Rail haven, Marco Rolandi (3D)

[koolnits]

This is just amazing...love the atmosphere :thumbsup:
4 stars ****

[reviresco]

very nice work - love the lighting - and the little details like the canisters in the foreground

terrific

Jim

[shkumbinferizi]

wow, amazing work dude

[TomMannington]

Great lighting and atmosphere!

[Kerem]

Stunning work in every detail ! Lighting and atmosphere is beautiful. Are the fog/haze and smoke are particles or 2D composite ?

[agv]

So much detail, even reaching from within the fog. Great, well balanced composition. 5*

[Abaddon]

This is an awesome piece. Details, lighting, and atmosphere are all great. I would love to see a wire! :thumbsup:

[tuuhia]

wow:eek:..great atmoshpere :thumbsup: 5*...would like to see the wire also:)

[tiny1890]

nie job....Great lighting....

[ICB]

Amazing job. Great lighting and atmosphere.

Congratulations. :thumbsup:

[adoracion3D]

A really awesome job, the details and the lighting is great !


5*

[BColbourn]

great detail, 5*

[azynkron]

I'd love to get a glimpse of that landscape you describe.
I understand that you can feel like between a rock and a hard place
when choosing the perspective, but it would be great to see all those
tracks fade into the horizon..

Just my 2 €C. :)

Great picture.

[Piz]

Awsome Work Marco!!! That's work is a stunning example of your incredible skills! :thumbsup:

[GinoLatino]

MAMMA!

:eek: :eek: :eek:

[Anacardo]

Hi guys, sorry for the late reply :rolleyes:, it's quite a busy period...
First I wanted to thank you for all the nice words; knowing the cg talk community, it's definitely an honor.
Here are some more details. I'll have more in the future hours as well. Just give me time to prep everything... :p

First the wireframe. You asked fot it ahahahah

http://www.marcorolandi.com/wip200712/imgs/common/wireframe_complete.jpg


And now some explanation:
This scene is made of very different objects coming for separate scenes of a personal project I'm working on. If it's not exactly the "mother of all my scenes in project X", let's say it's the uncle. It's made of low and high poly models, not exactly sorted by complexity going from background to foreground (sigh).
In the end the scene turned out to be... ehm... 12,225,355 faces.
Which is indeed quite too much for such a scene, and is basically due to the UNOPTIMIZED modeling. Hey, there's a lot of wasted polys in there. But optimizing would have taken even more time than the one required to cope with such a high number of polys.
Ok, you already know that. No matter how hard I cried, and no matter the language I used to pray the 3Dgods, this scene wouldn't render on a single pass. (ok I know it's not surprising.. but you know... never give up on hope! :shrug:)
Therefore I had to subdivide the scene in 5 steps and render them separately. Keeping coerent lighting was a little challenge, as well as maintaining some form of discipline along the pipeline (because of course once I started subdividing, I also started to tweak every singular piece and adding details and...:banghead: )
Subdividing gave me some much needed freedom as well, once I entered the compositing stage. At that moment I also decided that, for the sake of the overall composition, I even had to further HIDE more details from view. ahahah such a waste of rendering time ah ah ah :curious::blush:
For those who asked, smoke and steam are part hand made, part partciles (because the background layer for this image (everything but the bridge and the building in the foreground) comes from a simple animation and tehrefore the steam and smoke had to be animated.
I'll leave you with a closeup of one of the main machines you see in the background (the "Daridras" as I call them), taken from another scene.
http://www.marcorolandi.com/wip200712/imgs/common/laterale0000.jpg

In here the steam and smoke are painted over and it shows... Maybe I'll get back to this later on... mmh... see ya later!!

[maxreal]

Hi Marco,
An extraordinary job, full of atmosphere and of details.
Compliments
For me 5 stars :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Max

[MatteoM]

Hi Marco,

Good work... Bravo pure qua!


Mat

[simonenastasi]

terrific work. 5 stars, this should deserve frontpage imo.
Bravo!
EDIT: I see in your wireframe that you're using a lot of gorups - you do know that they're killer for rendertimes, do you? I had tremendous speedups by just exploding groups in my scenes... groups in Max are nasty :|

[Anacardo]

Here I am, back again. Again thanks for all the nice comments.
Random answers:
I was thinking of doing some bird view of the city and the swamp sea, but that would take some time... right now I have multiple sets but I don't have a complete environment. We'll see.
Yes zemmuonne I use groups. I know it sucks, I know I should use layers instead (and in other projects I use them a lot) but this one simply grew with goups by basically inheriting them from older scenes. There is one little trick tough, since the scene is divided in levels as said before, I completed the set pieces coming from the background till the foreground (which needed more details and more specific modeling). Once every set piece was done, I launched the rendering onto a second PC and continued working on the next level. In the end, when I finished modeling the foreground, all the previous layers where already rendered and therefore I had to wait restless only for the foreground to render before beginning compositing on photoshop.
Of course most of the objects were already done from previous scenes, (example)
http://www.marcorolandi.com/wip200712/imgs/Common/circololargasmall.jpg

and since I basically maintained the same conventions across the board (names, materials, dimensions) integrating alltogether was rather simple. As I said, lighting was a little more complicated, but it just required some planning.

[MikeRhone]

Beautiful work. I love all of these environments you have done... Great atmosphere and mood. You have been pluggified to the front page.

[Baldasseroni]

Congratulations, looks stunning !, looking forward to see you here again :) mate !

[dascerra]

A good technique and an impressive precision, extraordinary!!

[Jago75]

Hi Marco, great modeling, texturing and compositing...............BRAVO.
5 stars.



Jago75

[Daffydd]

Excellent work!! Congratulations!

Daf

[Blackrainbow]

Simply amazing, a really god job. 5 stars!

[shotta]

very nice work congratulations

[minminxu]

wow......great work.....I so love the picture and I love the colours......

um um .....no words....*****5stars from me ......:thumbsup: ........good job.........keep it up......:bounce: :bounce:

[mirmel]

Hi :)
great work!! beautiful!!!:applause:
I like the atmosphere, and the lighting....it's a very elaborate matter!!
I would like to know your working procedure :)!!
I mean from the concept (did you start whit a sketch?) to lighting set..
because I see that on my work the point is to start with a good idea..
Thank you!!

m

[PMD]

Man, this is one of those images where I actually don't know what to say - I can't articulate how impressed I am with this work, Marco - not only in its final incarnation, but in the wires and details yu've shared. Just truly, mind-blowing work. Phil

[pteroleo]

Fantastic job, i love the idea and the lighting...great piece of art

[Zorrino]

Beautiful rendition, very good work!

[michaelkutsche]

lovely atmosphere, great sense of scale and great design!

[savat]

excellent and spectacular job :thumbsup:

[Blaschke]

Nice picture.

And an amazing render work....

[pablov]

wow, man amazing job, shot is exelent.:thumbsup: 5*****!

[Kaleen]

The building with the bridge looks awesome.
Congratz!

[mitogonza]

Man, this is incredible, looks like a lot of work and a lot of geo to handle.
exellent job!!

[Manuel3D]

Incredible Work :thumbsup:
Simply amazing!! :)

[QuantumPixel]

awesome, that really is need. to think maybe some thing like that is some were out there.

[nightwoodwolf]

beautiful work :thumbsup:

[iKAL]

Great Job!

[LadyPurple]

Beautiful work, compliments. 5 stars :)

[guti]

An incredible work!
I think that 5 stars are insufficient to evaluate such a great work!

[LAV]

WOW! Bravo, bravo, bravo.

[hasanaliakhtar]

Awesome work..Looking really kool indeed..Nice lighting and texturing too..All the best..Cheers:)

[Lovas]

:thumbsup: Ottimo lavoro!

[Rugna]

Ciao Marco!!! Bellissimo lavoro :thumbsup:

Sono anche io italiano e vorrei imparare a fare le cose ke fate voi O_O

[noizFACTORY]

awesome work! my only crit would be that the lion pillar's head is shining a little too bright in the shadowed region than i would expect. but really, awesome atmosphere, lighting and attention to detail!

[olive2d]

Waw! awesome render! beautiful lighting!
great work!:thumbsup:

[Torch]

What a beatiful complexity in the wires!! Great job! Great mood!! Congrats!

[PiPS]

Wonderful image with great atmosphere !

[krisr]

Wow, quite impressive. I can't believe how dense that scene is. I thought for sure half of it was painted due to so much complexity. I honestly don't know how some people find the time to build such things. Keep up the great work.

[NiZu]

Complimenti !,
Really a massive work, thanks for sharing the infos on the making.
Very nice choice of mood and setting.
As you said, it must have been diffucult to manage the detail level at various distances..infact the foreground building stone walls look a little under-detailed to me(well, compared to the ultra-detailed rest) probably could have used just a little more weathering on the walls ..
Again, Great job!:thumbsup:

[zsjasper]

the lighting and styles are impressive, love it! 5* frome me!:thumbsup:

[tmalinko]

Very beautiful imagery, nice atmospheric effects, all the elements are integrated together really well!

[webhead]

A really beautiful image here. The lighting is terrific! Looks like a scene from some great epic science fiction film. Hopefully, we'll see more of this project as it progresses. Truly awesome!

[babyandkitty]

i can never imagin that the whole sea would be replaced by the swamp...

[targus]

Just incredible modelling and the whole composition, just cool !!!
And, can you tell something about texturing process and may be show some texture sheets :)

[MaryamNademi]

It lookes like a very nice painting.it looks like its 2d art.Congratulations.
I think the most important thing is that you managed a spectacular render.no matter what way & how many polies,optimized or layers or different parts or passes.you did a great job.& you anaged to solve all the problems.thanks alot to share your knowledge with us.Thumbs up!

Cheers
Maryam

[Molier]

Very good model and nice lighting!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[nicolce]

Powerful image. Very impressive.

Ciao

[Nomad]

Awesome :) I love the mood.

[ErwinM]

nice composition and lighting man! Great job!

[JohannesThe3D]

Wow! If there exists a "3D god" then it must be you! I am picking up my jaw off the floor right now. Congratulations for the great work!

[MaryamNademi]

:):beer: it seems you like his works very much!!hahahahahaWow! If there exists a "3D god" then it must be you! I am picking up my jaw off the floor right now. Congratulations for the great work!

[YanhuaSun]

wow, amazing work dude:bounce:

[marcogalli]

Beautifull! 5 stars
Veramente un gran bel lavoro bella l'atmosfera che proietta dentro questo mondo incredibile che hai creato.

[chris-carter]

Very Nice! 5*s!

[swanand4me]

Absolutly Fantastic !!!:thumbsup:

[retroics]

Great Job,Marco... I'm amazed by it... :thumbsup:

I'm still thingking wether the fog and smoke are particles or additional on the postproduction process (2d)???

I love the ligthings and details.... and offcourse the idea of the image....

Keep on with other great images, Marco.:applause:

[DV8]

nice job. thanks for posting

[PiPS]

Wonderful...

[BBoBo]

hi nice work i like u 4 stars for u

[Anatoli]

Fine atmosphere! Four stars....

[glasco54]

beautiful work, mate. the desaturated colors are unreal

[LoveFest]

Beautiful! What scale did you model the scene? Have you found that scale effects the rendering of V-Ray?

[Nitrobug]

Stunning number of details, and super atmo...
Very impressive job!

[hfrymark]

This is just absolutly amazing, I really felt transported to a different world!

[Howi]

I really like this, I've been working on a design document for a game that takes place in a desert world, with huge cities built on sandstone foundations, with hundreds of monorail tracks running in and out of them to form almost a cobweb.
The lower down you go the more old fashioned it gets, and what you've made is like a stunning piece of concept modelling for the lower levels of one of these cities.

On top of that its a truly evocative and atmospheric piece in its own right, and for that, the full 5 :)

[ricardo.bino]

very nice work

[caneration]

thatz really impressive atmosphere. kool job. congs.

[illusioncg]

Excellent work!!! One of the best next-gen models I've seen in a while.

It's a great inspiration to see your screengrabs. Thanks for sharing!http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/rating/rating_5.gif

[MEGO3D]

Dgast cu:l !!! Rieli cu:l !

[ttm1st]

love it 4*s keep it up

[IKGCN]

Nice work!:thumbsup:
So beautiful~

[kadmax3d]

Great Detail

[Herwin-du]

wow, cool i like it, thx

[LoneFalconmx]

very very beautiful work i like it

[chobi77]

Outstanding work 5*s from me :)

[jiuzhoupiao]

good,job!nice detail! five stars!

[Farins]

Bellissimo lavoro! la gallery te la sei strameritata!! veramente un lavoro molto ispirato

nice work guy! nice "old school" lighting and composition

[Krishk]

Hi!

Good job & nice details.
Keep it up.

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[Karlos4D]

I like the enlightenment that has given him.
Very nice. :applause:

[todd4cgi]

Nothing short of amazing work, Marco. Cheers.

[Al-Kabeer]

Excellent work... lights n colors r v. good, love that.

[dionut]

Great lighting and atmosphere!

Very nice !

[palwantur]

hi,Very attractive manufacture

[mido4design]

wow it's fantastic work .. i love the lighting so much ..

[stormfrog]

Incredible work on the details. :bounce:
I wish I knew how you did lighting like that, it looks very realistic and blends nicely with the motive.

Futuristic scenery like this makes me kind of sad. It reminds me of the large city in "Tales of the Earth-Sea"... well, now when I wrote that I suppose the title of the movie does as well :) By any chance inspired by it?

[Rjobb]

Reminds me of Chicago in a not so bright future. Great feeling when I look at this.."what's to come?"

[Nufciv]

Awesome picture... definitly futuristic did not quite understand how the entire ocean could be covered by railroads nevertheless a splendid piece of work

[Brynden Tully]

awesome work.
5 stars for you :)

[TerrellTheen]

The environment is great! That structure behind the cathedral reminds me of a griant locomotive. Awsome work!

[hgDesign]

great modeling, lighting and render. Also very nice on the fog. Gives the whole thing a nice atmosphere

[topherus]

What is your secret?

Your image is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I don't know what to say, let me give my rate,,,,,,,10 strars!

Well done

[pablotesta]

Excellent job! Congratulations

Great details and scene mood.

[edwinparke]

great compostion

[fahadkhan]

u`ve done a fantastic job :cool:

[jahanzaib]

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it's awsome ,m speechless....fantastic..5 stars

[jahanzaib]

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Title: Rail haven
Name: Marco Rolandi
Country: Italy
Software: 3ds max, VRay

Hi guys, it's been a while since I posted anything on cgtalk, sorry about that... This image is the last from a personal project I've been working on. It's the story of a world in which men are nothing but small pieces of giant machines, a decaying society struggling for survival. The image depicts the harbor of a metropolis, where the sea no longer exists and has been replaced by an endless swamp covered by railroad tracks. Hope you like it.[it's awsome ,m speechless....fantastic..5 stars]

[baluk]

Really nice stuff..... that smoke is lovely in the sence nice work....

[Eugenius]

Incredible flawless details! A masterpiece!

[chenxuan]

it's very amazing, very nice atmosphere,I felt your picture cool,lt's special yellow color,
very beatifully.

[kaiyongman]

This is just amazing...love the atmosphere :thumbsup:
4 stars ****

[joelrodrigues]

Hi,

Just curious: how much time it takes to render all scene?

cheers

[mickzhouke]

it's very good

[BrandV]

This looks great, its both ancient and modern at the same time, great job

[putiang880]

very nice,

[gdsworld]

I like the design element of the work, not too sure about the lighting in the work though. 5* for modelling, 3 for design. I'm not the best but I know u can do better.

[xuyong]

Great atmosphere !!

[shahdharmil]

hey i like your work very much is it a whole 3d work or it is composite with 2d?

[Brost]

beautiful rendering

[mortezanajafi]

really nice , great details , light & texture (5*)

i will be glad if i now your opinion about my works thanks

[Tyralis]

Great work.
I love how the steam and dust give the feel of decay and desolation.

[Twinkles]

Molto Bellisimo Marco

You really are great !!!

:)

[Jerry3D]

Wow!! Superb job!

I really feel like I'm there when looking at it.

[jiyoush]

The atmosphere is great!

Nice!

[Anatoli]

Realy Great JOB, COOL:thumbsup:

[Jricaldoni]

This one is my desktop wallpaper. I find details each time y watch to it carefully. As I love steam trains, I understand that this kind of futurology may be possible. The hughe rail port reminds me Estación Constitución in Buenos Aires- More please! Great!

Jorge Ricaldoni

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