:33:33 UTC #3

rough of the buildings, I drew over the concept i did, to study how the city could be built. Now I'm going to study the city from above, and the overall setting.
I'll also make some more drawing of the buildings, and I'll start designing some characters.
The 3D blocking of the scene is on the way!

blackspire 2017-08-25 19:26:57 UTC #4

Two more concepts of the city; one from above the alley, the other is a long shot of the ancient machine in which is built our city.

blackspire 2017-08-26 00:48:07 UTC #5

first scene blocking!

blackspire 2017-08-26 18:56:36 UTC #6

Some city details: windows, doors, stairs, sheds, and others

blackspire 2017-08-27 15:24:04 UTC #7

New updates!
First models of some buildings, looking forward to paint the textures and some more details in 3d Coat

Some studies of the "ancient" structure upon which the city is built

blackspire 2017-08-27 22:44:57 UTC #8

Hi all!
We did a texture test for the buildings, in 3D coat, and we quickly tried it into Unity, using just one building repeated, to understand how it will look. Now we are going to define all the elements, and start studying props and characters

Goat 2017-08-28 12:01:10 UTC #9

This is coming along really quickly! I really like it so far

blackspire 2017-08-28 13:26:30 UTC #10

Thank you! We are trying to push the production because there are so many things to do, characters, vehicles, and robots!
I've made some character sketches, three version of the girl, and some random villager.

Bohdan_Lvov 2017-08-29 15:24:29 UTC #11

Dude, that's awesome!

Goat 2017-08-29 22:44:25 UTC #12

Yeah I love your art style, really clear and clean for concepting as well! This is going to turn out brill!

blackspire 2017-08-30 02:32:43 UTC #13

Thank you all! I tried to keep the concepts as clean as possible, but of course sometimes things have to be made quickly.
Today I thumbnailed a little bit, to help us understand how do we want our composition. Sure, we already started out with a composition we liked, but I felt to explore some other possibilities. Our focal point will be for sure the girl on the vehicle, chased either by the big eyed robot or his swarm of minions.

blackspire 2017-08-30 18:10:31 UTC #14

Hi all!
Today I started the early work on the giant robot guardian, while Valerio is working on the models of structures and environment.

Some shape concepts of the guardian

And a first render of the wall tile of the structure, with normals and no color map

j11 2017-08-31 10:12:15 UTC #15

AWESOME project, guys!

blackspire 2017-08-31 22:35:15 UTC #16

Hello! Thank you j11 ^^
Today I defined some sketches of street shops, we are going to model some of these to populate the streets! Meanwhile, the modeling continues.

Bohdan_Lvov 2017-08-31 23:32:58 UTC #17

Are you familiar with architecture of Bjarke Ingels and Serp in particular?
Looks like a lot of inspiration for your work!
http://big.dk/#projects-serp

Strkl 2017-09-01 17:09:15 UTC #18

Those concepts are really cool !

blackspire 2017-09-10 23:30:34 UTC #19

Hi all, and thanks!
Bohdan, I didn't know very much about Ingels, his works are great, and really very inspiring. Thanks for the suggestion!

We are back with some work.
I'm posting some wips of the ancient structure, we modeled the walls straight, and then we bent them to match the curve.
Then we started the texturing with the interior, now we're continuing with the external panels

Another shop concept

blackspire 2017-09-12 02:19:54 UTC #20

Hi!
New work in progress, today we did another test for the buildings' textures (so, for the second time, it's just one house repeated and flipped upside down! haha).
Also, we did some test with the lights.