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Heres something else form me. I googled what happened 50 years ago and it came up with Apollo 13 mission. If you know the movie poster you can see the homage in the moon and the earth. I did this image with the idea of doing a lot of it in post.
The suit is from carrara objects folder - atrocious it is. The helmet an M3 one available at Daz - heavily retextured. The cocpit is made from two vertex spheres bolleaned.
M4 stars as himself.
Most postwork with ron's brushes and some tone mapping in affinity pro. Used various render passes to isolate parts for post work. The moon and earth come with carrara.
Attached is also the non postworked image. You can see where there are no details (eg bottom part of suit) I got them back by using a diffuse pass. (you can even see m4 poking through!)
before post work below
diffuse pass below
Headwax - most excelent. Thanks for posting the original and the updated. Always learning, even if I learn slowly. Great use of the moon etc that come with Carrara.
Dartanbeck - very cool atmospheric effects - always inspiring
Misty - so who drank the first 49 bottles off the wall? Very clever concept.
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Here is another WIP for a spaceship scene. This is the beginning of a 2nd spaceship. You might think that this one more closely resembles a sailing ship, and you would be correct - for now. I looked up some privateers and other sailing ships. Threw together a composite concept which I will be altering for a more space sci-fi look. Two ships do not yet constitute a fleet.
Headwax - most excelent. Thanks for posting the original and the updated. Always learning, even if I learn slowly. Great use of the moon etc that come with Carrara.
Dartanbeck - very cool atmospheric effects - always inspiring
Misty - so who drank the first 49 bottles off the wall? Very clever concept.
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Here is another WIP for a spaceship scene. This is the beginning of a 2nd spaceship. You might think that this one more closely resembles a sailing ship, and you would be correct - for now. I looked up some privateers and other sailing ships. Threw together a composite concept which I will be altering for a more space sci-fi look. Two ships does not yet constitute a fleet.
HW, thanks for the positive comment! Your space scene is another one of those abstract-yet-whole scenes that you do so well. Great use of older models. And as is the norm, fantastic postwork.
Diomede, your space scene looks to be highly unusual. :) Love the modeling so far. I may soon have a few questions for you about setting up content on a new Ryzen, as mine is currently in the shop being built. Talk about life-changing...and a bit scary.
The power adapter of my laptop seems to have died (I'm hoping that's all it is). Neither Best Buy nor Staples seem to have a replacement. The hunt continues. My second entry is in jeopardy, lol.
Headwax, I love the way all the reflections or hints of them lead the eye around the whole image!
Diomede, I can imagine the ship in a glass Dyson sphere as a play on a ship in a bottle :)
Thanks for the comments on my ship model, CBird and UB.
UB - very happy for you if you are upgrading soon. One thing that helped me was my external backup drive. I did fresh installs of my core programs on my new computer. All of my own junk I transferred via my backup drive. Frankly, I haven't actually done much yet with my new machine. (Travel, holidays,...) but what I have has been a real joy. My first entry in this challenge (the garden with the hairy thatched roof cottage and replicated plants) would have taken forever on my old machine. Probably would not have bothered. Anyway, can't wait to see how you decide to take advantage of extra speed, memory, etc.
Thanks Diomede. The long road of reinstalling hopefully begins Wednesday or Thursday. I may not be posting renders for a while, as I am having them build the new machine in my old case, and the machine I'm currently typing on is a backup which is OK for web surfing and light office but that is about it.
thanks for the comments on my work everyone - love where you are going with this diomede - always great to learn modelling room techniques and see where your imagination takes you
here's a play for the gartden section - this started as a rock pool .....
sorry a quickie post duty calls will explain later process
like all my work its 4000 wide
ps good luck ub
saved the wildcard render for last. soo many possibilities
and reminder, there a prize for funniest entry
Oh, wow, Headwax. Somehow I missed that post. So cool.
I'm back on my old laptop today, so that means back to my Don Quixote project. His hair, eyebrows, mustache and chin hair were all converted from dynamic hair to mesh using Philemo's plugin. In terms of scene elements, I've added the saddle, blanket, bridle, and stirrups. Oh, and the terrains are just simple vertex grids morphed with soft select.
Straight render and native toon.
Hmmm, noticed that the foreground shadows were missing from straight toon render. But distant shadows seem in place. Hmmmm?? Anyway, quick fix combining elements of toon and straight render to get the foreground shadow back.
very cool stuff ... by everyone, took a while to get through all the posts loving it all
Playing with "My Garden" theme
The updo made mostly in ZBrush
I made several NPRs just for fun.
WOW!!!
Awesome image, Vyusur! Hoping you would make an appearance.
There are three categories in this Challenge. The first is the garden category, which requires using Carrara native tools and/or content to make plants. You mentioned using ZBrush. Did you make the flowers in Carrara? If not, your entry will automatically be entered under catregory 3, Wild Card. No big deal, just wanted to clarify.
Hope you have time for more entries.
Thank you, UB, for your kind words! I beg my pardon for my mistake. I made some additions to my image so that I could leave my picture in the first category. I added Carrara's vertex spheres as earrings in the scene and grew them with Anything Grows. I also applied a procedural shader from native content browser to them. In this particular case, plant editor didn't meet my needs. I hope this changes will be enough to match the category.
Veronika, I must repeat Dudu. Wow!
Dudu, Ted, thank you guys!
Beautiful, Vyusur, and such a versatile updo, too! I can easily imagine holly berries and leaves for winter, or mistletoe berries looking like pearls.
Not and Entry
Just couldn't resist a little humor. I want that haircut!!!!!
Your additions are excellent.
However, the rules for the first category are relatively clear: "plants and terrain must be created using a Carrara function, and not imported from a premade product or other source outside of Carrara ("basic plants" and "basic leaves" premade content within Carrara is OK to use). Shaders from any source are also OK."
Category 1 is a throwback to the earliest Challanges, where specific rules were in place to "encourage" artists to explore parts of Carrara that were unfamiliar to them. I imagine that an artist with your experience - certainly greater than mine - doesn't need such "encouragements." However, a rule is a rule. The majority of your plants in the image are (I assume) not made in Carrara. So, there is no real workaround to get your image into Category 1 unless you model the plants again in Carrara (which I don't expect you to do).
Of course, there are two other categories! Your image already qualifies for Category 3, Wild Card. And if you add some reference (however obscure) to "50," it will also qualify for Category 2.
I hope that you can work with me here. I am not fond of being the bad guy. Love the image, and I want to see it included.
Genius.
At least they didn't haul out the pruning sheers!
remind me of Broccoli people
who no doubt are related to the Cauliflower people and interbreed much
but not the Brussel Sprout people
(not that they don't try
just sterile offspring)
I like it when the Brussel Sprout people hang out with the Bacon people!
Cbird, thank you ever so much! Maybe I will complete this updo as a product.
Well, if so, I will just rename it somehow. I'll think about it.
Nice and brilliant! I like your broccoli man.
Ha ha Ted, The Don has never looked so good. LOve the whole reference to the story - out of interest, there is a great pencil preset I found in the included files that come wth carrara - it's in the head section - go to scenes then misc - it says head pencil.
Thanks for commenting on my work too.
Veronika, that's a teriific piece. Very professional.