Design Visualisation_Module2_Journal by ziyyuan_vincent

#stayhome #staysafe Module 02 | The Lived-in Room

Ziyang ‘Vincent’ Yuan 1025198

TABLE OF CONTENTS - Project Description

- Narrative Description

- Images and Narrative

- Modeling and Texturing

- Framing and Composition

- Post-processing Outcome

- Reflection

- Bibliography of Assets

PROJECT DESCRIPTION From the Start to the End

In this project, different from the still life task in the first module, we focusing more on the storytelling techniques through the design of the scene rather than the modeling techniques and customized textures on very detailed single object. Everything start from choosing the client among a modest young family, an affluent business person or an arrogant artist for our scene. These three clients are all very characteristic and I chose the first one which is a modest young family. After that, I started to think about the background information for my clients and started to set up this lived-in room. For the narrative, it can be expressed by a storyboard or communicated in comic strip format. And later the rendered images and rendered vignettes are designed to contribute the narrative to make it into a vivid and strong story. For this module, due to the focusing of the storytelling, composition and lighting elements, we are allowed to use the assets from Online but with the correct references in the Bibliography of Assets. The primary rendered image is chose to show a composed interior scene of our room from a human perspective. And the three vignettes are closeups detail shot of interior, or exterior images. They are chose to focus on constructing the narrative. So for my clients, I chose to assign each of the vignette to each of my client: mom, dad and their little child. The these vignettes are captured in their perspectives to contribute the narrative. In conclusion, from choosing the clients to setting up the scene, from creating the narrative and background to finding the right angle for our camera, we started to learn a way of expressing the story by several images, to use the details in the image to contribute the narrative and to use the lighting, composition and atmosphere to build the environment.

NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION Background Information for the Clients

Location

Time

Client

Scene

Melbourne Suburb

2020 October

A modest young Family

Family Living room

Story happened right here in Melbourne, during the Lockdown situation. This young family, three of them all stayed at home, mom and dad forced to transfer their works from outside into a temporary home office. They both worked and played with their little kid at home.

Stronger Together

Although this situation brought lots of troubles and inconveniences in their works, they found that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a good chance to have more time spend with their kid. They definitely talk more and play more, the afternoon sunshine outside smoothly illuminates the living room. Seems bring the lockdown life a ray of hope and also create a really warm atmosphere inside the room. Mom is a fashion designer and she temporarily changed the coffee table into a office desk, spread her working staff on the table. Their five years old kid played in the living area with mom as the coffee table is just in a perfect height for him. The toys and his staffs were every in the living room. And dad, an architect, has his own small desk at the corner of the room next to a small terrace. They enjoyed this warm afternoon, even forgot the hard situation of the Lockdown. Family makes them feel strongly together and it can fight for anything and always bring happiness to their room. Architect: Render Production Structural Drawing Concept Sketch

Five years old

Fashion designer: Dress Design Shoe Design Accessory Design

NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION Storyboard - Main plot development

NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION How does the Scene Set Up for the Narrative

The scene was set up in the main living area and facing west. The afternoon sun will come through the trees outside and gently illuminate the room. This room is designed in the first floor so we can see top of the trees from the terrace. The camera is set at the corner of the room to capture the most of area to form this primary image of the scene.

Greens and Trees Terrace Openings Non-Captured Area North Point

IMAGES AND NARRATIVE Primary Rendered 4k Image Description

For the primary rendered image, it was captured from a human perspective and showed the entire room layout. As it was facing west, the afternoon sun softly illuminates the light color timber floor to give the room a really warm and sweet atmosphere. This feeling is also achieved by the color scheme of the scene objects such as the colorful puzzle carpet in the foreground and the light color leather sofa. And this camera angle was capture almost all the floor area of the living room to show mom and dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working space and their kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play area. This kind of mixed working and living space successfully reflects the situation of the lockdown and shows audience how this family works.

IMAGES AND NARRATIVE Rendered Vignettes1 - Momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Working Space

For this rendered vignette, it shows the temporary working space for mom which is the big coffee table in the living room. Her working staff spread all over the table includes the sketches of her dresses and high heels design for the fashion show company, her inspiration from some of the fashion books and also the folder that received from the company about the important task that need to be signed etc. Below the glass coffee table, you can see this entire mixed space with her kid. The kid play around her but sometimes make troubles.

IMAGES AND NARRATIVE Rendered Vignettes2 - Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Working Space

For this rendered vignette, it shows the working space for dad which set at the corner of the room next to a small terrace with direct sunlight. His sketches and drawings are spread on the desk with two screens in front of him showing some structural drawing documents. Dad is very busy and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have too much time play with the kid. As you can see the toy put on the seat, the kid is trying to attract some attention from dad. The artificial petals were dropped all around the desk.

IMAGES AND NARRATIVE

Rendered Vignettes3 - Kid’s Play Area

For this rendered vignette, it shows the play area for the kid which located right in front of mom’s working space. The colorful puzzle carpet was spread on the floor and as well as his toy. The kid was also seen mom’s designing high heels as a toy and sort of place it together with his toys. The artificial flower was destroyed since he removed the petals from the stem and spread them all around the room.

MODELING AND TEXTURING The Main Steps of modeling and texturing

Image above shows how the main scene is set up and how the windows and the wall frame is placed at the right position.

The initial positions of these main objects. A rendered image to test the overall feeling of the scene and start placing the first camera.

The sofa was a downloaded model as well as the curtain. And the coffee table and the window frame are modeled in 3ds.

MODELING AND TEXTURING The Main Steps of modeling and texturing

The sofa was originally put this way facing the terrace. Although is can receive a great amount of sunlight, it’s hard to choose the camera angle to capture the entire room includes dad’s working desk in the corner.

This is a test render for the scene but without the ceiling structure so it’s very bright.

This is the model for the terrace balustrade using FFD box to generate the shape from the original cylinder.

MODELING AND TEXTURING The Main Steps of modeling and texturing

Image above shows how the main scene is set up and how the windows and the wall frame is placed at the right position.

The initial positions of these main objects. A rendered image to test the overall feeling of the scene and start placing the first camera.

The sofa was a downloaded model as well as the curtain. And the coffee table and the window frame are modeled in 3ds.

MODELING AND TEXTURING The Main Steps of modeling and texturing

This computer monitor was modeled from Model1 Still life task as an object for the bag of carrot to lean on.

This is how the brand logoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s texture was applied. It was actually a plane object stick on the monitor surface.

MODELING AND TEXTURING The Main Steps of modeling and texturing

The leaves of the tree were applied the opacity map to create the blanks of the surrounding area.

For the soil in the plant, I found a proper bitmap from Texture Haven.

The leaves of the plant was used the same way as the trees. And the diffuse map for the stem was also from Texture Haven.

MODELING AND TEXTURING The Main Steps of modeling and texturing

The model of this iPod was downloaded from website, and added the song playing screen for it.

The brand logo for the printer was applied same way as the logo for the monitor, using a invert map color correction.

The Logo was applied on the side of the Lego car toy and used the correction map to reduce the saturation.

MODELING AND TEXTURING The Main Steps of modeling and texturing

The texture for the sketch drawing was applied on a paper material first then changed the diffuse map for it.

The texture for the puzzle carpet was applied by a multi-object material which will help organize them better. I adjusted the bump map to the max to make the surface looks more rough from the distance.

MODELING AND TEXTURING The Main Steps of modeling and texturing

The tabs stick on the box were actually the plane objects that applied with the diffuse maps.

The material for the light bubbles were set with one of the turn-off material and another of the turn-on material. When it was on, another lighting source placed beside it will also be turned on to increase the lighting.

The keyboard was designed with back lighting because I firstly planned to have a night rendered scene with only the screen and the keyboard lights on.