Photo re-image

Due to my refurbishment of my characters, of course I would have to re-skin the photo of Sophie that Jon looks at in scene 6. This gave me the opportunity to apply some skills that I picked up after creating other sets.

So here was the pose:

I had to open it photoshop to create a more 'photo' looking image:

I adjusted the levels and added a vignette to the frame to make it more believable. This would be the pre event version. But for the post version I needed some more wear and tear from Jon constantly folding and unfolding it to remind himself of her face. So here is the Diffuse for the photo:

Added scratches and creases to make it look more used. And I wanted to apply a specular map as the glossiness of photos tends to disappear on the crease lines when they become constantly handled:

Here is the final result:

The specular map can't really be seen having an effect in this single frame but it is having an effect.

This is just one example of how I was improving my skills as I was creating the environments and assets, which I can imagine is quite a good trait to have when approaching a job in the field that requires you to constantly keep learning new techniques and different ways of producing different effects and visuals.