humorix opened this issue on Oct 04, 2002 ยท 25 posts
humorix posted Mon, 07 October 2002 at 1:43 AM
Hey Aldaron, the story adds a lot more sense to the image. Never thought of H2O as fuel, and the only fuel one hears of is are all H2O diluted in various proportions if it isn't on the rocks! :-P I wonder if for the next challenge we can have the title of the image and a write up included too when we are voting, AgentSmith? BTW Aldron, hope you have completed the human figure of yours in metaball by now. Also do look forward to a more populated gallery of yours, you images are always a treat to watch! :-) Tuttle...hey thanx 4 the comment of yours in Digital Art. Didn't know there were comments there...or that there were more renderosity members over there too. I just submit and scoot ;-)! I got to notice it today! OK now to important thingz...this challenge has been most fulfilling for me, simply because of all the interaction I got to have with my peers! It was always a few comments, and then congratulations to the winners! This time thingz got real involved and I guess we have draculaz to thank for that! :-D I for one definitely welcome such an in depth look into my image as that which has been given by you Tuttle and would also welcome feedback from other members of this forum. It helps clarify my thinking process, be able to perceive the image better as a viewer as against a creator and not to mention better my art! About your comments, Tuttle, on my image a few more clarifications. 1) The POV had to be higher then the little guy but lower then the big guy, so as to give a feeling of scale! To me the small guy telling the big one to get off his planet seemed to bring out the spirit of the image. Increasing the FOV brought about a certain degree distortion, which I felt, was not suiting what I wanted to communicate! 2) About the way the Ants are looking...umm I had designed them as cockpits...so it wasn't important which way they were looking (or seemed to be looking) as long as the pilots inside were looking in the right direction. I had the pilot and cockpit inside made, but realised that rendering the scene with the cockpit set at transparency, would ensure that I completed the image in the next millennia and definitely not in time for the challenge (I have a 333 Celeron). So had to satisfy myself by increasing the reflectivity and cancelling transparency. I have to complete and submit the image as I conceived it...but have a natural inertia towards returning to improve a submitted image...will be doing it soon I hope though! 3) Regarding toon shading...well it was my silent tribute to Jean Giraud Moebius, but its there only in the image for my gallery (which was retouched in PS), not the image I submitted for challenge (which was pure Bryce render)! I wanted to bring about a comic book feel (something which I haven't done before as well as try and emulate Moebius, an illustrator whom I admire tremendously!), so to that degree its different from that which I have submitted before. But I was hoping people might like it! :-S Anywayz thanx a lot Tuttle for giving me your thoughts! Its helped me with my thought process tremendously!!! Avi