Trainstation, Anton Persson & Nicholas Cort (3D)

[shakes]

fantastic comic book style! love the train and the pose of the people waiting.

[se7enthcin]

very very cool. I think it is a good 3d representation and your team should be proud.

[alina]

wow! i love the look of it. nice render, awsome detail, overall great job!

[ken20banks]

This is awesome. Nice job! I love contrast of the flowing organic shapes of the train vs. the blocky concrete structural elements. And as far as recreating that distinct feel and style in the 3d rendering: woah.

[blakbird]

The small pictures dont work.

[agasco]

nice job, looks very close to bilal's art work! yhe only thing are the buildings, the main texture is great, but you could put mode details on them, like windows and signs. But congratulations!, i also used some Enki Bilal's concept in one of my 3d characters

cheers!

[Milivoj-Lemonade3D]

great render! Very interesting look! I agree with the lack of detail in the building, would look amazing if they had a bit more detail.4 stars from me!

[rawwad]

Great work!

I like idea and atmosphere, render is fantastic, looks like 2D.
Keep it:thumbsup:

[Ramtin]

I like the Graphic and the style ... :)

[igorsandman]

*/me takes is book L'Etat des Stock and goes to page 51*

Wow! You're damn close to the original. And the smoke over the train is even more Bilal-like than the original, more reminicent of his latest works. Only a few elements reminds us it's 3d and not 2d (like the wheels). I like how you expended the original to created a new piece. Great composition.
4 stars from me.
Cheers.
-IS-

[Helioz]

Thanks for all your comments and critique, we really appreciate it!

Here is Enki Bilals original again (new hosting):
http://130.235.160.249/~ihm02ape/QuaidesBulles_25102003.jpg

And here is our recreation of it:
http://130.235.160.249/~ihm02ape/Remake_HR.jpg

[PAnick]

Hello all

Glad you guys liked it. I'm the second guy in this project and the one who textured it all, plus drew the smoke in postprocess. It was a nice experience to try and adopt Bilal's texturing/painting technique. It was challanging, but I'm happy with the result. :)

[leishen]

I like the style !:applause:

[arizaga]

i like a lot this remember me the moebius style also. Five star from me.

Could you explain how did you achive this cartoon look and the material settings for max?
I would like to do something similar with my favorite comics.

You rocks!
YEAH! :)

[drummer]

fantastic style and great rendering !!
I really love it :bounce:
have you done an animation with it?

[osenmer]

fantastic and very beautiful.:applause:

[TCP]

What they all said! It's so close to the original you have to take a few seconds and look hard to see that one is a recreation. Spectacular!

[aforetaste]

Amazing textures!
I love the illustrative look to the render.

Beautiful.

[picolo]

really nice rendering and textures:bounce:

[tide78]

I have never seen the original image, that is cool stuff. It reminds me of Aeon Flux, that old show on mtv. Or Moebius, that kind of style. It would be cool to see some wires and or animation. Keep it comin!

[Helioz]

You can watch a wireframe rendering here:
http://130.235.160.249/~ihm02ape/Trainstation_Wire.jpg

The reason for the large amout and strangely placed polygons on some objects is that we hade to break up the lines and contours of our original low-poly meshes to create more chaos and distorsion to match the somewhat shaky lines in the original.

The scene has about 300 000 faces (150 000 polygons).

[Neeno]

this deserves front page this is absolutely excellent!! :thumbsup: 5 Stars from me..

[k4k]

new style on rendering... i like the smoke...

[gogofast]

Cool! thank u give us this Amazing work!

[reventadin]

I like the style and the technique that you used. Very Good work! Very GooD Render!

[Rio Yeti]

I'm not usually fond of copies or imitations... Even if it is an excellent personnal exercise, it has little interest to others, in my opinion.
However I have to admit that you really nailed it with this one ! It looks so good I again wonder how Bilal could have made such an unequal looking movie with "Immortel"...

Anyway, good job guys !

[spikey]

I second all the praise here. Love the style and end result - it stands on it's own next to the original cover art.

[Scotcho]

Awesome still! love the texture job in the stone.

[Neil]

excellent jog capturing a comic style. I think the cropped cover image is much better than the full image. The full image is too baren and boring, but cropped, it's excellent.

[icyx]

very cool style, amazing job!

[filipecabral]

Very good the style, I liked them textures!!!:thumbsup:

[el-vio]

perfect reproduction... with you own touch, very good job

[DrFx]

excellent jog capturing a comic style. I think the cropped cover image is much better than the full image. The full image is too baren and boring, but cropped, it's excellent.

I agree. I think if Bilal did the extended version, the surroundings would be darker and dirtier, with smoke and debris floating around. The buildings look too flat and bright.
The cropped version is very, very nice, congrats!

[BoBo-the-seal]

Fantastic work! Was this a result of texture painting or did y'all create a shader to replicate the line work? Great job!

- BoBo

[Helioz]

Fantastic work! Was this a result of texture painting or did y'all create a shader to replicate the line work? Great job!

- BoBo

The line work is a result of handpainted textures, the image has no shaders/procedurals.

[Danoku]

WOW, i looked at the image before reading on, and the FIRST THING i thought was nice, looks like Bilal. I love the fact you picked a piece of his to do, but more importantly you picked a piece an executed it so well. The smoke is amazing in its own right but you really captured his brush work. I have be a fan of his work since the beginings of HEAVY METAL (when it rocked) and i now am a fan of yours. Thank you for the piece and the momories. I am a fan of you and you partner now.

[joana]

Lovely style.

5 stars from me.

[PAnick]

Thanks everyone for you comments and critique. Very pleased that you guys like it, especially you who recognized it as a Bilal picture. :)

That was one of our main goals.

Cheers.

[pearson]

Wow! Very nice! Does it hold up from other angles?

[Souren]

very very very nice!
I like this style.

[Souren]

5 stars.I hope to see this in choise gallery

[omega3d]

Interesting piece. I like the purpose.

[ckworrell]

Beautiful! But it would be ashame to not animate it. You already did the work of reproducing the the elements. Now take it to the next level. If you need help rendering I have some pretty hi end machines (render farm here at work)

Keep up the amazing work.

[Maxter]

Faithful reproduction, very clean and detailed modeling... render and style looks great
congratulations! :thumbsup:

[blz]

excellent stuff.truly great work and skills.

[VKarlsson]

Really great stuff man :thumbsup: I love the style on the train, really cool

[ffourier]

really impressive good job. "Quai des bulles" is a wonderful festival with very talented artists :)

[Helioz]

Wohoo Choice Award! :bounce:

Thanks for all the comments guys, we really appreciate them!

You can watch an old test animation we made with some really bad camerawork here:[/url]
[url]http://130.235.160.249/~ihm02ape/Ut%F6kning_film.mov (http://130.235.160.249/%7Eihm02ape/Trainspin2.mov) (68 meg, 12 seconds) Right click>Save As...

Some of the shadows acted up in the animation causing the black lines at some places and the smoke from the locomotive is not visible since it is hand-painted afterwards. The animation has not been post-processed at all, it is straight from the scanline renderer.
Sorry about the large file size.

[Drakaran]

did you do the smoke in photoshop? cause this could have been with volumetrics.

[Helioz]

did you do the smoke in photoshop? cause this could have been with volumetrics.
All the smoke and clouds, except the smoke that comes from the chimney on the locomotive, is made with atmospherics/volumetrics. We tried to use both particle systems and volumetrics for that smoke but where unable to reproduce the style from the original. The only way was to hand paint it.

[evanfotis]

Helioz,
awesome work!
Post some wires and other views as well please

[apollo4]

nice style!! :thumbsup:

[AnimZiggy]

It's good to see some Bilal funs here. Very nice work!

[Johnba]

I like the train front and atmosphere, Congratulations! :applause:

[maixaule]

i wonder if more people do this cause is a fantastic work ........


verry nice details and colors keep goin :thumbsup:

[tlggungor]

Good style.... :thumbsup:

[anilduran]

Really good labor.
Transleting something 2d to 3d has a different problems i know that. Even that, this is a good example of this style...
congratulations...

[chocolate198]

Great !! really cool design i love it !! :thumbsup:

[adn-pera]

It's a great look, I really admire this kind of render. Just a question, which render plugin do you use for that?

[PAnick]

It's a great look, I really admire this kind of render. Just a question, which render plugin do you use for that?

We didn't use any plugin at all, just the standard scanline renderer in 3dsmax 7.

Thanks for all the c&c btw.

[walrus]

Just beautiful work! Very stylish, indeed. Thank for posting the wireframe and movie. Myself, I'd also be very curious to see a close-up of some of the texture maps you're using, and hearing a bit more about how you did the texturing in general. Is the weathering that makes it look like Bilal all in the Diffuse, or did you add a lot to the Bump and other channels?

Anyhow, as you've been given a (well-deserved) award for this, hope you'll write up a tutorial at some point! :)

-mike

[kaparo]

Excellent work Anton! I think many of recent animation films combiniing 2D and 3D, should learn from your job. Just one comment: to be really challenging, you should try to make the smoke in 3d also. When you said it was painted in photshop it dissapointed me a little.
Good luck!

[mecman]

amazing man! amazing, I just love when someone reach a 2d feeling in a 3d work!
Congrats, 5 stars from me!

[neofg]

wow....Nice train design....what I said....Wonderful! And I like a lot this cartoon serious interpretation! Very good work! If u have a wire of the train....
Good art!

[littleac]

What an interesting idea! You've certainly done a great job of recreating the image and then expanding it further. Nice work!

[musicjerm]

good good good good good!!!

[edbaker]

Fantastic! Great adaption of the original image. What I'd really like to see would be just a small panning animation. Starting with the cover of the book and then fading into the render (maybe) and a slow pan to the left around the people, but still focused on the engine. On the strength of the drawing and the render, I now want to read this presumably children's book.

Ed

[GlennimusPrime]

Wow! what a source of inspiration! I like this piece sooooo much. Well done!

[priyan_k]

Wow i love it, Fantastic work,5 Stars :applause:

[chenxuan]

amazing, I surprising to the picture. I think i very very missing to see your picture.

[polYgonZ]

WOW
awesome!
at first glance i thought it was moebius. just awesome guys!
u should send this to enki in case he didn't see it yet!

[michaelmueller]

Cool. This is absolutely my favourite 3d image ever. Awsome!!!

[TETRAGRAMMATON]

Cool cool style really a quality piece.:thumbsup:

[Branko]

You've projected a style here that still feels genuinely unique in the 3d realm. Fantastic work.

[Riddick]

En entire Bilal movie like this could be interesting..But it is certainly a lot of work!
The render of the smoke is really interesting!

[avalon]

I really love the train style,excellent work!

[tonypapesh]

Simply put, that is amazing. I had to read the description before I knew it was done in 3d. Great job.

[Lorenzo]

Je connaissais pas la bande dessinee, la j'ai envie d'en lire une!

Continuer les gars, gogogo

I dont know this comic book, I'd like to read one of those...

Keep up the good work guys

[quadrille]

Hur snyggt som helst, vilken högskola går ni på?

[Treybor]

You captured Bilal's style perfectly!

EXCELLENT WORK!

[dennes86]

really awesome! wonder how this would look in a animation =)

[Mechmaster]

I like Bilal's style and this is a superb recreation. When I first saw the smaller picture on the front page I thought this was a 2D image, I was amazed to see that it was a 3D reproduction. Excellent.

[LiQ]

Wow that looks brilliant! The original train design is awesome!

Great work :thumbsup:

[M1KES]

One of the best reproductions in 3d i have ever seen! Brilliant!

[orangesims]

not only is the CG work great, but the general atmosphere of the image sends shivers down my spine..

the buildings look so grimey, the train looks like something that might come from the future, but the family look like they came from the past.. very interesting:buttrock:

[hambone]

I like the coloring. Everything seems dulled, and the train seems to have life. love it.-a:buttrock:

[asarya]

Fantastic, love the style - great work :thumbsup:

[JPGargoyle]

Congratulations!

Trully amazing. :bowdown:



Best regards.

[Tom Bozsoky]

Very cool! I like the colors that you used. This style reminds me of the “Tin Tin” animations a used to watch as a kid.

[MNeMiC]

Definitly one of my favourite pieces!
BRAVO!

[RANCH_DUDE]

Great work, wonderful. Love Bilal's stuff anyway, I'd love to see a movie executed in this style.

If you like Enki's work I guess you're aware of 'Immortel' the film based on the Nikopol Trilogy. You can find it on DVD, all his trademarks are there; blue haired ladies, decaying tower blocks etc.

Love the piece, and I'd love to see what you'd do with some of Druillet's work too! MORE!

[MayaZbrushMax]

hah~

the style of comic,i like it

[pockets072]

one day mabye i might do somthing like that one day

[Senkaru]

wow the train looks really cool. Good work man!

[Larsen]

exceptional picture, i love it all, the mood the design and this special render :)

Great work, congrats :thumbsup:

[ryanzzy]

Fantabulous!The style is so cool!!!I like it best!

[Locobox]

Impresive! not the conventional render... the details also caughts my attention even the cracks on the wall were represented on the CG.

Looking forward for more like this!

/Marc

[Sir Ravel]

Yeah,
soo kewl!

really, al the cracks, the walls, the train, just fantastic
want to C more of this

Greetz

[Strannik]

5 * from me. Be cool.

[Loulu79]

Extremely exquisite job! Lovely study of style from the 2D design. The only issue with it to me is that you need to blend the firey light reflecting unto the train...which is giving that yummy orangey colour unto the train in the 2D. That's the only thing to me that is missing.

My two cents but what the heck is gorgeous.:)

[turtle-rn]

this is freakin impressive! Bilal should have done this for his movie projects!! :D

[xavalon]

Flawless and amazing works...
Greatttt...

[MichaelZHsee]

fantastic stuff~!:thumbsup:

[Likesyrup]

Near perfect representation.love what you did with this piece.Top notch work. no crits here.

[goulei]

a Cartoon....good style

[rafaelrubio]

i'm in shock state! awesome comic style! great render friend! woww :drool:

[blueferret]

I like the way u represent the light in the scene !

[GivenKwan]

Nice work~I like the train very much.good job!

[Kyo007]

W o w It's very well !

5 Stars from me

[Pitipongp]

no words...only :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Pegasus]

This ist just fantastic. WOW!

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