I’ve always loved killer whales (also known as Orcas). This project is for a title sequence for my films (if they ever get made). I began it a long time ago but only now got it out and dusted it off. What you can see so far is the main shape of the Orca. The title for my title sequence will be “Spring Up Oh Whale”. Its a play on words for the popular song “Spring up Oh Well” which is a religious song my family used to sing.
Next step after modeling is painting. I’m painting from a reference picture so I don’t know how to see the reference picture and paint over it at the same time. Maybe use a projected texture and bake it to a new texture?
I’m excited about this project and am looking to see how it turns out!
So I’ve got the texture painted for the orca body. first unwrapped, projected from view, and tried to bake texture map based on image texture. Didn’t work. So using the projected texture as a reference, I painted a rough draft of the texture for the orca body and then painted it again in gimp to get it perfect. Really excited about this. Check out the images below:
I’ve been working on this for a while and finally completed it so I wanted to share it with you. It’s an animation of an orca whale and is a title animation for my film company Spring Up Oh Whale Pictures. I’m pretty proud of it. I’m still not happy about the waves but its as good as it gets. I wish the dynamic paint sim for waves was better.
So it looks nice, but in my opinion you should add some glossiness to it. It came from water. I didn’t watch the animation because of sitting on mobile data.
Maybe if you’d watched the animation you would have noticed that the whale swims into frame and then the camera zooms in on the side of the whale, effectively cutting to black. Having water sheen would look good, but it wouldn’t work for the animation.
