War of the Worlds - Hangover by czarnyrobert
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Description
As everybody knows - Martians did not exist, and slow walking machines are not a very effective weapon - so let's be less serious this time :-)
Some of you probably will ask why heat ray struck old ship wreck ?
Why they did not burn the escaping boat?
Hmmm....No body's perfect....Even fancy Martians...
Previous day some of them drunk too much human blood.
After such a party, precise aiming is a hard task for Martians having hangover.
Remember, never try to drive a walking war machine, neither use heat ray the day after a party... You risk missing the target ;-))
Set, textured & rendered in Vue 5 Esprit.
Meshes created by :
Alain Gracia - lighthouse
Derrin Proctor - Martian Walkers
Helmut Shaub - motorboat & shipwreck1
Curious Labs - Low Res Casual Man
All meshes were retextured by me - I used a mix of textures and Vue 5 functions to obtain stains and aging effect.
Flames are a couple of spheres with a volumetric luminous material + point light
Smoke is only a 2D postwork (unfortunately I forgot about it before I render the scene - but you could obtain very similar effect using several spheres with fuzzy material)
Shore effect - alpha plane with painted transparency bitmap for mixing clear water and foamy water.
Comments (88)
masterful image you have made. material and the light are wonderful .. this is cool
Very nice! Your POVs are always so majestic.
Sorry I am late.. This is totally excellent sci-fi artwork!
swietne po prostu swietnie..... Amazing shore effect...one of the best Ive ever seen made with vue...exceptional render..as always..VOTE !!
Hmmm, sounds like you've been getting fanatic comments, too bad. The water and rocks are exceptional work in their own right, as the base for such a well thought out scene - wow.
Woaw !!! Fantastic SF scene :)
FANTASTIC WORK OF ART AND SKILL.V
Interesting composition. I can see why you ended up on the hot 20 list. You have great talent.
Fantastic image, Robert. The textures and effects are excellent, very well done!
Excellent special effects - (laser, flame, smoke and coast effect) Top quality artwork ! Excellent & Vote !
Nice idea, just question. If the one machine is on higher ground, shouldn't it be higher up? Their all (seemingly) on the same level. It looks like a pond rather than the ocean.
Spectacular ! Excellent piece of vintage science-fiction - try to post a sepia version !
Excellent image. Briliant work of art.
Looks nice!
Awesome image as usual :)
ha...fajny pomysl i jak zwykle perfekcyjnie zrealizowane! dawno mnie nie bylo tutaj i w sieci, wiec milo widziec, ze ciagle robisz cos fajnego, przy okazji Milych, Spokojnych Swiat i Super Nowego Roku!!! v
Good as always ! However I prefere your "mega scenes" - this one is quite empty :-(
wow, how did I miss this one... awsome job, awsome awsome!!
Amazing as always
Fantastic image!! Your ability to generate realism is stunning!! Great humor too!!
Outstanding imagination ! Fantastic composition, textures and effects ! Excellent work !!!
Brilliant composition!!! Cool work!!!
Cool scene - only you should make better water - water on the bottom part is OK, but on higher part it looks bad
My Freind this is awesomne!
podoba mi sie faktura na tej latarni ,widac cegly ,i cienie balustrady i okienka .wizja ataku na morzu przez statki kosmiczne ,ciekawy pomysl ,szkoda ze tych laserow nie ma wiecej .ciekawe spokojne morze tylko przy latarni odbijaja sie fale o kamienie ,a te statki chodza po tym morzu jak pajaki:)
Very funny, and very cool. I love the style of the escaping boat with the black belching furnace in the center... awesome!
The very beautiful image! This picture very much has liked to me!