CGTalk - ALIENWARE Challenge Entry: Francesco Paduano

zbgump

10-24-2003, 05:58 PM

Your latest addition is definatley a nice improvement. it has a very handsome painterly quality.

My favorite aspect of this image is how the land, sky, sun, and moon all sort of blend together, by virtue of the color as well as the texture.

I might also like to see more of those glowing holes within the chasm, they're cool.

I'm too sure if you need the stream, it might take away from the earthy-ness of the image.

Not too sure, just thinking out loud.:)

Good job.

ficolo

10-24-2003, 06:21 PM

Ok many thanks

ciao
Ficoo

ficolo

10-27-2003, 02:42 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067265759_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067265759_large.jpg)

Update

peekoot

10-27-2003, 04:27 PM

your latest update is absolutely great! :thumbsup:

but (there is always a "but" :) it reminds too much on final fantasy: spirits within...

ficolo

10-28-2003, 01:38 PM

:p i hope it's not too similar...

Ciao and many thancks

Francesco

DigitalOmega

10-28-2003, 01:43 PM

well this is very good! i like it, but i think that u may have more things on the planet, it looks very very empty.. or maybe its just me-- i really would like to see how you will model the rocks, it is something that is difficult to me to achive.. ok, good luck! and show us more of your work!

ficolo

10-28-2003, 01:59 PM

yes the planet is very empty becouse I work on subjects to insert in the scene and avoid to crate simile whit other ....
For the cracked rocks I hope to do my best...:p
ciao
Francesco

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My website (http://ficolo.altervista.org/)

AlvinG

10-28-2003, 02:14 PM

Ciao Ficolo, I think that's a good concept.:thumbsup:
I'm looking forward to your 3D update.

ficolo

10-28-2003, 02:15 PM

Many many thanks!!! :beer:

And I wait your submition at this contest :p

Ciao
Francesco

ficolo

10-28-2003, 04:55 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067360132_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067360132_large.jpg)

WIp: start the modelling

sakenstein

10-28-2003, 06:04 PM

great idea!!!great work!!!i can't wait 2 see more!!!:applause:

KOryH

10-28-2003, 06:06 PM

looking good. I will wait patiently to see how this progresses.

Xtronik

10-28-2003, 06:41 PM

Really Liked your work!
that canyon rocks....I wanna see how will become finally.....
Nice one!

DimitrisLiatsos

10-28-2003, 09:35 PM

Great concept the last one..if u try to set a camera angle more to the horizon and lower to the ground opening i think it will show more dramatic:beer:

ficolo

10-29-2003, 11:10 AM

--- DimitrisLiatsos, Xtronik, KOryH, skls ---

Many Thanks for all your consideration

:beer:

10-29-2003, 04:08 PM

CIDENTI!...te la cavi egregiamente pure tu!Complimenti!
I like all of ur concepts..and ur first 3d attemp,looks promising.
:beer:

ficolo

10-29-2003, 04:34 PM

Molte grazie;)

In bocca al lupo a te!!!!

I look your work with interest!!!!!:beer: :beer:

ficolo

10-29-2003, 06:46 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067453185_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067453185_large.jpg)

This is a test 1 of ipotetic alien-rock shader.

robertp

10-29-2003, 09:57 PM

amazing texture. The only thing to remember is that the cracking needs to stop at the edge of the cliff. Since rock is made up of strata they will always be horizontal unless there was uplift or earthquakes. keep going.

Rob:D

Dancing Monkey

10-30-2003, 02:50 AM

Awesome... Incredibly awesome.

I like how the cliff is coming together. The texture is amazing and the whole form is great. MORE!

blindsleeper

10-30-2003, 06:48 AM

movin along quite nicely...

ficolo

10-30-2003, 10:41 AM

Thanks for your compliments, I want remember you this is a experimental/wip and it not is definitive.:thumbsup:

Ciao
Ficolo

Phydeos

10-30-2003, 11:22 AM

I really like your rock shader/texture!

What software do you use?

ficolo

10-30-2003, 11:55 AM

Hi Phydeos

I use the 3dsmax5.1 scanline render whit a procedural textures:

cellular, electric, noise ecc.

Ciao
Francesco

10-30-2003, 12:00 PM

Cool! I like ur render a lot!:applause:

Phydeos

10-30-2003, 01:12 PM

You made those stone cracks and bumps with procedurals?
Now Im even more impressed than I was before :D

ficolo

10-30-2003, 01:15 PM

^_^

:beer:

ficolo

10-30-2003, 04:52 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067532727_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067532727_large.jpg)

This is an test of camera view render.

Pyke

10-30-2003, 06:01 PM

*Throws his mouse in2 the air*
Just give the man the computer right now... :applause:

Seriously man-thats some seriously good stuff going on there! I love the 'hazey' feel you have going on...its got that 'lazy morning' look to it...hard 2 explain, but extreamly effective!

Keep us posted man!

kjc

10-30-2003, 11:44 PM

Nice work :) I'm impressed with your speed of progression from concept to modelling. It's looking really well.

ssloan

10-31-2003, 01:52 AM

Really good, i love the improvement on the rock texture. it dosn't feel glossy now.
this is really comming allong nice
:buttrock:

m3_fs

10-31-2003, 05:53 AM

great perspective :)

ficolo

10-31-2003, 05:08 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067620117_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067620117_large.jpg)

Wip:
I have create the bridge models

FrankyMo

10-31-2003, 05:41 PM

Like it... really start to look interesting to me... Will follow the evolution of it for sure!!!

ZrO-1

10-31-2003, 09:49 PM

I love the composition and the individual textures. I thin the only thing I'd change is that fade-transition between the sand-colored rock to the dark-rock...it looks kind of off. Maybe shorten the fade overall and make it a little more random. :shrug:

Great work so far though, I really like it.

Hellsp4wn

11-01-2003, 09:48 PM

Great Work!!!
If anything, I would agree with ZrO-1, but still, I truly love the whole atmosphere
Keep it up :thumbsup:

Kev3D

11-02-2003, 05:48 AM

Wow, your landscape is coming along beautifully. I liv the texturing!

ficolo

11-03-2003, 10:28 AM

I love your all feedbacks!!!!!

:applause: :beer: :applause:

Designer2

11-03-2003, 11:03 AM

Good job, the cracks are cool, the rock shaders, the cliff and the atmosphere all are mixing together in stylish way.
Keep going i realy want to see more of this,

:applause:

ficolo

11-03-2003, 12:07 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067861229_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067861229_large.jpg)

last wip updated

Borro

11-03-2003, 02:32 PM

Good job. Keep up the good work. Hope you continue to make such great work!

Aimes

11-03-2003, 02:53 PM

Very nice designs. I love the textures you used. :applause:

ficolo

11-03-2003, 03:09 PM

:) many thanks :wip:

I use the 3dsmax procedura textures: cellular, electric, noise, max gradients....

ficolo

11-03-2003, 05:41 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067881275_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1067881275_large.jpg)

update

Floyd Kurio

11-03-2003, 06:04 PM

I really like the direction your work is taking. Great composition and color. I think you have a strong concept of the project and its goals.

ZrO-1

11-04-2003, 01:49 AM

Wow, I really like the transition between the "sandy" surface rock and the darker bed rock now. It feels much more wind-blown and worn-down now. The transition also looks more realistic where the rock forms definite layers with a melded transition between the two.
It gives the impression that something drastic occured over a relatively short ammount of time to cause a change in the sediment that accumulated on the surface of your planet.

camdoggz

11-04-2003, 11:07 AM

Yeah I agree with ZrO-1,

I also like that outcrop of rock right in the forground, as it adds nicely to the depth ofthe picture and the balance of the composition

:thumbsup:

ficolo

11-04-2003, 01:37 PM

For you all!!!
:beer: :beer: :beer:

neospartan

11-04-2003, 02:27 PM

Very nice! :applause:
Only little detail: I would like to see sand in the forground and also sand falling from the edges, to give the effect of wind blowing. It will make it more realistic :thumbsup:

My sketches (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99243)

:beer:

rrobert

11-04-2003, 02:59 PM

A Question to you, Ficolo:

I use max a lot. But how in the world did you create the awesome canyon?? Polygon modeling? :shrug:

GREAT :thumbsup:

ficolo

11-04-2003, 04:31 PM

Originally posted by Straightmark
A Question to you, Ficolo:

I use max a lot. But how in the world did you create the awesome canyon?? Polygon modeling? :shrug:

GREAT :thumbsup:

Yes I use the polygon modeling in subdivision surfaces (meshsmoot modify)

;)

ficolo

11-04-2003, 04:32 PM

Originally posted by neospartan
Very nice! :applause:
Only little detail: I would like to see sand in the forground and also sand falling from the edges, to give the effect of wind blowing. It will make it more realistic :thumbsup:

My sketches (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99243)

:beer:

I work on it:thumbsup:

ficolo

11-05-2003, 04:38 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1068050297_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1068050297_large.jpg)

wip update

Cullen

11-06-2003, 08:24 PM

This is looking sweet. Very enormous. Very real.

finchy

11-06-2003, 08:57 PM

i like the grandness of it all. gives a great feeling to look at it. just how big is the mesh?? anychance of a wireframe image?? good job! Finchy.

camdoggz

11-06-2003, 10:04 PM

Dude this is really coming together great. :thumbsup: Good work! :eek:

Xtronik

11-06-2003, 11:57 PM

awesome work ficolo :applause:
keep up good work!!!!

will check again

Maytridy

11-07-2003, 12:02 AM

Wow dude. nice work.

ficolo

11-07-2003, 12:16 PM

:love:

Thanks

:beer:

Gobbledoc

11-07-2003, 02:11 PM

fantastic work ficolo, excelent use of procedurals... gives a great feeling of mystery as to what could be lurking in the relative safety and shelter of this vast chasm. :applause:

smoke

11-07-2003, 03:22 PM

This is definitly one of my favorites so far:thumbsup:
I'd love to see a full size (1024 or larger) image of this.

ficolo

11-07-2003, 04:06 PM

for smoke many thancks, if you click on the image you can look to 1024 x 768 pixel ;)

Gobbledoc thanks

:beer:

TechnicallyArtistic

11-11-2003, 10:05 AM

Just curious about how you're maknig the 3D scene. Do you make in in nurbs or Polys with sub-ds? And what about texture mapping? Are you mappnig the top then the sides and then the bottom i thought i saw a seem at the top edge?

I'm just currious. I've never really done a huge landscape with big vallies like that. Usualy only one plane of ground.

If you got any pointers, that'd be great.

Evil Pumpkin

11-11-2003, 10:38 AM

:thumbsup: VERY impressive work....can't wait to see more!!!pleese post new WIPs!!!:thumbsup:

:wip:

peace

PhilOsirus

11-11-2003, 06:04 PM

I think if you are gonna leave those branch things, you have to put a lot more. And I think the sky needs some work. Try a normal blue sky of some sort getting much darker at the top, seeing the stars through. Try it;)

ficolo

11-11-2003, 06:21 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1068574862_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1068574862_large.jpg)

This is a wip of my work
I'm creating the planet atmosphere. The Atmosphre is very dense and gaseous. I created more layer of clouds and I used the max procedural texures for clouds - blurnoise - because it has more level of details respect to standard 3dsmax noise. I mixed blurnoise with smoke in different layers.

xi-on

11-11-2003, 08:40 PM

Hm i think the view on the clouds in the background feels wrong. Try to "bend" the clouds at the very end of this sky to a curve fitting the planets bent. (Imagine 2 nested spheres. one small inside a Large one. If you stand on the small one looking straight you 'll look over the bent of the inner sphere onto the large one. (oh man i can't explain that in english though.) that might give the horizon a more natural look...it just might.

Very well done though!
good job keep up :)

m1g

11-11-2003, 08:53 PM

Hey thats rulez =)
I want to share you some ideas, if you agree.

1.How `bout some nuclear holes on surfaces, like this world weren`t lost, it was destroy`d ,huh?

2.Maybe some space craft on orbid?

It all IMHO, remember =)

anyway u r pro

blindsleeper

11-11-2003, 09:04 PM

great job overall, however, compared to the detail in the rift, the surface looks very bland, as well as looking as if it has had a lot less attention paid to it.

ficolo

11-12-2003, 11:51 AM

:beer:

thanks for your feedbacks.

or the clouds suggestions I'm agree with xi-on and i work on it.

hi m1g,
for the nuclear holes, they are in the scene. ;)
I don't use the space craft because this is a lost world, where apparently there is no more life.

Thanks to all

Ficolo

TaRkA

11-13-2003, 09:16 PM

Been watching your work for the past weeks and Ive loved it, I just had to register to post and say that it is awesome

:applause: :thumbsup: :applause:

I AM NOT WORTHY!!! :bowdown:

ficolo

11-14-2003, 04:58 PM

many thanks TaRkA

I'm very honored of your complements

:beer: :bounce: :thumbsup:

Levitateme

11-14-2003, 05:36 PM

I really like your image so far. reminds me of something from final fantasy the spirits within. i really like your crater you added, that looks really great.

ficolo

11-14-2003, 06:35 PM

thanks...:)

:blush: I hope as do not reminds too final fantasy....:p

Borro

11-14-2003, 09:03 PM

Great scene! Kinda empty for now, but I'm sure you'll add much more elements!!!
Great modeling, but post more meshes and info bout the materials-this is a WIP challenge!!! :bowdown:

TaRkA

11-15-2003, 01:15 PM

I think the sky in this (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1068574862_large.jpg) one is to messy... needs to be simpler, like this (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1068050297_medium.jpg) one....

Dont add to much more to the scene or it will become to messy, dont wanna do that now do we :thumbsup:

and more wireframe please :bounce:

TheFirstAngel

11-17-2003, 01:18 AM

Wow, Great work! I like your composition very much, dont get me wrong, except the last step. the clouds look very confusing and seem not fitting to the rest of your Image. But whatever, very impressive and a great work.
Good luck, be inspired and keep on rockin', man!:buttrock:

ficolo

11-18-2003, 12:39 PM

Hi to everybody,
a lot of graces for your comments and suggestions.
Surely the landscape will have enriched from other details and elements.
As it regards the clouds, they are not definitive and only a test to try the shader
of the clouds that I am creating. In fact the principal objective of this job is that to recreate all the maps in procedural way.

However thanks for everything :wip:

Hi
Ficolo

ficolo

11-18-2003, 01:10 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1069161040_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1069161040_large.jpg)

Hi to everybody,
I have made a small updating of my wip regarding always the development of the shader of the clouds.

Hi
Ficolo

Steve Green

11-19-2003, 08:21 AM

Hi,

it's looking great, maybe you should consider having one of the distant towers in the foreground? It might help give even more of a sense of scale?

Cheers,

Steve

ficolo

11-20-2003, 12:04 PM

HI Steve,
it is a thing that I have to do but I had foreseen to do it more in her.

thanks for your attention

ficolo

adr

11-21-2003, 07:27 AM

no crits here hehe , really good work dude you re translating perfectly your concept sketch to 3d :applause:

ficolo

11-22-2003, 01:54 PM

I thank her/it for the kind his feedback

talk to you soon
Ficolo

Natess44

11-23-2003, 02:22 AM

Really neat landscape! I think you should add some sand blowing around the camera. It's really awsome even the way it is now though!!

imscifi

11-23-2003, 03:22 PM

I'm diggin the clouds myself. though, I do have to agree about the idea of them moving off into the background... right now it looks as though you mapped it onto a flat surface behind the planet... I also was wondering if your going to use more dynamic camera angles? I'd like to see a couple of other angles... one from down low looking up through the cavern past the horizontal tree like things.... I'd also like to get a closer shot of those craters... I guess, right now it feels like there is no refference to scale...

excellent work..... keep it up! :buttrock:

ficolo

11-25-2003, 02:45 PM

As it regards the clouds I am still working there and I hope to find to brief a satisfactory result.
For the use more dynamic camera angles I will propose some of it more in her.

Thanks to all of you
ficolo

BClaw

12-03-2003, 07:08 AM

Wow! :eek: Very realistic! :bounce: I can't wait to see the finished image!

Designer2

12-03-2003, 08:02 PM

i like the last image the sky came out better, why don't you add some more alien structures inside the groove and make the grean lights more and brighter so they lit some of surfaces inside there with weird things going on...

tcomputerchip

12-04-2003, 08:10 AM

Hey, i was wondering what program you are using to model? I am having some problems with how to make cliffs in 3dsmax. Yours rock structure is impressive and I would love some help. Thanks.

ficolo

12-04-2003, 07:28 PM

many tanks for your suggestion end feedback
:beer:

for tcomputerchip:

I'm modelling the canyon structure in subdivision surfaces (in 3dsmax is meshsmoot modifier). The control mesh is very complex for this detail.

ficolo

12-04-2003, 08:32 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1070569944_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1070569944_large.jpg)

This is a new element of my alienworld
is a Cristal-rock form

ficolo

12-04-2003, 09:12 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1070572321_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1070572321_large.jpg)

I have update the textures, lightning, modelling, sky and clouds, cam view

ciao
ficolo

tcomputerchip

12-04-2003, 11:32 PM

Thanks for the reply. I was just wondering because I have some complex models to create that are rock-like. I am using 3dsmax 6 with sub-d.

Bungjo

12-05-2003, 03:27 AM

-your updated pic<- awsome man...thats good that your adding that alien rock. Add more and It will make your pic even better. By the way the pic bellow, I thought you might be interested to hear some pointers.

http://pacific.photoisland.com/sessions/60088861783/22003044.jpg

1. Add another creater on the left side of the terrain, just to add something there and to balance the composition of your pic...

2....I thought you might set up your planet/moons like this to balance your composition. You know three up there & three down here (where the creaters are). Just look at the pic I drew and your eyes travels back and forth on your composition nicely [the ying and yang, balance idea]... [From your Nov 11 image you posted up, I liked that you have the moons & stars at the BG ] Keep in mind not to let that 'medium moon' I drew to come out of your composition. It looks more better if its inside the compostion. No tangents no distractions, better balance of objects and paterns.

peace man...keep it up :cool:

Bungjo

12-08-2003, 09:06 AM

opps...heres the pic [pointers]]
http://www.webpost.net/jd/jdbpix/FrancescoPaduano_suggestions01.JPG
:beer:

ficolo

12-12-2003, 12:13 PM

Bungjo:

tanks for your suggestions :beer:

12-12-2003, 12:55 PM

AMAZING JOB!I like the mood of the image....the balance between the dark red lighthing and the complete dark areas is so cool!!Very good modeling too!:applause:

ficolo

12-12-2003, 04:40 PM

Grazie!!! :)

ficolo

12-12-2003, 06:33 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1071254010_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1071254010_large.jpg)

Updated canyon elements and lightning

AlvinG

12-13-2003, 11:18 AM

Great improvement!
Well done!:applause:

ficolo

12-15-2003, 04:23 PM

thanks alving

ficolo

12-16-2003, 04:50 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1071593452_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1071593452_large.jpg)

Update my Wip

TheFirstAngel

12-16-2003, 05:12 PM

Generally a great work. I like the lil towers and rocks you added, and also the foreground. Its a great scene with great mood and great textures. :applause:

The Sky looks still a bit wild and distracts from the mood, the contrast is too high, and the volumefog over the craters and dthe river btm right looks messy.

Idea: darken the whole scene a bit, make less ambient light (global illumination)incl. sky (also the sun, the which is too dominant) so the green, will have more effect, and raise your groundfog, to give more athmospheric deep to your scene.

Good luck and keep on rockin', greetz:thumbsup:

ficolo

12-16-2003, 05:34 PM

the1st_angel

Ok thancks for your help :) :)

ckrox

12-16-2003, 06:14 PM

dude...cmon you have an amazing scene going on right now. your ground looks amazing and the scale is great, but if you have to use a lense flare make it almost not even there. i think it is a little cheezy but thats just one persons opinion...so...just becareful with the lense flare and your other "moon" on the horizon. you start to lose the moon and it tends to look like a part of the flare. just becareful. great work though.

Borro

12-16-2003, 09:52 PM

Absolutely out of this world. I really like it a lot and if I may say there's only one thig missing on this picture and it's the first place!
Hope you continue to do such great work!

blindsleeper

12-16-2003, 10:13 PM

love all the extra new details man, great work... truely a splendid image now!

now if only id get off my butt and finish mine... :)

TheFirstAngel

12-17-2003, 04:19 AM

Most welcome, you're doing a great job!:thumbsup:

ficolo

12-17-2003, 10:41 AM

:love:
I thank all of you for the compliments and for the suggestions, I am well always welcomed.
The lens flare the mass so correct to fill the scene but it absolutely is not definitive.
Hi and thanks to everybody.
:beer:

TaRkA

12-17-2003, 12:33 PM

Looking damn good man :thumbsup:

Any chance of seeing the latest in a wireframe.... :wavey:

I think the sky is looking better, but is to dominating right now, and the Lens Flare is a bit to much.

Overall its a great piece and I hope u win :bowdown:

neverthemachine

12-17-2003, 01:37 PM

Hello your entry is so vibrant and really alive i hope i can make one with the same feel like you. very impressive. and cool.

:thumbsup:

ficolo

12-17-2003, 03:18 PM

you have only to hock you and to have so much patience.....;)

Bungjo

12-17-2003, 07:51 PM

-whoa! man, this scene is coming along...it looks great!!...
For me about the lens flare, It looks like you're there, looking down at the cliff and see this 'Lost Alien World'. The work you have here is simple but it tells alot. Your stuff is sick cuz it gives me goosebumps now, just looking at it..hahah...Damn man, awsome! I think it needs now is some touch ups, here's some pointers:

http://www.webpost.net/jd/jdbpix/121603.JPG
-i like those green gas, maybe give a sense of direction to where the wind is going.
-the rocks, give it some depth by putting bigger rocks close to the FG and lil ones going to the BG. Actually I like it too how you spread it out all over the place but put the different scales of rocks man...it will give more to the illustion of depth and scale

...whoa! goosebumps again! hahaha...awsome!!! :thumbsup:

Designer2

12-20-2003, 12:48 AM

Impressive, well, it is hard to suggest something or to give good comment for this work you are going very deep, try to change that lens flare i didn't find it agreeable it damaged depth quality also it is very eyecatching, you need to work better for the gas, i agree with Bungjo about gas and i think you should give it more distance,(opinion) all comments written to you after your last post was very interesting and full of suggestions and opinions.

:thumbsup:

always rock :beer: man,

ficolo

12-22-2003, 03:20 PM

Thanks still for your essential suggestions.
Surely I will keep in mind of everything.
Ciao
Ficolo

:applause:

freka01

12-27-2003, 11:20 AM

Hey, it looks really good.
About those tubes with lights coming out (looks like bridges or logs..), I think you should rotate a few of them to make it look non-linear..
You have the first two lined up in the exact same angle so to say, and it makes it obvious that it is the same object.
Other than that I think your picture is great. I look forward to see some of those mountain peaks put in.

Happy modeling and keep it up.

/Fredrik

TheFirstAngel

12-27-2003, 01:29 PM

Ciao Francesco!

I've just written this answer into my thread and I think this smoketrick would work great on your green craterfog, maybe you try it:

rept0r: Thanks, here's the trick, the plasma is very very easy to do. I made 2 tubes and inside each other, delete the caps, then with softselection pull the lower parts a bit out till I have something like a thin drop. Where the verts have more distance to each other, I local use meshsmoth. Now the optic is done with mapping. I use a celular map (white divisions, black cells) of a quiet big size (experiment around with the cellsize, in this case 325), use this as transparence map ((=oppacity) in this special case, i used a gradient as mixamount for a mixmaterial, let the black be black and used the celmap as white channel: first, i can let it appear later like this from invisable just changing the output and colorposition, second, i can let it disappear now in the distance) and pull an instance of the mixmap on selfillumination, specularlevel, bump and displacement (amount 35) and define the advanced transpancy type (extended parameters) to be additive. The diffuse color is set on a simple lightblue, and the specular color on a light cyan. Its great, because you can animate this later very easy, just animating the materialslot (coordinates and phase). and to support this looking like light, I placed a lightblue spotlight under the beam with a very slight amount that casts no shadow. See, it IS simple. This also works on objects like smoke, cigarette smoke, clouds or plasmarings and any background deepspace thing like the milkyway.... or (without the displacemet) on any Ghostlike characters. The favour of modeled lighteffects is that you have 100% controll of size, stucture, oppacity, color or whatever. If you have small resources, model the smoke in a still on a high vertical plane or a tube or whatever you gave mappingcords, turn and pull the verts a bit around (displace manually) then use meshmooth and let the displacementmap away, displacementmaps take much resources because it takes a high polycout to make them look good. Have fun with that!:wip:
Greets and keep rockin' :thumbsup:

Wanksta

12-28-2003, 10:41 PM

not much too say... the atmosphere is just exactly alien :)
very nice concept, maybe make some alien particles just on some places (don't know exactly what I mean..), I really love the background, it's really err... can't find the words for that :P
keep it up

ficolo

12-29-2003, 03:54 PM

Thanks Guy!!!!

:beer:

:wavey: Happy new year to all of you :wavey:

:beer:

Defonten

12-30-2003, 11:20 PM

Great Work Francesco )) Id'you know what I like in your composition? I'll tell ya - The Question! Not only "Is anyone there".. many questiones summarised in One Big Question Mark..and it's dammn thrilling ! :thumbsup:

My Big Respect.

TheFirstAngel

12-31-2003, 04:53 AM

And a happy new year to you too, keep the stunning work up, this is one of the most amazing works around! Have a great start into creative 2004 full of inspiration and great pieces of cg art! Keep on rockin!:buttrock:

ficolo

01-08-2004, 02:06 PM

:bounce:

Hello guys!!!!!

Defonten :
very very thanks for your comments :beer:

the1st_angel:
your year will surely be great!!! :thumbsup:

TheFirstAngel

01-08-2004, 04:11 PM

Grazie mille!
How's your smoke getting along?

ficolo

01-08-2004, 08:02 PM

the1st_angel :

Sorry!!! I'm taken me a vacation and from tomorrow I restart to work on it ;)

Ciao
Ficolo

Evil Pumpkin

01-09-2004, 01:08 AM

hi ficolo....glad to hear you're back! ....is the challenge near to finish or i'm wrong?!?...keep up the goood work!:buttrock:

peace

ficolo

01-09-2004, 01:38 PM

Grazie mille!!!:beer:

TheFirstAngel

01-09-2004, 01:40 PM

Forza Francesco, make us go wow, your work rulez big time and now that you're back, we can't wait to get more eycandy!
:wip:

ficolo

01-09-2004, 03:27 PM

coming soon

my friends

swadepgh

01-09-2004, 03:34 PM

Looks great. I really like this one. One suggestion: Maybe try to add just a little rim light on those tubes in the ground. They seem to get a little lost in the darkness.

I really like the horizon line/sky in this. How did you do it?

ficolo

01-12-2004, 06:44 PM

swadepgh
Thanks,

I'm use 3dsmax procedural materials standard

Heliosworks

01-12-2004, 07:14 PM

I really like the image so far, I think the noise setting on the clouds in the background could be tweak it looks a bit too procedural. My tendency for opinion is if it looks distinctly mathematical or rythmical/procedural you do not the variablity inherent in nature which appears to be random but really is not, just too complex for us to preceive as structured (which is debatable in context the challenge) but anyway the other thing is the colors as previously stated I like the mood of it, its vary Mars-ish, have you thought about maybe remnants of indiginous life or adding the visual variabilty around the edges of the crack further out I mean. The lense flare could be made unique as well, maybe customize it in the comping it or use a series of poly transparencies on a line with alien shapes, that are not distinct to our type of cameras.

Quizboy

01-13-2004, 01:01 AM

drop the lens flare, let the light play in the clouds instead or something.

make those gases float either left or right with the wind like that one dude suggested, or even angled upward a bit to get that off blance feel and a sense of movement in the pic. good luck

ficolo

01-13-2004, 10:26 AM

Quizboy:

thanks for the suggestion

I have already worked to the suggested changes.

Ciao
ficolo

ficolo

01-13-2004, 05:40 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1074015635_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1074015635_large.jpg)

Update...

eska

01-13-2004, 05:46 PM

Its a beautiful representation of what somebody can do in a simplified and clean way. Lenses or not, it's just simply beautiful.
Best of luck:bounce: :bowdown:

ficolo

01-13-2004, 05:57 PM

:beer: :beer:
eska
Very Thanks

Cullen

01-13-2004, 08:59 PM

need i coment?
yes i need to.
outstanding work.

JamesMK

01-13-2004, 09:59 PM

Nothing to crit, really - it's classical Sci-Fi illustration art at its very best!

Great work, hands down. :thumbsup:

Pufferfish

01-13-2004, 11:06 PM

This looks great! Your image is so smooth and has a very soft feeling. Colors are very good, I like them alot. Perfect mood.
Very good! No crits.

ficolo

01-14-2004, 11:22 AM

For:
Pufferfish , JamesMK , Cullen

Many thanks for your opinions..... you are the best!!!!:applause:

Ciao
ficolo

TheFirstAngel

01-14-2004, 12:40 PM

Belissimo, fantastico, no critics. Love the mood, the light, and loved the composition from the beginning! It's realy a most beatifull work, congratulation on this, it simply rocks!:buttrock:

ficolo

01-14-2004, 12:54 PM

:beer:
for the1st_angel :

Thanks thousand my friend....
... now I wait with inpatience your great job.:bounce:

:thumbsup:
Ficolo

ficolo

01-14-2004, 05:36 PM

thancks!!!! for all suggestions!!!

rattlesnake

01-15-2004, 12:09 AM

hey ficolo, great art work u have, i think that color management is awsome, u worked your image from good one to an extraordinary one, i must say that all this thread really rocks

:buttrock: oh and the concept is great, love the way the surface looks, great work man:thumbsup:

ficolo

01-15-2004, 10:50 AM

:beer: :beer:

Many thanks rattlesnake

I love your building models!!!!:applause:

Ciao and good luck!!!!:thumbsup:

Ficolo

Defonten

01-15-2004, 01:35 PM

Ficolo. I want to congratulate you with finishing your outstanding work and wish you success not only in this challenge but also in your creative life :beer: Your work is absolutely fantastic!

ficolo

01-15-2004, 01:53 PM

Thanks Defonten, for your great words.

:beer: :beer: :beer:

:thumbsup:
ficolo

ficolo

01-16-2004, 07:01 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1074279663_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1074279663_large.jpg)

color optimization...

eska

01-17-2004, 12:29 AM

Hi

The fog realy hepls to make it more real.
Excellent work.:thumbsup: :bowdown: :wavey:

Please check my thread and tell me what you think.
http://www.cgnetworks.com/alienware/viewentries.php?challenge_id=3&challenger=1414

DSedov

01-17-2004, 01:32 AM

I think it looks better everyday!!! Ohh.. we're running out of time..

ficolo

01-19-2004, 05:54 PM

Thanks DSedov and eska

Good Luck!!!!!!

centavrus

01-20-2004, 01:09 PM

ciao! sei molto talente ...belissimo vero:)

eska

01-20-2004, 02:38 PM

By looking a second time over the threads, I just simply have to say again.
MORE THAN B E A U T I F U L!
BEST LUCK:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :wavey:

eska

01-20-2004, 03:09 PM

Yep, I am first, yep, yep.....

This is just simply a miracle. For sure you are amon 5 best ones in this group.
Man, if I can say, you should be proud of yourself.
Best of the best of the best ...:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :wavey:

ficolo

01-20-2004, 03:09 PM

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1074611342_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/3/268/268_1074611342_large.jpg)

Final Image title: The Lost Alien World

Mars has been the subject of my inspiration for this image.
Mars, in terms of distance, is the nearest alien world to the Earth and it also stimulated for years our fantasy about alien population. I reproduced two different ambients to recreate the mysterious atmospheres and the mistery which lies behind the desolation of the landscape.
The red and the coloured ambient represent two different views of Mars, the one it show us every day and the other in the darkness with little green lights which represents all that we don't know yet or that we would like to found if we could explore indeep the surface of the planet... The Lost Alien World.

Francesco Paduano

eska

01-20-2004, 03:21 PM

HI again.
The computer has send my post behind you picture, but it was ment for after.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep, I am first, yep, yep.....

This is just simply a miracle. For sure you are among the 5 best ones in this group.
Man, if I can say, you should be proud of yourself.
Best of the best of the best
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ficolo

01-20-2004, 03:30 PM

:applause: :bounce: :beer:
100000 thanks eska

ficolo

01-20-2004, 03:34 PM

I want to Thank all the people that have been me near is in the challenge that in the life. Thanks to my family, to my owners, to my AlvinG great friend and supporter, to Romina and all the people that have supported me in the forum.... Thanks :bounce:

lostanimator

01-20-2004, 04:11 PM

hey impressive work...
hey this is for everyone... who ppl can afford to render 3500 *2500 px. or so images.. i guess almost none.. except for ppl.. who submitted just spheres and boxes... well sorry for that.... i think if artists are using tools like GI... and a billion polygon scene.. hardly anyone can afford to render such a high res image..
i just want to request ppl.. participants to .... to make a collective request for this..
it can be like.. u submit a decent res. image.. if u win.. then u r given time to re-render the same scene again for poster print and stuffs.. this way the winner can even use his NEW-ALIENWARE machine for this purpose... i guess not every artist is rich enough to have a hyper machine for this purpose...
if the CG TALK/CG CHALLENGE CREW is listening to this post.. then kindly reply back with a suitable decision.....
thanks to all cg talk feiends...
hope the result comes out well.. haha

BClaw

01-20-2004, 06:02 PM

Very realistic image! :cool: Good luck in the challenge! :thumbsup:

ficolo

01-20-2004, 06:40 PM

Thanks the claw!!!!:beer:

eska

01-20-2004, 06:47 PM

I was thinking, the overall picture is amazing, but NOOOOOWWW,
there is even more. All this subtle details,all this some hidden and some exposed units, this is more than beautiful.
To clarify, you have 2 worlds here going on;
the visible one and the fascinating, little and hidden one.
You have it all.
Best of the biggest luck to you.
If you win, you definitaly deserve it.:bowdown: :wavey:

I would be honored if you have time to visit also my thread

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?postid=1090320#post1090320

ficolo

01-20-2004, 07:08 PM

thanks eska,

:love: :love: :love:

good luck for your great work!!!!:thumbsup:
ficolo

ficolo

01-20-2004, 07:12 PM

tomorrow I go in london for work and I return in next week

good luck for all challengers

Dreamabyss

01-20-2004, 08:28 PM

ficolo,

Beautiful!!!! I see this on the cover of a book or magazine....really, really nice work!! :applause:

But I have one concern. The final image is missing the nice mist effect you had over the water. I also noticed that the planet on the horizo is almost invisible and almost doesn't look like a planet now. Did you do this intentionally? While I love this image...it's not as powerful as the prior render with the clouds over the water.

Good luck on the competition! :beer:

kjc

01-20-2004, 10:28 PM

great great work ficolo, I think the final camera angle you chose is perfect to express the vastness and depth of this world you have created. looking through your thread as a whole it's quite apparent that you worked your ass off to get to this stage. highest respect for that. the level of detail is fantastic. I can only imagine how this looks like at full res without compression. best of luck.

ficolo

01-22-2004, 12:40 PM

for: Dreamabyss, kjckjc

many thanks for your great opinions:thumbsup:

good luck for you!!!
ficolo

hugo.m

01-22-2004, 09:20 PM

Hey, did you submit your final entry? I wanted to vote for you but I didn't see your final image. I hope you made it on time!!:curious: :hmm:

Cullen

01-23-2004, 09:34 AM

this has really progressed into an awsome image. Great work mate.

TheFirstAngel

01-23-2004, 03:27 PM

Ciao Francesco!
This turned out as I expected it all the time, a real masterpiece and I love it big times!
Best luck on the final Judgement, and for all future projects that can be expected from your great talent and beautifull way to create! Keep on rockin!
Salute!:beer: :buttrock: :wavey:

ficolo

01-24-2004, 12:47 PM

:rolleyes:

for hugo.m:
thanks for your consideration, I have succeeded in sending the final image to the last moment, because from my parts there has been a blackout of the electric system and me I have been 2 days in the office without current electric. The image is not as I wanted but at the end I have succeeded in sending it there. I hope for so much that it is of your pleasure.

for Cullen:
Very Very thanks for your comments :beer:

for my friend the1st_angel:
A lot of graces for your compliments, I'm very honored for it.
I have seen your job and I believe that it will surely be among the favorite.
" Good luck " :thumbsup:

Ciao
ficolo

ficolo

01-24-2004, 04:35 PM

TheFirstAngel

01-24-2004, 06:33 PM

Hi my friend!

I am so glad your submission worked too! No need to say how stong your skills as an artist are... I simply enjoy!
:cool:I heard it on the TV yesterday, they found the proof of water on mars... when will they discover your Valley? It's a most beautifull work, and if you next time visit your alien friends there, can I come with you?
Your work was one of my favourites in the beginning and this is a fantastic and most beutifull result of an amazing process!
Best luck on Monday!:beer: :buttrock: :beer: