Newborn - Worlds Apart

[KeremGogus]

It's a story about two people from entirely different worlds. Story between a newly born Mermaid and a soldier. Came to my mind while listening to the music of Blue Stone - a song called Worlds Apart.

The thing I've had in mind was a mermaid and a some sort of high tech soldier but they cannot touch each other. After I've overcome my Poserophobia I decided to use the items I've bought from Renderosity (I know it's kinda a blasphemy to talk like that here ) But I'm not good at organics and I really needed a cute mermaid for that scene - which currently I'm not able to do.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/mermaid.jpg

After that I needed an opposite character to emphasize the composition. I've set up this futuristic soldier guy in Poser.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/marine.jpg

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I wanted to block out the scene to see how things look in general. I've used Deco Walls of Poser again.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/poserroom.jpg

And import things to Vue and started to add lights and see things looking like that I had in mind or not.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/previz.jpg

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After that I started to model the room in Cinema 4D. Started completely from scratch but the Deco room I've made on previz gave great ideas to put together.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/roomwires.jpg

After finished the modeling I wanted to render it in "clay" to see the details under bright light.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/roomclay.jpg

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When modelings done - I started to work on UVs. I didn't laid out the UVs. Instead I've started to add UV map modifier (tag) of C4D with proper mapping options to get rid of the strechings.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/roomuvw.jpg

After that I've exported the room and imported to Vue Infinite to texture mapping and materials. All done in Vue and Photoshop.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/roomtexturefinal.jpg

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Lights on the scene...

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/roomlighting.jpg

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Lights and camera... the beautiful moment that I felt like a director.

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Nearly final - rest will be Photoshop work after a long 4500 pixel final render. There were weird artifacts on Vue 6 render and I decided to test the scene on Vue 7.2. Results was much better - lights and shadows were much more accurate and no artifacts.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/vue67compare.jpg

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Here's the final image. With and without post work for compare. I hope you enjoy - it was fun to work on it.

http://www.keremgogus.com/forumposts/worldapart_compare.jpg