Pic thread for the DU *2D/3D digital artists*. Show your works! (Dial-up warning)

[Call Me Wesley]

I recently ventured back to sci-fi renderings, so here are a few:

The Outer Rim


Black Hole


When the dream ends


All what remains

[RandomThoughts]

1. They look cool,

great work.

I really like the vibrant colors.

[Call Me Wesley]

2. Thank you,

I was kind of going for a 70's pulp cover feeling with these. Lots of photoshop filters applied here.

[RandomThoughts]

5. Yup, exactly.

you totally nailed that look, I almost commented that they remind me of some of my old Sci-Fi pics from the 70's.

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. Those are great!

I really like When the dream ends. :hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

9. Thank you!

:hug: Funny thing is that this is the one most unlikely to be happening. There's no decomposing in space, but likely mummification, and also the ships metal wouldn't corrode at all. These bodies would just be pulled into the planets gravity and being torn apart from particles flying around, but ... there's still no seat belts on board the Enterprise! :D

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. i love this series. You and your wife are so talented

[Call Me Wesley]

10. We'll do our best. ;)

But I call her works art and mine 'doodles.' ;)

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Nice! I actually have some recent stuff for once.

I actually had another one to post, but apparently Photobucket, in their infinite fucking wisdom deemed it to be in violation of their terms of service because of a tiny bit of Victorian era sideboob. Fucking puritans.

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Gorgeous work as always!

Love the one with the nuns! Good to see you're still doing it, and I probably need to fill up my deviantart gallery. :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

11. I had a really long dry spell, but not for lack of trying.

Just been hard to find the time and motivation lately with work and school.

Thanks! :D

I've been finally making a decent dent in that sketchbook you guys sent me ages ago as well, haha.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. fucking awesome

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Thanks Pri!

:D

[Inchworm]

23. I love the second one

Umm.. is that an evil dog (darker) in the clouds bottom, center or am I just having a bad day :P

Very cool!

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Haha, I can see what you're talking about but that was totally unintentional.

Thanks!

[Forkboy]

41. Your stuff is awesome.

:wow:

[ghostsofgiants]

42. Thanks dude!

[Heidi]

50. I love ALL of these, J!

Outstanding work, truly! :thumbsup:

Here are some family photos that I hope to use in future work. :)


CMW's grandmother (now 95 years old) and her girls' school classmates. Anna is the one
in the middle with long braids.


These are cousins or family friends.


A friend of Anna's late husband. I love how dashing this man looks.

[ghostsofgiants]

53. Ooh, those are great, can't wait to see what you do with them.

:D

[Deja Q]

13. k

[Call Me Wesley]

14. Nice!

What program are you using? Looks like Bryce or Vue for the original composing/rendering.

[Deja Q]

15. Thx!

Bryce for the initial render, yes...

Of course, even with volumetric rendering turned on to ensure the process goes from 10 minutes to 5 days, end results still look hokey, which is why I diddle around with post-processing.

[Forkboy]

16. LOL @ the rendering times.

Been there, done that. My record for longest render is 6 days 13 hours+. It was shortly after that that I upgraded the ole PC. I don't use the volumetric rendering anymore anyways now. The results aren't really worth it most of the time, and I can usually get close to the desired effect in Corel or Photoshop afterwards.

[Call Me Wesley]

17. Volumetric lights are killers.

I'm using C4D with Vray now, and it has a transparency issue. If something has an Alpha map, render times go up like crazy.

But yes, for volumetric lighting like fog, I think you're way better off to use postwork.

Have you ever looked into Vue? There's Vue 7 out now and it looks pretty promising. I'm getting it since it interacts with C4D, and I miss being able to make terrains.

[Deja Q]

20. I looked then had a heart attack

Looks like excellent software, but the price is rather a lot at this juncture. :) Maybe by February...


And even with my system (8GB, Quad core processor at 4.07GHz) it took up to 4 days; canceled after 2.6 as the new HD came in and wanted to get the old one back before the return period expired. And you're right; post production did do what I needed, and experimenting with effects got far more than what I bargained for... :D

[graywarrior]

18. Whoa.

Those are awesome!

[Call Me Wesley]

22. Great compliment from an artist!

Thank you! :hug:

[graywarrior]

25. It's well deserved.

Your stuff amazes me.

[Inchworm]

19. I love 'em!!

When I see art for the first time, my brain usually tries to imagine where the light comes from. I'm not sure how "the sun" works in space, so as I find myself trying to figure it out my head EXplodES :D

Very cool stuff!

You and that Heidi lady rawk! :P

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

24. As I said upthread, she's the one making art.

I just put stuff together and hit a key, then look how it turned out. ;)

I've stayed with one sun on these here. Which is, technically speaking, just a big lightbulb in space. But since there's no atmosphere in space, and therefore no filtering of sunlight, the light goes from outwashed overexposure to black shadows with no transition.

Wouldn't work well in sci-fi ...

[Inchworm]

26. Gotcha

Thanks for the explanation :)

:yourock:

[Call Me Wesley]

29. You know I'm a Rocket Scientist,

and if not, here's proof:

[RandomThoughts]

43. I find this to be deep n/t

[Forkboy]

21. A mix of digital, and hand drawn stuff mixed with digital.

Just a simple Bryce effort, some touch up in Corel. I see a glaring error in this pic, but so far no one else has. :)






And the obligatory Godzilla pic.

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Your stuff is mind bendingly awesome. I totally love those pics, and the retro feel (whether by design or accident) is phenomenal. Reminds me of Chriss Foss, who did a lot of sci-fi stuff in the 70's.

[Call Me Wesley]

28. Great stuff, and I still love the Godzilla,

and thanks again for pointing me to the site where I could get these models.

I was trying to see what you're been talking about the Bryce work: Is it the fact that the shadows in the water are different than the ones on the groud, coming from different light sources?

[Forkboy]

35. Well, there's that, but I used three light sources on purpose.

I wanted to deliberately do a very bright, colorful picture because it's the total opposite of what I normally do. Just to show myself that not every pic has be dark and evil. :)

If you look in the water on the right side of the river (just left and down from the rocks on the far shore), you can see the bottom of the terrain wireframe I used for the ground on the near shore. Just a slight greenish color. At first it looks like a reflection of the far shore, but there's a perfect 90 degree angle in the water just under the surface (and we all know how often perfectly straight lines occur in nature). And from the angle of the person's view it shouldn't even be there at all. I didn't even notice until days after I was done, and like a yobbo I rarely save these things in Bryce format so I can go back and rework something. I could fix it with a clone brush or something now, but fuck it. I'm done with that pic, for good or ill. :)

Glad the model site came in handy. I did three pretty cool pics with Star Wars models that I found online but then I accidentally deleted them off of my zip drive before backing them up. x(

[Call Me Wesley]

37. Meh, I couldn't even see this ...

And I looked really hard. That's no error at all. :)

There's a great site I've known for years but just recently got the models from it:
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/fictional.php

Browse through it, the Babylon 5 models are neat.

And I can't count the renders I've started but trashed after it, and it was no accident at all. Sorry to hear you've lost some good ones.

[Forkboy]

38. To me it stands out like a crack-addled ferret on fire.

Shows how artists tend to magnify their own mistakes. :)

That site is very cool. I see some kind of Space 1999 project in my future. :D

Thanks for the link!

[Call Me Wesley]

39. LOL @ crack-addled ferret on fire,

but you're right. I'm my worst critic anyways, so I know what you mean.

Oh, for Space 1999 stuff, there's great stuff here (Martin Landau not included:)
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/ga-craft.html

If you look closely at the one titled 'When the dream end',' the wreck is made out of a rusty tower and an Eagle inside I just deleted a few things from it. But the engines and cockpit are there.

[Forkboy]

44. Ha...very clever.

Love it!

That link is even cooler than the last one! Fireball XL-5 even!!! I feel like a kid in a candy store with this stuff. :D

[Call Me Wesley]

45. Glad you like it.

Just check the file formats. There's not a 3D model for all available.

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. Albatros!

Disclaimer: I didn't make this. I'm just borrowing it for comedy's sake.

[Call Me Wesley]

32. I'm sure you shot it down, like this one:

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. Those 'jet' things will never catch on

Propellers were good enough for the Wright Brothers and they're bloody good enough for the RAF.

[Call Me Wesley]

47. You may be (w)right ...

But I'm watching 'Earth vs. Flying Saucers' right now, so nothing will help us anyways!

But thanks for your service!



P. S. Nothing that's heavier than air could ever fly! If Dog would have wanted us to fly, we would be bats! With comfy pillows!

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. Oooo, one o' my faves!

I love the circumcision scene.







BTW — I just saw an ad for the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still," and they've got Shit Blowing Up. :wtf:

[Call Me Wesley]

49. I love the scene

where they start to fire on the leathery alien, who dies and then all havoc breaks loose. I mean, they kill some! But then, the world is safe again!

I'm at 'This Island Earth' now.

And for the remake of Keeanu Reeves, errm, The Day The Earth stood Still, there's John Cleese in it! Besides this, it's mostly Matrix with a robot. Blech ...

[JeffR]

31. Beautiful work! Nice to see this thread.

Here's a few of the most recent I have:

Photo processed in Photoshop:



And some landscapes generated with Terragen with post-processing in Photoshop:

[Call Me Wesley]

33. Love the processed photo and colors!

But the Terragen ones are amazing, too. I remember this program from the beginning where you were able to do some, errm, stuff with it. But lately I've seen quite intriguing work done with it.

Thanks for sharing! :hi:

[Forkboy]

40. Something about that second terragen one blows me away.

It looks both incredibly peaceful and incredibly foreboding at the same time. It creates a definite tension in me when I look at it.

In a good way, not in the "I'll kill you, you jammy goit!" kind of way. :)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

34. My ongoing "Obama Series" and a beautiful fellow DU member

Fellow DU member "hisownpetard"...



Mountain View, California:



Canada College, Redwood City, California:



:toast:

[Call Me Wesley]

36. Thank you!

There's something very striking about the Obama/Biden one; the composition and color. For me, it really stands out. :toast:

[merh]

51. I agree with CMW, the Obama/Biden photo is my fav

How did you accomplish that look?

They are all wonderful.

I'm a newbie to the digital photo fun - still experimenting and learning and playing. this one is not the caliber of yours or others in the thread but its a beginning for me.

[Call Me Wesley]

58. Looks fine, and the sepia treatment works very well.

It's mainly to have some fun and no fear of experimenting.

:hug:

[merh]

59. it is fun

I like playing but haven't figured out how to do much yet. Like the O/B image, how is that effect accomplished?

[Deja Q]

52. What program did you use? I especially like the 4th one

[Call Me Wesley]

55. I mainly use Cinema 4D with Vray now.

Before this, I used 3ds Max, but Cinema 4D has a bit more options of importing and posing.

[Deja Q]

60. Vray, cool.

I also use TrueSpace 7.6 w/vray, though I haven't used it recently. I'm stuck in Bryce-mode. :)

[leeroysphitz]

54. Wow. Excellent renders Wesley. Do you do your own modeling as well?

Either way these are impressive to me. Exciting textures, detail and composition.

What software are you using? I used Carrara Pro 5 for texturing and rendering with AutoCad and Amapi for modeling. I stopped spending much time rendering about 4 years ago when my son was born because it took so much time but it was a really fulfilling hobby of mine for a few years.

Here are a few I kept. Not as good as yours by any stretch but I like them...

Summer2


Soulfarm



The Reaper In Kansas City




Garter



Lighting Test

[ghostsofgiants]

56. That first one is fun, haha.

And The Reaper in Kansas City looks like it has some Twin Peaks influence. :thumbsup:

[Call Me Wesley]

57. Wow! There's some great stuff here!

Love the second one, but all of them are great.

I'm using Cinema 4D with Vray now, before it was 3ds Max.

I don't really do modeling anymore, although I did once a loudspeaker in Hexagon (rendered with Carrara 6: )



Although I'm really tempted to start with it again, since I always change some things around anyway; why not making my own stuff? It just takes, as you say, a lot of time, so that's the drawback.

Thanks for sharing your work! :hi: