A Day with Summer by Peter Ang

[cgdigi]

My concept for the Summer in the City Challenge would be a
an interior scene of a 1970 print publication's newsroom, where reporters
sit at desks, gather information, and write articles or stories on typewriters.

--------------------~~~~~~~~~~" A DAY WITH SUMMER "~~~~~~~~~~~~---------------------

Is a story about Ben's daydreaming at work, He's a junior reporter who works 10hrs a day from monday to saturday
and sometimes on Sundays if needed. He's a very hardworking employee just like his other colleagues.
But everyday on summer season when the heat of the sun hits his desk he always daydream about the white
sand on the beaches or nice places to unwind and get away from stress. But then again its just an everyday question
for Ben, if when..... when can he have the chance to have a Day with Summer...


Objective for this contest is to make the audience feel the heat of the sun inside of a busy office.
Although this image is a little surreal, it shows the boredom of too much work and longingness
for a vacation because sometimes people work too hard and worry a lot, that they forgot
that there is more life out there than just work and problems.

Thanks to all have comment and appreciated my work, and good luck to all! ^_^

website: www.dartofang.com


FINAL ENTRY:


LINK TO High RES UNCOMPRESSED IMAGE of my final entry:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g3quop5woa...20Ang.jpg?dl=0






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Additional camera angles to tell more about the story of the image, even though this is not included for the final entry,
it's worth doing it for a personal portfolio

EXTRA CAMERA ANGLES:











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SOFTWARES:
3dsmax 2014 http://www.autodesk.com.au/products/3ds-max/overview
Vray 2.4 http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/index.html
Zbrush 4r6 - http://pixologic.com/
Marvelous Designer -- http://www.marvelousdesigner.com/
Adobe Photoshop CS6 http://www.adobe.com/au/
Adobe After Effects CS6 http://www.adobe.com/au/
Nik Software -- https://www.google.com/nikcollection...olor-efex-pro/
Multi Scatter- using masking -- http://rendering.ru/
Advanced Painter - http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc...vanced-painter

80% of the elements will be modelled by me
and some are premade models like:
Evermotion Archmodels - http://www.evermotion.org/
Cgtextures- http://www.cgtextures.com/
CHARACTER-- AXYZ 3d people-- https://secure.axyz-design.com/metropoly-3d-people
Plants-- model+model = http://www.modelplusmodel.com/
RAYBAN--- dimensiva- http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/view...air-by-pedrali
SHOES, vintage bag--- VIZ people- http://www.viz-people.com/

[cgdigi]

My concept for the Summer in the City Challenge would be a little bit different,
The scene would be an interior of a print publication's newsroom, reporters sit at desks, gather
information, and write articles or stories in the past on typewriters,
The main shot would be focus on Ben's desk. He's a reporter,
who work so hard and so dedicated on his job to get a promotion.
He works 10hrs a day from monday to saturday and sometimes on Sundays if needed.
The elements on the Ben's workstation would portray his longingness for a summer vacation.

my portfolio: www.dartofang.com

Inspired by the MTV of Josh Pyke "the Summer"

[cgdigi]

so here's the sketch of Ben's desk. It would be full of details and sand everywhere. ^_^

[cgdigi]

nothing special just modeling the walls and windows,
next will be lighting and camera set up

[cgdigi]

so here's the lighting direction that I'm going for this image, and this camera angle will be use for the final entry, but I'll be adding up 4 more cameras to give some idea on how messy is the newsroom.

[cgdigi]

for the sand under the chair, i use zbrush in sculpting the form, its more faster that way than paint deformation in 3dsmax, after sculpting I then add some multiscatter on the sand with four different small sand rocks all are converted to vray proxy, I also use a masking texture so i can manipulate the way the sand goes around my scene. It's very helpful since it has some fall offs it adds natural look to the scattering of the sand.

[AhmedTallal]

man i am really impressed with how many plugins u use
and nice portfolio by the way
good luck

[cgdigi]

AhmedTallal-- thanks man yeah i need multiscatter and marvelous to get what i need on my scene.

[cgdigi]

so here's the MD simulation

[cgdigi]

this is how i light up my scene using vray light skyportal, and direct light

[cgdigi]

now im adding sand details to the chair and other elements. I use advanced painter so I can manipulate more on how the sand spread to some parts of the objects.

my portfolio: www.dartofang.com

[cgdigi]

just adding detais to the scene. still going to replace some premade models with the ones i modelled, just want to see how the scene looks and the composition of the elements.

[cgdigi]

somer render wips, still in modelling stage to replace some archmodel elements on the scene

[cgdigi]

test render teaser.

[Neb]

Nice progress!

[cgdigi]

thanks NEB..

[cgdigi]

more test renders i think Im done with my mood and color correction.. ill update with the new models soon. :P

[cgdigi]

finally finish Ben's armchair. ^_^ soon ill post the props that i modelled.
by the way you can download my 3d furniture models for free on my website blog, you can use it on both personal and commercial works.

[sdwhitton]

hi there - I think it all looks pretty impressive, the attention and detail and work put in, quite incredible

I just wonder though, if the lighting looked 'more summery'? Like shafts of sunlight, maybe with particles in the air - that sort of Pixar Toy Story look...? Maybe? That, with the nice bokeh effects you have, might ping it closer to the theme of the competition...?

[sdwhitton]

some random pictures pulled off the web to maybe help explain better what I'm on about..! (the text on the image isn't mine)