ALIENWARE Challenge Entry: Jason Calvert

[JayCally]

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A concept drawing of a frozen world orbiting a small White Dwarf. Energy absorbing crystals are scattered across the world. They emit heat wich causes life to grow where they are consitrated.

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Here is the main land model that I'm going to use.

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This is just a placement of the camera. There will be mountains in the far off distance.

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Here is a test model of some crystals. I might go with something different

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Here is a concept sketch of one type of plant life I might use. It is a animal/plant hybrid. All the little critters that live in this world come from plants like these. They may be used around some of the forground crystals in the scene.

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Here is a sketch of them around some crystals.

[splotch]

part over part could make a very complecated work ... nice work
:buttrock: keep goning
i wanna see more soon
:bounce:

[JayCally]

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Type of shroom growing around crystals

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Here is another Shroom.

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Here is another One. This one might also be used in the background forest.

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Here is a start of the texturing.

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Here is a close up.

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Here is another shroom that I will use in the scene.

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Here is a tweak of the texture.

[JayCally]

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Here is the Texture I will use for this spieces of Alien Shroom.

[JayCally]

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Here is a test of a texture for 1 of the spieces of shroom.

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Here is the final texturing of one of the spieces of alien shroom.

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Here is a close up of the texture.

[Segmoria]

this has turned out to be very nice!
you've got THE TALENT in texturing, that's for sure.
I admire your last render :)
especially the smaller mushroom's material. fantastic work.
it has a very nice paintish feel to it.

the only comment I'd like to make is about the modelling of the mushroom in the middle. It's base should look a bit more "attached" to the mushroom cap on top, more like in the smaller shroom. Now it looks a bit off. You could try darkening the top of the branch a bit, where it meets the cap.

waiting for more!

[JayCally]

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Its been a will but here is some stuff. Had computer problems. Here is the crystals I will Use in the Scene.

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/1297/1297_1073919345_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/1297/1297_1073919345_large.jpg)

Here is the shroom I'll use for the forests.

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Here is the Shroom forest. There will be different groupings.

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Here is a close-up of the shrooms.

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Here is a test of the crystals.

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Here is a test of the land. It will be composited in Photoshop with another land Pic I created in another program.

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Here is the Main Land/Backdrop I'll use in the scene. I'll be compositing all the different elements to speed up my renders.

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Here is the light set up for this scene. There is one light coming from behind the mountain and radiosity is also used to ad to the realism.

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Here is the first render of the foreground elements. I'll be compositing different pieces together because it is just taking to long on my PC.

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This is a light test of the scene. The ground panel is there only to get the shadows which will later be composited in.

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Here is the test of the energy streams that bring life to the planet.

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Here is the final render without post effects and compositing. Shadows and other effects will later be put in.

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Here is the last upload. This will be the final image.

[eska]

A strange world in front of me and you have a very good feeling for depth. Good work and best luck:thumbsup: :wavey:

I would be honored if you have time to visit also my thread

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?postid=1090320#post1090320

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