Digital humans the art of the digital double
Ever wanted to know how digital doubles are created in the movie industry? This course will give you an insight into how it's done.
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I will try and describe the project I am working on. First of all there are 3 characters. The first one is the one that I am working on, (first realistic human, Post in WIP).
The animation will start of with the first character walking down a dark ally. He will get hit buy something but we will not see it. As he continues he will keep getting hit and pushed around by something we do not see. At the end he drops to his knees and then the whole thing rewinds. The whole thing starts again. This time the 2nd character is introduced. (The 2nd one is a Seraphim (Angel). I have attached an image. I want to use a lot of particle effects to give him a similar look to the picture from Nintendo’s “Geist”). You will see that he is the one that was pushing the first character around. It gets to the end and rewinds. In the third and final pass the 3rd character is introduced. (The 3rd is a fallen angel similar to the 2nd but decrepit. I want to make him very dark and he will leave trails of fire.) This time you will realize that the 2nd character was not beating him up but protecting him from the 3rd. At the end the first character prays (body language, there will be no talking), and than there will be a shot of the Fallen angel confronting the Angel. The Angel will open up his wing and brighten up. When this happens the fallen angel will go away. The Angel will then help the 1st character up and they will continue walking down the ally together.
I plan on showing allot of emotion in the 1st character as he is very proud and gets very upset at first. As the story progresses he will be humbled and realize that he is not able to do this on his own.
With all that said I have a question. I realize that this is going to take me an extremely long time. But is it worth it? In the end I just want to get a job. Would it be more valuable for me to just spend time modeling stuff? (I want to be a modeler). I have been struggling with this for a while. My school really stresses getting a finished product. But I am staring to wonder if that is really the best way to get a job. If I want to be a modeler wouldn’t it be better if I just had a bunch of stuff that I modeled?
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Do you have a larger image of that one that your trying to match the look of ? if so send it to pony2012@cox.net
At least the 1st character will need more of a normal SSS afect. And the little thing with the ramp and sampler will start you in a direction to fake a level of SSS that you will want but it will not be the only thing. I'll see if I can't find the siggraph white papers on the fake SSS they used in finding nemo. A good deal of that was in post if I remember right. It might be just the ticket for all the characters.
About your last coments.. Your going after a modeling spot, nothing wrong with that, and your right its a lot of work for a modeling demo real. If you want to put in the extra work though, and you can aford to, ei your modeling is top notch and your time would be better spent promoting your self and not learning some new modeling tricks. Thin I would say one way to set your self apart is to show that your models will work right under animation. Plus the shaps are more exciting when they move. You could have some one help you with the animation. Shows your familer with working with others. Also they get countless demo's of models on terntables I'm sure.. this will be a good way to set your self apart.. and not have them fall asleep on you.
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after a few more test I dont think this is working like I thought it was. Back to the drawing board.
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