Improved Med Center Room and Star Destroyer Bridge

I added some shininess and reflections to the Med Center Room's texture maps. Here are before-and-after pictures:

It's hard to see the changes in these compressed images, but they're most obvious if you look at the droid.

We don't have a 3D model for the Venator-class Imperial Star Destroyer bridge, so we were using a kitbashed version of the Death Star Tower. However, we were never happy with the way it looked, so we ended up using the Imperator-class Imperial Star Destroyer bridge. Here are before-and-after comparisons of Scene 297:



MUCH better, right?

Here's another before-and-after comparison, this time from Scene F402:




And here's the last before-and-after comparison, this time from Scene F414:



Hopefully you'll agree that moving the Venator-class Star Destroyer bridge scenes to the new 3D model was a huge improvement.

Anyway, I gotta go.

Later,
Bob

Jedi Starfighter Cockpit and Imperial Star Destroyer

Brad and his friend, Jim, have completed the framework for our Jedi Starfighter cockpit! This will probably be the only real set we have in this entire movie (all of the other sets are CG models).

Here's a picture of the Jedi Starfighter:

And here are pictures of our Jedi Starfighter cockpit:

Of course, it still needs painting and detailing (hoses, switches, lights, etc.), but it still looks amazing.

Here are screenshots from our current animatic, which show the CG version of our Jedi Starfighter cockpit:


Hopefully you can use your imagination and replace all of those CG backgrounds with our real-life cockpit and visualize how awesome the final footage will look. I can't wait to film it!

On the CG-side, I added specular maps to some of our spaceships. Here are before-and-after comparisons of the Imperial Star Destroyer, as an example:

It's hard to tell at first glance, but there's more shininess on the bottom-right of the "after" picture.

Here's another before-and-after comparison:

Again, it's hard to tell but there's shininess in the "after" picture. You can see it especially well if you look at the gun turret on the bottom-left of the picture.

I was re-rendering our Bibble's Bar backgrounds and realized that I should model a "real" pad for him (and his 3 girlfriends) to sit on, so I'm currently in the middle of that. I'll include pictures in the next blog post.

Later,
Bob