Making of “SURPRISE” by Guido Zatti

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Making of “SURPRISE” by Guido Zatti

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Environment

I prefer an environment rich in details instead of a classical clean 3D interior. I looked for references for bathrooms and tiles and as I found the right ones I preferred modeling them rather than using a simple bump or displace in order to have a better control of the reflections. Also, in this case I wanted to take a tile away or to dirty another one with various textures just not to have symmetry, as I explained before. I also later added some water just to have more reflections and light-strokes.

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Render

I did the render in many steps: beauty pass of the environment, beauty pass of the mummy, ambient occlusion, specular, Z-depth to simulate the depth of field and then many more steps to stress or to decrease reflections and light-strokes. The ambient occlusion, very useful in the environments, is vital to the character because it stresses the model and creates all the little shadow areas which would get lost in the main context. I used a 2000*1600 resolution but, thanks to the various phases, every step was shorter than 5 minutes.

Compositing

After all that, I started compositing it with photo editing programs like Photoshop, unifying all of the levels and weighing them out as you like. The ambient occlusion has to be rendered in Multiply and I kept it to 60% not to weigh the shadows down too much. I then duplicated the beauty pass and I inserted it blurred in screen, thwarting it a little to light some areas up in order to give a burnt film effect. The compositing can change an image drastically and it’s a up to each person to use it in the best possible way.

I finished up this piece using Photoshop to fix the problems and stress what we are interested in the most in the image.

About
Guido Zatti was born in Treviso, Italy on 29 August 1978. He Is currently living in Parma where he often works at Tax Free Film ( www.taxfreefilm.it ), a company owned by Franco Tassi that specializes in commercial 3D for national and international television. Also, the Moderator and haunter of Treddi.com