Material from PolyHaven, and I used Photoshop brush to add a little bit extra texture on top.
The reflection on the ocean is done by a gizmos on nukepedia.com:
WaveDistortion v1.0
Contributor: Frank Rueter
Website: www.ohufx.com
Final retouch with two gizmos ( Optics and Virtual lens) for some imperfections such as vignette, lens distortion and lens aberration.
What is coming :
– Adjusting the CGI color grading by passes
– Adding small island as background and character as foreground
– Adding noise and overall color grading
Character png from mrcutout.com and ship png from cleanpng.com
To enhance the mood and tune, I can think of 3 ways to do the foggy weather:
Outputing CG with Depth passes to control the color grading, and Zfocus. However, in this scene, the background wind turbines are too tiny that, the result is not quite obvious.
Simply add a Ramp on top of layers and control the handles to create gradient color.
The background layer is using some online pictures to emphasis the distance of the whole scene.
According to this tutorial, I will need to render the Depth passes for creating this atmosphere.
What is coming :
– In Maya, output camera and wind turbines with passes in EXR
– In Nuke,color matching & grading
– Adding atmosphere of foggy weather
– Fixing the ocean layer with turbulent and reflection
If I really push myself to maximum:
– I d like to add a tiny lighthouse at the background to enhance the mood.
I downloaded this picture of ocean as a reference to predict the perspective of the ocean simulation.
Houdini is a totally new software to me, I am still struggling with it. The online material on Moodle definitely gave me some help. However, the simulation of doing liquid is quite advanced that not until week 9 or 10 that the tutorial would mention. I might need more time to do it. Otherwise I will apply still or footage instead for this layer.
Therefore, until this stage, I think it is the most challenging parts for this project.
*Final update on 23rd June:
Due to time limitation, the ocean layer has been replaced by stock image instead. But still, I gain some experience to use Houdini and hopefully I can overcome this stimulation in next term.
With basic HDRI lighting and texture applied.
This camera in Maya will then export into Nuke as the same camera for final compositing.
Among all the giant objects I can choose, I d like to build some wind turbines in my scene. Have you even visit the location of wind turbines before? They looks tiny in google pictures but actually out of my exceptionally huge. Therefore, in order to create this kind of feeling to demonstrate the powerless feeling of human being, I did a quick modeling for it.