Saturday, January 18: Working Day 1

Today marks the beginning of my work on my fly thru project! I did a few sketches to work on developing my ideas, and here are the designs I decided on!

The first sketch I did! I wanted to go for a really hilly landscape perfect for icy textures, but at this point I still wasn't sure exactly where I was going with it

After a long while of messing around with different ideas, I came to this design. I'm planning on the fly thru taking you around the landscape on the inside before zooming out to show you were inside a snow globe kind of thing. I really liked the idea of the inside looking more space like and not familiar to the viewer and as I experimented in Cinema4D I played with different reflective textures to achieve that.

These were the beginnings of my experiments in Cinema4D today. I spent a lot of time trying to find the right texture for the plane, but in the end I didn't use any of these as shown. I edited the colors on the bottom red texture and applied that to the plane in my final (for today) design. 

This was my first attempt at placing the landscape inside a sphere. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that looking at the image zoomed out from different angles would show me what was going wrong. In this one, the sphere was cutting the landscape in half and the texture wasn't opaque enough for me to see through. I also took way too long to remember how to add a textured sky background, but once I did I added an edited version of the gaseous sky texture to add to that otherworldly feeling I was going for.

Once I got everything to a place I was happy with, I forgot how to navigate around the plane and spent at least 40 minutes yelling at the computer trying to get to a good angle in order to make sure everything was in order. I don't know how I ended up working that far away from my sphere? But it happened.

For a second I tried to just screenshot the little sphere and a little bit of space around it to kinda cheat...

...but then I remembered how everything works and got a good shot of it! I think as I'm typing this, I've been working up here since around 11:30 am? I wish my progress was a little greater for the amount of time I spent working, but I'm happy in general with how it looks overall.