Impy's Island (2006)

Role: Lead Texture Artist / Texturing Supervisor, Ambient Entertainment

quick facts

Own Work	Texturing & Lookdev of 50% of visible assets (50 sets, 600 props) over course of 18 months
	Supervising of small team of artists, work allocation & prioritzing
	Shot testing

Work samples

Entire Texturing except foreground waterlily.The frog was created by character texture artist Marek Binieda and was something we receycled from "Back to Gaya" (he has been in all our movies so far :)

Entire Texturing of set and props

Modelling and Shading of Ice crystal, snowflakes.

Entire Texturing except: steps in foreground, ground (dust, grass), lower part of fassade in the back and a few plants - all of which were created by Kay Poprawe

Entire texturing except a few plants, the rock and part of the fassade to the right - all done by Kay Poprawe.

Entire set & prop texturing except blackboard and flowers which were surfaced by Marieke Franzen

Entire set & prop texturing except table and pineapple.

Entire set & prop texturing except table, flowers and pineapple.

Entire texturing except a few of the plants.

Entire set & prop texturing except ground.

Texturing of landing stage and stuff lying aroundas well as the bucket. The ground was done by Kay Poprawe. Water by Haggi Floeser Krey. The sky was painted by Jens Bennecke.

Entire texturing

Entire texturing of set and props including effects shading (mud)

Entire Texturing of set and props

Entire texturing of set and props including effects shading (mud)

Entire texturing including effects shading (mud)

Entire texturing of set and props including effects shading (mud)

Entire texturing of set and props including effects shading (mud)

Entire texturing of set

This shot actually didn't make the cut. I did the base texturing of all the elements except the volcano in the back. It was then painted over by Oliver Kurth who did a great job on that one.

Entire texturing of set and props

Entire texturing except part of the building just visible in the back (done by Kay Poprawe)

Entire texturing except hat.

Texturing of plants, trees and rocks. The cliffs and additional plants were created by Kay Poprawe

Texturing of ground and a lot of plants. Other plants were surfaced by Kay Poprawe & Fredrik Kammer.

Texturing of some of the plants. The shading on the tiki statue was created with texture maps I provided (the base wood and moss maps) by our character animator Kristian Kratzert, who helped me out at the time. A lot of credit and thanks to him for that.

Texturing of ground and ground plants. Additional plants were created by Kay Poprawe. The center plant was surfaced by Charatcer Artist Marek Binieda.

Entire texturing of set and props

Entire texturing of set and props

Entire texturing of set and props

Entire texturing of set and props except rifle

Entire texturing

Entire Texturing of set & props except plant with long leaves.

Entire texturing of set and props

Texturing of fassade and trees. The real magic in this shot was done in compositing by Oliver Kurth.

asset renders

One of around 700 props. No raytracing but with dust :)

An overview rendering of the jungel set for sign off purposes

An overview rendering of the jungel set for sign off purposes

Obviously a work in progress. I coulnd't use any displacement whatsoever in this movie but even in the caves my rock shaders worked pretty well. The final picture from the movie can be found above.The rockmaps were done in Zbrush.

trees and plants were omnipresent in the movie. Here is a shadertest for a tree and how well it worked even when scaled non-uniformly (which makes distortionfree texturing just a pain in the a** but happens very often to make things fit)

Another thing about creating nature sets is, that you never have to surface just one piece of rock or one palm tree. Nooo - there always have to be 20 to 50 variations. Great visually, but boring to work on after some time.

Rock variation 2 of 30 ...

To save time I created a bamboo library at the beginning of production that our modellers could dip into to model a lot of things. If at all, the texturemaps just had to be minorly adjusted after that.

Since the bamboo was used in excess it had to be pretty detailed. We ended up actually having shots in the movie where the camera was inches from the modell so I think the work paid off.

The modellers built everything possible from bamboo. From regular chairs ...

to not so regular chairs ..

... to entire houses. As you can see, the bamboo library wasn't all surfaced at this time.

I like this model. I had to dial it down a bit since it came along a bit to realistc for the style of the movie.

On this one I actually reused the woodmap I painted for the bar in "back to gaya" and just enhanced it a little further.

What's a good movie without a tiki lamp ?

I like a little detail in my texturemaps. Again with the dust and the fine wax drops. By the way, the wooden board isn't subject of this rendering - so don't judge it to hard :)

Since I had book A-Z to surface I ended up taking requests what to put on the dust covers. There's a lot of stupid things written on there for sure.