Striders in the sun - TUTORIAL AVAILABLE NOW !!! by czarnyrobert

Vue • Science Fiction • posted on Nov 20, 2003

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Created with VUE PRO

If you want to know how I created this scene, you can read my tutorial that was published in Computer Arts magazine (March 2004 - English edition page 62)

Déja vu ? Partially yes - Same place, but different time and perspective...

After a short visit, kitshy deers have being sent back to their fairy tale poser world. In the calm dawn of following day, striders reappeared. Those majestic & big but skittish creatures came back for feeding. Their planet is located in central regions of Milky way, where distances between stars are much shorter than on galactic peripheries where Earths Sun can be found. In such highly crowded region, gravitational interactions between stars are frequent since several hundred years striders home planet orbit started to shift slightly as consequence of close passage of a star. It resulted in profound climatic changes and destruction of natural habitats of many species. Indigenous civilization tries to protecting their endangered species. In feeding generators synthetic organisms are quickly grown on hydrocarbon nutrient.

Credits go to :

Darkworld Designs for Land Strider model in poser format ( I applied a totally new texture )

All the rest was made in Vue - feeders were made from double terrains & boolean operations on primitives, alien plants were obtained by assembling of cactus & corals. Distant city was build from . tableware shipped with Vue :-)

- 350 objects
- 4.5 mln polygons
- 15 lights

rendering time of 3500 x 2600 picture (resized later) - 30 hours (AMD Athlon 2000 + 1GB RAM)

Hope youll like it :-) Now, I must go and try to find a way to get off from Worm Blaster Virus that eat my antyvirus... and make a lot of mess inside my computer (fortunately it attacked only my laptop - my desktop has no internet connection) I never understood those stupid bastards who write viruses...

Comments (152)

pimpol

1:39PM | Wed, 26 November 2003

Ah, mon cher Robert, tu deviens, en plus de ton talent, un peu Dalilien, non ?
C'est absolument parfait, j'adoooooooore !!!
Continues, tu es sur la bonne voie, celle des tr grands !

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Pelican

1:47PM | Wed, 26 November 2003

Wonderful bizar combination of surealism and sci-fi... or fantasy ?! Hard to figur out to which category this belongs... but that's the reason why I like it so much !

lrf

1:48PM | Wed, 26 November 2003

Your work improves by huge leaps. Fantastic composition and Imagination, I love your classic sci-fi sense! Wonderful art

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danamo

3:35PM | Wed, 26 November 2003

Utterly fantastic work here Robert! A great short story to set-up the piece and a fabulous render as the "pay-off"! I love your stuff and am adding you to my favorites(and this from a Bryce guy!)Keep up the inspired work!

LordBukka

4:51PM | Wed, 26 November 2003

One of these days when I figure out how to stop sucking at art I will start to make pictures like this... Really nicely done...

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Boica

5:44PM | Wed, 26 November 2003

You are so far from all of as. You'r imagination and instict liding you on this galery like one of the best artist here. and normaly vote.

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Anjour

3:28AM | Thu, 27 November 2003

Stunning Image, fantastic work here Robert,love it...:o)

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MINTY1974

8:13AM | Thu, 27 November 2003

Fantastic picture robert. Great composition and POV. Minty

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orbital

10:43AM | Thu, 27 November 2003

Amazing, simply amazing!

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davidrivera

11:10AM | Thu, 27 November 2003

Beautiful work!! It looks right out of a Sci-Fi magazine. Dave

Quikp51

2:16PM | Thu, 27 November 2003

I love this too. The image is very surreal to me.

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jwdell

8:30PM | Thu, 27 November 2003

Awesome!!!

Vote!

noelsaun

12:49AM | Fri, 28 November 2003

You've gone to a lot of work for this one. And boy hasn't it been worth it.

nish

1:14AM | Fri, 28 November 2003

Impressive!!! imagination with no limits! excellent.

as07

7:40AM | Fri, 28 November 2003

MAGNIFICIENT!!!!!! you are really great!!!!! send it to George Lucas for their upcoming star wars movie lol :D

Drakath

11:25AM | Fri, 28 November 2003

Your image is great and very original. It's soo cool! The lighting and colors are like always beautyful.

Falko

12:13PM | Fri, 28 November 2003

Booaaaah,,,,,

mapicus

12:51PM | Fri, 28 November 2003

Wow, that's really impressive ! Excellent Art Work ! Vote !!!

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RG19

5:34PM | Fri, 28 November 2003

Tremendous atmosphere and details superb work!

Higherspirit

9:16PM | Fri, 28 November 2003

You are a great and highly gifted Artist in my opinion and this masterpiece portrays your creativity brilliantly, as does your other artworks too.

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madasatadpole

1:31PM | Sat, 29 November 2003

you deserve the finest accolades for your work robert ..its always a pleasure to view your magnificent renders..this one is also top notch ,,wonderful..vote

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bigbraader

7:11AM | Sun, 30 November 2003

I can't believe that I didn't comment on this the first time I saw it. Well, luckily it could be found in the HOT 20. Then, what can I say that hasn't been said already? Not much, I guess :) I really admire the imagination and craftsmanship put into this - pure genius.

koonak

10:40PM | Sun, 30 November 2003

Spectacular!!!! You are very talented and your imagination is wonderful. Very, very well done! :)

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Wojteg

9:20PM | Mon, 01 December 2003

Klimat "Gwiezdnych wojen" i to tych z pierwszej czesci.Zrobione po mistrzowsku,tak ze Lucas moglby to wykorzystac w swoich komputerowych pomyslach.Swietna perspektywa

ivo-k

1:23AM | Wed, 03 December 2003

Great scene, great imagination,awesome design of "skittish creatures" whatever that means.

shot2pieces

4:19AM | Thu, 04 December 2003

Wonderful again! What imagination... My deepest congratulations!

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