Question About Back Drops (Rooms)

swee286

Is it possible to build your own rooms to animate your movies in or must we buy them.  Thanks 

mjc1016

It's possible to build your own 'everything'...some is just a lot harder to set up than others.  Rooms are some of the easier things to set up.

sriesch

What kind of room are you attempting to build, and what application(s) and/or materials or products do you have available that you plan to use?

For example, if you are using DAZ Studio and have a few shaders or pictures of walls and floors and all you want is four walls and a floor and ceiling for backdrop, you could just create a giant cube primitive and two planes, stick the wall material on the cube, the ceiling material on the top plane, and the floor material on the bottom plane.   If you don't have the necessary materials, then you would need the ability to paint them, or take pictures to put on them, or download the materials from somewhere, etc.

If you are using DAZ Studio and you wanted to get really fancy and have an elaborate room with columns and a vaulted ceiling and windows and doors with elaborate trim and a fireplace, your job gets much harder.  Possibly one could do it by cleverly arranging many primitives and materials and creating new surfaces for holes and so on, but at this point most people would probably be into hardcore model making, and would need another modeling application too, unless you are already using an application that has modeling abilities built into it.

Or, depending on what you want to create, you might be able to assemble the room using some kind of product designed for building rooms, like one with lots of wall sections, doors, windows, etc. that can be arranged in a variety of configurations so that you could build your desired overall room from these smaller components.  Of course this is a purchase, which won't work if you were trying to avoid purchases completely and do this for free.  However if your concern was that you couldn't find a room to purchase that looks the way you want, this might still be an option to purchase a kit and build one closer to your liking than you can find already built.  Similarly, you might be able to take other items and hack them into a room.  For example random sci-fi technical components (barriers, ships, consoles, whatever) could easily be carefully resized, retextured, and arranged to look like the inside of a sci-fi themed room as long as you didn't zoom back to see all the edges that stick out and don't match and obviously look like non-architectural components.

Or, one could possibly use a 2D backdrop, although I'm guessing this would work poorly for something that's animated even though one might be able to get away with it in a still shot that's been carefully arranged so you can't tell the foreground isn't interacting with the backdrop.