Making of 'Distributor'

Concept

The main idea of this image was to create an atmospheric environment with a sci-fi setting. So I settled on the idea of a dimly lit room with a massive old distributer, dilapidated walls and plenty of rusty pipes.

Modeling

The modeling stage started the creation of the basic geometry of the scene (Fig.01 & Fig.02).

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Fig. 01

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Fig. 02

I then started to add the main points of detail (Fig.03 - Fig.06).

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Fig. 03

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Fig. 06

Texturing

The texturing stage began with the selection of the texture sets. In this scene I used textures from the following Total Textures volumes:

V01:R2 - Total Textures "General Textures"

V02:R2 - Total Textures "Aged & Stressed"

V03:R2 - Total Textures "Bases & Layers"

V07:R2 - Total Textures "Sci-fi"

My chosen textures and their locations can be seen in Fig.07 & Fig.08.

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Fig. 07

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Fig. 08

Postprocessing

At the post-processing stage I added detail to the scene by working with texture, color correction and lighting effects. This was the first output render (Fig.09).

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Fig. 09

It was most convenient to make adjustments to the color by using Adjustments Layers (Layers > New Adjustment Layer). After with the Color Balance, Levels and Selective Color options, I ended up with the following image (Fig.10).

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Fig. 10

Fig.11 shows the image after I added lighting effects.

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Fig. 11

Now it was time to add some rust, damage and general wear and tear to the scene to give it the old, dilapidated feel that I was after. I found suitable textures for this on the V19 - Total Textures "Destroyed & Damaged" DVD (Fig.12).

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Fig. 12

I started by adding some detail to the wall (layer type: Overlay) (Fig.13 - Fig.15).

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Fig. 15

Then I added some damaged, rusty textures to the central part of the scene (layer type: Soft Light) (Fig.16 - Fig.18).

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Fig. 18

That was followed by adding several nuances to the pipes (layer type: Soft Light, with different degrees of transparency) (Fig.19 - Fig.21).

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Fig. 21

Finally I applied a great texture to the whole scene (layer type: Soft Light, 40%) (Fig.22 - Fig.24).

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Fig. 24

And with that the image was finished! The final image can be seen in Fig.25 & Fig.26.

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