I have worked a long time to reach this point, and it has first and foremost been a very good learning experience for me. As a VFX student my focus has been to integrate models onto film footage, but to make myself more flexible on the market, it is a good idea to know how to make a model from scratch.
I have learned a ton underway, especially how you should make a proper mesh to avoid artifacts in programs like Mudbox. In my previous post, you can see how I fixed normal map artifacts with an extemely useful photoshop plug in, the "Nvidia re-normalizer". One of my tutors in uni mentioned this plugin in class, and I always take notes of small things like this, because knowing that tools like this exists saves you a sea of time.
I had fun experimenting with the materials in 3DS Max, and it took some time to make the dirt shader even though there was a few tutorials online, most were from old versions of max, and the mental ray materials have changed a lot in just a few versions.
EYEON FUSION 6
I put together all my passes like I have done in similar projects, only this time I played around with an RGB matte because it gives a lot of freedom and in some situations saves time instead of having to use using several normal black and white mattes. The alpha layer can also be used, so that is four masks in one.
Here is the final render, I have put the thing in a hangar and added some skylights to drop some shadows on it. I feel that i have pushed the limit of what is possible on a laptop, but it was worth it.
So here it is, though I might use it in a VFX shot on some future occasion!
Independence Day alien attacker render from Andreas Fjell on Vimeo.
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