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Winner is a weiner
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Winner is a weiner // Bugs
Post by Steinie // Feb 2, 2007, 2:20am
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Hey did somebody click on the winner of this months contest....small little thing.... |
Post by Shike // Feb 2, 2007, 3:05am
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Yep, I hope they fix the image link soon, I want to look clooser. |
Post by frank // Feb 2, 2007, 4:06am
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Try this in the meantime.
http://www.caligari.com/Gallery/ImagesGallery/2007/jan/winner.asp?img=2907&email=digitaldali_m_76@yahoo.com&name=Zachary%20P.%20Humway
This is throwing it off: "img=T2907" |
Post by TomG // Feb 2, 2007, 5:30am
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Fixed!
Thanks,
Tom |
Post by Shike // Feb 2, 2007, 6:08am
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Ah, I like it ! Ghost-flowers :D |
Post by digitaldali // Feb 2, 2007, 7:24am
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Yeah, it was a strange idea, but I was grasping for something to do. Hope you enjoy! BTW, anyone check out the runner-up? That's AWESOME! |
Post by GraySho // Feb 2, 2007, 10:44am
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Yeah, it was a strange idea, but I was grasping for something to do. Hope you enjoy! BTW, anyone check out the runner-up? That's AWESOME!
Agree, who is that guy? :cool: |
Post by Nez // Feb 12, 2007, 5:51am
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Don't know who he is, but his December 'honourable mention' was also awesome - I'd certainly like to know a bit more about his work and how he goes about his images. Anyone tried getting him on the forum? |
Post by frank // Feb 12, 2007, 8:39am
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I've emailed him. Nice guy (and only 15). Maybe he will join the tS forum soon. |
Post by robert // Feb 15, 2007, 6:02pm
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As a few of you have noticed I'm the second place winner for January
For those of you who would like to know how I went about making this picture keep reading.
Well first off I used my white board and did some concepts.
This idea originally came from one of my friends and I thought it would look great so I decided to make it.
Next I started to convert it to 3D first I started with the planets in the background.
Originally there was only one, but I decided to have two colliding to make it more interesting.
The explosion is really just a textured sphere it still looks nice though.
To get the planets to look the way they do I took clay and threw it together several times, and that's how I got that idea.
Granted the clay didn't break apart like that, but that is where I got the general feel.
I realize that when two planets actually collide they don't fall apart like that, but hey this is my own little world so why not.
The lighting was particularly tricky, using volumetric effects.
The explosions themselves do not actually emit the light, that would just take too long to render.
Instead there are several lights inside there that I applied advanced volumetrics to.
I also placed some just off to the left of the scene to indicate a sun.
Reasoning behind putting advanced volumetrics is that there is cosmic dust, mainly it just looks cool.
For the shredded pieces of ships I looked at various items found in junk yards such as car skeletons and the like.
The ships took a good part of a month to model.
First I made rough sketches of what I wanted the ships too look like, and then I ran the ideas by some friends.
If you look close enough you can see clearly on the back of the ship especially that I just textured and bumped it and that the resolution isn't so great.
I did that because it would cut down render time and I didn't think it would be that noticeable.
The glowing orange rod on the back of the ship isn't actually lighted as can be seen by it not lighting up the insides of the fins.
The engines are just bright lights with basic volumetric effects.
Ship design came from books I read, movies I watched, and of course games I played.
In the bottom left hand corner it says "Angels Fall First, War In Heaven"
It doesn't really mean anything but it sounds cool.
Heaven is space because space is referred to as "the Heavens"
Angels are an elite group of fighter pilots who take the fight to space.
Although the whole thing can be viewed in a biblical sense in which case I would be saying that evil shall prevail.
To make the bitmaps I tried a variety of programs from simple paint to Photoshop and Fireworks.
Most of it had to be drawn by myself due to the fact that I couldn't find such textures anywhere.
Hope that's detail enough for just about anyone.
As frank mentioned earlier I am just 15 years of age.
Well that's all I can think of right now, if you have questions for me whether it be about my personal background or art just ask and I'll answer honestly. |
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