Asset: Modeling Signs / Bumper Stickers (Patreon)

Woo! You guys- the last week's been... a bit of a doozy! One of those times where everything seems to be breaking at once: a pipe exploded in the kitchen, the van died, the internet's been out, and I juuuust got diagnosed with skin cancer (not the particularly dangerous kind, but still a drag). And, y'know, just kind of being depressed.

Honestly I filmed like 7 different things with the thought up uploading them up here, but I just kept phasing out about half way through. 

So! To get out of the funk I decided to do something for fun: make a bunch of random fake strip-mall businesses.  I suspect it's self explanatory, but feel free to watch the video to see some ways to use them.  (If you're curious in a more advanced "torn paper" effect, check out the torn stickers lazy tut)

Try opening the image in a new tab to see it full rez for download. 

SIGNS:

Bumper Stickers:

This is the shot I made them for; it's going to be the view outside a window, although I still need to make the interior space (that'll be another fun project). 

Along the same vein, this is another shot I was working on:

So that's the old version of the shot- it's what I did a year or so ago. And it was fine. Honestly, from a cinematic perspective, it's probably the best option. Wet lonely early morning (this is also the second half of the shot I was showing last Friday). 

But this is also the first time we really see the city, and I wanted to introduce a feeling of being able to "explore", so I redid it, filling it with little details and walkways. 

The "24" convenience store is an earlier version of the "24-7" store I used in the other image I posted. It uses a few of the same elements, but I figure it could be a franchise and that's allowed?? hah

All the people in the scene are animated (you can probably only see the one in the lower left, but there are 4 folks all doing stuff in there). I used the Rokoko Smartsuit to grab a few animations of people just "doing stuff with their hands", and it works pretty well for just a general "person doing something" type filler. 

And here are a couple examples of images where I've used the bumper stickers. Fun way to add some life to a scene! 

In this one I used them as billboards, which works fairly well, before I had the street sign options

Anyways! Yeah, did a lot of experimenting this week, but didn't finish quite as much as I'd hoped. I think I just needed a couple days to re-center, you know?

Talk soon!