How I created my INFINITE JOURNEYS entry | 3DSMax, Vray, Nuke

This is the promised tutorial. I know I did not show everything - still I hope you could learn something from this.
If you have questions feel free to ask in the comments or wherever you want :D
Music used:
Digital Dreams - Jimmy Svensson
No One is Out here - Yehezkel Raz
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[@F10F11hm]

All these breakdowns are extremely appreciated, thank you! Truly beautiful work!

[@ProjectFight]

The atmosphere, mood... looks amazing! I really like it. The blacks in the foreground are a bit to crunch for my taste, but more films wish to look like this!

[@ultraviolet7129]

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing your process. Excited to see the rest of the entries.

[@justsomerandomname2067]

This is so beautiful and it has such a specific feeling to it, its incredible

[@legacylee]

Amazing work my friend, I'm an aspiring artist who has been self teaching myself everything from after effects to blender and Unreal Engine. I love this stuff so the passion pushes me past the pain of you will lol def appreciate the break down anything I can learn I absorb. Thank you for the insight into your process, good to know I'm heading in the right direction, just gotta keep practicing and creating.. you'll be seeing me around ;)

[@vamsipamsi]

This is some inspiring stuff!! Great work

[@ericzhou6596]

insane work man, would love more videos like this from a master like you

[@stfVFX]

thanks! that will come for sure

[@PIPOXO]

nice video bro, super interesting. and great work with your render!

[@knl654]

Beautiful work, please more of these videos.

[@JayHPatel]

Great work Steffen!

[@WolfieDesigns]

Amazing, love it!

[@robotsandpolygons]

really appreciated this video. thank you!

[@chrisstricker2283]

Great work. Liked it lot.

[@Jacky_4l]

Thanks for the breakdown! :)

[@Frigus3D-Art]

Very informative video. I like the insight of your thought process. Learned so much. Hope you cover your thoughts behind the post &color grading process a bit more in depth in a future video.

[@user-fq3hi7zp3z]

awesome!!

[@DuyNguyen-si3bq]

Love it

[@gonz4610]

thanks for sharing this!

[@messageforhawk36]

Great work man, really appreciate the breakdown and tutorial. Can you share how all the little window lights and neon signs were created? Thanks!

[@stfVFX]

sorry for the late answer, this is just an emissive texture based of real photos from windows by night, i just painted out some stuff in photoshop and just plug it in the emissive slot of the material

[@CausticCaterpillar]

@@stfVFX this is super helpful to know! I will use this when I experiment with building a scene!

[@karimoh3154]

thanks for sharing those 3ds max tools!

[@jamesthefunnyman613]

Holyshit. this is so fking awesome,dude.

[@BigChiken44]

Wow, kitbash3d is amazing, Thank you!

[@glenn3646]

Im mostly in to atchviz but its awesome to see diff view ,bravo

[@5jij5i43jisdjf]

Great work, thanks for the breakdown I would love to know more about how you approach the fog/atmosphere in this shot. Is this is done in compositing with a Z debth? Or did you use actual volumetrics for it. Any information regarding this part is highly appreciated, thanks!

[@wishah1]

You work at ILM? 😍 That explains why this render is so insane 😍

[@okiehendrawan2081]

you''r the best

[@milos141000]

a work of art👏 and then gary draws a cow on paper and sells it as nft for 20 eth

[@jeffjohn911]

Yea tnx man

[@flashyyy]

Geil geile Atmosphäre

[@MaxChe]

Incredible work! The only thing that ruined (in my humble opinion) it was color correction...

[@3n19ma]

Thanks for sharing the BTS!

[@karimoh3154]

I was wondering... why did you choose your foreground to be that dark? It works but I cant help but feel unease about it...thats kind of a good think, but i am keen to know your intentions

[@kiyansahandi6630]

thanks for the awesome breakdown steffen learned a lot! i had one question is it better to do the shading and lookdev first for buildings then layout them ? or as you did Layout then shading? also did you created proxies for all the buildings? thanks !

[@stfVFX]

I do the lookdev first so you see how it looks like in the final composition. Sometimes I change some things in shading after layout. The goal is to have all assets ready and then start World building

[@stfVFX]

Also yes. all buildings are proxies

[@DanielGreen0]

Great stuff man, thanks for the breakdown. That Houdini friend you mentioned, last name Terry by any chance?

[@stfVFX]

Haha no, not my friend Orion! His Name is Arvid Schneider :)

[@DanielGreen0]

@@stfVFX oh you know him as well (: cheers man, great work.

[@stfVFX]

@@DanielGreen0 we work together

[@moosha1]

Awesome project! How did you get your wires to move around but not go crazy? Cloth simulation doesn't work at all with this project in blender.

[@stfVFX]

I just had to play around with the simulation settings alot. Like stretch resistance etc etc. Took me like 2 hours to find the right settings

[@bernie_san7964]

As a student coming out of college and using 3DS max, what am I suppose to do in the meantime while looking for jobs related in that 3D program? How can I go about improving myself in 3DS Max when there's a bigger community of Blender users compared to 3DS max users?

[@stfVFX]

there is enough material online/on youtube to get better. Also keep in mind that you can only get better&faster by practicing. Since I was a student I always made personal projects. Just work on personal stuff and try to achieve film quality level. Hope that helps

[@Frigus3D-Art]

Trust me if you are an advanced blender user you have the exactly inverted problem. If you want to learn from the big boys, you only get maya& 3dsmax videos. Pick the most important things for yourself and try to recreate it in your renderer. Is hard but i learned the most this way.

[@manolomaru]

✨👌😎😮😵😮😎👍✨

[@MLABSTUDIOS]

any advice for a 16yo into getting into ILM

[@evengreven5515]

hey, how did you do the foreground? did you model everything?

[@stfVFX]

Yes and no. Some parts are modelled. But 90% is just kitbash pieces stacked together. Lets say for example the benches: just actual kitbashed walls rotated and moved around so they Look like benches.

[@evengreven5515]

@@stfVFX ok i see, ty

[@ArtVandelayInc]

So professionals from fucking ILM participate in these challenges? That's definitely discouraging haha

[@Frigus3D-Art]

Obviously you compete against professionals. Didn't you see the price pool?

[@mrart9744]

perfect

[@ruok3351]

This is amazing. Though I wonder why you prefer doing the workload on Max than Maya?

[@stfVFX]

in my opinion 3dsmax is just the best tool out there when it comes to generalist/environment work - the tools, the plugins, its just made for Archviz which is basically what I do while maya feels more like made for animation, but then again software doesnt really matter, the artist creates the image and not the software