Uplift Universe - Image Entry: Kerem Gogus

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209150021_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209150021_large.jpg)

One of my crappy drawings to clear things up in my mind.

[Kerem]

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Another crappy draw. I was looking for ideas to design some space ships.

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209150151_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209150151_large.jpg)

Another space ship scratch.

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209150336_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209150336_large.jpg)

On the composition I have in mind - there are will be some crop circles.

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209150443_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209150443_large.jpg)

Here is the textured and rendered Crop Circles. They should look like an actual ship left behind them.

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152300_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152300_large.jpg)

Another very simple and ugly scene drawing to clean up the composition on my mind.

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152452_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152452_large.jpg)

I have some ideas about floating islands in the sky. First I decided to change the scene concept and then I changed my mind again and trying to find a way to add "sky islands" to the scene.

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152551_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152551_large.jpg)

My Neo Dolphin Space Ship idea.

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152641_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152641_large.jpg)

My small temple model.

[Kerem]

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A more sci-fi looking temple.

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152940_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209152940_large.jpg)

There will be a girl standing on a hill waving goodbye to leaving Neo Dolphins.

[Kerem]

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There will be an island in the sky. Maybe one or two or more. Depends on the overall look actually...

[Arias]

wow..seems your work will be so cool : D Good luck!

[Kerem]

wow..seems your work will be so cool : D Good luck!

Thank you so much for your heartening words. Good luck to you too :buttrock:

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209230402_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209230402_large.jpg)

One of the ships I modeled for the scene.

[Kerem]

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Finally this the scene setup. First I added Neo Dolphin Ship but looked like it's not belong to the air you know what I mean.

Then I added that ships I modeled but actually it's not possible the crop circles made by them so I started to model a main ship which is fitting the crop circles and I'm planing to use those as guard ships or something like that. Would be easy if I model the ship first and then design the crop circles but lets see what will happen when do it reverse! :D

[Pegahoul]

good scene. That neo dolphin spaceship is cool

[Kerem]

good scene. That neo dolphin spaceship is cool

Thank you so much...

[Minnhagen]

Cool! I like the pyramid design! I'm thinking you could try repeating the red somewhere else in the painting, maybe little spots on the ships.

[Kerem]

Cool! I like the pyramid design! I'm thinking you could try repeating the red somewhere else in the painting, maybe little spots on the ships.



Thank you so much - thats a wonderful idea :bounce:

[Kerem]

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I thought that I should add islands to the scene before you guys start asking to me why I'm using a name like "Islands Of Memories" for my image for God sakes! :D

[Kerem]

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I decided to add some simple buildings to the islands in the sky to add some interesting detail there.

And modeled those very simple objects.

[Kerem]

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Here are the islands with more detail added with ruin-like buildings.

[zer05um]

Kia ora!

It's really good to see your workflow system - very interesting.

Good luck with the comp. I'm too busy with course-work to get in on this one. I loved the EON challenge last year though.

Ka kite e hoa.

[Kerem]

Kia ora!

It's really good to see your workflow system - very interesting.

Good luck with the comp. I'm too busy with course-work to get in on this one. I loved the EON challenge last year though.

Ka kite e hoa.

Hey Nik

Thanks for dropping by. Wish you could join Uplift Challenge too. Eon was great indeed, I wasn't able to finalize my work tilll dead line tough.

[Kerem]

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Okay my crazy thing finally finished! As I told before I designed the signs first instead of designing the mother ship. I tried to use it as an opportunity to design an extra ordinary mother ship for Neo Dolphins and this is what I've came up with so far.

[Kerem]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209340492_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/15407/15407_1209340492_large.jpg)

That's the first texturing and rendering test of the mother ship.

[Kerem]

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Mother Ship with her Guardians.

[Kerem]

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Applied some better textures to the Mother Ship.

[Kerem]

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Leaves of the tree on close up looks pretty much flat right now and I have no idea how I'm gonna fix that.

[Kerem]

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This is the overall look of my scene so far. Things left to do:

+ Winged Dolphins flying to the mother ship.

+ A much much better lighting.

+ Some post effects and ringed planets and stars on the background after the final render.

[pitposum]

amazing...
great scene - nothing more to say

[Kerem]

amazing...
great scene - nothing more to say


Thank you so much dear friend :buttrock:

[ahmetekn]

Hey Kerem, fast and stronger starting. Environment is very impressive! Keep it up :thumbsup:

[Minnhagen]

Looks great! I like the new ship!

[Kerem]

Ahmet: Thank you so much for your heartening words mate :buttrock:

Mats: Thnak you man - glad you like it! :bounce:

[Kerem]

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Wire renders of my temples.

[Kerem]

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Here are my poly modeled dolphins with wings. I used lattice deformation to create the wave on their wings.

[Kerem]

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Here is the wire renders of my dolphins.

[Donglu-LittleFish]

Hi Kerem,
you got some really fast and nice modeling skills! Here are some of my suggestions: I like the floating islands idea. However you may play around with the way that you place them, they all have the same size (which means they are all at the same distance) and the same contrast. Altering their sizes may help with the depth of your image and adding haze to create atmospheric perspective would help too. I see the same problem with the huge temple. It occupies lot of space, thus the bottom of the temple souldn't have the same contrast as the top of it due to light variations, the color of the sky and probably fog. As you noted to yourself, you are still playing with the light, so I just give some inputs here, hope it is useful.
The overall scene looks really tight! Keep the good work up! :)
Donglu

[sasquatch70]

Hello Kerem,

Man you can render! I love the realism in your piece. I love the crop circle ship concept, that's incredible. One crit I have is how loud the red is on the actual crop circle. I think if you toned it down it would make everything very cohesive in your piece. Incredible work, and imagination!
Brad

[Kerem]

Dong Lu: I really to appreciate for taking time to write me here. Your suggestions will be useful. My computer currently run out of memory because of the heavy poly count of the scene. I'll leave fog, clouds and color variations to postwork and your suggestions will be useful. Thanks a bunch again :thumbsup:

Brad: I appreciate for your kind and heartening words mate. I'll try to balance everything on postwork. We'll see what will happen :)

[Kerem]

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For the hill on the close up I decided a much more dense and detailed eco-system with a brand new tree. Which less 2D map looking leaves. Now hill fits much more with a dense jungle like landscape on overall look.

[Kerem]

http://www.photosled.com/data/500/newelements.jpg

Here is the new tree and rock objects I prepared for the hill on the close up - and a sample from shading network of my rock texture.

[Necronomiden]

hey kerem! its amazing you've done so much stuff in such a short time, love the octoship design :wip:

[Kerem]

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When we were ignorant about the great secrets of our planet, Neo-Dolphins arrived and landed. They’ve became our mentors, gave us a glimpse of their unlimited knowledge and technology. We’ve learned how to build a civilization. Learned our place and our role in our universe… They showed us how broad our horizons could be. When they thought that their part is over they decided to leave – they were just showed us the way, it would be our choice walk on the path. One day, they spread their wings to the eternity and left their fascinating marks for the future generations…

[Kerem]

hey kerem! its amazing you've done so much stuff in such a short time, love the octoship design :wip:

Thank you so much mate!

[MartinNielsen]

Nice final. The spaceship design looks great. Well done.

[Kerem]

Nice final. The spaceship design looks great. Well done.

Thank you so much for your kind words Martin. Glad you enjoyed it! :beer:

[Necronomiden]

omg kerem you finished!! it look amazing really, congratulations! :applause:

[Donglu-LittleFish]

Hi, You are done! Congratulations! That is really fast and your final image is such a visual pleasure for the eyes! I am so happy to see that you changed significantly the color palette from the previous posts. Actually, I went to your website last time when I replied you. I saw all your awesome and colorful paintings and I was wondering how come you used a very different color scheme for this challenge, hehe, now the colors are back! Well done! And the best of luck for ya! :applause:

[Kerem]

omg kerem you finished!! it look amazing really, congratulations! :applause:

Gracias Sergio! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Wishing you all the best for the contest!

[Kerem]

Hi, You are done! Congratulations! That is really fast and your final image is such a visual pleasure for the eyes! I am so happy to see that you changed significantly the color palette from the previous posts. Actually, I went to your website last time when I replied you. I saw all your awesome and colorful paintings and I was wondering how come you used a very different color scheme for this challenge, hehe, now the colors are back! Well done! And the best of luck for ya! :applause:


Hey! Thank you so much dropping in. And really do appreciate for your kind and heartening words! I always look for different color palettes but at the end of the day I use what I used to - I think I wanted to be in safe once again :D And I'm really happy that you visited my site and enjoyed my work, thats wonderful to hear from someone like you.

I'm wishing you the best too! :beer:

[Kerem]

http://www.photosled.com/data/500/details.jpg

I wanted to post some detail crops from the original image to show the details to you guys. I hope you enjoy...:wavey:

[akahraman]

:thumbsup:Stunning work man!!! it feels so warm. I was sure you'll have a great picture here as your other works at your folio. Good work. Congey Donkey!! :applause:
And i also hope you get something with this at the end of the challenge. :)
Cheers.

[ahmetekn]

Hey Kerem, congrats. mate! Really amazing excellent work! Details and atmosphere awesome! I like your composition and color selection.. Good luck for final step! :applause:

[Kerem]

:thumbsup:Stunning work man!!! it feels so warm. I was sure you'll have a great picture here as your other works at your folio. Good work. Congey Donkey!! :applause:
And i also hope you get something with this at the end of the challenge. :)
Cheers.


Hey Alperen! Thank you so much for your kind and heartening words about my work. Wishing you all the best mate :buttrock:

[Kerem]

Hey Kerem, congrats. mate! Really amazing excellent work! Details and atmosphere awesome! I like your composition and color selection.. Good luck for final step! :applause:


Ahmet thank you so much for your support man! Good luck for the contest to you too! :thumbsup:

[Arias]

The final is really cool, beautiful! And I like you color very much!
Congratulations!:)

[Kerem]

The final is really cool, beautiful! And I like you color very much!
Congratulations!:)

Thank you so much for your kind and heartening words. Your entry is so beautiful and creative too - wishing you all the best for the contest :thumbsup:

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