City Canyon, Stefan Morrell (3D)

[CGLucas3D]

Amazing!, the light and the atmosphere are stunning. Can you show us a wire?

Congratz.

[Paul-Francis]

Beautiful - looks like an atmospheric painting rather than a 3D render!

[Arkaiko]

C´mon Stefan,outstanding as ever!
5 stars,please,Can you show the wires?
By the way,I saw your tutorial "Texturing Hard-Surface",it´s great,congratz man!

[InTerceptoV]

Hey Stefan... welcome back! I didn't see anything from you in some time.
This one is really good, and I see you have characters inside. ;) Composition is excellent as always, lighting is complex, atmosphere is great. Is it possible to see all the layers used before compositing?

[MOHKKF]

Amazing!, very very nice ...



Good luck ...:)

[PatrickSuen]

Excellent! I really like the tone and detail of that image~
Do you mind telling me more about the process of making it?
like to see the wireframe also! Great work~

[Creieru]

oau. great mood! frontpage stuff

[MaryamNademi]

I love it! very well balanced and well thought, you are a perfect environment designer.

Just noticed in your cg portfolio it reminded me of those colonels with lots of medals on their chest! lol! you have so many medals!

[Neutrino]

Really incredible quality! Looks very harmonic. Congrats! :thumbsup:

[madm4tt]

The model of the ship, as you said, is not the TOP that you can reach, but the overall composition has a great atmosphere I really Like!!!

Bye

[Lovas]

Excellent and inspiring artwork !

[far]

excellent work as always :cool:

[neroart]

beautiful as always, many compliments!! :applause::applause:

[Peter-Eriksson]

Great work, love the atmosphere!

[Silverwing]

Amazing work!
Great lighting and phantastic mood. I really love the whole look and feel of this picture.

Phantastic!

Cheers Silverwing

[Maytridy]

reminds me of blade runner. very nice

[ziggwies]

Great work Stefan.

Nice modeling, texturing and rendering.

[Majora28]

always interesting to see your personal stuff :)

[Stefan-Morrell]

thanks for the kind words guys
heres some wires + ao/gi pass...

InTerceptoV..all the original layers were overwritten when I re-rendered the ship & platform :\..it was the usual suspects,spec,ao,diffuse,atmosphere,reflect,..with very heavy postwork blending everything together & painting in details.



a qvtr of the city during the wip stage
http://stefan-morrell.com/Uf3_qvtr2sa.mov

http://stefan-morrell.com/CCwires2.jpg


http://stefan-morrell.com/CCwires.jpg







http://stefan-morrell.com/CCaopass.jpg

[Stefan-Morrell]

& a few more older images of the city in progress


http://stefan-morrell.com/uf3Pro3.jpg

http://stefan-morrell.com/uf3Pro6.jpg

http://stefan-morrell.com/uf3Pro1.jpg

[DarkLimit]

Great work Stef! I really like the ship.

[kvakin]

you did amazing job

like this atmosphere and of course details ! :bowdown:

[blitzfiry77]

wikid is the work! great concept art!
cheers
:)

[Bignanfer]

Really nice work, love the lighting and mood. Your work always inspired me! Thanks for sharing.

[simyevil2010]

no comment amazing work

5***** from me

ceep on & goodluck

[Howi]

Outstanding as usual, glad to see you back from being away, I want to be this good at environment art one day.

5* no question. The lighting and mood a particularly good.

[JanickoSlniecko]

simply awesome

[joe-joe]

I really like it :)

If I were this good (and I'm not) I would have continued to add depth to the scene, creating a real street in the background - just an appropriate tall narrow street from hong kong with all the bladerunner stuff layered on top (some pieces of ancient temple poking through would be really effective).

I think its great, but the scene just finished too soon! I want more of that world! ;)

It could have 20 people in the background, dotted around (walking, some with umbrellas or on old chinese bicycles - on a balcony, silhouette on the tram etc)

[AxorG7]

excellent work!

[hoskins78]

A wonderful scene, with so much amazing detail to enjoy :) Love the look of the ship, and the lighting is superb - realistic, yet with classic Blade Runneresque illuminations and effects too! Wow!

[PascalR]

Impressive piece Stefan,do you usually start with a 2d concept before jumping into 3d?

Well done!:cool:

[Dernhelm]

Absolutely superb work once again!! Fantastic details, scene, textures, composition, colours, lighting, depth, render and atmosphere!! To top all that, this picture is once more "imagination-friendly", I should say. ;-)
High class work!!

[darthrevan]

What did you use to make it?

[DarkEdge]

Damn, your computer must moan, "No, no! Not another render!!" lol.
Amazing stuff there. Lights are excellent.

[Stefan-Morrell]

thanks again guys :)

DarkEdge..this was my first image on a 64 bit i7 & I was amazed at how smooth & fast it went,its also one of my lighter scenes at around 600k polycount

Pascal,thanks...I do quick thumbnails/scribbles on paper to get the major shapes & composition down,but nothing too time consuming

Cheers!
Stefan

[Roganski]

Fantastic! Great attention to detail.

[sharkpainter]

More blur needed in the background, I can't see the street extent into far, anyway, It still a great piece

[MrCraft]

very nice work and i like your mood and lighting sense :thumbsup:

[VideoCreative]

Its like a frame from "5th element" the movie. Great work, keep them coming.

[hugodesign]

Just another superb work. ;)

[AnalyzerCro]

Rlly awesome work dude! You got nice gallery with lots of details on pics!

GJ!

[bearfoot]

sweet as ever stefan... love the ship

cheers
n

[kiittea]

Woaah Incredible stuff....your work is always inspiring.I love everything in it.. the composition, modelling, and light is absolutely beautiful.. One question though.. all that fog in the atmosphere. is it done in post or is it from 3d?

[jramauri]

Insane, my brother, simply insane. I hope some day I have 5% of your talent and hard work...

[thyn]

I love the amount of detail in your works... Man you are good :bowdown:
Exactly how long have you modeled that scene ?

[AdanVC]

Truly amazing, in Every aspect just wonderful!

[Stefan-Morrell]

thanks CGS for the choice award,that made my day :arteest:

kiittea..its 90% FRvolume light coming from a direct light pointing straight down,all the bridges & stuff made for some interesting shadow play.that volume is rendered as a seperate pass that I can tweak in post,I also use alot of zdepth to get some atmospheric perspective/haze in the image.

thyn..really hard to say how long it took,the city I made as a commercial model so there's quite a lot that you dont see in this image,that took maybe 3 or 4 weeks to model/texture,then the ship was something I've spent maybe 3 or 4 days on,the textures are pretty rough on that,I just did a quick box map & half hour texture.one day I'll return to it & do proper uv's & better textures.
then the final image probably took a day or two to set up,starting with a rough thumbnail sketch so I knew what the composition would be..then another day to sort out lighting..then about 3 nights of messing around in Photoshop.
btw thyn,nice work in your portfolio.I had one of your images as my wallpaper recently:cool:

bearfoot..loving the coloring in your recent works,very inspiring.

thanks again for the comments guys,Cheers!

[javiermolina]

Sublime!!! fantastic, the enviroment and the lights, very professional. congratulations


http://www.javierhmolina.blogspot.com

[kiittea]

thanks CGS for the choice award,that made my day :arteest:

kiittea..its 90% FRvolume light coming from a direct light pointing straight down,all the bridges & stuff made for some interesting shadow play.that volume is rendered as a seperate pass that I can tweak in post,I also use alot of zdepth to get some atmospheric perspective/haze in the image.

thyn..really hard to say how long it took,the city I made as a commercial model so there's quite a lot that you dont see in this image,that took maybe 3 or 4 weeks to model/texture,then the ship was something I've spent maybe 3 or 4 days on,the textures are pretty rough on that,I just did a quick box map & half hour texture.one day I'll return to it & do proper uv's & better textures.
then the final image probably took a day or two to set up,starting with a rough thumbnail sketch so I knew what the composition would be..then another day to sort out lighting..then about 3 nights of messing around in Photoshop.
btw thyn,nice work in your portfolio.I had one of your images as my wallpaper recently:cool:

bearfoot..loving the coloring in your recent works,very inspiring.

thanks again for the comments guys,Cheers!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Thats very interesting Stefan, thanks for explaining and congrats for the choice award :)

[cgmonkeyking]

High quality detail and lighting. Great work.

I really like the thickness of the air and the effect it has on the light. I'm curious about how much of it is actually Photoshop work.

Again, excelent!

[adeel]

Man! this is amazing. Excellent work!

[crevissis]

you are indeed one of the premier artists in this arena

[zapper1998]

Totally outstanding
see what happens when u are 3 days late
u get 50+ comments in front of u

:)


Awesome Job Yes Sir. 5 thumbs up If I had em ...


~
Michael

[SiavashArfaei]

its amazing .perfect light and nice shot.,
keep going
I was disappointed myself.images/icons/icon11.gifimages/icons/icon11.gifimages/icons/icon11.gif

[MyfanTasy]

I'm curious with the chinese words ,京？
i can smell your curious
hah.interested.

[JasonLin]

great job again Stefan
always amazed at your scene:bowdown:

[Tiger-1]

Woooooow...this is Fantastic work as usual. I love that ship :thumbsup:
And the kind of heavy details you put in your each and every scene is really amazing.
Your work has always being a big inspiration for guys like us thanks a lot for sharing your work.

Cheers!

[vikhyath47]

amazing urban city killer work.

[axiomatic]

Hi Stefan, just wanted to compliment you on your work, both this piece and your other cityscapes posted. I really admire your choice of palettes, compositional elements, and the fine balance between photo-realism and illustration. For me you images strike a really beautiful place between traditional sci-fi illustration and the more modern tendency for strong CG/photoreal work.

I get this wonderful feeling from pieces like this because it isn't attempting to make the place look (photo)real but instead it's doing what good concept art has always done; it's taking me to your vision of the world (as opposed to attempting to show me the world).

I was wondering if you might show us some un-photoshoped renders out of final render. I've looked at the product a couple of times and am really tempted to invest some time playing with it. I'd really love to see how you're using it.

Thanks again.

p.s.
I recently have been re-reading Gibson's novels. In particular I re-read Idoru last week and while reading it I was reminded of both your Sakura and Walled City images. If anyone actually gets aruond to making a Gibson film (or for that matter pretty much anything cyberpunk) I think they'd be doing themselves a service getting you involved :)

[trcn14795]

:cool: 做的太棒了（nice work）

[Syamasundar]

it's great job, man!!!
but it would be looking more great if you put on background some living peoples or not-peoples or not-living-peoples or not-living-not-peoples....

[goktugg]

Wonderful work, congratulations!

[gandoza]

Amazing work.
Congratulations.

[ZawZaw]

always the Best!! :applause:
so much impressive!

[Giom]

This is one of those scenes that you know is cg, because it can't be real. But the realism in both atmosphere and lighting is brilliant. Not to mention the 'feel' of the hover plane and it's ground crew.

One day, when I'm big...

Regards
Giom

[muxiaoshi]

It reminds me of the great movie/TV series,<ghost in the shell>..
Great job!

[winter08]

o.o,Great job!

[anezka]

I like the technical style and the future archtecture. The colour tone and the work with light is very nice either.

[thechosentwo]

Great work.

[CGphantom]

Really beautiful work... nice job with this!

[remingt0n]

Mind blowing, I really love it !

[JohnRocket]

That´s incredible!
Very good work and nice creativity. When i saw your image, "Wipeout" cames directly in my mind.
Not because of the ship, but all of the colourful signs. Nice.



Regards.
Rocket

[aarontheanimator]

Awesome work man!

[steelbug]

Magnificent work.

Excellent picture for a poster.
I like to consider models, in your work. All is harmonious both light and models and colour.
I congratulate with AWARD. :beer:

[Demon3c]

hey man!this craft remembers me of the AVATAR!good job!I like it!

[Sheff]

Love this work! Great lighting man! nice GI passes :buttrock:
How much polys are in this scene?

[JoJoJoy]

Nice Job. How did you make neon signs? :applause:

[Aci-RoY]

Cool work! Beautiful! :eek:

[BrikProductions]

Wow!
That's all I can think of to say.

[scott2753]

As always Stefan, absolutely brilliant work. Amazing detail!

[PowerRender]

Amazing work! I want to go to there...

[Al-Kabeer]

Nice work… Keep it up!

[DrewSmoot]

ridiculously good work as always.

[obizz]

very amazing, by the way, some chinese letters are reversed

[farhada]

Just amazing as usual ... 5 stars from me :)

[zapdettin]

Wow, fascinating !

[lolko7]

This is beautiful work. I like the lightning.
Greetings

[Imperial-Jade-Seal]

Wow! Great concept !

[DoubleSupercool]

Amazing stuff again Stefan! I love checking out your new works and again the texturing and composition are top notch.

[jgiron]

Wow, Wow, you work is perfect, congratulations always for you.

[adarc]

Excellent ! all the realation is similar with the big Movie feeling, very cool !!

[bryananthonydgm]

I like the environmental setting you just made. I salute your work! The harmony of the work is exceptional. Keep doing the good work and Good luck !

[cermit]

One again Youve proved how great your talent is. Amazing...

[shadowseve]

Man all your work is incredible. I would love to have your talent. Love the scene. well set up, well lit. Perfect.

[vikhyath47]

amazing work with great concept. beautifully executed .

[dzfire1102]

Finally catching up on everyone's artwork. Wow! This one stands out among the rest. It might be the ground crew or all the background detail. The ship is pretty unique and with real tires too. This would be cool as a large poster on my office door ;)

[RLM]

excellent work for sure, well done!

[suffibutt]

good work, mood and light

[tosbin]

wonderful picture!

[Aelirenn]

Beautiful. Love the atmosphere of the piece.

[T-DAZ]

Hi Stafen.well done .you had did a very very nice work!

[wbeeler]

I could see this being used as a set for Firefly. I've only watched that show a little bit. My brother is the addict. Nice work, bro.

:thumbsup:

[Thelema]

This is simply stunning. I'm a huge fan of sci-fi CG, and you pretty much nailed it. The modelling is great and the amount of detail is simply staggering.

[changiz]

Amazing work . . . :cool:

[farawayone]

Great detail.

[FireAngel]

Could we see the rendered image without the post-work? I'd love to know which of the atmospheric effects were rendered and which were added in post, please.

[kromekat]

Man I love your work! :beer:

[Lis1983]

Looks really stunning! Can't believe that is no painting. Impressive wire.

[Cruzaficks]

Come on, it's 3D? To make something in 2D look like 3D that's one thing, but vice versa? Woah, you got some skills son! :D Congrats to you :) :thumbsup:

[cgriver]

Incredible! Congrats!

[gandoza]

Great work! so many details.