Sijun Forums :: View topic - Lurker's first post : Flight of the Daedalus

floodcasso2 · Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 5:53 pm

Hey everyone ive been a lurker here for a long time and never had the courage to post anything here cuz u guys all rock way too much. however i came up with something i liked quite a bit, and i decided to post this bit of scifi-3d artwork..... tell me what you all think?

floodcasso2 · Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 7:00 pm

anyone? anyone?

roundeye · Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 7:16 pm

i can dig it, looks good. fits in well with the background which i assume is a photo. but whats with the orange shit on the edges of everything? wheres that commin from?

PixelPeZ · Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 11:47 pm

maybe it's just me, but the lighting of the background and the ship don't seem to match.

otherwize nice modelling

floodcasso2 · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 12:10 am

im gonna get rid of the rust falloff map that will get rid of the orange glow seeing as there are no orange lights in the scene, that should fix the problem

Asurfael · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 5:47 am

Since the body of the ship is portrayed slightly from the top, shouldn't the head of it be portrayed from the same direction as well? Now it looks like the head of the ship is portrayed almost from the profile, and the rest more from the upside of the ship. Hope you get what I mean

Or is there some joint between the head of the ship and the rest of the ship?

floodcasso2 · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 7:29 am

what do you mean exactly? seeing as how this is a cgi image it would be really difficult for me to have gotten the perspective wrong on it, the ship is supposed to look like that i built it from these schematics however i didnt build it 100% accurately as i left a little room for artistic license

proximo · member Member # Joined: 27 Jan 2000 Posts: 467

Hey man,
I think you have a good start and i have no idea why everyone is giving you a hard time ?
Whats up with that ?

Anyhow yah the orange stuff needs some work and what not but damn it seems to me peeps are just jumping on you..

anyhow just my two cents ..

late

Steve · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 12:03 pm

I don't know why people are jumping on you like that. Personally, I feel that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

But anway... I think the picture looks fine. The perspective of it is all in how you look at it. Seeing as how the ship is below the eye level of the camera (and being below eye level, it is probably also below the horizon level as perceived by the eye), the ship and horizon would line up just fine.

The only problem I have with it is that the thrusters(?) on the back show some of the angles from the mesh. But that's it.

Great composition!

Steve · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 12:06 pm

PS: Whatever you do, don't let the work of other artists intimidate you. Just post along with them, and hope that they'll help you grow in skill.

PPS: On closer inspection, I see that it was just the texture making the thrusters look kind of angular, and not the mesh.

gArGOyLe^ · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 2:03 pm

I think that looks GREAT!!

Novacaptain · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 11:46 pm

It looks nice, you should check the lighting though...it seems the direct light would be a yellowish, almost white one, while the reflected from the surroundings appear to be a bluer tone.
The perspective seems off...not on the model, nor on the background but the two combined. I doubt that the horizon of both coincide on the same line.

BloodStone · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 11:51 pm

Hmm, that ship better not be full of soccer players.

c · Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 12:03 am

quote:
Originally posted by BloodStone:
Hmm, that ship better not be full of soccer players.

gahahahahaha

(in case no one else laughs

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