Projected houses

Both "dingy" and "posh houses" have been test projected using photos from the london locations scout, bump maps have also been used to enhance the texture. For a test we rendered out a colour and ambient occlusion pass and have comped them together. We did this to see wether the houses worked well together both in texture and exposure. The "dingy" street test has also been colour graded to see wether this look will work.

"Dingy Street Test"

"Posh House test"

Matte clean up and modelling the rich houses

Before beginning to model the houses for the rich area, a large amount of matte clean up was needed. This involved painting out people, railings and lamps as we would not want these to be projected onto the model. The following images show the original picture, the cleaned up matte and the resulting model: 

Modeling

So where are we at in the project....
at the moment we are in the modeling and projecting stage, after the test projections we knew we understood the technique so now it is a matter of modeling the location photos. By taking the pictures we model using them directly as ref. I thought i would upload the models i have done so far it is a long process as modeling is not my most favourite subject but its a learning curve and i have learnt alot about the different tools avaliable in maya. By doing this and projecting the images i have noticed that adjusments will have to be made to each photo to adjust the brightness so they all match.

"the Models"

i have uploaded a sheet of models done showing the front 3/4 view of the models and the ref image used to model from.

"The Models in a street"

i have also uploaded the models put into a street, a look we will have by the end of the modeling stage.

We do have alot of modeling to do as we will need alot of houses the piece dnt look repetitive.