Scene: Baby room.
Is the baby screaming?
We turn towards the cradle. [scary music...maybe Hitchcock-Psycho-shower-like...].
Looking over the edge, we see nothing, apart from a [dolly zoom] (pacifier, or baby cap, or....)
The missing baby is the scream!
That's it. The effect will have to come from camera movement, timing, music and lighting.
Don't know yet if it will be in black and white, or 'Blair witch'-like or...
Still some modeling to be done (it's a baby room after all; can't be empty...), but nothing complicated, that will not be my challenge...the challenge will be everything else ;)
You're on a roll spikeyxxx! Makes me think about the bet Hemingway won when someone told him it was impossible to tell a story in 6 words :"For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."
I don't think it has to be a still, but even if I go against the rules, this is what I want to make!
And the extra time just asks for an animation ;)
Looks like you're right Angela..I'll make an animation anyway and put the final shot as the image...a bit harder to get the horror in, but I think I'll manage anyway, hahaha ;)
Started painting a wallpaper texture for the baby room:
Not completely finished yet, but I kinda like it...took me long enough: I'm not very good at painting ;) ...maybe the picnic baskets should be a bit lower...
Started modeling the cradle (from a reference this time, not a design of my own...):
Also changed the title to the official one...now it will be more clear that the baby is missing and we're not simply looking at an empty cradle...
The list of suspects has hereby also grown;
1. The teddy bears.
2. The godfather.
3. Maybe it's mob related.
I forgot to mention this last month, but I have two tricks for you when it comes to the modeling of interiors:
1. Use ALT+B to draw a rectangle over the part of the scene that you need. (I know about this for so long already, but I only thought of using it at the end of last months challenge...would have saved me a lot of troubles!)
2. Above screenshot was lit with an HDRI! I often like to see early on, what my scene looks like rendered with some basic placeholder materials, but I don't want to set up lighting yet. But the walls and so block the light from the HDRI.
So I use the Light Path Node like this (for walls, ceiling...):
Have been struggling for two days with the canopy (is that what it is called?). Mostly trying to use a cloth sim, but I couldn't get the right settings for the result I was after...also tried sculpting, but I will need a lot more practice before I can do that..so I ended up modeling the veil...basic ruffled shape and then moving Vertices around to break up the regularity...the result:
For the ribbon on top, I did use a Cloth sim with the recent Pressure option.
Tomorrow I'll try and make the cushions and so for the inside of the cradle. After that filling the room with stuff.
This concept makes me think of the whole Lindberg baby incident. So scary on so many levels.
Slow progress; did some research and apparently no pillows or stuffed animals or anything soft, including padding, are allowed these days...the blanket took me most of the day and I am still not perfectly happy with it...the floor is supposed to be 'marmoleum' (vinyl), because it is not too hard an anti-bacterial and easy to clean and very durable...
a baby should also have no blanket. the baby could suffocate or overheat with the blanket. normaly in a crib there is a baby and maybe the pacifier, but nothing else. For warmth there are special sleeping bags for babies
amblender according to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q5Mfsdu7Oc and several other articles (from Dutch and Belgian experts) you use a special kind of blanket and no sleeping bags; the blanket will prevent overheating and if the crib or cradle is made correctly the baby will not suffocate either,,,and yes further only the baby and if you want a pacifier..
But there will be other opinions about safe sleeping out there...
Here (Switzerland) the midwifes tell you no blankets, because the could get them over their heads (thats what i got told with my 3 kids, the youngest is 2). Seems different from country to country. My midwife told me to use those sleeping bags, although i did not use them alot as my kids hated that they could not move so easily in their sleep.
I got my kids with blankets that allowed to breathe through, common thing here in Belgium, anyway if the blanket is dangerous, it adds to the creepiness of the scene 🙂
