Queen's cave Lighting Update

lighted by Shannon Lee
Cave Designed and modeled by Yukari Akaba
Queen Flower by Sandra Rivero

Queen Flower Rigged

Benedict Flower Texturing

Silhouettes

Checking out Benedict's silhouettes. The hair needs a lot more work, I hope that once we've blocked out more animation, I'll have time to spruce it up lots.

Backpack Texture by Mudbox, Maya, Photoshop

Benedict Flower Blend Shape Test Animation

Love playing with blend shape lol.

Benedict Flower Blend Shape Test from Shannon S Lee [이승민] on Vimeo.

Bendict Flower is almost Finished!

Modeling of Benedict Flower has finally finished! And moved on to blend shape today. The process of making blend shape can be so tedious and tiring, but after when they are done, the results are so entertaining. 

Blend Shapes:

Test Lighting

As I block out the animation in my shots, I've been experimenting with lighting. It's so fun to see the project getting closer to our vision!

Lighting the Environment...trials and errors...

Going through many many many trials...each render costing up to 4 minutes....(cry)

Benedict Flower Version 04

Major change has been made to the Flower Benedict. We had really good feedbacks from monthly SIGGRAPH BYOA event that perhaps losing "human quality" could make more interesting design. So this time I made his body more asymmetrical and during reference search, I came across a type of orchid flower called "Dendrobium". 

The meaning of this flower is "beautiful, but selfish". This orchid was indeed a perfect inspiration for Flower Benedict!  

Concept Sketch:

Zbrush model:

Style Frame Ver1

Clothing Research- Benedict

I had fun treating Benedict like a paper doll, trying to figure out the most efficient and descriptive outfit.

He's AWAKE! Blink Test

When I made the Blend Shape for him to open his eyes, I was so thrilled! He's finally joined us. Still bald though poor guy... Hair will come dear Benedict, promise.

blink test with color from Daniela Lobo Dias on Vimeo.

Flowers texture propose

Sandra Rivero's texturing

Benedict Texture Progress

He's been in search of this flower for a few days, and he's close to the breaking point. Desperation!

 

The Perfumist Animatic #12

Whenever each animatic gets completed, we always think and believe "YES THIS IS THE ONE."
And here we present, our version #12. (Version 13 coming soon....;;)



THE PERFUMIST#12 from Shannon S Lee [이승민] on Vimeo.

Benedict, still in the process of blooming...

When Sandra was designing the Queen Flower, rose was her inspiration. Since it is the Queen 

who transforms Benedict into his flower form, it was natural for him to reflect the Queen's form 

as well. In order to understand the characteristic of the rose stem, I did a small study then

tried to incorporate it into Benedict's flower body.

And thus far this is how he looks like:

Modeled in Maya and Zbrush.