Eon (Illustration) Entry: Matt Benya

[jmBoekestein]

welcome 5d'er :D! Good luck, looking forward. :thumbsup:

[arte-i45]

Hey Jan-Mark, thanks a lot for stopping by! Looks like this is going to be a great challenge, CGTalk really pulled out all the stops. :eek:

Matt :)

[DaddyMack]

Aaahh Matt... After seeing the huge leap your work made in the lsat challenge I can't wait to see what wonders you'll produce here mate...

Awesome to battle alongside you again my friend:)

[Gunilla]

Hi Matt! Now, let's have some serious fun, right? :)

[makaron]

hallo Matt...

Happy to see you... good luck and let´s have fun... :bounce:

[ChewyPixels]

Hiya Matt. Not getting in on a 3D scene entry? C'mon. :)

Anyhoo, good to see you enter. Should be a good one.

[MichaelZHsee]

all the best mate and good luck:)

[MVDB]

Best of luck to ya! Wanna see something amazing, k? :D

[soapy]

Hey Matt, good to see you onboard again. Good luck!

[AIR]

MATT,welcome,,nice to see ya.

[arte-i45]

DaddyMack. Hey there Robert, thanks a lot for stopping by. It sounds like this is going to be a fun challenge. I need to get busy and start looking over some of the chapters for ref. :p Talk to you later man.

Gunilla: RIGHT! The premise of the challenge is great, I hope that they do them like this in the future as well. Though I will probably only have time to dedicate to the illustration portion.

makaron: Hi there Mona, thank you very much! I am glad to see you and your GPs in the challenge too. This will be a blast, have fun!

Jedi-Juice: Hey man, thanks a lot! No I doubt that I will have enough time this challenge to dedicate to two entries. It would be fun though.

MichaelZHsee: Hey there, thanks a lot, same to you! And have fun!

MVDB: Hey Michael, thanks a lot, I hope not to disappoint.

soapy: Hey Jim, same here! I actually expected them to start the challenge a couple of weeks ago while my wife and I were on vacation but I was lucky. :p

AIRz: Hey Damir, thanks a lot for stopping by!

Thanks again everybody! :wavey: :D

Matt :)

[ThierryS]

Hi Matt, nice to see you here man, hope to see some great stuff unfolding in here! All my best:thumbsup:

[DesignerV]

Good luck to you!:thumbsup:
It's nice to see ya in this challenge :)

[Claireabella]

Good luck with this challenge. Enjoy! :thumbsup:

[arte-i45]

thierry2005: Hey Thierry, thanks man, I hope not to disappoint.

DesignerV: Hey there Vlad, thank you very much! I looked but I didn't see your thread, I hope that you are getting in on the action too.

Claireabella: Hi Claire, thanks a lot for stopping by!

:wavey:

Matt :)

[beelow]

Damn, I though I posted here!:D Whaddup! Good luck!:thumbsup:

[DeeVad]

Great to see you there Matt,
It will be a good challenge.

[hobo]

Hi Matt, nice to see you too. No 5d this time, but very good luck on your illustration, I'll be keeping an eye on you :)

[arte-i45]

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Greetings,

Well I thought that it was time that I start with some concept ideas. Here is something that I had in mind after reading "The Death". When I was doing some research I saw that Greg Bear wrote for the Known Space universe from Larry Niven, which I am more familiar with. So it is cool that I get a chance to take a look at a larger body of Greg Bear's work now.

Matt :)

[arte-i45]

beelow: Hey Bryce, no sweat man! Thanks a lot for stopping by.

DeeVad: Hi there David, thanks a lot! Yeah, I think so too.

hobo: Hey John, thank you very much! No I don't think that I will be having too much time this challenge. Maybe next time I will try to go 5d again. :p

Matt :)

[arte-i45]

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Greetings,

Well I had a few minutes to sit down this evening and test some ideas (mainly the lit cities on the dark side of earth) I had for the earth which will play a large part in the background. I plan to add nuclear explosions on top of everything else, or below however it works out in the layers. :P But I don't have any more time this evening. It is about 95% PS and 5% rendered.

Matt :)

[walrus]

Great job on the planet, Matt! I'd love to see/read more about how you made that particular iamge (even though you're not done with it yet) and I'm sure others would too. Nice work so far...

-mike

[nwiz25]

wow man! now we goin places :P :)

love the lens flare dude! keep em comin!

good luck to u! n cheers! :P :)

[MVDB]

Very nice indeed! Lovely display of our little planet. Keep it up Matt! :thumbsup:

[Gunilla]

Great start Matt! That earth is really beautiful - and it looks like you already have a strong concept too :)

[arte-i45]

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Greetings,

I modeled the base mesh for the stone the other day. Once it was in the shape that I wanted I took it into ZBrush and detailed the outer shell. Which then I rendered out later as a normal map and used with a medium ranger poly version of the shell (16K+).

[arte-i45]

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The stone was rendered out as a basic GI lit scene and then as a simple color pass. I did two versions of the GI one with a dark interior and one with an over exposed interior that I then went and blended them together where I wanted. The above image is still in WIP stage and I have begun to rethink adding the nuclear explosions on top of the planet. I feel that it might be getting a little too busy then. Though I do have a version with some initial explosions. Either that or scale back the amount of explosions. I'll have to see when the foreground elements are further along. ;)

Matt :)

[Try]

Don’t know how this relates to the story….. (Only just started reading the book).

But a truly wonderful image Matt!!

[arte-i45]

walrus: Hey Mike, thanks a lot for your kind reply! I am in the process of working it up into a little mini tutorial, I just need to add some images and put it into some sort of form. I will try to work on it this afternoon if I have a few free moments.

nwiz25: Hi there Neville, thanks a lot for checking out my entry! Much appreciated!

MVDB: Hey Michael thank you very much, glad to hear that!

Gunilla: Hey Gunilla, thanks a lot for your always generous comments! I am having a blast with the whole space topic is really fun to portray. And the way things work bring me to think of other sci-fi stories. Like the way the asteroid works. (The Babylon 5 biosphere sort of reminds me of it.) Fun stuff!

Try: Hey there Per, thank you very much for your generous comments! Oops, I didn't see your post while I was replying. :blush:
Thanks again! :wavey: :D

Matt :)

[Golpe]

Cool!!maybe I think the Stone is too spherical. The book tells that is the asteroid Juno. Here I put a concept drawing image that I found about the asteroid, hope it helps you:thumbsup:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/Junolores.jpg

Anyway, it´s coming along great!!:bounce:

[yanbing]

Illumination Feeling is good I like your Concept :thumbsup:
Can you elements Composition more form .

[spikey]

Really nice, has that special scifi-grandeur -posterfeel to it..

[ReinaldoRomero]

Cool remade of the original cover. I like the idea and your scene but the asteroid should not be an sphere, gonzalo is right

[Neubius]

excellent! it looks finished !!

[ThierryS]

Cool picture Matt, but I agree with Gonzalo too, it should look more like a random shaped asteroid. Probably an easy fix on your lores poly model in ZBrush. Composition is great and nice light! :thumbsup: :)

[arte-i45]

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[arte-i45]

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[arte-i45]

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Well, I had to cut the last one into two parts to compensate for the compression.

[arte-i45]

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It's been a pretty long day, and I just want to say I appreciate everybody taking the time to post! I'll get back to you by tomorrow.

Matt :)

[walrus]

You appreciate our posting?! I was hoping for a simple explanation, and you gave us a beautiful, long, detailed, suitable-for-framing major tutorial! You rock!

Nice work on both the iamge and the tutorial so far.

-mike

[Golpe]

Totally agree with Michael. What a cool tuto!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: well-done!!

[nwiz25]

:eek: love ur techniques buddy! :eek: very well laid out! cant wait to see the final image dude!

cheeeeeeeeeers! :D n good luck to u :bounce:

[DiM]

Wau! No words! Great! :thumbsup:

[arte-i45]

GonzaloGolpe, ReinaldoRomero & thierry2005: Hey thanks a lot guys, I really appreciate the C&C! Yeah, I read that about the rock's shape too and I totally agree with you that the rock should be more oblong and irregular. I am more partial to round myself but I will see about going back and fixing that later. Thanks again, your advice didn't fall on deaf ears!

yanbing: Hey there Tian, thanks a lot, much appreciated!

spikey: Hey Ilari, yeah I am a big sci-fi fan so the challenge is right up my ally. Thanks a lot for stopping by and checking it out!

Neubius: Hey Alwyn, thanks again man! I still have some things to work on before it is that far. :P

walrus: Yes I do. ;) Thanks a lot Mike!

GonzaloGolpe: Hey again Gonzalo, thanks a lot man!

nwiz25: Hey Neville, thank you very much for your generous comments!

DiM: Hey there Dmitri, thanks a lot man, I am glad to hear that you like it! I was busy uploading the full version of the tutorial and didn't see you post earlier. :wavey:

Thanks again everybody and rock on! :buttrock::beer:

On a aside note here is a larger version (much better compression and higher resolution) of the above tut in one file: http://www.primatestudios.com/images/articles/planet_tutorial.jpg

Matt :)

[DesignerV]

Nice concept ;) Keep it up-to-date :)

[yanbing]

o~Beautiful planet ！Also Good picture :scream:
Perhaps Add to things the around ~

[mv]

Hey great initiative to make this indepth tutorial, thumbs up.

But.. mm.. lens flare? :/ I know it's justified here, but, well... it's kinda cheesy...

[mmoir]

Hey Matt,

That is a great looking illlustration so far, awesome job.:thumbsup: :thumbsup: . I haven't read the book yet , its on order , but I have the same comment on the stone being to spherical . Look forward to your updates.

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