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Subject: Fan boy art

MarkBremmer opened this issue on Aug 01, 2007 · 16 posts

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MarkBremmer ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2007 at 1:00 PM · edited Mon, 11 November 2024 at 8:00 AM

My son wanted to add an image on his web site proving to his friends that he actually owns a Xwing Fighter. Of course Carrara was called into action. Flies great too. ;)

Tashar59 ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2007 at 3:53 PM

That looks great. I bet insurance is a killer. LOL.

sfdex ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2007 at 4:16 PM

Very nice. Not to put too fine a fan-boy point on it, though, that would prove that he owns an X-wing.

Did you use a shadow-catcher or did you composite the shadow in some other way?

MarkBremmer ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2007 at 4:20 PM

Thanks for the kind words. I used DCG's GI shadow catcher shader on the plane under the Xwing.

stardust ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2007 at 4:23 PM

Great composition Mark !

graylensman ( ) posted Thu, 02 August 2007 at 8:25 AM

Make sure he doesn't land that thing in a swamp somewhere. You'll never get it out.

evinrude ( ) posted Fri, 17 August 2007 at 5:31 AM

Hah! That's great. Rip-roaringly so.

UVDan ( ) posted Mon, 27 August 2007 at 5:18 PM

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Great scene!

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms!!

Thelby ( ) posted Sat, 05 April 2008 at 4:43 AM

Yeah, but kind of Mileage does it get?!?!?! Cool Work!!!

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!

whkguamusa ( ) posted Sat, 05 April 2008 at 7:28 PM

Good work Mark.
Looks like it is double parked on that street, better move it before the cops have it towed.

wayne k
guam usa

Xerxes0002 ( ) posted Thu, 15 May 2008 at 7:09 PM

I like the picture!

A couple of questions if thats okay. Did you place the plane for the photo on the back, under, both? built something that has a bend to get both?

Or did you composite the fighter in post, masking around the person, with alpha channel for the mask on the plane and the shadow?

MarkBremmer ( ) posted Fri, 16 May 2008 at 5:21 AM · edited Fri, 16 May 2008 at 5:22 AM

Hi Xerxes0002,

The photo is a background in Carrara. I used a plane set as a shadow catcher and Global Illumination along with Digital Carver's Guild GI Shadow Catcher so that the plane participated in GI shadows.

In Photoshop, I then placed another layer of the background image in the foreground and simply masked everything out except a small portion of the persons arm. For animated foreground masks like this I'll use Shake or Motion.

Mark