Something for the weekend - Part 110 - Rooftop hero!

[davescm]

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

[Jacob Bugge]

[davescm]

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]

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.

[Trevor.Dennis]

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]

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

[Trevor.Dennis]

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

   😉

[Guest]

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

[davescm]

Haha. A new SFTW classic Trevor. Brilliant !

Dave

[jane-e]

~ Jane

[Guest]

That's cheating Jane 😁

[jane-e]

It depends on how you define "cheating" Ged!

[Jacob Bugge]

Ged, Jane, I believe you can just type the usual code and wait it out, until they have sorted my mess out or till the end of time, whichever occurs first.

[Guest]

No hero's, just weird 🙂

[davescm]

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]

Like Dave said.  It wasn't until viewing it full size that I realized it was more than a bit riské, but anything goes when it comes to art.

[Guest]

It was a case of should I post it or not, after a few more beers I said what the heck 🙂

[davescm]

Bert, a true Photoshop hero !

Dave

[jane-e]

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]

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

[jane-e]

... and he would have taken four years to complete that kind of detail!

~ Jane

[Trevor.Dennis]

Bert's ponytail must be getting pretty long by now. If he'd been on top of the building across the road, Romeo could have climbed up it with what was left of the vindaloo.

[Semaphoric]

Heroes are indoors, having supper.

[davescm]

Nice change from day to night 🙂

Dave

[Trevor.Dennis]

Beautiful lighting in the windows on the right John.

[Dean_Utian]

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