Hong Kong Boy is my personal tribute to the Chinese photographer and filmmaker - Fan Ho. His B&W photographs depicting Hong Kong and Chinese landscapes. Fan Ho as a teenager coming to Hong Kong in 1949 and photographing beautiful scenes from the life of the inhabitants. These photographs are a composition of light, shadows, water, rags, fumes, atmosphere and of course the people. As the author himself says - when you took his picture, you take his spirit, his soul.
I don't try to reproduce his photographs in technique 3D, but inspired by his work I created a picture supporting this spirit.
Of course, I chose my favorite technique - low poly.
Link: Fan Ho - Photography
Use tools:
Blender: modeling, animation, simulation, texturing,
Render: Blender Cycles
Photoshop: texturing, UV
After Effect : compositing, VFX
Solid
Mesh
Matcap : Normal Map
Matcap : Toon
Pass: Directional Light
Pass: Volumetric Scattering
Compositing