Alienware Challenge

Entry for Cullen McKeown ( Cullen )

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Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Final Image Date Submitted: Saturday, 10 January 2004 Title: Finished Notes: and here it is.... I hope you all have enjoyed this challenge as much as I have... oh well. til next time. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Post Effects and Compositing Date Submitted: Saturday, 10 January 2004 Title: Post work. Notes: OK - Final render complete. Now I have to fix it up... there are ugly facets here and there and the colour could be better. 1] Looked at variations and added more blue. 2] Brightness contrast I upped the contrast about 30% and upped the brightness 10% 3] Some of the bright green coloured areas I reshaped to make gyms - see pic. 4] With the freeform selection tool and feather I selected areas... then played with their contrast, hue, lightness, saturation... etc at individual levels. 5] And finally to soften the image I duplicated the layer... blured the crap out of it.... and droped the layer down to an opacity level of 30%... Ive got to go... but I will upload the final image tonight. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Rendering Date Submitted: Saturday, 10 January 2004 Title: LAST RENDER FROM MAX Notes: This is the last render from Max I will do... I mention why in my post but my personal deadline is today. It took 9hrs and 43minutes to render. I had to up the mesh smooth due to the displacements... but for some of the objects it wasn't enough... so I will fix those elements in post. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Texturing Date Submitted: Friday, 09 January 2004 Title: Texturing - Complete Notes: Added elements to the textures suguested by Angel... thanx. I made the displacement not a subtle though... I like it this way. Parts of it remind me of coral. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Texturing Date Submitted: Friday, 19 December 2003 Title: colour change Notes: I haven’t finished the textures yet… As you can tell… at the moment the perlin marble looks like crap., but I’ll get there. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Texturing Date Submitted: Friday, 19 December 2003 Title: Colour Splat Notes: This is what happened when I applied the material... explained in my last post. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Lighting Date Submitted: Sunday, 16 November 2003 Title: almost there Notes: Almost there with lighting... I just need to add some softer different colours to the piece... but I'll do that after texturing. C & C on any category? CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Modeling Date Submitted: Sunday, 16 November 2003 Title: Details Notes: As you can see I am adding more details into the mesh... more to come. I like how the back right one kinda looks like a root of a tree CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Lighting Date Submitted: Sunday, 16 November 2003 Title: Volume light Notes: rendering with only the volume light on to get those volumetrics happening CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Lighting Date Submitted: Sunday, 09 November 2003 Title: Colour tests Notes: I lit the scene with a sky light and a volume spot light. In photoshop I manipulated the colour for different looks. C & C anyone?.... please? my favourites are the bottom 2. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Modeling Date Submitted: Thursday, 06 November 2003 Title: Basic structure modeled Notes: Basic structure modeled... now to add the detail. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Concept Sketch Date Submitted: Thursday, 30 October 2003 Title: 1st Stages of Modeling Notes: Just blocking out the scene now. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Concept Sketch Date Submitted: Monday, 27 October 2003 Title: More thoughts from my brain Notes: Just some more thoughts on the texture of the planet. I am liking it more simple though. So I probably won't impliment this. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Concept Sketch Date Submitted: Sunday, 26 October 2003 Title: slowly coming along Notes: I have merged two of my concepts together. I plan on having much more of the detailed organic stuff you see on the bottom right... yet I have kept the original form. I have used a bit of volumetric lighting too... but I might want to change that because it seems to make the environment look a little friendly... when in fact I want it to look very uneasy. I will work more with the colour schemes once I start textruing (I like to have a lot of freedom with this) CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Concept Sketch Date Submitted: Friday, 24 October 2003 Title: Environment Surface Notes: This is my current thought of how the surface should be textured. More of a close up than the last images. I like the way everything is holding eachother together. Also I want the ground to be pretty chaotic. The holes in the surface are to make you feel like anything could be dwelling in them. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Concept Sketch Date Submitted: Thursday, 23 October 2003 Title: Concept A - 02 Notes: Colour scheme changed slightly. I'm happy with the new proportions, though I may give it a dutch later CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Concept Sketch Date Submitted: Wednesday, 22 October 2003 Title: Concept A Notes: Is this a city? Is this how this land has formed? I leave that up to you. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post

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