Collab 2021W08 - Modern Art of Materials Museum

NP5 · February 27, 2021, 12:17pm

Fascinating damaged bricks. The hairline cracks fair enough, even with subsidence widened up a bit.

But whatever made those ‘carved’ curvy marks? Perhaps they were a very local hand made early brick that had the clay of two handfuls pushed together and not forced down enough to squeeze into the mould shape at the lump joins?

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 12:23pm

You might have guessed correctly. It’s quite an old building that my friends is living in… But I think this is lost to the history and we will never know for sure…

PS. If I have time (lol) I will also make textures/materials out of this bricks directly. That’s why I asked him to take pictures of his wall. That might have been really strange request (as I noticed how awesome wall is behind him during work related video call )

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 2:47pm

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 2:52pm

Or:

Munsa · February 27, 2021, 2:52pm

The light of the vitrine is off to me…

Perhaps it is missing the light origin? The light bulb? Or a light cone?

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 3:08pm

Thanks, added a lamp thingy

but it doesn’t really help

Unreal today seems to be fiddly… lot’s of grain etc.

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 3:14pm

Enough… will have to be enough for now. Too tired…

btw. I made also material for walls:

Which is quite simple and nice looking…

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 4:34pm

Made a short video:

FedPete · February 27, 2021, 4:58pm

I think you’ve missed a chance.
I see some previous art work on the wall (Orc).
So why not put some previous work on those pillars …?

This is what I did this some years ago. GameDev 2.79 challenge results.

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 5:01pm

Yeah, that was always the idea… I just run out of energy . That’s what is on my “plan” that I created when starting this collab:

Looks awesome!

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 5:58pm

FedPete · February 27, 2021, 6:25pm

Great texture! Loving it.

NP5 · February 27, 2021, 7:29pm

A much better brick texture.
You use materialize?

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 8:05pm

Yeah, nothing can beat a picture.

… although this guy is close to it:

His artstation profile:

That was me using Materialize for the first time

bOBaN · February 27, 2021, 9:41pm

Quick post mortem on the work for this collab:

tiredness from last week was played a big role (plus this week I had overtime everyday)
2 of 4 learning goals met (didn’t do any sculpting or texture painting)
Designer is quite a beast to learn… will take many weeks for me to get good, but I already can create some basic materials. But nodes are fun
Drawing course was released in early accesss and couldn’t resist to start it
Overall I will let the project sit there for a while, but (at least at the time I write this) I want to get back to it. It’s way cooler way to showcase materials in museum than as disembodied sphere floating in the void (as most people are doing from what I see on artstation and other places)

bOBaN · February 28, 2021, 10:38am

So it kept bothering me why the image quality and ray tracing looked so strange. So I created new empty level and copied over stuff from old one, and just re-did the global lighting and post processing:

It’s much clearer now, and what’s important is that there is no strange ghosting artifacts I had previously.

2 things learned:

start with totally empty map, not with the one of the templates as they were setup for specific reasons
use ‘brute force’ instead of ‘final gather’ global illumination method. The former is slower, but the latter produces those fuzzy ghosting artifacts (maybe there is a way to fix it, but I didn’t found it yet).

FedPete · February 28, 2021, 10:44am

What gives this a “At the museum” feeling?
It could be just an Arch-viz interior design illustration …

bOBaN · February 28, 2021, 10:52am

Could be… as many pictures of museum interiors I gathered on my reference board

Isn’t a picture of museum interior an archviz?

Btw. this shows that I don’t really ‘feel’ the subject of W08 collab