Prey, Neil Blevins (3D)

[ReneAlex]

Very good tex (as expected) but the enviroment needs some density... it's frightens thats for sure :P

BTW: thank you for the cg education, it was my first quality source of online reference back in the 56 kbps days.

[DarkLimit]

-Very nice model, I like the simplicity and creativity..

[DemolishMan]

Oh Emeryville... Thats place is like heaven for me.

I see a robot with many eyes, I like it. http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon13.gif

[MaryamNademi]

What music where you listening to?!
Cable Monster.it looks like a smart monster.
It can transform to a cage (opening the wires in a form of a sphere!)when it gets angry....

[nmcelmury]

Simple and creepy, nice work. I like it :scream:

[soulburn3d]

Thanks guys for the comments!

but the enviroment needs some density

Well, this guy is just a still from a modeling/shading turntable, at some point he may end up in an actual scene with a full background. Just have to wait for the right scene to come to me. Thanks for the comment.

What music where you listening to?!

I'm mostly a death metal guy, stuff like Meshuggah, Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad, Origin, Suffocation etc. Helps keep me in a dark and brooding mood :)

- Neil

[danlefeb]

I'm mostly a death metal guy, stuff like Meshuggah, Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad, Origin, Suffocation etc. Helps keep me in a dark and brooding mood :)


Good list of bands there! Very creative idea...can't wait to see it with a full background

[REMAIN-SILENT]

Simple but amazing !
Great work as usual
:thumbsup:

By the way how have you created your smooth shadow ? it is perfect ! Brazil light with area shadow ? or simply the skylight smoothing the standard ray shadow ? I do not remember if there is a lesson on shadow in your tutorials.

[soulburn3d]

Simple but amazing !
Great work as usual

By the way how have you created your smooth shadow ? it is perfect ! Brazil light with area shadow ? or simply the skylight smoothing the standard ray shadow ? I do not remember if there is a lesson on shadow in your tutorials.

Thanks. This is just my model lights setup (I use it for all my models). It's a brazil skylight with a gradient that goes from black lower to white upper. A key arealight from the front with a multiplier of about 1, and a kicker light (arealight, but smaller size) with a multiplier of 2 from the back. So the shadow is just an area shadow.

- Neil

[REMAIN-SILENT]

Arghh i am inexperimented in lights and i do not success to have the same kind of shadow, but perhaps i have misunderstood several things:

-Brazil skylight ok (even if at first glance i do not understand the added value of a gradient)
-Aera light. Is it a brazil aera light or a default 3Dsmax area light ? what kind of shadow it is (ray traced, brazil ray or aera) .By the way i do not see any differences in the config between standard omni and aera light omni.
-Second aera light. If you say smaller, that means that you configure far attenuation. Does the model between begin and end ?

Perhaps that i have to learn some light basics, especially on aera lights which i do not understand, i mean between an aera and a standard with far attenuation..

[soulburn3d]

-Brazil skylight ok (even if at first glance i do not understand the added value of a gradient)

What the gradient does is it masks the light. So towards the bottom of the model you get very little light (since the color of the gradient is dark), and towards the top of the model you get more light from your skylight (since the color of the gradient is light).

-Aera light. Is it a brazil aera light or a default 3Dsmax area light ? what kind of shadow it is (ray traced, brazil ray or aera) .By the way i do not see any differences in the config between standard omni and aera light omni.

Use a Brazil light, lightsource type: Rectangular Area. Leave the shadows to its default. Change the size of the arealight to something reasonably large, like maybe set the X Scale and Y Scale to 50 units under Area Light Options, this will give you softer shadows. You control the softness of the shadows with the size of the light, not using any specific shadow parameter. While the standard omni lights work in brazil, don't use them, since the area shadows from a standard light will be slower to render than the brazil area light.

-Second aera light. If you say smaller, that means that you configure far attenuation. Does the model between begin and end ?

Nothing to do with attenuation, just make the size of the light smaller, say maybe 10 units large.

Hope that helps.

- Neil

[REMAIN-SILENT]

I understand now ! It is a very clever way to create smooth lights, and very economic moreover. I am going to test this kind of lighting right now on a little modelisation !
:bowdown:Thanks master

[vfx]

Hey Neil,

Very nice work... but my word, your imagination is unique - I can't say I've ever thought of something like this stuck in traffic :) Usually it's me in a Big Truck driving over everyone until I remember I'd be killing people :(

Great work!

[Cyborgguineapig]

Interesting design. Don't like the black background much though.

[visionmaster2]

great work ! simple and strong.

[simoncheng]

very nice concept works.:thumbsup:

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