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sp007sp007
04-16-2008, 05:39 PM
http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g49/248849/248849_1288073190_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g49/248849/248849_1288073190_large.jpg)

Title: machine times
Name: peng song
Country: China
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop

The mechanical unit caught in a deadly battle with one of the guardians of the realm.

My idea here was to represent the first (and deadly) encounter between two different and opposing species : a mechanical self-reproducible race which invades habitats to harvest all the resources in presence and an Ent-like cloud creatures protecting their land
Modeled & rendered in 3ds max / mental ray, textures, part of the post fx and additional corrections made in Photoshop.

Lordstormdragon
04-16-2008, 09:57 PM
...the clouds are simply an overlay or a separate layer. They blend readily into the middle machine, and it seems like the machine should be pushing the clouds around it dynamically. Nice clouds, but this kinda looks lazy to me. Perhaps use dynamics to at least make the middle machine part the clouds in it's way?

Imatk
04-16-2008, 10:25 PM
Man I REALLY like this. The idea is awesome and I dig the machines too.

It could have been really great, but I totally agree about the clouds. You need to work out how you want to do it, but those clouds need to be more integrated into the scene, not just overlay'd on top of the machines and then masked etc.

koolnits
04-17-2008, 06:09 AM
Good work though it reminded me of this post from 'Wei ming' :surprised
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=306894

biul
04-17-2008, 07:40 AM
云层和飞行器的结合好像有点。。。说不出来的感觉

islepaal
04-17-2008, 01:47 PM
Good work though it reminded me of this post from 'Wei ming' :surprised
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=306894

not really dude , it looks tottaly diffrent from what i can see !


good work man , keep it up

joneshw01
04-17-2008, 06:59 PM
...the clouds are simply an overlay or a separate layer. They blend readily into the middle machine, and it seems like the machine should be pushing the clouds around it dynamically. Nice clouds, but this kinda looks lazy to me. Perhaps use dynamics to at least make the middle machine part the clouds in it's way?

True but it still looks good to me. Keep on trying and improving.

adoracion3D
04-18-2008, 07:56 AM
I like the idea and the presentation, congrats !

SergioSantos
04-18-2008, 01:38 PM
One of my favourites in the 3D Still Gallery in a while.

good work, really nice!

islepaal
04-20-2008, 08:11 PM
well , didn't expect this will go to the front page , well done man keep up the front page stuff

freeduke
04-20-2008, 09:23 PM
Truly a nice work!

pimeto
04-20-2008, 11:47 PM
nice piece of work, but i cant see the cloud-ent thing ? :shrug:

Bucket
04-21-2008, 01:31 AM
Yeah.. Clouds need to be affected by the ships.

phoenix
04-21-2008, 03:16 AM
Hey sp007sp007

very nice and original idea ...good work ....


regards

iLegacy
04-21-2008, 07:41 AM
I really like your idea - the mech-creatures look so beautifull in the way the are moving but also dangerous in the way they are look like - great!

bearfoot
04-21-2008, 08:09 AM
its a really nice idea but for sure the clouds are wrong.. the ships would disturb them with
turbulance and wind etc etc

keep working !

cheers

Joat
04-21-2008, 11:28 AM
Front page? Well, congratulations...

Skamierski
04-21-2008, 11:41 AM
65 % of the cgtalk gallery consists of better work than this, i cant understand how this came into the top list ?!!?!?!?

bad technic, -compositing, -lighting and -post


the only thing thats ok is the idea, but its not original enough

parel
04-21-2008, 12:51 PM
It almost looked like the machines are frolicking dolphins. The look like they are having fun rather than fighting. I might have liked the image a little better without the backstory actually.

In fact the the clouds dont look like they have any substance at all. Perhaps you might need to add "cell structures" of some sort like large nuclei and mitochondria to make it look sentient. Or if they have some sort of hive mind, the clouds need to be pouring into the machine vents etc to infiltrate them.

frix
04-21-2008, 03:06 PM
I like the image. It reminds me of the guardians in matrix.

overcontrast
04-21-2008, 06:20 PM
with all due respect i'm really sorry to say, but this is not front page material.

again sorry. Good try though, hope to see something better next time.

Djampa
04-22-2008, 02:27 AM
What I most like here is the mood you gave to the piece, really nice.
The Concept behind the image is also very very good.

Congratulations !

xLess
04-22-2008, 09:59 AM
i agree with the most. this is not frontpage material i think. sorry.

Azrail
04-22-2008, 11:09 AM
Hate to say this, but why the description is taken from this thread?:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=613377

on the other hand what others said about the clouds is true, although it's a good image I don't personally think it's something exeptional. Totaly agree with Skamierski

MaryamNademi
04-22-2008, 02:10 PM
Hate to say this, but why the description is taken from this thread?:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=613377


I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!

Maybe thats why its on front page!
C'mon guys!this is its wow factor!!:D

BoBoZoBo
04-22-2008, 06:18 PM
VERY nice machines.

However, I agree with the machine/cloud interaction.
Clouds needs to be pushed, not just faded out.

ABOUTCG-STUDIO
04-23-2008, 06:15 AM
65 % of the cgtalk gallery consists of better work than this, i cant understand how this came into the top list ?!!?!?!?

bad technic, -compositing, -lighting and -post


the only thing thats ok is the idea, but its not original enough
same with you .i ve no ANY idea..:shrug:

Scob
04-23-2008, 02:57 PM
Hate to say this, but why the description is taken from this thread?:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=613377

on the other hand what others said about the clouds is true, although it's a good image I don't personally think it's something exeptional. Totaly agree with Skamierski


Oo !!!

I m sorry but i m agree with Skamierski to !
Keep working hard , and soon nobody will say "unpleasant " things like that ! ;)

Keep it up !

rawshark
04-23-2008, 10:39 PM
This is all very confusing...the description for this image is from another thread, as Azrail pointed out. Anyone planning to explain this?

Lordstormdragon
04-23-2008, 11:46 PM
...but North's image is also one of my favorites. Is it the same person, with two different accounts? Why would someone copy/paste description text?

And front page material or not, we still don't have a fix on the clouds in this one...

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