After picking my jaw from under the desk, where it has dropped, I can only say that your city… … well, it… rocks !!! :buttrock: Go ahead, make these people show you some respect ! 
Grand Space Opera 3D Entry: Mihnea Dumitru
CYCLER
#187
HieSpike
#188
Man that lighting looks awesome. How did you do that?! Great great, the whole things looks very modeled. Love it , 'nuff said:scream:
Eclisod
#189
Going insane, it’s as if there are a million ideas pouring through my head and none of them are any good. Returned to the galaxy nursery idea this time, only with a techno twist as opposed to the tree thing. Also, the lighting is horrible in this one, I’m trying to figure out the best way to do it. Hang in there with me 
Eclisod
#190
Rendered it at 3900x2711 (or something like that), and did the postwork en gros, so to speak. Pretty happy with it, some of the lighting is a bit off, but overall, considering it’s all modelled in Wings3D and rendered in Bryce 5… yeah, not bad
Doublecrash
#191
Who Drac, big improvement! I’m somewhat glad you dumped the balcony, and that plasma thing is really cool! Just out of curiosity, why don’t you send me the full res via mail? I just wanna see how is it at onemillionXonemillion 
I bet you know my email address, LOL
P.S.: Glad to see you’re back on it. I’m drawing back a bit cuz I purchased XSI 4 and immediately found in the manuals thousands of cool new ways to do better the things I’ve done so far.
Stefano
Doublecrash
#192
An afterthought… IMO, you should try to attenuate the lights coming from below. Like this they seem a bit unnatural.
S.
stevetwist
#193
Wow, the plasma thing looks awesome! The bluish lighting makes a huge difference also.
Looking much much better.
arturro
#194
this lighting is awsome:thumbsup: I have no crits. Maybe only would prefer the darker background. But still, it looks great. Can’t wait to see more:twisted:
overcontrast
#196
hey Eclisod, ur scene is looking great… but somehting is bothering me a little bit… the sky is too blue… try soem sort of gradient with less saturated color. and abt the lighting i gotta go with Doublecrash… and also you might want to add lights in in the side o the building so that it emits a natural looking bounced light… right now the lights comming from the window of the buildings dont seem to affect anything arouud it… alos u mght want to intencify the light comming fom the center glowy thing… well thats abt it… hope it helps… keep rocking mate ur doing cool… good luck
Eclisod
#197
added a sky. nothing more to say, adding traffic separately to the scene as postwork will be hell.
arturro
#198
I like your progress, with these colors you have got a nice mood. The background looks amazing, how did you make the clouds? It’s great, but I still think that it should be a little bit darker
Eclisod
#199
the clouds are from different pics i took from korea, romania, england, canada, wherever i’ve spent my time during the past 7 years
they’re postworked into the thing, and the only part of the starfield i’ve kept is the one that is shown in between the cloud breaks.
stevetwist
#200
Looking great - only crit. is that IMO the right hand side buildings are too blue - maybe try darkening them up.
The cloudy sky looks awesome.
stevetwist
#202
Oh no, I dread to think what’s coming up next (you might read my mind again!!! lol).
Can’t wait to see the next update, whatever it may be.
Eclisod
#203
You were thinking pink horsies on a string with light blue Poser fairies too??? OMG!!! :bounce:
Mihnea
(kidding)
ysvry
#204
finally found your thread nice to see a pupil beating the master lol, well roch might have some tricks up his sleaves though.
stevetwist
#205
Stop reading my mind I tell you! Stop! Stop! How did you know I was thinking that?!?! LOL.
Eagerly await to see the changes.
Eclisod
#206
You know, ultimately I jumped into a hole that was way too deep for me. For the record, I’ve never done something even close to this scale. I think it came out okay, this render being as close as possible to the final render. Added some traffic, the guy on the balcony, lens flares for the buildings, etc. The modelling in itself is decent (buildings-wise), but the perspective, lighting and compositing betray the fact that it’s ultimately a pretty piese de dilletance, as it were. Basically, it sucks. All the same I want to finish this. Bare in mind the fact that it’s Bryce 5 I’m working with, and a 200mb Photoshop file.
Final crits, comments, etc, are welcome!