Author Archives: loramel

Glimpses at the Production

Posted on November 28, 2011 by loramel

Confirmed by comments on my recent post, I will try to refrain as much as possible from displaying potential spoiler images. As this would mean, to cease showing any images from now on, I thought I could give you some … Continue reading →

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Production Ramped up Again

Posted on November 11, 2011 by loramel

Production of the remaining shots of Ara’s Tale is running under full steam now. Now with the dragon finished its fun again to do the lighting and compositing for the shots. I already had the tricks and workflow for all … Continue reading →

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Everything that has a Beginning …

Posted on November 3, 2011 by loramel

… has an end. After 180 exciting days working with and exploring Mari, the extended demo license finally expired today. It was a fantastic experience and helped immensely during the work on Ara’s Tale. The textures would have looked different … Continue reading →

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Dragon Ready for Production

Posted on October 26, 2011 by loramel

After a lot of time texturing and shading this beast, I have now reached a point where I am ready to use the dragon for production. There will be two shots where additional tweaking will be necessary but for all … Continue reading →

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Blender – Mari Diary #5

Posted on October 23, 2011 by loramel

I apologize for the long delay before uploading the promised bump painting timelapse. Two events have caused the delay: the update to the new kubuntu 11.10 version me having a brand new nexus s smartphone Number 2 obviously and predictably … Continue reading →

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Dragon Iterations

Posted on October 8, 2011 by loramel

Finally I have done all the remaining texture maps for the dragon’s head. What comes now is creating the material/shader setup for the final shots. I have also recorded the texture painting process for the bump maps and the final … Continue reading →

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Blender – Mari Diary #4

Posted on September 29, 2011 by loramel

As promised here is a timelapse ( with some comments ) showing the process of painting the color map for the dragon’s head. The diffuse color map is now finished (almost finished, the mouth interior is still to be done). … Continue reading →

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Dragon Texturing/Shading Progress

Posted on September 17, 2011 by loramel

I thought I share some test renders from the current state of texturing the dragon and already playing around with the material/shading setup. The basic building blocks are done with quite some polishing work still left. Doing the test renders, … Continue reading →

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Summer is ending yet again …

Posted on September 14, 2011 by loramel

… and I see myself in the 3rd year of production of Ara’s Tale. And similar to last year, summer was a phase of relatively low activity in regard to this project. RealLife(TM), health issues and the occasional freelance jobs … Continue reading →

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Blender/Mari Quicktip

Posted on August 20, 2011 by loramel

A very quick tip for using normal maps in Mari, which were  generated with blender. When painting textures, I like to have the generated normal map displayed. This gives much more control over the painting process. Unfortunately, the normal maps … Continue reading →

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