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Craft 9
Exercising some of my theories on how things should look in space. Well, the craft itself is built from primities and three wings "structural" shapes - that is tessalated and intruded wings primitives. These I sort of modged togther in a haphazzard way knowing that I wasn't going to let too much light fall on them anyway. The sun was turned off and a few stars were allowed to shine with a bit of glow. A fake sun strengh 25 no fall off was put in the scene to highlight the craft. Then I added a few red running lights to fill in the shadows. And an uplight from the planet - actually from where the planet appears to be since the planet is in fact a tiny sphere in front of the camera overlapped by yet another tiny sphere of volumentric blue - to give a slight hazyness to the planet. Finally using the orange gas cloud material found in the ex-change here, I put in some "space cloud" to act as a backdrop to the ship and help define it's shape a bit better against the blackness of space. That, I suppose, was not a very brave move, but otherwise the picture would have been mostly black - which while this may have been more realistic, it would not have been terribly artistic - maybe?
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Very good work David. The models is very spacey in that it lacks any sign of aerodynamics, so it looks very much like a thing that does not have to deal with atmospheres. The nebula is especially good. The lighting of the scene sits very well with me. Giving the ship it's own illumination worked out very well. the light coming off of the planet seems a bit off to me. I would only expect to see that slight blueness I find on the bottom of the ship to come from a sense of reflection of the planet's color. Knowing that there is an actual light source there I'm not sure if I like it. Though, any excuse to add light in an outer space scene seems like a good bet. As Tina says, Inspiring work. Love the nebula and the stars behind it. 5/5 from me!
. blender is free too, I think that in terms of cost one should be at willl to try out both programs. The reason I recommend blender, is because it gets constantly upgraded, it has more tools then wings (I think) and once you learn blender you have one powerful app on your side. True, the learning curve might be stripper but all the tutorials and books on blender make learning very easy. Pllus, blender is faster to use and it can hold more polygons then wings and not crash the opengl preview mode down.
Excellent. Very nice idea about the planet, good colour composition, too. Evem though I wonder what is the use of that appearently hallow sphere structure I have to give you a 5/5. Gat - you give tina the tip to get Blender I think it is difficult to use - but I may be dumber than the rest of you. Wings is much more intuitive. And it is free, too.
VERY NICE!!!!!! Pioneer Class Interstellar Explorer Vessel......well it could be. ;-) Polygonal biospheres. It's obviously not meant to land so there has to be a launch bay for a drop ship or two. When I look at this I think of Arthur C. Clark. The realism is incredible! This is an outstanding image, David. I have to give it top marks. 5/5
. Download blender tina, its free. scene 5/5 the spaceship model looks cool, lots of detail. The planet, is alright. lighting looks realistic enough for me, the red from the lights, blue from the planet and the white/yellow from the sun. As long as there objects near one another light can bounce off and illuminate. So, lighting is fine.
NICE!!! I like this one! Very nicely done David. Your work always seems to amaze us all. This piece is right on time for the 30th anniversary of Star Wars! Were you around when it came out into the theaters back in 77'? I was! Seems like just yesterday. I have a stupid question. I have been trying to make everythink freehand on my Bryce. Is that how you guys do it? I noticed a lot of graphic designs that you can buy online. Am I missing something here? I don't mind making my own stuff, it just takes forever and really never looks very real. Thanks for any suggestions.