Eon (3D Scene) Entry: Artur Malczyk

[Nomad]

Good luck dude :thumbsup: Powodzenia!

[jddog]

heila arturro nice to see you again, I wish you good luck for thsi contest !
jd

[arturro]

Thanks guys!
nice to see you around :cool:

This one will require nice research before some sketches.
From what I've read today I think I can base my idea
on the Thistledown. We will see...

for sure it's the next level of challenges:arteest:

good luck to you all

[monsitj]

ah glad to see you in this challenge! have fun friend! good luck!

[ihamid]

hiya arturro my old friend. glad to see in a new challenge mate.
cheers!:bounce::bounce:

[3dRaven]

Nice to see you joining Artur :D :thumbsup:

[angel]

Good luck arturro!

[Climax]

Hi Artur! hope u can finish this time! :twisted: see u around :)

[arturro]

Hi there guys!
thanks for greetings:thumbsup: I hope to finish this one. maybe starting so soon will help:twisted:
good luck to you all
stay tuned

[Alonzo]

nice, to see some polish people here :thumbsup:

good luck

[arturro]

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Hi there my friends!
at last I started something... I have quite clear idea, but didn't manage to draw it. Will show some concepts soon.

Now I just show you my first models. Just print screens from max, of course without any meshsmooth:)

I'm making Thistledown as I wrote before. These are buildigs on two opposite caps of the valey/chamber. connected with some kind of cables. I will add more of them there. I will also hang some buildings there...

I think it will clarify when I develop it more, and finally put it on some terrain. Scale is huge, peopla are very little there, but it will also clarify later.

It's just my beginning... I hope to push it forward fast. Lot's of work to be done...

best wishes!

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165022558_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165022558_large.jpg)

just some more print screens from max. Some renders and finished parts soon...

stay tuned! Will be back after weekend.

[angel]

That's quite an interesting take on the buildings, looking forward to the next update.

[aurora]

Funkily intreging. Very unique and nice take on thigs. I think I can envision your direction and I'm excited for it!

[Nomad]

Cześć Artur,

Glad to see you strated modeling, I`m sure 45 days will be enough for you to achieve a cool project :thumbsup: It looks already interesting....

Good luck and have fun in doing this :bounce:

[MacAndre]

looking very cool in the moment. :) i think you have some really unique shapes here. i will watch you progress. keep it up. :scream:

[ragdoll]

oh this looks alien-esque and very promising! i love it when you see details both on the outer topology and then some on the inside! grrrreat! keep it up! :thumbsup:

-rj

[krrrk]

allright:thumbsup:

looks pretty cool
I dig your organic look on the buildings
curious to see more

[ChewyPixels]

Really cool style you have going for yourself. Let's see some more! :)

[arturro]

Hi there my friends!
Thanks for your support and interest. I hope not to let you down :)
As I found some time I pushed it forward quite well... will show you
more in a minute!

I'm not responding personally to each of you as it is beginning and
nothing specific need my comment at this point.

thanks again !

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165269403_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165269403_large.jpg)

Ok, here is what I did... those hanging cities will by connected with the main cables stream.

Lot of small cables will go from the big structures(from the funny element on the bottom part), than under the main cable stream, of course they will go down to each city as well.

Each floor o fthe city has landing sites for ships. Buildings inside are just boxes and scatter object - greeble plugin is good, but scatter with instanced boxes is better from the computer resources point of view.

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165269490_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165269490_large.jpg)

just other views

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165269927_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165269927_large.jpg)

Ok, here is my idea...

I haven't decided which colors I will use... also I don't know how I will organize lighting... But general idea is clear I think.

In the bottom of the valey there will be dry rivers, bridges, and not too tall structures similar to thistle plants:) I found some nice photos of thistle plants and it inspired me. I'm not sure if Mr. Greg Bear thought about them while writing, but their shape should fit here.

As you can see there is an organic style... It will be much smaller after applying materials of stone and silver. It should look like stone/silver immitation of organic structures :) I hope it will work here!

On the very foreground there are some astronauts. I will add them at the very end. They will be black shadowed as light sources definitely will be inside of the chamber. I don't want to make them easily noticeable.

stay tuned for more updates!

[icedeyes]

Hey arturro... your idea is very original and a very nice implementation of it so far... I like the way you interpretted the hanging buildings... good luck on the challenge mate...

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165366139_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165366139_large.jpg)

ok, here is what I did today...
more cables. Pictures not very smooth as this all will be seen from the distance

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165366268_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165366268_large.jpg)

just more shots...

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165366379_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1165366379_large.jpg)

more

[leving]

I really like the organic take on the city. My only critique would be that the hanging buildings look a bit bee-hivish. Maybe break up the horizontal lines with a few verticals or work the shape a bit more? Just my two cents. Looking forward to the next update.

[arturro]

thanks for your critique, I didn't see this before, now I do indeed. But I think that it may dissapear with texturing and general scene setlement. Now there is no feel of scale, weight, etc. I think I won't change them untill put into the chamber with some materials on it. But thanks for your opinion, will take it under consideration later for sure.

[taavi]

Hey Arturro!
Really great aliensque-looking concept !
I wont personally mind about smilarities with honey-bee-thingys. Few extra antennaes and skilful texturing should be enough ;)

Cheers,
Taavi

[Nomad]

Maaaaan I see you turned on the modeling afterburners :D you did alot in few days, thats great :thumbsup:


I like what I see but I will wait with any comments until, as you wrote, you have some overall environment then we can see the scale of the city.

Good work :bounce:

[Gunilla]

Hey Artur, you have some really fascinating models here - love that organic shapes, it really sets my mind off spinning. The concept looks great too all you have to do now is start running, I wish you luck :thumbsup:

[ChewyPixels]

I'm liking it more and more. Truly an alien world. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

[leving]

Your entry seems to be the most truly alien so far. When alot of people think of sci-fi they seem to just think of earth in about 200 years or so, but who says aliens even USE metal to build stuff, no?

[Nothingness]

very nice design.

reminds me of many things we can find in nature. Like cities hanging in cocoons.
is this with maya by any chance?

cheers

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166148917_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166148917_large.jpg)

Hi there again!
After a few days of commercial stuff I came back to EON world. I finished chamber model. Now after settling the chamber with my hanging cities I will only tweak some areas near obelisks.

Next step - city on the ground, bridges, long structures going across the chamber up to the atmosphere.

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166149115_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166149115_large.jpg)

just other shots

[arturro]

Hi everybody!
thanks for your interest and support, hope not to let you down and finish this time :)

What I did here...

1. upper parts of the chamber will be covered with atmosphere, no need to model it
2. wide dry river on the bottom
3. my hanging buildings will have their side obelisks somewehre in the middle, shots with buildings tomorrow
4. camera would be below them, will show final angle test tomorrow
5. generally I wondered why aliens made hanging buildings... I decided to make unfirendly, hardly accesible area, with little space which forced architects to use vertical space. Probably Mr. Greg thought about something more pleasant, but sorry, it's my viewing of his idea :)
6. more will clarify with each update... stay tuned

ps. Nothingness -> no maya, sorry, max 4ever :twisted: :bounce:

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166367317_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166367317_large.jpg)

Hi there!
I finished my hanging buildings. Added some structures to make it more interesting. If I decide to change geometry, it will be only after texturing. There is not much time left, so I have to go on.

best wishes to all!

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166367405_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166367405_large.jpg)

some details...

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166367530_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166367530_large.jpg)

more details...

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166367732_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166367732_large.jpg)

Here is a test for final camera angle. It's not close to the ground, I wanted to put somewhere below the middle. Remember that in the front plan there would be some entry to the chamber, as on my first concept sketch. Stay tuned for more updates. Tonight I will find tim eto go through your entries to see how you all are doing... just not have much time to do it..

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166378719_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166378719_large.jpg)

Ok, I was supposed not to touch it again, but it was just quick idea...

[Nomad]

Hey! that looks good. The view of the whole canyon is impressive :thumbsup:


Nice details too. I like the organic connection of the hanging "buildings".



Good work, I`m looking forward for more :bounce:

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166593960_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166593960_large.jpg)

Hi there!

I pushed the city a bit forward... I think modelling is nearly done, I'm quite happy with the results but if you have any ideas just shoot me :)

Now I only have to model foreground small astronauts.

I resigned from tall structures dissapearing in th eatmosphere, just would be too much I think. Now it can look a bit busy, but It will be corrected by distance fog and textures

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594015_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594015_large.jpg)

just more shots

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594081_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594081_large.jpg)

and more :)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594140_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594140_large.jpg)

even more :)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594270_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594270_large.jpg)

more :)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594503_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166594503_large.jpg)

As you can see in this camera angle it's not that busy, imagine distance fog, height fog, some moody lighting... should be nice :)

These are only print screens, you can see here number of polys and tris... this is of course without everywhere being mesh smoothing. Over 2 mln polys in my poor viewport is far too much, but I hope I will manage to render it somehow.

stay tuned for next updates!
see you soon

[icedeyes]

It all looks very nice arturro... I love the look and feel of the buildings... keep it up

[arturro]

Thank you icedeyes nice to hear :)
and thanks to all before for your comments.

Today I will try to make foreground rocks and small astronauts. And start terrain texturing with some lighting tests.
stay tuned!

[thondal]

Hi. Amazing work, like it very much. Really neat to see your scene coming together. Excited for more details. Good luck.

-thondal-

[musi]

Nice work! Love your building designs!

It is a bit difficult to determine the scale of the things - you wrote before that it will be clarified later... Your foreground astronauts are good idea.
And it looks like a location on earth, some big mountains side, but not a cylinder.
But I am looking forward to see how it will end!

Best of luck!
Sasha
EON (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=423648)

[claudiojordao]

Hey arturro, your work is getting more and more interesting each time I see it, I like very much your kind of organic modeling... keep going!

[arturro]

thanks for your comments!
musi <- I think it should clarify while rendering, now I show you just print screens with default max lightingbut of course I know it will be hard to show scale on such big area where giant kilometer objects statd together with tiny a few meters ones.

[Nothingness]

man, i'm trying to use as little polys as possible, but you sure don't have a problem with that :twisted:

is there already something done with the shading, or will you mostly be using solid colord?
i hope your not going to have much problems uv-mapping this.

cheers ans good luck

[arturro]

I also try to use as low poly as possible really :) to rotate this scene a need 30 seconds :):)
I have to do something about it before rendering, there is no way to push it without render farm :)

Shading is not done yet, now I'm playiong with camera slide for the animation. Also made foreground rocks. I won't do astronaut for the animation, only at th eend for final image. Shading will be done tomorrow I hope, for sure I have to add some plating and some textures to fight with scale feel in my scene. Now it's not too good as these are simple print screens.

stay tuned!

[Nothingness]

30 seconds !? :banghead:

what kind of system do you have?
of better, how many polys are there now in your scene?

that sure is a hell to work with. I have a 7800GT and can handle enough polys before it goes wild. But if it is needed, you can set the display quality of certin things to bounding box or something. But what i use most at the moment, if the approximation editor for mental ray in maya. I keep the low poly in the scene, and let it get smoothed at rendertime. Much better to work with your scene.

cheers, and i'll stay tuned :thumbsup:

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166758338_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166758338_large.jpg)

Now I'm trying to make an camera slide as I wrote. With some experiments I foune very interesting camera angle. I think this can be much better to be final one.

You see foreground, astronauts are not ready in 3d yet.

good luck to us all!

[arturro]

Nothingness <- ok, I exaggerated with those 30sek :) but still FPS is around 1. With rotating I have to wait a few seconds to see whole scene. My devil machine uses geforce 6600GT. Not that bad. of course I hide most of the objects, view them as bounding boxes, and do all known tricks. I made everything "normal" just for print screens :) Thanks for your interest!
more soon...

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166761835_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166761835_large.jpg)

Ok, I decided that a few bumps in the terrain are too big for this new camera angle. So best way was to modify it... I hope it's last tweak as I have to move on :)

[Leotril]

Great modeling arturro .. i like what ur doing the organic concept is pretty good and original
if u dont me asking what chamber are u using as inspiration?

later

[alvin-cgi]

very unique design, like it!:scream:


ENO (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=413368)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166812792_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166812792_large.jpg)

Ok, my great friend Maggie forced me to work more on camera angle... I think this one is better than all previous !

[arturro]

thanks guys!
Leotril <- not good if it's not noticeable, but these are hanging buildings from Thistledown :)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166926177_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1166926177_large.jpg)

Ok, I made camera slide throigh my scene. 8 seconds... for now only with some lighting concept. No materials and textures yet. Here you can see first, middle and last frame. You can see more about my concept now.

Some things are to be corrected and tweaked still to fight with scale feel, but generally I think I'm heading good direction.

best wishes and marry christmas!
arturro

[leving]

I haven't dropped by since you added the other structures. It looks like you did a really nice job of keeping with the same general building 'theme', which is nice, as it shows that all of the structures were built by the same people with the same general construction practices. Consistency like that really helps when trying to 'sell' a fictional image. Nice work and Merry Christmas!

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168040779_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168040779_large.jpg)

Hi there!
I've pushed my picture a bit further. I think I will stay in this mood and with those canyon textures. I have no time left and much to do!
So, please accept my apologies for not watching all your great threads. Time is just killing me.
good luck to all!

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168042296_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168042296_large.jpg)

Ok, I couldn't resist :)
just a quick test with some clouds. Definitely just a test, not a final one.
stay tuned!

[rattlesnake]

Whatzzuuuuppp!!...hello man....wow i love the realistic look that youre getting with the textures...reallly nice...i think the concept and modeling is very interesting, really like your idea...ill be watcing your thread friend :)

[Nomad]

Maaaaaaan! This mountains looks great :thumbsup:


Can`t wait to see the whole scene with the suspended town :scream:


Go go go, you can make it :bounce:

[musi]

Wonderful work, Artur! It's getting very good.
Is this strait out of max render? You have got a very nice lighting and atmosphere going on there.
But again, it still doesn't look like a cylinder interior, but more like on-Earth location. If I may suggest: your key light coming from the upper right sight of the image, did you consider adding the plasma tube passing through the upper right corner? It may bring your concept closer to the EON spirit :).

Anyways, great progress!
Sasha
EON (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=423648)

[arturro]

Thanks guys!

rattlesnake <- Hey mate! glad to see you here now, thanks for support :bounce:

Nomad <- go go go for my computer, I will manage, my little friend can tost itself:)

musi <- thanks! nice siggestions, I have to figure out something.. tests, tests, tests, I hope time won't beat me.

[alvin-cgi]

nice works, I am particularly like your landscape design:scream:


ENO (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=413368)

[SweD]

landscape are great it's clear. I particulary like your ambiant light ! good specular. :thumbsup:

[Nothingness]

Just a sweet render there man. Now i'm very curious to see it all come together.

[leving]

The latest terrain update looks really solid, although the clouds give it a very different feel than I was expecting to see out of the final piece. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm glad they're just a test. Other than that keep up the great work man!

[Gunilla]

This is looking really good! The new realistic rock texture is very beautiful but somehow I prefer the blurred look of the anim viz. It helps bringing out the architecture real well ... but I suppose I have to wait until I see how they look in the new texturing before being sure :)

Good luck for the final days now :thumbsup:

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168171324_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168171324_large.jpg)

Hi my firends!
thank you for your support and sorry again for not visiting your threads! I'm just fighting with time.

This is first test with buildings. I wanted to see how it looks to determine better textures. I added also some roads/bridges in the foreground.

stay tuned, today I'm texturing buildings

edit: end this is streight from max, only small contrast correction in PS.

[LiZhu]

I love your idea.I suggest you increasing more .It will strengthen your concept.

[angel]

Hey arturro, your image is starting to take shape! Good Work!

[SONIC-X]

Looks realy cool dude.

[taavi]

DOF is brilliant! The design is also original....Waiting forward Your updates! :)

[icedeyes]

the last update is looking great... cant wait to see it finished my friend...

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168297118_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168297118_large.jpg)

Ok, here I am again...

I've changed a few things... still thinking on the sky what should be there :)

plasma tube, clouds, nothing, some fractal blurred noise dust

[johnnymaster]

very nice! I like it, one of my favorites here! Finish it on time dude!

[leving]

I'd definitely say there needs to be some sort of sky, but unfortunately I'm at a loss as well as to what it should be. New additions look solid though. Only a few days left! Keep up the good work.

[targus]

Really love image. Very charismatic and "fantasy-motivation" image.
Good work, you have a style.

Keep on.

[Nomad]

Looks great and like almost a final. Just some details here and there and you have a finished image :thumbsup:


Good luck in the last set`ups :beer:

[aurora]

Man Artur you have really pushed this piece wonderfully! I love the richness and details you have provided. All she needs is a decent sky and your set. Have you decided on what your animation will be?

Good Luck!

[VietEmotion]

yeah man, great image, it looks very cool:D

[arturro]

Thanks friends!

I really appreciate your support, it pushes me forward. I did all corrections, and I'm done with everything, did 4 astronauts as well, but now I'm rendering rendering and rendering, so you will see all this probably tomorrow. My final still will be rendering around 20 hours, than a few hours of post-production Animation twice as much :)

stay tuned :twisted:

ps. I can tell you that parts of the final image look great, I'm pretty happy with the results.

[claudiojordao]

Congratulations Arturro, it really looks great. Best of luck.

[nwiz25]

brilliant! absolutely brilliant! :applause: :) :scream: me certainly love the depth in ur imagery!
cool colour combination too! :love:

really looking forward to da final piece!

cheers to u! :beer:

n good luck! :thumbsup:

[DarkOracle]

Just wanted to wish you good luck. The scene looks great. :thumbsup:

[Intervain]

I really like the idea behind the image but somehow the hard work that's gone into making those buildings is lost in the overall image right now, which is a shame! somehow, don't know if it's the scale thing or what, they don't look like buildings but like small kettles dotted around a sandy dune, like a new photoshoot for an Alessi catalogue [I know, sounds ridiculous but that's the immediate impression I got from looking at it..] Perhaps it's also the uniform colour scheme that's doing it and lack of contrast [I do undertand though that those are WIP and test renders]

Still I look forward to seeing more! The deadline's near ;)

powodzenia!

[arturro]

Thanks everybody!

news from me:
After a few days of non stop rendering / corrections / rendering I'm done with my final image renders. I've just finished last renders. Now a few minutes of rest for my computer and I start compositing. Today you will see my final still for EON :twisted:

[Nomad]

Yeah! Show us the final image man! Show it now! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168835387_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168835387_large.jpg)

Ok, I have enough... my final picture test 1 :)

I don't like a few things and I like a few...

S**t I have so many doubts now, I've imagined this picture in a completely different way, I made many mistakes during final renders and compositing.

Well, I need to rest from this picture and do some commercila stuff for a few days. And should render some motion during that time.

Please write what do you think about it, especially what you don't like about it!

good luck to you all!

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168837506_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168837506_large.jpg)

My first try for the final image.

[gringer]

That's EXCELLENT man. Well done.

Cheers :D

[mmoir]

Hey Arturro,

Very nice job on this, I like what you came up with .I like the hanging feeling the supports for the hanging buildings give the viewer. Good luck and sorry for not being around during your progress. Next one I will try to be more active throughout.

[graga]

Hi there my fiend!
This time you made it with top best super result :bounce: my congratuilations.
I really like the mood, it's very unique. And I like the way you mask hard "3d look" with a bit of artistic spirit.

Wish you best and can't wait to see the animation! Hope you will manage to render it on time... if this one rendered 100 hours :eek:

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168909913_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168909913_large.jpg)

As I made a huge picture why not to show something more :)

Full resolution is 5000x2500, here you have some close ups but in 3000x1500 resolution.

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168909995_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168909995_large.jpg)

more

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168910173_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168910173_large.jpg)

more :)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168910260_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168910260_large.jpg)

more

[arturro]

sorry, double post

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168910606_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1168910606_large.jpg)

Ok, and after tiny color correction of small lights I'm done.

Now animation... I'm glad that they postponed the deadline :)

[mmoir]

Hey Artur,

The closeup shots showing the details really show the work you put into this. It looks wonderful:thumbsup: :thumbsup: , great job and good luck.

[angel]

Very cool image and a very different take on the subject as well. Looking forward the animation:thumbsup:

[taavi]

I do love Your design concept - it really differs from others. Also the color scheme is like from 18th century painting, which is really cool ( clouds, ambient light)

[Gunilla]

I really like your final - the closeups are fantastic.
I'm looking forward to the animation now - good luck :)

[LiZhu]

very good ,I like your concept.good luck

[musi]

Hey Artur,This is ended up very nice! Congratulations on finishing :bounce: !
Those closeups are wonderful, all that detail you putted in there just will shine on the full resolution!
And I can see you have added the plasma tube :scream: !

Good work!

Sasha
EON (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=423648)

[SONIC-X]

This is a realy great looking scene dude,well done.

Don't worry I still have to do my animation.

[Jelmer]

great work, i like the whole scene, especially the contrast and the long shadows created by the characters, well done. The green / blue shade in the hanging buildings also adds some different colours, could you elaborate a bit on how you did the rock textures and shaders?
And what renderer are you using?
good luck rendering the animation!

[arturro]

Thanks friends!
I really appreciate your support and interest. Now I have a few days of commercial work... but soon I will start animating my work :) the idea is there, so should be good...

musi <- Thanks man! plasma tube is your suggestion, really liked the idea :)

Jelmer <- I'm using mental ray from max9. As far as mountains are concerned, there were many hours of hand modeling, while rendering there is displacement. Material is standard, but with specular, diffuse, displacement, bump maps. I will write a tutorial after the challenge as it may be useful for some people.

SONIC-X <- I'm not worrying, we just must finish our animations :)

taavi <- yea, I like paintings mood, here I didn't want this hard 3d feel.


ZhuLi, Gunilla, mmoir <-thanks mates! hope not to let you down with my animation :)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169255300_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169255300_large.jpg)

Hi there!
Some of you motivated me with their outstanding animations! I just said to myself... Artur, you did a nice still, you cannot mess it up with ugly animation :)

My plan:
1. 2 ships ale flying throught the tunel, on is the camera, second is in front of it
2. is is dark, only lights from the ships light up small parts of the tunel.
3. gate is lighten up by additional lights and it starts opening as ships approach
4. we go through the tunel, we see astronauts in the left bottom part who are watching outstanding view.
5. we see whole valley, I plan to do some tiny ships flying there, and some lights flashing on the cables.
6. we do speed fly through the valley with very dynamic camera....

questions...
how the hell I will do it in 11 days, together with my commercial work... no idea, but it's worth trying :)

stay tuned! arturro is fighting

[VietEmotion]

yeah arturro nice idea with the open gate to the your eon scene, i like your image, very cool, 11 days left, fight for survive:D man

[arturro]

exactly, fight for survive :) no sleep, eat a lot, drink coffe a lot, don't move too much to save energy... sounds tasty :) but later loooong holidays with a lot of sport to kill all those lasy weeks

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169280212_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169280212_large.jpg)

just tests with some lights and textures... Pretty dark, but this should be dark :)

[thondal]

Love the plan!! Looking forward for this animation. I gave up, I won´t manage to finish this, so now i´m just watching other people finish theirs.

Good luck ;)

-thondal-

[Nomad]

You have my respect man :bowdown: you don`t give up :applause: Thats a great idea :thumbsup:

Go, go, go :buttrock:

[claudiojordao]

Hey arturro, I'm really anxious to see what will you come up with... good luck.

[mmoir]

Artur,

I hope your animation part goes well as the idea looks good and very Sci-Fi:thumbsup: . Hmm, I wasn't really going to spend much time on my animation , I think I should have read the instruction/FAQ page more . I probably should have entered the Illustration challenge instead as the animation seems to be more important than I thought.

Good luck finishing it and remember to get some sleep, oh and you should also eat too.:)

[arturro]

thanks friends!
I did some commercial stuff and have a night with EON now... plan is to make flying ships and set the animation of fly through the gate... and start rendering :) second stage would be to maje the animation o fmy canyon and compose it in post. I will add some small ships flying there and some energy flowing through the cables... stay tuned!

[3dRaven]

Best of luck & let the god of rendering smile upon you :D

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169529722_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169529722_large.jpg)

Hi there!
I changed a bit my astronauts to look more realistic. AS they are small it wasn't too hard. I think they look better now.

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169530311_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169530311_large.jpg)

Here are my latest tests from teh huge cave... there are ships also :) nto animated eys so everywhere they look the same. Now I'm working on some nice flythrough...

[arturro]

3dRaven <- thanks man! I hope he will be there helping my render buckets to go go and go :)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169610114_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169610114_large.jpg)

one of the last tests here...

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169610223_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1169610223_large.jpg)

Ok, I did astronauts for the animation and did the ending fot the tunel... of course camera would go further into the canyon.

[Nomad]

Great progress and close-ups the astronauts looks superb :thumbsup:


Good luck in the last steps/days

[arturro]

misa finishes tunel animation and rendering started, should be done in 4 days.......
let the force be with me, I'll need it badly :)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170194923_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170194923_large.jpg)

Ok ! I'm back :)
Time to show something... Sorry for being out, but I was rendering.... rendering... rendering :) Now I have 10GB pictures top compose in final animation... hope to finish it on time

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170195008_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170195008_large.jpg)

O, here is an additional atmosphere pass...

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170195205_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170195205_large.jpg)

Ok... and here is my final, or at least final for this time:) I will look at it again after finishing my animation. Any ideas how to improve it?

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170196808_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170196808_large.jpg)

Ok, small upgrade :):)

bigger image, so please sorry for compression! I hate it has to be 150kb :)

[Nomad]

It`s a great final image my friend, alot of cool details :applause: I lke it alot and I`m waiting for the animation :bounce:

Go go go :thumbsup:

[fgdf]

One of ma favorites around here! You did great job on still now i'm waiting for animation!
keep it up and hurry up theres 8 hours left!
-cheers

[taavi]

Arturro,
Ty using ImageReady from Photoshop bundle. It really helps to compress image under requied 150 KB and the images quality & size are still excellent...

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170277370_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170277370_large.jpg)

Software: 3ds max

I've removed upper ships in my still, they took too much focus out of the buildings.
And finished my animation. Hope you like it:

Play Video >> (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/eon/player.php?entry_id=77177)

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170277979_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170277979_large.jpg)

Ok, I confused something in the uploader, here is this still, and previous post is my animation :)

[taavi]

Wow! The animation really rocks :D
Gongrats for finishing!

Taavi

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170278367_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170278367_large.jpg)

some screens from my 3d application

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170278520_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170278520_large.jpg)

some screens from the animation, it goes so fast that so many things dissapear

[arturro]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170278861_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11756/11756_1170278861_large.jpg)

Ok, probably noone will notice this, but there are my astronauts at the end of the tunel, they are looking the valley and Thistledown.

This ship which makes a loop or a roll, dissapears behind the rocks just above the astronauts.

[MacAndre]

i really enjoyed your animation. :thumbsup: seems to be a big scene. great light and you have a special sense to interduce the main landscape... :bounce: good luck to you.

[aurora]

Man Arturo you finished with a HUGE and GLORIOUS bang. I reaaly love the final still but the animation puts the still to shame. Great JOB!!

[Leotril]

arrturo i was blown away when i saw ur animation u put a lot hearth into man the music everything .. your the front runner man .. u got my vote :applause:

[mmoir]

Hey Artur,

Just say your video , awesome job on the animation:thumbsup: and the music. Great stuff and good luck with this.

[Nomad]

Finally you did it :thumbsup: and with great style :applause:


Great final work, good luck in the final vote :bounce:

[musi]

Congratulations! Very nice finish!

:thumbsup:

[fgdf]

;/ Why I can't see no link to the animation? And no Final entry?? Is there something wrong with me? I want to see it!

[arturro]

Thanks everybody!
It was a great pleasure to work on this. It's my 3rd finished challenge and 5th where I participated. Really great thing to do it, must say most of my 3d progress is thanks to chose challenges and generally to cgtalk. Thanks!

I can't wait to join next one :twisted:

[VietEmotion]

man arturo your video blows me away:D

[Jelmer]

that's just awesome! i love the animation, certainly one of the best entries, so much detail, and a great sense of scale with the tiny astronauts.

[OKMER]

Wow what a kickass entry, and i really loved your animation,great,great work!!!congratz:beer:

[VietEmotion]

ya, the image combined with your kickass video is the grand prize worth dude, wish you luck.

good for you that i am out:D;)

[angel]

Hey man, I had not seen your animation... that's ace! nice work and Good luck.

[arturro]

Hi everybody!
Thanks for kind words. I've uploaded some details after uploading final stuff, so it's hard to find my animation :) I asked Mibus to move it to the top of my page, and now it is there.
here (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/eon/entry.php?challenger=11756)
good luck to you all!

[ChewyPixels]

Hey Artur. You have a really polished piece here. I like your final still, but the animation just blows me away! It's simply kick-ass! :buttrock: I'm almost positive that you will be one of the winning entries.

Good luck with the final judging!

[alvin-cgi]

Congratulations!:scream:

I can see you are one of the winning entries, for sure:scream:

[targus]

Really fantastic, it has some charisma i think.
Really nice work, good luck.

[Gunilla]

Congrats! Your final turned out a fantastic scene - and the animation is just great! I really hope you get an award for this, very well deserved! :)

[arturro]

Thanks for your kind comments,
I'm happy that you like my vision, I only regret that I didn't have more time to render my animation in beter quality and SLOWER camera.

[skumaran]

hi Artur ur entry is superb i think everyone will love ur concept especialy the terain and its lighting so nice man.from my part one suggestion to ur animation. just work on the camera movement little bit(like at the very begning dont fix ur camera still just give a gradual motion so that its wont start suddenly and in the middle of the scene just increase the speed gradualy and goes to its maximum).its my small suggestion.

[nwiz25]

hey bro! sorry for late reply .. net service is down at our workplace :cry:

thanx a lot for all what u said bro!! :love: the best part is i got the chance to meet superb friends / artists like urself! n that counts! :p
plus a big congrats to u mate!! ur work speaks n still does :buttrock:
very happy to c ur entry in the Honourable mentions category! :bounce: :applause:


looking forward to seeing u guys in the next challenge! :bounce:

do take care buddy! god bless ya!

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