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[Style Swap] Moby Dick

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gestoryscht
  • Edited

Hi guys,

after thinking about what I could do for this contest I decided to make a Moby Dick material.
I don't won't to make any generic like the 1000st brick wall material or useless - but cool - highly detailed scenery, because that's not the purpose of mixer.

I also want to embrace the new features of mixer like the scatter modifier to get the most of it.
As a environment artist I thought about making a terrain material, but for this I would need Gaea and this is a thrid party tool - so this is no option. Just making a surface? Nah. I want something with a story!

So long story short. I want to make a whale skin material with a sticky harpoon in the flesh. Thats for the realsitic part - for the stylized, as you see a lot in the moby dick books, a etching version of it. That way I have even between the stylized and realsitic version some logicial bound and a storytelling.

Reference pics ~

http://animalia-life.club/other/whale-skin.html 
https://wildworldart.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Humpback-whale-skin-small-2.jpg 

 

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  • Wiktor

    This is a really creative idea. :D Can't wait to see what you do with it!

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  • gestoryscht

    Thanks :)
    ... but what's about the points we get to accomplish this task?
    Maybe I am a bit impatient, but I would really love to get started :D

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  • Jack McKelvie

    We're working on this now and it will be resolved soon. Good luck on the challenge, I'm really looking forward to see how you tackle such an interesting material idea. Dishonored might be a really solid source of references for something like this.

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  • gestoryscht

    Hi Jack,
    thanks for your help and tip :)

    ... but actually I have a tough time doing this texture because I thought the mask system inside mixer has pen pressure but actually that's not the case. I talked to Jin and he told me, that this feature is already available but only in-house and it's not released. It was just shown for the gdc demo ... soooo :D

    But I hope I will find a way to get something done ^^

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  • gestoryscht
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    Okay, in the end it becomes something different, but here we are.
    It was real fun to accomplish something like that in mixer and I can't wait to follow the development of mixer. Here and there some features are lacking like a proper pen sensitivity, but overall it's even yet in the beta a pretty powerful program. Anyway - long story short. Here is my entry:

     

    // Moby Dick

    Realistic



     

    Stylized

     

    // Layer Stack

    Realistic

    https://media.giphy.com/media/J5A35Ut3OBpO78EKkj/source.gif 
    Sorry for the link - I am only allowed to upload 2mb ~

     

    Stylized

     

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  • DinoWare

    Very cool! I like it! :)

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  • Jin (Tech Artist & Moderator)

    I really like how this one turned out. Very creative.

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  • gestoryscht

    Thanks guys, really appreciate it!
    Maybe it's not what you usally get by using mixer, but I really wanted to push the boundaries of this tool.

    Jin, we already talked about, the lack of pen pressure was at the time being a bit of a hassle, but yeah. Even with these restrictions it was possible to get the desired look.

    I really enjoyed this challenge :)

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  • Jin (Tech Artist & Moderator)

    Do not worry, we plan to add more painting features. Hats off for still being able to achieve a great submission without it.

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