Uplift Universe - Image Entry: S. Blaise Ingraham

#31

fantastic models! But what I like the most is the character’s gestures and expression, especially the human, they look so alive. (it wasn 't like they’re arranged) Love it!

#32

VERY nice pic. Great composition and character expression. Good work.

#33

Wow, you’re done a lot of work modeling and texturing so many characters. I like the designs a lot, and the posing is very strong on all the characters. The only suggestion I would make is for lighting; the chimp and human character seem to blend in too much with the black background, maybe a fill light could define their silhouettes a bit better and help them stand out. But thats a minor point. It’s looking reat so far.

#34

Blas,

Looking incredible. My only crit would be the human’s right hand seems a little oddly posed…perhaps if the two smaller fingers curl back a little more?

#35

Wow! Thanks for all the great responses!

I took the sky out so that I could try and focus on the interior of the ship. I still have some more accent lighting to add, and am thinking of putting a bit more detail to the back wall. Hopefully, this will bring out the human and the chimp a bit more. I may have to lighten the color of their suits (another thing I am a little hesitant to do, so hopfully the extra details to the ship will do the trick!!).

Walrus - Thanks again for your suggestions. Once I took the “bright sky out” I could see how much better the scene flowed. I am working on a new background.

Blachart67 - Your right about the hand. I think that the pose is a bit too soft! Will take a look at correcting it. Thanks!

#36

Hey there really nice work.

Looks like you ZB users leaving everybody else in the dust.
Guess the only other option is MudBox but no ZSpheres of course.
You know, in my newbness I'm only trying to get some models done and putting up a finished image.

XSI essentials academic too sweet a deal :buttrock:

I really like your texturing shading and posing skills they're totally impressive.
Also it doesn't look like the figures were just TransPosed haphazard they seem to be plausible and expressing something. Composition too. Interaction is really nice. Alien humanoids and monkey contrast with humans even on the colours? Really cool.

And the whole thing looks very austere with the lighting you chose.
Like a reading lesson, not.

Of course modeling is nice too. Looking pro.
Please keep it up :thumbsup:
#37

Here is the final composition. Thanks again for all the great suggestions.

Time to start the “final” render. Keeping my finger crossed.

#38

Wow! What an experience!! Never had to render anything as large as this challange on my "poor, lil, old computer. Wanted to do the render using Maxwell, but my system, just couldn’t hack it, so I ended up redoing all of the shaders and used a combination of Maya and Mental Ray (and a LOT of compositing in Photoshop). Overall it was a real “challenge” and I learned alot about some of the other aspects of 3d work that I hadn’t focused on before.
I’m happy with my “Final Render”. Hope you like it!!

Take care
Blas

#39

Congratualtions on finishing, Blas! Great work! I really think everything’s reading nice and clearly now, great job adjusting the lighting and scene to really show off the characters well! :thumbsup:

#40

Here is the alien chimp

#41

Here is my “original” The Complete Works of Shakespeare!

#42

Here is the chimp’s face

#43

Here is the teacher!

#44

This is the male alien

#45

Wow, so much detail! :surprised

Superb entry, excellent modeling and texturing! Brilliant.

#46

Good work, The scene is great and your characters are brilliant.
Well done on finishing and good luck :thumbsup:

#47

Great great final :slight_smile: I like.

#48

I realized that I didn’t discribe the scene, so here goes:

When humans explored the universe, one of the most important things they brought with them was paper.

What good would paper be if none of the species they encountered could read? So, it was their task to teach them how to read. This would be done in a library onboard their ship. Classes were small (1 or 2 aliens at a time). What the aliens learned, it then became their task to pass it on to the rest of their species.

Seeing that even though we are all different, we are still all the same. Perhaps the aliens share some of our qualities as well - a quest for knowledge and a love of pets.

Chimps, even though they are naturally curious, would be hesitant to interact with it’s alien equivalent, but surely would want to be right in the mist of things.

In teaching aliens how to read, mankind helped to preserve it’s history and gave itself an feeling of superiority over all the other species it encountered. Which might explain the one of the reasons why there became an “Uplift War”.

#49

Great image and story telling!Well done on finishing!

#50

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