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Very glad you found it useful :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Beautifull
A little more than a month ago I made the following for my culture class, as part of a presentation I had to prepare for a mini-conference I gave on organizations such as the UN, NATO, OAS, EU and the Commonwealth. I thought I might render their flags into a cube, and then place some pictures around it featuring some of the characteristic buildings these fine people use as their headquarters:
Pretty good Max - the first really does have a balletic and musical quality, while the second's quite mystical, almost Unicornish. I'm not used to seeing smilies in 3D so I thought at first it was an M&M freaking out, but as Beau says, :lol:
That very last one is interesting - you've alpha channeled it yes?
Bryce all the way for me I'm afraid Max - at the moment it's the coolest and quickest to create a finished image (and when you sign into a contract to produce a hundred images a day, well...) (actually that's another good way to kick your creativity into gear Beau - treat it as though your livelihood depends on it :) )
Anyway I did a few more cities (though what sort of cities I'll let you be the judge)
This is a city that's been visited by flying saucers
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...ystyry/T-2.jpg
This is a city that looks more like a spaceship hull
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...ystyry/U-3.jpg
And this is a curly city
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...rmystyry/S.jpg
Curly city, get it? Because it's all curly..?
Thanks for the review! :) I've been working on other 3D smilies so far unfinished.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
The original image is a transparent PNG, which is my fave format since I began working with images. However, the file came out rather big, even after passing it through OptiPNG optimization, so I decided to place the elements in a JPG backgrounded with the same color as Lit Net's background to achieve a transparent appearance, thus saving some of my photobucket account's bandwidth for other uploads.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
You're doing quite well at it. It does produce attractive results.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
The curly city looks quite curly, and the other ones look a lot intergalactic http://smilies-gifs.com/amarillos/7amarillos.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Actually I realised what you'd done - I often save interesting smilies and avatars thinking that one day I'll get to use them. Right click 'save as' sometimes gives a descriptive name, and I instinctively did it to see if it was a png, but it was a jpg and for a second my brain went how... ..?
Click!
Clever nonetheless, but why don't you have an unlimited Photobucket account? They gave me one without even asking shortly after I signed up.
Anyway - yeah, thanks, space scenes are easiest and quickest of the lot, though they went curly there because I thought: 'Right - new technique - perhaps best not wear it out all once...' So it's a program that only makes curly models, almost any twisty twirly shape that you can think of kind of shape, and it was a lot of fun at about 1 am this morning :)
I often do the saving of many things too. I have so much stuff that I hardly ever remember where I put it http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/sc...one-s_head.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/jus..._shakehead.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
You know what? I do have an unlimited Photobucket account. I don't know what I was thinking about when I thought I was suffering a sort of limitation with it. My mind must be playing awful tricks on me one more time http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/jus...C_thinking.gif ... :pQuote:
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Anyway, if you want it in PNG I can do the transformation. Lemme know.
This reminded me of a few outer-space projects I should find some time to conclude... the program to make the curly models is a Bryce built-in feature too?Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
No Max, the program is called Spiralizer and I found it on a link when I was searching for a grass generator, and I found a few, but none quite what I was after - though I did stumble across an ivy generator called Ivy which 'grows' ivy on objects (literally). Though I confess I haven't used it properly yet because it can take some time to grow depending on how much ivy you'd like, (and is just like watching ivy grow). But I have a few models that can only benefit from the treatment.
As for yor Sci Fi's - finish finish finish them!
Just finished this:
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...ry/Islands.jpg
Spiral and ivy generators; I should try my luck with 3D art sometime soon. As for the latest gloomy seascape http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/laie/Laie_69.gif
Thanks Max - it was more the result of a last minute change to a texture on something and it'd been rendering all night (really twisted glass shapes, but I changed a main texture without doing a test run - and it didn't work! Took ten hours to render too, and now it'll take more to edit than it's worth. Tonight I render all over again I guess)
Yes - New Zealand's Bay of Islands the inspiration for this one. There are photos on the Net, but I'm yet to see one that does it justice - it's one of those places that can't really be captured in a single image (nor even a video actually), but to fish on a dinghy at night with an esky full of coldies - ah that's the life!
@mystyr I love all of the above.
I got a couple new songs I put together into one "video" set to backdrops of my photography as usual. These are me trying to learn how to sing without using a capo. I don't much like being stuck with certain keys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyjwVjeJ0w
:)
Some more stuff by me:
http://i.imgur.com/MUUni.png
Interesting works both of the above.
How did that rendering night turn out? http://smilies-gifs.com/pensando/6pensando.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
There're such places hard to capture :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
A reminder of a first attempt to create an exospheric sunrise and a view of Earth from outer space, finished and posted on 5/25/2011:
A new attempt after following Mystyr's comments on the above mentioned piece. I tried to give realism to the areas first hit by the lights of dawn, as well as to the shades in places still at night. The scattered little white glows in night areas are intended to represent electric lighting. Does it look any different from/better than the older work?:
This is the same Earth as above posted, but without dawn glows, night lights and shades, clouds and sun, mostly intended to highlight terrain irregularities as might be seen from outer space. Again, does it look any real?:
Because the sun is to the west I think the first one should read "sundown" instead of "sunrise," right?
That's beautiful Max! I love them!
Sorry I've been MIA...and apologizing for future MIA'ing....because I have no idea what will happen in the next few months. I shall try to post some more art.
Thanks Beau. I was just about to request your input, but no need since you finally showed up :p
If you have any trouble I hope it'll be all set in no time, so that you can get yourself back to art http://fc03.deviantart.net/images/i/..._emoticon___v2
That's a vast improvement Max. Not just realistically but aesthetically: understatement usually works better - definitely in this case.
As to your first question I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I did discover why the rendering took so long - I multi-replicated early on and because I didn't use it I forgot. So each glassy object was in fact twenty glassy objects stacked on top of each other. Just two glass objects occupying the same space produce a sort of obsidian texture, imagine twenty. So that's why I was disappointed, not in the texture itself but a pretty bland effect, (and the time it took)
Here's some fireflies:
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...ystyry/ffs.jpg
Thanks for the view n' comment!Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Interesting find. What processor does your computer have? Mine's a very old AMD Athlon, but I suppose that for 3D rendering a highly more powerful chip is needed :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Wonderful, I haven't seen fireflies in ages now, and they look great beneath the trees! There was a time they were regular visitors in my backyard when I was a kid, but something made them vanish... probably pesticides... not sure. No more natural glows at night :(Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
I have a quadcore doozy - though Bryce2 still worked on my ancient Pentium 100 mhz 16 mg ram under Win95, and version 7 hasn't changed all that much really, a few more bells and whistles but a lot of the problems with the original still remain (like loading the entire texture presets into ram, not routing to the graphics card, losing focus periodically.
The only thing with multi-cores in 3D is the basic speed increase - two cores take half as long, four a quarter, and that's a blessing when anti-aliasing decides it's going to take hours (often I don't bother with it and just increase the dimensions by a pixel, and then reduce the dimensions by the same pixel - depends on the picture though). It'd still work on something that isn't a complete breadbox with a brick in it ;)
Here's a dream island
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...y/island-1.jpg
Hey guys! This is a Beau pitt-stop! :) I love the art, as always! Mystyr and Max! Keep up your awesomeness~! XD
So here's one I've given color....again. I'm telling you, this is the second time I've colored this piece. Same lines, different colors.
Anyways:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/20...re-d4iqs2s.jpg
I think I've improved from one I posted before:
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...re-d3aob87.jpg
And it took less time this time around! XD
Cool Beau - though they're both perfectly acceptable because they look like two different seasons/times of day. The first looks Wuthering Heightsy, and the second Midsummer Night's Dreamy (or something).
Good stuff :)
I think I've almost finished the glassy objects, just tinkering with the composition. Watch this space!
This one I'm actually happy about, enough to decide to have narrowed down the endless list of music I have made to a certain few I love and keep them as the faces of what I do. So, it's okay :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dOmYjEo5Lg
I suppose a multi-core may do something for me, and more RAM too. I'm presently using Paint.Net and GIMP, more or less extensively, and after adding some plug-ins and brushes I have noticed they are becoming a little sluggish, especially with multilayer projects above 1024 x 768 pixels.Quote:
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It's among the most realistic renders I have ever seen. Absolutely like a real one :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
We'll try! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Beautifull
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I agree with Mystyr's comment Beau. I was going to say something similar. The first has the feel of a winter scene and the second appears to be set in spring or summer. They convey different meanings. If you look carefully, they both have their own attractiveness :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Did you post a pic? I don't see anything from here.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Interesting song, even for one unused to the genre!Quote:
Originally Posted by Revolte
Good song Revolte, when's the album coming out?
Now Max, I have a lot on my plate lately and completely forgot about this, and also the size reduction looks considerably worse than usual for some reason - these are actually particularly sparkly objects at native resolution, so you've been warned (the reason why it took so long to reset the scene is because something was happening to make everything really clunky - why is unknown to me - I'd move an object and it would take a minute to reveal that I had actually moved it, by which time I'd moved it again out of shot. Actually it may have had something to do with the other six billion polygons - anyway eventually I gave up trying to reproduce the other exactly [not even approximately] and just went ahead and rendered)
Night Objects:
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...ry/objects.jpg
Why thank you Max, and Mystyr! I still think the blue one is better, but if you guys like both, then who am I to argue? They were both supposed to be a winter scene, but the one with the purple background was the first time I experimented with snow in my pictures...hence, the lack of snow. I'm glad they have their own attractiveness!
Mystyr: How long does it take for you to finish one of those?
Lovely works, all. Please pardon my recent absence. I've been swamped with orders for Star Wars plush dolls for Christmas. I just want to say that I am so very impressed by all of you artists. :)
Beau - in a sense they're never finished, but honestly it depends on factors like how adventurous my mood, whether I've remembered to save a similar scene for simple rearrangement or starting from scratch (which is often easier than trying to remember what it was called), whether it begins complex and then reduced to the fundamentals or vice versa, or just even how obsessive I feel that day.
I try not to make lots of images that are too similar nor even which look like I did them all at once (fiddling with the sky controls is great for that). Rendering time depends on how many and complex are the objects, which isn't a problem because I'll plump for simple primitives over a model download - like a castle is just four cylinders, four cones and four blocks, which can look more effective than something someone's devoted 6 months to and trying to sell for 3 hundred better spents.
So it comes down to the textures probably being the biggest time waster - choosing from the many (factory and my own) presets, fiddling, and then discovering it's actually not my computer's friend. Now the Deep Texture Editor is another story, in there you can create textures as complicated as you like, and spend hours exploring, sort of like breaking down time and jumping from nano-second to nano-second - it's another world in there.
So the answer in a nutshell is anything from less than a minute to hours (though I do have scenes from months ago that aren't completed yet). But the thing is the more time you're prepared to devote the faster the process becomes as your personal bank of scenes structures skies and textures grows. The ones on this page from start to completed render, are about half an hour, about twenty minutes, and about an hour respectively.
Looking at Fireflies - first the idea, then the number of trees?, their placement?, grass texture?, how to create the bugs?, what sky?, put a moon in the background?, secondary lights? - took twenty-thirty minutes, render took a minute - voila! Now I can change the sky, number, placement, grass, etc and have Fireflies, II, III, IV, to a thousand or a million if they sell.
(Whoopsy - doin' it again!)
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...rmystyry/o.jpg
(ten minutes)
3D art seems to have several whims in itself, but it's pretty sure you'll keep figuring things out Mr. Myst... it's like you have the thing in the palm of your hands, as everything looks better time and time again. I have a weakness for trees and grass, and might as well go 3D-picnicking :)
Yeah, you'd better be a good girl and don't argue :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Beautifull
As for me, I forgive you... but I want to see more sculptures and the plush dolls... now! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Varenne Rodin
Wow, more demanding than usual! XD I agree I agree! Don't shoot me! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
@Mystyr: What a great explanation. :) I'm surprised I could understand it....especially since you use a program that I don't, so I expected to hear a lot of terms I didn't know. XD
But your moon is very pretty, and this one looks like a jumping house....:D I wish they made jumping houses like that...I think I'd have more fun with them that way.
@Varenne: You're forgiven....we all do it every once in a while. :D
Thanks, Beautifull and Max!
I love all of the trees and grass and water happening here lately!
Here's my Yoda...
http://www.online-literature.com/for...pictureid=9353
I also made a Tooka doll on request, Clone Wars silliness, but it turned out cute enough I think...
http://www.online-literature.com/for...pictureid=9359
http://www.online-literature.com/for...pictureid=9357
http://www.online-literature.com/for...pictureid=9358
Yoda is a 5 inch tall mini plushy. Tooka is slightly taller. Both are hand stitched in felt made 100% from recycled plastic water bottles. :)
http://fc03.deviantart.net/images/i/..._emoticon___v2Quote:
Originally Posted by Beautifull
Yeap, he knows how to put it in understandable terms :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Beautifull
I hadn't noticed the jumping house! :eek: I always stare at trees, grass and the things in the sky... and hardly ever notice the jumping houses! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/swoon.gif :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Beautifull
These works of yours are a lot more elaborate than what I've seen so far in plastic bottles, Var. The material beneath can't be told and all that can be seen is the resulting art, whereas in other works I've seen the plastic bottles are quite noticeable. You've just earned one +10/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Varenne Rodin
:)
A couple of collages on Elektra (yes, the movie... don't tell my mom, but I've been a Jennifer Garner fan for quite a while):
http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/...Collage202.jpg
http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/...Collage203.jpg
In my slowly growing collection of collage works, first one featuring Charlotte Wessels (frontwoman of Delain), and first work featuring a brand new logo (the little thing down the bottom right corner intended as sort of a signature). Unsure of how to call the resulting aspect, I think it somehow resembles a set of burns on a reddish background... maybe similar to a pyrograph?:
Two attempts to get some dragons out of Simone's ginger mane (Simone Simons, Epica, also wearing a certain logo):
Thank you, Max! That's so sweet. I love my 10! Recycled materials have come a long way. I really enjoy working with them. Surprisingly soft, they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
And wow! I love the dragons! Amazing!
Welcome and thank you! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/thank_you.gif
Very interesting outer space plushies, Varenne. Plushy Yoda would be in high demand I'd think if you could make enough of him.
Max has been creating intense collages - I agree the hair dragons are something else. Strange effect coming from her eye. I think you may be better off with a more subtle X-shaped burst centered just on the highlight - only if it's realism you're after though, like this:
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...tyry/strat.jpg
;)
Neato! I love the blue. I'm imaging all sorts of things about the crossbeams in the sky.
I did get quite a few requests for Yodas for this holiday. I've been working all day every day. I sent out the last of the orders, so now I can take a little break. :)
Thanks Varenne. It's Christmas, my fridge he is broke, and I don't know what I am doin'!
I'm so sorry about your fridge, Mystyry. I don't know what I would do if that happened to me.
Speaking about blue, I've been feeling blue for the past two hours, and then I see Mystyr's blue work as though someone had been reading my blue mind... life seems full of curious coincidences, doesn't it? :p
Thanks for the comment and suggestion, Mystyr... so sorry about your fridge :( Hope you have it repaired soon enough!
Var, as soon as I find some cash I'll order a Yoda for my daughter... provided I manage to get me a daughter first http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/swoon.gif :p http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/mosking.gif
Thanks for you concern all, but the fridge can wait. Last year's ice cream situation was dire anyway, so I'll repair it over a long lazy time and in the interim I've bought a proper freezer - guaranteed to make ice blocks and keep icecream at the right texture and I won't have to go shopping quite so often (there'll be a bit of thawing out though, I can tell)
I was looking for an overhead monorail structure model, couldn't find a free one, so was exploring the shapes at my disposal when this appeared like a 3D crop circle thing
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...mystyry/ef.jpg