First Model in 3D

Can I have another D please. We needed to turn the sketches Martynas made into a 3d character. For this project 3d is the way to go. Animating everything in 2d would be way to time consuming.

It took a little more effort then expected to add that extra dimension to this character but it worked. We won't bother you with the details of this process but it has something to do with vertices. If you have four of them they form a square, and then you add another two, two squares now. What? Boring? haven't told you anything about ray-tracing and alpha channels yet

To keep a long story short: We think we have preserved that sharpness and toony feeling from the sketches in our 3d model. 

 

New Drawings

We did some further testing. Still pretty messy. This many characters in one images might be just to much. At least the arms and legs need to be a bit thicker.

Animation Test

For your pleasure two animation tests, it might look like fun, for us it's cold hard science.

The first video is without shadows, that's the look we want to go for. Sadly it kinda turns into a visual mess.. your eyes can not distinguish all those limbs from one another... The second one with shadows would solve that problem but the characters wouldn't look as sharp as they do in the sketches. We need to find a solution, we will.

 

Those tunes, custom made by Evert van der Veen. Not the stuff he usually makes but he did a really good job, and this is just an audio sketch.. imagine that.

Ministry of Silly Walks

Did we mention silly in our last post? And is marching some kind of walking?

Oh yes! We haven't checked the forecasts yet but there must be a chance of COMBINATIONS!

Early Drawings

These are the first sketches we made for our soldiers. They range from silly to sillier.. Hmm so that's what we want to go for... Why not go for the silliest then?

We eventually have chosen the last ones.. They have nice variations in mass and each there own personality... yet they appear uniform, just what we're looking for.

Inspiration

The Chinese turn walking in line with many of them into a true spectacle. Hell yeah, thats a parade we're talking about.

Can't have enough feathers on your hat... Man, that's some difference with all the high-tec suits modern soldiers are wearing. Yeah, yeah.. bulletproof vests, night-vision goggles.. super awesome. But it just doesn't look as stylish as those soldiers from back in the day.

Chassé Military Base

So we got the briefing about the Cultuurnacht. House of visual culture told us they want a piece about the heritage of the Chassé area. Nowadays the area is really nice designed by famous architect Rem Koolhaas and some others. It is in the center of Breda though it's very quiet there. And fairly new. What happened over there the last couple of centuries? Let's find out.

To the archives! (in a superhero tone of voice)

 

Ah, okay, it was military ground. There where barracks but also... (drumroll please)... Music! Till not so long ago there were military parades held at this place. While nowadays it's so quiet there.. it's a shame. We should do something about that!