Bamboo Bridge.........

The first set of work Iv done for the term is starting moddeling my assigned scene for Anja's film 1000 Cranes for Peace. She has assigned me with the bamboo bridge run scene, which wasn't in her original animatic. She wants everything to look like papaer (naturally) and everything to have a certain look to it, e.g. the bamboo which the bridge is made out of should look like rolled paper, the mountains to look like cutouts, etc.

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So the first thing I did was to find a way around making th bamboo look like it was rolled paper. I decided to litterally draw out the swirl of the 'rolled paper' using the 'Pencil Curve Tool', duplicating it, and then lofting the two identical curves. I didn't know how tightly rolled Anja wanted them to look so I made a few examples for her.....



Anja prefered the three on the right, but asked for them to be tighter rolled in the center and gradually loosen up. This was so that they would look more natural, like they were rolled by hands.

I left this part for later, because it was going to take a while. Also I don't think Im going to convert the final models into polygons because they will be static objects and the poly count is gona be crazy due to the nature of the shape and the sheer amount of duplicates that will be made. Plus, texture applied will wrap itself around without trouble.

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Next up were the mountains. Simple enough, jus used the create polygon tool for these.

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The leaves were abit of a hassle. Used create poly again to get the shapes, then had to cut faces one by one in order to create seems, etc. etc.

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After sorting out all the leaves and set ouf bamboo 'rolls' for the bridge to be duplicated, this is what I have so far.......