Hi, The opening sequence of the James Bond Spectre film has our hero (played by Daniel Craig) running along the rooftops of Mexico City. I thought it might be fun to recreate that scene using Blender 3D to model and render it, along with Adobe Substance Painter and Substance Designer to texture it. It took me a little longer than I expected, but the result is below. So now we have the scene, can you place your Bond, or any other hero, into it in a convincing way? The “rules”: Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc. Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go! To download the image below at 3000 x 2000 pixels with an embedded ICC colour profile (sRGB), hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right. Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser). When posting back your image – please use the Blue reply button in this first post. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry then please use the grey reply button next to their image post. Have fun! Dave

davescm

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Something for the weekend - Part 110 - Rooftop hero!

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September 11, 2020
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Hi,

The opening sequence of the James Bond Spectre film has our hero (played by Daniel Craig) running along the rooftops of Mexico City. I thought it might be fun to recreate that scene using Blender 3D to model and render it, along with Adobe Substance Painter and Substance Designer to texture it. It took me a little longer than I expected, but the result is below.

So now we have the scene, can you place your Bond, or any other hero, into it in a convincing way?

The “rules”:

Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.
There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!

To download the image below at 3000 x 2000 pixels with an embedded ICC colour profile (sRGB), hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right. Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser).

When posting back your image – please use the Blue reply button in this first post. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.

Have fun!

Dave

Make It

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

Super simple, but I'm done with rooftops and chimmeys.

davescm

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Haha - we had Mary Poppins earlier and now we have our own answer to Dick Van D !

(Believe it or not our forum software rejected his whole name !!)

Dave

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

Crazy software!

S

SJ Whelan

Participant

I stumble over this and it looked like fun!

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Welcome to SFTW, we do these for a bit of fun each weekend so do join us again.

It looks like global warming has raised sea levels a bit by 2024.

D

DeanUtian

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Since it is a James Bond scene, my first go in James Bond style.

D

DeanUtian

Community Expert

And here is James Bond syle #2.

Semaphoric

Community Expert

Heroes are indoors, having supper.

davescm

Author

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Nice change from day to night 🙂

Dave

davescm

Author

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Bert, a true Photoshop hero !

Dave

jane-e

Community Expert

I'm thinking this is Super Star Bert Monroy giving his Adobe MAX* presentation from a Mexican rooftop and highlighting your scene to the tens of thousands of attendees in this year's virtual event, Dave. Am I close?

* Adobe MAX 2020 • Oct 20-22

https://max.adobe.com/

~ Jane

davescm

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Yes , but Bert would have painted the scene in much more detail so that you could see what the people in the windows of the distant tower block were reading 🙂

Dave

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Anonymous

No hero's, just weird 🙂

davescm

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Good grief Ged, you've thrown a lot at that one! I like the textures and the old manuscript. I do wonder what is going on in the art museum to the right though. Is that what the paintings get up to when no-one is looking?

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

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Dave, I did wonder if you'd used 'volume density' and maxed out the flange warbler.

😉

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Anonymous

Since emojis no longer work, it's a big 🤣

Trevor.Dennis

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Outstanding render Dave. For those that don't know, Dave now has a second hand Cray, he purloined from GCHQ, to render is Blender images now, and it still takes 24 hours to do something like this rooftop scene.

I know this is not an appropriate image of the Beatles for their rooftop gig, but having had the idea it turned into a selection nightmare, and this was the easiest Beatles image I could find to cut out.

davescm

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Thanks Trevor.

That's a nice idea with the Beatles. Their rooftop gig was famous.

I like the idea of a supercomputer but, although the manual process of modelling, unwrapping, and texturing took me a while to do, the final render (path traced in Cycles) took just a few minutes on an RTX2080ti GPU. It could have been even faster, but I enclosed the buildings in a large cube rendered with volume density to get the increasing haze with distance. I then bumped the samples up to 1024 to keep the noise, that can come from volume scattering, away.

If GCHQ want to donate a supercomputer though ....... 🙂

Dave

Jacob Bugge

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davescm

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A lot going on there Jacob. I thought that the dancer over the air vent was about to do a Marilyn Monroe, not in that kilt though!

Dave

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Quite, Dave.

She had to dance swordless (and piperless) on Skye, but when she saw the shape of that air vent in your picture, she had to go; and bring her sister. That in turn attracted the others, except for Alf who was sent out to recover the woolly one but then forgot about it, and Jim whose covert investigation was irksomely disturbed.

War Unicorn

Community Expert

You know me at this point... lol

davescm

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Hi James - I like that treatment with the textures and the split up image elements. It works well.

Dave

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