Banner Testing

Playing around with some of Facebook's page tools and making a banner video for my page. Also been  exploring Facebook's 3D images and how it might work with Unreal 4,so far I've managed to create some test's using depth visualization and screenshots which work but need so experimenting to get them working correctly.

Mechanics Testing - Amityville '76

Amityville - Progress clips

Amityville '76

Amityville - Sequencer Test #2

Another short test from the Amityville project. This was originally part of a much longer sequence,testing out various style and looks as well as hand animating the camera but decided to cut it together instead as a small teaser.

Amityville - Sequencer Test 1#

Experimenting with Unreal 4's sequencer for fun and decided to animate a handheld style footage shot of my Amityville house model. The static and screen effects are both built in and some additional work in editing, I plan to make a more complete tour of the house at some point in a similar style.

Amityville '76 - Concept poster

Quick little challenge I worked on making a early 80's style poster sheet for my Amityville project.

I looked at the original theatrical posters for the first 2 Amityville movies for a bit of inspiration and the background is an in-game screenshot.

Amityville - Engine update

The past few months I've been working on a couple of different project and not had a huge amount of time to work on my own little side project but finally got a few hours to get back into it.

First priority was an engine update, made the jump from Unreal 4.17 - 4.19 with not too many issue's coming up (hopefully it fixed a few I had also). The environment itself is nearing completion of the first major stage, only one room totally empty so next step is details,props..and more props.

Amityville - Livingroom / Basement

Progress this week has been on dressing the living-room and basement laundry with props and modelling additional ones to add. I tracked down the make / model of the 'DeFeo' family's piano and modelled that as an addition and finally got around to filling all those painting frames.

Amityville - High Hopes

Working on filling out some areas of the environment this week,the garage / boat house have started to come together and also done some work on the infamous Amityville 'red room' which in reality is a cramped little space under the stairs.Also been working on the post processing effects for rendering the game with a 1970's camera look,not totally visible in the screenshots.It's an effect that will need some testing to hit the right look without being annoying visually I think.

Amityville - All Night Laundry

Exploring media player's in Unreal 4 this week combined with lighting and threw in some particles for fun. The t.v was inspired by "Poltergeist",playing out the end of the night with the national anthem and some stock footage I edited together (as well as in joke 'Indian head' image).

Elsewhere I've been modelling some props,big stuff like fridges/washers as well as random items throughout the house. The main areas getting some progress is the basement which was pretty well stocked for laundry day (based on photos I've came across). The area needs a pass of decals and clutter but is coming together.

Amityville Environment's

In my free time this week I've been working on improving and updating rooms in my Amityville house re-creation.

After looking at some 75-76 era photos I noticed some elements were slightly off in my models so added missing items and polished some existing areas like the bathroom and put more detail into window frames and baseboards.

The kitchen also had a revamp with new units added and set up the blueprints for interaction with cabinet doors / drawers.

Master bathroom,added in deco fixtures and updated textures.

Added proper fixtures to all the sash windows.

New cabinets that match the real house,just a few props / decorative items missing.

Amityville Investigation : Kitchen

Another quick .gif experiment (with cliched horror character appearance).Updated to Unreal 4.17 this week so been checking out volumetric's and making sure all my blueprints were still working.Made some progress updating various elements and experimenting a bit with materials.

Amityville 1976 - Investigation.

Worked on updating the environment and messing around in UE4 editor and experimenting with some more .gifs using Premiere and throwing in some VCR style effects.

Making some progress on modelling the Amityville house,working out some of the third floor rooms and finding reference photos from the time period.
Have most of the main furniture in place and need to another pass of detailing,making it more lived in looking and adding smaller items. Unreal 4 recently updated to version 4.16 also so looking forward to some experimenting with volumetric lighting / fog.

Amityville - Teaser

Spent an afternoon exploring with Unreal 4's sequencer and matinee,mostly just needed a break from modelling and wanted to use some of the tools I'm less familiar with.
I ended up putting together a little teaser video for fun in the editor,still a lot of progress needed on filing the house model with more objects.Also been testing out the latest preview version of Unreal,still seems to have a lighting bug unfortunately but new volumetric lighting looks interesting.

Amityville progress - Master bedroom 360

360 image showing work in progress on the master bedroom,over the last week I worked on updating the scale of the model to be more accurate as well as adding some additional items and experimenting with baking the lighting. The reflections in the 360 image didn't turn out as expected so will have to look into that issue as well as adding clutter to the room although currently is very close to how the room was photographed in 1976.

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Amityville - 360 Image Test 3

360 Panorama of the house exterior.For this test I tried increasing the lighting on the environment a little more since it appeared dark in some screenshots,the export process for the panoramic images is pretty quick and easy whereas a 360 YouTube video is a lot more complex and will use keyframing,camera movement.Currently waiting on the next version update on Unreal before I start that.

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Amityville - 360 Image Test 2

Second interactive 360 panorama test. This shows work in progress on Missy's room,recreated from photos of the Amityville house in 1976.There are still details to add like grime to woodwork as well as all the smaller objects littering the room and on shelves.

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Amityville - 360 Image Test

Doing some experimenting with Unreal 4's 360 plugins,this is my first test image for a still inside my game map.Process is fairly quick but getting the image embedded into my blog took a bit searching,drag on the image to give it a try.Eventually the aim will be a full YouTube 360 video.

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