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Unearthly Challenge | Right Jab | The Yard - 09-05-2008, 04:27 PM



Right Jab = Dakkon, Jared, and I and we've chosen this concept by Sparth.

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They were only known as the Aeon. Giant vessels that had been around since the dawn of reality. The Aeon traveled through creation, stopping at countless worlds, and with them they brought peace. The vessels contained countless souls of a race long past, yet still trying to influence those who would listen. They would share their wisdom, seed new worlds, and enhance civilizations.

Many worshiped the Aeon as gods for their efforts, a title that was not undeserved. While the Aeon may have been avatars of peace, not all life was as enlightened. As worlds advanced, so did their hunger for power. Despite the efforts of the Aeon, efforts that had kept peace for millenia, war began from one side of creation to the other.

War can cause unspeakable acts that were unthinkable in the past. Many sins were committed during this time, but all pales in comparison to the moment mortals turned their eyes on the Aeon. Those who were once gods became prey. Timeless power was just too tempting to resist. It is amazing what can be justified in our darkest hour. We hunted the Aeon, trapped, and gutted them in scrap yards which became their grave. Thus ended the Aeon... fools.


Peace is just a concept, war is the true constant.
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09-05-2008, 04:38 PM

I should note here that this is now a 2 man team. Adam and I are continuing on alone.

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09-06-2008, 04:15 PM

Updated w/ our backstory.
  
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09-07-2008, 12:29 AM

You've got yourselves one hell of an evocative background story there. I look forward to seeing how you represent it visually.
  
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09-07-2008, 12:55 AM

Yea, kick ass backstory man. Really looking forward to see what you guys do with it.
  
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09-07-2008, 01:08 AM

:::yawn:::





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09-07-2008, 07:01 PM

epic backstory is epic
  
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09-07-2008, 09:30 PM

Thanks a lot
  
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Cool - 09-07-2008, 10:21 PM

Thats a pretty frikin cool story...


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09-09-2008, 09:09 PM

the dawn of reality?
traveled through creation?

hahaha that is awesome. You should write lyrics for metal bands Adam
  
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09-09-2008, 09:15 PM

haha awesome but all credit goes to our man dakkon!
  
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09-17-2008, 02:42 PM

We were waiting on the concept being near-finished before posting an update and I'm glad to say, it's finally there.

I'll post a few things now, mainly to show what we're going with as our scene's setup and some random things I've done and Dakkon will show his progress on the Aeon's a bit later on in the week.

All the props I show here are all WIP's and are not finished. (Some elements haven't been mesh smoothed, missing pieces, etc).

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Here's the concept, based on our story and created by Jared. The idea with this concept is to plan out the composition of one of our beauty renders. Some elements were left out of the concept, as we're going to do those in the scene itself and keep it a bit of a surprise.



Here's a blockin of one of the scenes that Jared pieced together that he used when creating his concept:



Here's some things I've been working on that were either pulled from our concept/block-in or from the original concept by Sparth:

Support-arm, highres, 3dsmax viewport screengrab:


Support beam, high res, max viewport screengrab:


Scaffolding, highres, viewport screengrab


Here's an example I put together quickly for how these things may be used to create a 'noisy' background, which is a goal of ours:



Here's the platform that'll be used in both scenes to tell our story, highres & render mesh, viewport screengrab:



  
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09-17-2008, 02:51 PM

Woo, some great details already, nice work.
Looking forward to seeing more, keep it up. =)
  
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09-17-2008, 03:05 PM

go go ///!


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09-17-2008, 03:14 PM

Looking good guys!
  
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09-17-2008, 06:35 PM

WHOOOO! that rocks guys!
  
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09-17-2008, 08:28 PM

woah..sweet
  
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09-17-2008, 09:57 PM

nice start guys!


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09-17-2008, 10:25 PM

already told jared, but cool concept
adam, you should be careful with your bevels, make them wider so that they catch more spec, beam looks a tad boxy
  
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09-17-2008, 10:59 PM

I'm not big on WIP shots, but that's just me. Since we need them for the competition, I'll do what I can :

Our second shot will be from below. Adam's platform is up above, near the bridge of the Aeon. Down here will be where the insides of the vessel are being taken out.


Adding this shot for the hell of it, since we'll probably never show a profile.


Texture work, lighting, ect... all still in progress. I'm mainly just trying to get my ideas down on the 'page'. I'm trying to go for a different feel to the Aeon vessel as opposed to it's surroundings. We're going for the honeycomb motif that we'll be carrying on throughout the vessel. I added some inner wiring on the left side tonight as a test.
  
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09-17-2008, 11:02 PM

badass boyd!


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09-17-2008, 11:04 PM

nice, interesting shapes
  
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09-18-2008, 09:29 AM

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09-18-2008, 11:17 AM

Thanks for the tip, Vinny. Rendermesh w/ normal applied:
  
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09-18-2008, 12:24 PM

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Thanks for the tip, Vinny. Rendermesh w/ normal applied:
Not as cool as boyd's but i guess it will have to do :p


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