Finally… / Enfin…
And lose momentum to achieve something… (?)
Long stuck on this.
The decor, a copy of a photo, was quick: reproduce the interior of a metro station, especially, here, better understand the connection with “array” modifier + curve, and better manage shaders for a semblance of “hyper-realism”…
But the characters, pff pff… Sculpture, for one Odesu at the image of the beginning of the film, solely based on too fast images from this moment. Then the application of a texture cobbled together from a photo of the face, projected in UV, and the resumption of the diffuse map obtained, on Photoshop.
Trivial things for you, but a learning curve for me: in particular, now, the fact of “optimizing” a little more a somewhat “heavy” project, on a PC that is still aging.
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Short videos, which don’t necessarily do justice to the work put in: that’s all I found. I think I also used Zbrush a little. For the face textures: a mix of texture paint and photo on UV “project from view”, sometimes with Photoshop rework.
The textures of the first two portraits of Oh Dae Suh are “too perfect”: if I remember correctly, I had tested an AI site for “upscaling”, simply to test what the thing could allow.
Oh Dae-Su - Heads.mkv (2.1 MB)
Seoul Sub.mkv (2.5 MB)
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Thanks.Unfortunately I am now struggling to finish this image.
“Artworks is never finished. It is abandoned.”
Don’t struggle too hard. Either the time will come when the Art wishes to speak, or it won’t. 
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On a train, one day, a green beret said to me something a little like this: “There are two ways to achieve your objectives: by moving forward, slowly but surely, straight and dignified, with the certainty of your success , that’s for those who are lucky;
or otherwise, by crawling, with their faces in the mud, in suffering and pain”. Something like this.
I’m kidding. Thank you for this somewhat ambivalent optimism.
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… That’s it.
Obviously, not without some difficulties.
Of course, these images look great! But, when you are locked in the throes of trying to make it “great!” you can lose a bit of perspective as to how “the audience will actually see it.” (If they are caught up in your story, they won’t …)
I well remember that Star Wars: Episode One actually shipped (!) to theaters with a shot in which a “podracer crowd” was represented by colored Q-Tips cotton swabs. Nobody noticed, since they had already seen the real crowd just a few seconds earlier. (Of course, the shot was later replaced. But the lesson was there.)
Thank you for your comment. But I must admit I didn’t quite understand it.
It seems to point to a shortcoming, perhaps linked to a desire to “do too well” on my part, and/or too much “demonstrativeness”… Not a big deal if that’s the case. As mentioned, at first, I just wanted to “reproduce” a photo of the Seoul subway, just to test my abilities. It was only later that I thought: a bit empty… I don’t know why, but I thought of the film “Old Boy”, and the first idea that amused me was to put a hammer-shaped ball in Mr Oh Dae-Su’s hands. It still wasn’t enough.
It still has flaws, in the majority of my images. But I also have to take into account material limitations: a bit pushed back now, given what I’ve learned to “optimize”.
Here I notice that the rose petals aren’t visible enough… I’m still a little satisfied to have gotten this far, with all the other images in progress that I started.
Approaching digital, I believe my satisfaction will never be complete, because I also miss, at the same time, something of the aesthetic of the “world before”… Watercolors are beautiful, for example. And I like Myasaki’s positioning, its form of withdrawal from “all in technology”, for example.
“Balance”… Balance is perhaps, in all things, the most difficult to achieve.
But thank you!
This image doesn’t satisfy me 100%, but it has everything I hoped to at least be able to put in it.
If you have any details, I will read them with interest.
