Coming Soon™ Collective3d Movie Sets Backyard Driveway! [COMMERCIAL]
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Kick back and relax around the patio table or shoot a little one-on-one with the Collective3d Movie Sets Backyard Driveway! This enclosed outdoor environment is lightweight and easy to load, and lets you quickly and easily shoot your favorite characters in a variety of scenes. Designed to eliminate the need for complex, long-distance environment assets or having to line up and match photographic backdrops, the Collective3d Movie Sets Backyard Driveway works just like an outdoor set built on a soundstage. Drop in the preload file, with or without the polygonal grass, or load individual assets one by one depending on your needs!
Includes the house, the driveway, the fence, the backboard and basketball, and a patio table and chairs. Also includes realistic polygonal grass! You can use the Backyard Driveway as-is, extend it with any of the Collective3d Portrait Vignettes, Create A Room, or Movie Sets, or even use elements from the Backyard Driveway in your other scenes. The possibilities are endless, but it's as easy as one click to use!
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Looks like fun! :)
Looking forward to it.
Was fun to make! Glad you like it.
Is it going to have a variety of textures that will blend it with the Create a Room sets? Also, id like to use it with the horror vignettes. Im assuming a horror add on might make its way to the store?
I haven't any specific plans for direct connection to the Create A Room series, but the general idea is that most of my small-scale environments can be extended by or used with Create A Room. For instance, you could use Create A Room to build an interior area for the house and then do away with the blinds in the windows and look inside.
Horror-themed sets are tricky. Most horror type environments in movies tend to just be straight up contemporary sets with darker or more contrasted lighting. It's part of the reason horror can be produced so cheaply. I haven't planned specifically for a horror-themed texture add-on, but the possibility is there, and I think its something that capable end-users could do themselves through tweaking the existing textures or adding decals. From my end, I need to justify the additional expenditure in time by making something that a lot of people will want to use -- would dirtying up the textures and adding blood stains accomplish that? In this case, I'm not sure. Altering the geometry goes beyond the scope of an add-on, so whatever I would do would have to be done with textures.
But I do like ideas and feedback. The inspiration for this one was, of all things, Happy Days, although the actual layout and details are quite different. I liked the idea of a sitcom set representing a closed-off exterior area with the side of the house and the front of the garage. I think there are a lot of things that can be done here visually. The trim color on the house is a simple diffuse shading that's very easily changed. The siding is a UVW unwrap, but with the lighter cream color, could potentially be tweaked by diffuse shading. The shingles are a tiling texture and easily swapped. I think there are also a lot of different angles to shoot, and you'll see most of them represended in the final promos.
As far as straight-up horror sets go, I have a few ideas in my pocket. The next set after this one is another contemporary that's called Study Room, which I finished and shipped last week. I have an asylum corridor and one I call "Zombie Alley" that have been sitting around partially built since sometime last year. From my most recent metrics, though, the contemporary sets seem to be outselling the horror ones by a fairly solid margin, so that gives me a little pause on the spooky stuff. Maybe better to roll with contemporary sets and let the user smudge them up and light them the right way for scarier shots?
Wow a set from the That 70 show
I look forward to its release , lots of possiablity :)
Heh, I've actually never seen that show, but rather had Happy Days in mind when I was making this.
Sure , sure. Sounds great. Im looking forward to seeing how far you can push the movie set concept. Really enjoying it so far.
As far as the horror stuff goes, its my thing so I have to ask. Even if its only to put a blip on your radar.
yea that would be cool to . like i said lot of possibilities. I been using your confinement sets in a new animation I am rendering out now. so I look forward to this set release :)
It's totally my thing, too. But I do have to eat
I am fairly pleased with the way the Movie Set concept is working out. They're a little bigger and more comprehensive than the Portrait Vignettes (which are really only meant to be used as a quick, throw-away backdrop for a character portrait), but still not as complex and unwieldy as a full-interior house. Most of these can be built in a week, compared to nearly a month for a big house. The trick is coming up with a distict theme (for instance, you saw "That 70s Show" in this set and I saw "Happy Days," but we were both on the same page) and then making sure there are multiple different uses/angles and features that are visually interesting. Let's face it, as an up-close backdrop, houses are boring. You have brick or horizontal vinyl siding and maybe a window. So I have to make sure there are things that stand out visually and are preferably usable in kitbashing other sets. In this case, it's the patio table and chairs, and the basketball hoop and ball. I think if someone is paying $15 for a set, they should be able to get as much mileage out of it as possible, and the users can think of far more things to do with it than I ever will... so I try to keep t hings as broad and flexible as possible.
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