Author: Aram Soultanian

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For the Bar table, I created a dark wood pattern with almost black rings. I changed the stool legs to a silver gloss as well as added a leather texture to the seat part to make it look like an actual stool. For the floor I went for a lighter grain of wood to contrast the rest of the scene. I also changed which types of color blinn, phong etc on the glasses to make them reflect more realistically. The hardest part was definitely trying to make the wood pattern realistic and took a while messing around with the settings to make it look right.

I have the body being able to be positioned differently for each character. I made the face a separate file so I could change the look of each character without having to worry about messing up the body.

 

All three characters will be the dead Russian gangsters that John Wick killed with a pencil. The top is a birds eye view of victim dead on the floor, face to down or to the side. The bottom left is victim killed on the bar stool still with the pencil in his head which is leaning on the bar table. The bottom right is the victim dead against the wall who wrote baba yaga out of his blood.

I do not know why everything is so dark. On the Maya Render screen everything was much brighter.

 

Some things you might not be able to see well. On the bar there are 3 gold coins which is what they use for currency in the movie. On the wall, “Baba Yaga” is written out of what is supposed to be blood.

 

Beer Bottle

Behind Bar

Bourbon Glass

Pencil

Set

John Wick Bar Scene

Quick dialogue from movie

Viggo Tarasov: It’s not what you did, son, that angers me so. It’s who you did it to.
Iosef Tarasov: Who? That fucking nobody?
Viggo Tarasov: That “fuckin’ nobody”… is John Wick. He once was an associate of ours. They call him “Baba Yaga.”
Iosef Tarasov: The Boogeyman?
Viggo Tarasov: Well John wasn’t exactly the Boogeyman. He was the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman.
Iosef Tarasov: [stunned] Oh.
Viggo Tarasov: John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will… something you know very little about. I once saw him kill three men in a bar… with a pencil, with a fucking pencil. Then suddenly one day he asked to leave. It’s over a woman, of course. So I made a deal with him. I gave him an impossible task. A job no one could have pulled off. The bodies he buried that day laid the foundation of what we are now. And then my son, a few days after his wife died, you steal his car and kill his fucking dog.

 

This scene basically sets up the rest of the movie. The quote highlighted in red is one of a most know, iconic and resonating quotes from the entire movie. From the way Viggo Tarasov describes John Wick, you can already imagine just what happened at the bar.

 

My scene will take place in a dim lit older bar. The bar table will be a “L” shape made out of thick dark wood with lights hanging from the ceiling. Three bodies will be spread around the bar: the first, still sitting on the stool with their chest and head face down on the table, maybe with a pencil sticking out of their head and the second and third will be somewhere on the ground.

 

To make sure this scene is easily noticeable, certain objects or references from movie will be placed around. Next to one of the bodies on the ground will say “Baba Yaga” written out of blood. As said above, Baba Yaga was John Wicks nickname and means Boogeyman in Russian. Another object will the pencil which will be protruding from the head of the guy leaning on the bar. The last object will be one or more gold coins on the counter which is what John Wick and other characters in the movie use as pay and currency. The coins could either be paying for the drinks or the clean up as seen earlier in the movie.

 

I chose the T.A.R.S  robot from Interstellar because it is my syfy movie robot.

For my self portrait, created a mosaic out of 144 photos of my favorite cars, myself fishing or golfing and my family. Each image is its own layer with its own layer mask. After arranging them all, I patterned them and placed on top of the main photo of my mom, dad and myself. I then overlaid the pattern on top of the photo adjusted the shadow and highlights to my liking.  Overall the Idea is that those 4 things are what make me… me and without my supportive parents none of it would be possible.

Buoyancy

Eruption

Escape

Although the colors look similar I can assure you each panel of the car is made from one or more pen traces. In total there are over 180 traces but I am happy with the final product.