CGTalk - Took over 30 HOURS to make!

rsalonen

03-07-2002, 05:19 AM

Wow, this gotta be the coolest horse I ever seen :rolleyes:
oh dang, it's not a horse?

Just look at those textures, man you've done a really great picture here

Keep up the good work!
Want to see a Sphere next week! ;)

BASSit

03-07-2002, 06:31 AM

That´s awesome man ! I wish i could be that fast !!
In my opinion you could remove that cylinder - would look much better without, but would also take ages to render...
And maybe make the bg white - just a suggestion ;)

psumo

03-07-2002, 06:41 AM

wow
I was expecting something amazing from the comments
but this just blows me away

man I think that would have taken me about 50 hours plus to make

Geckopunk83

03-07-2002, 07:15 AM

only 30 hours?? wow..thats amazing. i know this guy who made a whole cube in 60 hours...but thats nothing compared to this..what is your secret?? plz share it with the world we must know :D

Rook

03-07-2002, 07:45 AM

needs a lense flare.

jabusby

03-07-2002, 07:51 AM

yep its great, an outstanding piece of work, with some nice textures and a little tweaking this could be awesome, more amazing than 30 Russian dwarfs fighting bare knuckle in an ice rink.

policarpo

03-07-2002, 08:04 AM

oh my god.

that's awesome!

was that made with 3DS MAX 5.0?

Negos

03-07-2002, 08:12 AM

Wow, amazing. Only 30 hours. I can´t believe it.

I agree with BASSit: remove de cilinder and put the bg in white (black it's much better but the render time could be insane). I know that to do that could take weeks, but man, you are going to make history.

Sorry for my English.

P.d. We want a tutorial!!!

echo

03-07-2002, 08:45 AM

That's crazy! especially the anti aliasing...it that catmull-rom or simple area ?
I'm speachless

iTEXTUREthings

03-07-2002, 09:58 AM

Hi Im a producer from the planet mars. We can sign you on to our team right now for 178,000 a year. please say yes

3D-Sam

03-07-2002, 10:31 AM

Wow! It's like the most cylindrical artifact I've ever seen.

Did you try sending a resume to Pixar or Blizzard?

( Try making a female cylinder ).

iTEXTUREthings

03-07-2002, 10:54 AM

ha ha

a female cylinder!!!

alx

03-09-2002, 01:32 AM

well.. I LOVE IT!!!
great work on the the pic... but a little sugst...
try fixing the tranculency just a bit... and if you tweak the specular highlights on the BG... it'll be Puurrrfect!!!

o and the saturational efect on the shadow pass must be fixed to get the right consistency of the highlight pass. LOL!!!!
whut?

too cool!!!!

:cool:

alx

iNFERNiS

03-09-2002, 05:19 AM

WOW!

do you work for ILM ?!

meloncully

03-09-2002, 05:22 AM

maybe.

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Naz

03-09-2002, 05:49 AM

ow, sorry but that is a really bad start. I suppose you are new to modelling and your approach is a bit flawed. starting with primitives is a good idea, but dont just stop there! you have got to move on!
keep it up.

rendermonkey23

03-09-2002, 06:03 AM

Dood, It's 'perfectly' round... WTF :) I've ben trying to get a perfectly round cylinder for about 7 years.

LFShade

03-09-2002, 06:24 AM

I think you need to fix the proportions -- real cylinders aren't quite that tall. Perhaps you should try working from reference photos...

:D

Fritz3D

03-09-2002, 06:36 AM

I see it's time for me to give up, I could never make it so perfect for so little time....:(

:D

Russo

03-09-2002, 01:39 PM

hahahaahahahahahahahahaahah... :p

_Icarus

03-09-2002, 02:15 PM

Dude, I've seen DaVinchi, I've seen Pecaso. But this! wow, theres got to be like at least 30 lights in that picture, you must have quite a machine to render that!

By the way:
Originally posted by jabusby
yep its great, an outstanding piece of work, with some nice textures and a little tweaking this could be awesome, more amazing than 30 Russian dwarfs fighting bare knuckle in an ice rink.
Hey thats offensive. Now when you see 63 Russian dwarfs fighting bare knuckle in an ice rink NAKED , now THATS amazing!

alx

03-09-2002, 02:23 PM

:D :D :D :D :D

Transcendent

03-09-2002, 03:08 PM

This picture sux !! (lol)

Great work.

JoBbE

03-09-2002, 03:08 PM

wew. man. I don't know what to say! it must have taken ages to learn the techniques you used on this picture! amazing skill, amazing render (btw: what render system did you use? proprietary? or something 'normal' ? if so, how long did it take you to create the light setup? what about the textures? maps or all procedural? )

please send me a little statue that shows you so that I can worship you!

:D

AYHAN

03-09-2002, 03:58 PM

:) :) :) :p :D

diazgl

03-09-2002, 04:34 PM

you idiots!! you obviously cannot grasp the amazing idea behind this!!! It depicts the cylindrical thinking of all artists throught history through the transparent view of our little minds, rendred by the slow responding hearts of the idiodic viewers

03-09-2002, 05:07 PM

It's not a good piece of work at all!

Am I the only one whos see's this?!?!?!

:confused:

It's clearly not his own model...

Jhonus

03-09-2002, 06:04 PM

This should probably be linked on the front page of cgchannel.com

Jean Eric, where are you? Come on, this should be getting more publicity.

I think this image is an obvious reference to the current climate of today's society... more specifically the lack of appropriate role-models for children and teenagers alike. The green cylindrical shape obviously harks back to the days of superman's popularity and the strong role-model he created for the youth of the western world. Superman was the personification of good... and the only thing that could disarm him was Kryptonite - symbolised by the green cylinder in the foreground of the image.

Stunning.

Look forward to more images. I'd love to see what you can do in 60hours!

null

03-09-2002, 06:29 PM

you know what's sad? this thread has more replies that most threads on this forum. not to say i don't appreciate the joke and all, but... =|

halo

03-09-2002, 07:24 PM

ironic isn't it...

is that GI? wow...i think it could have been improved by being modelled in subs and textured grey, but then i guess time was a factor

slaughters

03-09-2002, 07:27 PM

meloncully,

My lawyers will be in contact with you for posting one of my images without permission.

And for your information it took much longer than 30 hours to create this masterpiece !

Reeks

03-09-2002, 08:16 PM

Excellent.. which package did you use?

Please post the wireframe.

meloncully

03-09-2002, 08:54 PM

here is the wireframes and an update. Enjoy.

Wireframe (http://alshaheen.net/artists/meloncully/302.jpg)

Update! (http://alshaheen.net/artists/meloncully/Update30.jpg)

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Viper

03-09-2002, 09:39 PM

HOLY SH*T!!!!!! That's simply amazing!! :D :D

iNFERNiS

03-10-2002, 12:29 AM

This thread cracks me up :D

Negos

03-10-2002, 01:12 AM

Thanks for the wireframe, but, I'm still waiting for the tutorial. Don't be a bad person and share with us you knowledge.

We want a tutorial!!!

P.d. Serius, I'm agree, it's ironic, and very sad that this stuff has so many replys, but anyway I think it's very, very funny.

Sorry for my English.

skunk184

03-10-2002, 05:21 AM

wow ...youve really craked that falloff material in the updated version.......i got confused looking at your complexed wireframes.......

McSpirit

03-10-2002, 05:26 AM

is it just me or is this just a green transparent cyllinder in a white-blue cube?

dont get it?:confused: :rolleyes: :p

paku

03-10-2002, 07:48 AM

This is obviously a poser rip. d00d if you wanna show of your work here make sure you acually modeled it.

Blackarts

03-10-2002, 01:40 PM

ITEXTUREthings,

Do you mean:

"Only after you've lost everyhting are you free to do anything"

Raul-Reznek

03-10-2002, 02:07 PM

THIS is SICK.
Some one said it b4 and I'll say it again.
Some people desrve some replies and some advice ad all u guys decided to critique a CYLINDER?????????

Kinda wacky, ain't it? :confused:
Anyways if u think that a cyl. deserves more comments then someones good char..then I've got nothing more 2 say.

samartin

03-10-2002, 04:51 PM

keep it simple... that's my moto anyway...

I have just spent 30 hours reading this thread, what a fool I am, Reznek u hit the nail on the head...

Jhonus

03-10-2002, 06:08 PM

Originally posted by Raul-Reznek
Some people desrve some replies and some advice ad all u guys decided to critique a CYLINDER?????????

What about the sphere?

Pancreas

03-10-2002, 07:50 PM

Mmmhh, the cylinder should be more cylindrical, you know, with more smooth and one or two spliggo steps. Did you use nurbs for the sphere?
Waiting for the lipsync animation.

Leydecker

03-10-2002, 08:03 PM

Hey meloncully,

it´s amazing. I guess you allready have the right attitude
to enter the next stage.

Relabel other peoples work and call it your own one.
People may call it shameless ripping, but I think this won´t
worry you too much anyway.

You may also be able to get around really well by just
pretending you´re good, but let other´s do the work.

This is called Creative/Art Director in some agencies.
Go ahead, you´ll make a fortune.

Give me your real name and I´ll be happy to put you
on file here.

Tim

meloncully

03-11-2002, 04:33 AM

ouch

i can some people aren't good with jokes. I thought there might need to be a little joke once in a while. It seems like everything is just so serious here. I couldn't live without a little comedy or practical joke, i don't know about some people by some of the responses i got. Crap. OH well. Some people just cant handle a little joke.

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Leydecker

03-11-2002, 04:46 AM

there´s almost nothing better than a joke.
I just don´t dig this one.

hope you liked my sarcasm on the other hand...
comes from real world examples also.

Cheers

Tim

*I should have also started with an x-ray shader
from highend3d.com - would have saved 29 hours*

ME3D

03-11-2002, 01:22 PM

Hail to the king baby!

meloncully

03-11-2002, 03:54 PM

well now that i think about it, i did. I got mine from the alias site though.

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cathode

03-11-2002, 08:38 PM

I would like to see more detail areuond the knee area !

JoBbE

03-11-2002, 09:06 PM

Originally posted by McSpirit
is it just me or is this just a green transparent cyllinder in a white-blue cube?

dont get it?:confused: :rolleyes: :p

there is this thing called a 'joke'. you might want to look the word up in a dictionary....

:rolleyes:

Leydecker

03-11-2002, 09:15 PM

Oh, JoBbE

wherever I go there´s allways another Landauer allready.
´bet you attend the MSG. That´s where I was some years
ago...

Tim

*Landauer living in Hessen*

Do gibt´s noch nid mol Schobbe...

Staffan Norling

03-11-2002, 10:37 PM

http://www.lamer.net/buddychrist-sucks.jpg

Kamiwami

03-11-2002, 11:42 PM

i think this is one of those magic eye pictures. i think he means for us to stare at it for 30 hours for it to turn into something really magical!

Sangotten

03-12-2002, 12:34 AM

I think it sux!

Man you are such a bast@rd for ripping of my idea!!!

You must be happy I don't sue you!!! And mine took more (46 hours and 12 minutes) so yours is a quicky!!!!

:( :(

alx

03-12-2002, 03:44 AM

one thing... i think you are missing the transluscent touch to the masterpiece.... witch means the depiction of the fakeness of the humans psyque.... (whut?)
but definetly close enough to one...

:thumbsup:

sincerely

alx

:wavey:

sigma

03-12-2002, 07:05 AM

alx

03-12-2002, 09:13 AM

funny... LOL.....
im still laughing... cool:buttrock:

alx
:wavey:

moonman

03-12-2002, 05:47 PM

Gulp...:eek:

I love it, just one thing, I think it needs to be rotated slightly to the left and then we will be able to get the full picture and marvel at your excellence.... You RULE!