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Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:08 am

Hie everyone!
We (Marco Wilz, Felix Graf, Stephan Stoelting, Ole Bukowsky and myself) from the German Film School are working on a short film called OrkBabies.

Since the short will be about 3minutes I'll not tell much about the
story. It'll be a surprise:)
We have two main characters. They are playing with hobbit and
ork dolls.
Thought to start a wip thread.
Here are some concepts for the characters
and a concept for the environment.

designed by marco wilz

a concept made by myself.

the environment painted by stephan stoelting
based on a sketch of marco.

more to come!

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:08 am

The characters are modeled already.
We are working with maya 5 btw.

The characters were modeled by Marco, Felix and Stephan.
Here are the wires.

The older brother of the two little orcs

and the little one

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:09 am

some dirtmap renderings of the two orcs

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:09 am

here is a textured version of the bigger brother.
It's not final at all and the specular
map is still missing. This is only color and bump.
The amor and the belt is not textured yet.
I just put an environment map on it, looks better than a cherckerboard.

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:10 am

Ok here is a progress of the hobbit doll.
The Orc doll is also in progress.

Design by Marco
modeled by myself
Texturing & Shading by Stephan

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:10 am

And here is the environment modeled by marco

dirtmappass

playing around in photoshop

and the wires

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:10 am

I finished the eyes and
touched up the skinshader of the little one. His name is
Klork btw. The textures are done by felix.

Here is the latest test render and some blendshapes
modeled by Stephan.

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:11 am

Here is the Orc doll. Final version.
Modeled by myself, Texturing and Shading by stephan and felix.

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:11 am

Ok I'm working on the rig of the little one!
Here is a progress rendering of the rig.
I'm using a lot of bones to prevent as much of the weights painting as possible.
This is a test without weightspainting.
I'll start with the weightspainting tomorrow. Then I'll have to model

some corrective blendshapes.
Anyways here is a pose test with the actual rig.

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:12 am

Here is a amor texture wip of the older brother.
Textured and shaded by Ole Bukowsky.

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:13 am

The setups of the two little orcs are finished. So we can start to animate!!!
Here are the latest renderings of the cave textured and shaded by Stephan.
The props are modeled by Marco and textured by Felix. I didn't do anything
for the cave:(

Anyways, here it is.

see · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:22 am

wow. nothing more to say Shocked

Mon · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:44 am

i second that see. can't wait to see the finished animation! or anything else from this project!
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weaselball2 · member Member # Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 101

awesome, can't wait to see the finished short!

Symgoth · junior member Member # Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 14

The ork dolls remind me of bald Gremlins. cute.Scenes so far are kewl. Cool

Mitsui · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:46 am

Thnx see!

Mon I'm glad you like it. I'm always amazed by your artwok!!

Weaselball2 nad symgoth! Thnx!

Here two images composed by Jan Maroske.
Not yet final.

insane007 · member Member # Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 93

oh my god they are adorable.

Heysoos · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:02 am

awww. simply brilliant. You will be a millionaire.

Warhead82 · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:16 am

d00d i never thought about an orc baby before that shit is sweet.

Very nice modeling skills too!
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Mitsui · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:12 pm

thnx a lot guys!
Here is another image.

The hobbit doll in action!

henrik · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:06 pm

The expression on the last Orc baby is perfect! Good work.
Looking at your environment renders I'd say make the bump less obvious. It needs to blend in more with the geometry. Too much bump kills reference of scale, same thing with if no bump maps were used.
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pdubz · junior member Member # Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 8

i'm frikkin blown away. awesome.

Wagner · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:54 am

those are amazing! But it seems too bad that you guys made all of these beautiful models for something only 3 minutes long.

I've been practicing with 3-d for a little while and those are astonishing, how long did they take?
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