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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:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
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