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Gothica
This image represents a part of the interior of a gothic cathedral. At the start of the project I went through a lot of exterior and interior photos of cathedrals all around Europe. I was fascinated by their architecture and size. What you see here is the Amiens Cathedral in France (Choir section I think). I tried to recreate this section as close as possible, but made a few changes as well. All the modelling done in Maya, the textures used were hand-painted in Photoshop, no procedurals. I also made the alpha channels for the bump where necessary. The default sunlight was disabled, near each of the highest round windows I placed 1 radial light to simulate the equal "lightflow" inside the cathedral. To make the "sunlight" bright and intense enough, I put another radial far behind the windows with around 700 intensity factor. Few more lights were added to lit the interior. The only postwork was the slight yellow-white glow of the round windows and a bit of sharpness.
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Well, thank you all! The modeling of this piece took me a month and I think it's worth it every second. Numerous of crashes in Bryce almost costed me the whole project, I've also found out that 2Gb of ram memory isn't enough at all if your goal is to reacreate the maximum detail available. It just seems to me that Bryce still isn't that well optimized to work with outside models. To answer Gat's question "why not in Maya", it's a tough job to get your textures right in Maya, not like a simple "Select obj -> find a material -> apply it". So I'm learnin' as fast as I can, but in the end the result is most important. For now my Final render will be in-bryce. But it came out good, right? :)
praise be very nice , but, i would like to have seen a little variation on the masonary as you did on the stained glass in each segment . still quite an impressive piece of work.
Got to be 5/5. The glow around the windows is a superb touch in post - very effective.
Amazing work as we came to expect from you. This could not be a real conventional photograph, because of the light. But it could be a true tone-mapped HDR photograph. Yeah, everything below a fiver would not be enough.
maya maya maya I'm sorry but Maya is just an amazing program. It has taught me everything from lighting to modeling and you Richter make me hungry to return to it. I just get so caught up in it. Excellent work here. Awesome modeling. Very believeable lighting. Excellent. 5/5.
Awsome! Its beautiful, but why not render it in Maya?