Chernobyl - making of

Na madrugada do dia 26 de Abril de 1986, um dos reatores da usina nuclear de
Chernobyl explodiu. Um inferno de chamas coloridas alcançou quase 1000 metros
de altura no céu da Ucrânia.

In the dawn of 26 april 1986, one of the Chernobyl reactors exploded. A colourfull flaming hell reach almost 1 km high in the Ucraine sky.


This was a interesting project, because, one more time, Discovery Channel doesn't give to us references and I needed to research by myself in the internet. The internet images was mostly in low resolution so they serve just as references. Second because i'm passing through a series of intensive jobs that was driving me crazy. So I started the project in LightWave and after the first ladder I switched to Modo as a challenge.



I tooked several images from the internet, choosen the best ones and tried to find some plant pieces that were already done in the TurboSquid. I founded the main tower of the Chernobyl plant and based on the image I redesigned the tower.




After that I started the base shapes of the Chernobyl plant based on my references.
Well, as it was my first time in Modo I have no idea how to open or use UVs so 90% of the mapping was done using cylindrical and cubic maps.


















Agora entramos na fase de renderização, após isso levei a imagem renderizada ao
Photoshop para aplicar efeitos adicionais, tratamento de cor. A usina tem um padrão
em sua lataria, para quebrar este padrão utilizei as ferramentas Patch Tool
e Rubber Stamp do Photoshop e finalmente a diagramação final da capa: