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balistic · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 9:59 am

This is a new test render of a piece that I originally created about a year ago, but was never happy with. I'm not finished yet, and still want to refine the cropping/composition and add more stuff to the foreground (pebbles, grass, et cetera), but I'd appreciate any comments you may have at this point.

Pardon the blurry areas . . . I've been experimenting with ways of dulling unimportant details . . . this is something that painters do almost automatically, but that you have to work at in 3D

If you want to see the older version:

Click here

I think its pretty flat and lifeless, which is why I'm doing this new revision.

Feedback is greatly appreciated!

Guy · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 10:07 am

wow.. that really looks cool. no crit though

shardik · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 1:05 pm

this is all painted? (in photoshop/painter) it looks like some bryce stuff and then painted.... either way it rocks ill keep the deep canvas thing in mind when i do my next (*cough First) painting

balistic · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 1:29 pm

Its actually 3D, done in Animation:Master.

waylon · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 4:20 pm

Looks good, but you might want to blur the sand a bit too. It looks too... well.. bump-mapped.

I think there's more little grainy stuff going on than you'd probably see in real life. Otherwise it looks great, and is a definite improvement over the original.

MeatyCheesyBoy · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 4:46 pm

One of your more recent pieces had a cinder block in a puddle of water in the foreground. This one needs a similar foreground element. Right now there isn't really anything to look at. The more cliche choices would be a skull or a wagon wheel but I think you can probably come up something better than those. What you've got going though, looks great, I can't wait to see it finished.

::Dino:: · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 4:59 pm

Awesome

I love the warm colours...Can't wait to see it finished.

Plop · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 8:52 pm

Wow, incredible. I didn't realize it was a 3d rendering at first. Definetly a lot better than an older version. I don't think the blurred areas are doing too much good though.

Makes you wanna drop a Boba Fett or a pod racer somewhere in the picture

Pat · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 11:10 pm

How, exactly, are you blurring those areas? BTW, the new version is much more punchy!

-Pat

Bg · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 11:48 pm

Friggin amazing!!

[edit] Do you make that blur in 3D prog?

[ April 26, 2001: Message edited by: Bg ]

balistic · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 11:55 pm

Thanks guys.

Pat: The blur is done by copying the image in Photo-Paint, and pasting as a new layer. I then run a couple Gaussian blurs and a noise filter on it, and erase away any parts that I want to keep crisp. Its a similar technique to what Disney was calling "Deep Canvas" when they were working on Tarzan . . . you're basically just combining a blurred image with a crisp one in some logical manner.