Hi, my name is Karl Stöcker, and I was born a long time ago, way too long, in Berchtesgaden, Germany, grew up in Düsseldorf, and since 1966 have been in the US (mostly). I've traveled a lot, 46 countries by this time, and I am planning on many more. I've spent a couple of decades in the US military, active and reserve, and since retirement from civil service, worked off and on as a high school science teacher in a suburb of Sacramento. Ever since my original ID's Doom days, back when it was just released on a floppy disk as a free level advertisement, I was interested in learning about 3D CGI, but I didn't get started until I retired from civil service in 1996. Since then I have been working with Truespace, Bryce, then Lightwave 3D, and Vue. Also dabbled a little in Poser 4, but just bought Poser 6 and am starting sink my teeth into that a bit. My website, http://www.cosmic-pearl.com/, has more details on me, should anyone not be bored to tears by now, also there are LW Viking ship and Star Wars X-Wing tutorials, as well as downloadable meshes (which can be imported into Vue, BTW) - my free stuff to the CG community.
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Comments (14)
RBlue
Epic Icelandic saga style render. Like the multiple application usage! Very good! 11 hours is a long render time but worth the wait.
awadissk
Excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vertex31
good composition, maybe the snow of the background mountain could be distributed alittle bit more realistic
pixeltek
vertex31, it bothered me too, so here it is corrected and I think much improved. Thanks for the advice.
Gor111
a wonderful historical Vue scene you have posted here! Beautifully done! Bravo!!!
Traligill
I really like the composition and the details are great ie the smoke from the chimney and is that an 'outhouse'? Also I think the terrain and texture around the waters edge is excellently done. I glanced at this the other day but didn't have time to comment and I agree the background mountain looks much improved. Great work!!
drifterlee
11 hours render!!!!!!!! Gogeous scene and water!
FS
Wow...11hours???Great settings,render and scene!!!
B_PEACOCK
This is a really cool scene and well worth the time it took
jif3d
It's incredible the ridiculous amount of polys Vue and Zbrush can handle ! you have created a great historical scene here, well done ! ~Cheers~ :o)
arwenone
A lovely scene!
morin3000
These colors are incredible! Awesome composition, concept and the post work is just beautiful!
huenersh
wonderful Nordic panorama. Excellent Viking stuff!
DocMikeB
Wonderful middle-age scene, very realistic!