"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." - Andre Gide
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BIO
I am not Vile! Back in the really old days I used to log on to a BBS with that handle and have never really changed it. Every time I join some online community it still sticks and I have been here at Renderosity since 12/16/1999.
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I am not an artist! Well at least not in the traditional sense at least. Both my Mother and Sister are terrific analog artists but I just never got into the whole paints, canvas and brushes thing. Not that I was terribly bad at it I was just never as good as I wanted to be. I am a perfectionist! Computer art really appealed to me for this reason, my favorite button became the UNDO! I love the way I can save an image and comeback to it at another time and add more or erase mistakes. Or create something so, possibly temporary as a digital image and yet have it be as effective as a masters painting!
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I am too technical! My art does not reflect my moods or expressions most the time but more of my technical abilities (I am working on this though). I mainly use Photoshop, Bryce, (occasionally Poser) and a digital camera.
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I am not my Past! I first started digital art in 1991 with a program called SPASH on a Leading Technologies 286PC. I used to sketch out an image in pencil or pen and then try to recreate it Pixel by frustrating Pixel. I created some amazing images (in my mind they were) of Dinosaurs, Comic characters and Sci-fi. All but one were lost in a computer meltdown, the one that survived I can t seem to recall off of a floppy disk either.
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I am not Brycer! By 1997 I had an Intel Pentium 133 which my Uncle loaned me I believe it had 64MB of Ram and a 1GB hard Drive. And then I met Bryce2 and many a night was spent trying to get that thing to render silly little mountains or spheres all of which as I look back on and think a 4 year old could do better! But I had to learn, I had to render!
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I am not a Master! I think there are few Digital masters out there and they know who they are! I try as hard as I can to copy or pay homage to their accomplishments. I think, that I and others have made Bryce do things it was never intended or dreamed of being able to do. I now see people doing stuff I had not even dreamed of.
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One final thought! I Say Let me never be whole! I Say May I never be satisfied! I Say Deliver me from Japanese Robots! I Say Deliver me from lame Poser Art! I Say Deliver me from bad skin and Perfect Smiles! I Say you don't have to give in and through down your hand!
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And I Say Evolve!
Comments (16)
Kate
Wonderful red planet atmosphere - great use of the models - space pics are hard to do!
Ramathep
Thank you very much. At least Star Wars images...I needed! Very hard and Good work in every detail.
Wappen
Fantastic picture, exellent details and textures!
foleypro
Excellent scene and the vividness of it and ahh heck this pic rocks....It has been awhile since I have done a sci-fi scene that just by looking at this a scene popped in my head and now I will have to do it...thanks for the inspiration to get back into space
jten
Man this is awesome. You got everything right.
Bambam131
Hey, what happened to that crappy texture on the planet... hehe, just kidding... Great picture...love to see more ;-)
Vile
Thanks for all kind comments and yes that texture was a bit crappy but that comment pushed me to create something even better. Currently I am working on another few Star Wars images to be posted soon.
pnevai
Excellent composition, Good texturing, but the lighting is off. You have too many light sources and the lighting is too difuse and omnidirectional. The planet in the background is lit from both sides. Radient light from the red planet should impinging upon the space craft yet it does not. Over all there is just a but too much light in the scene coming from too many directions. Which causes the stars to appear flat and the entire image homogenious. Stick with a single light source, turn down the difuse lighting. And use some subtle fill lights the color and direction of the red planet to give some depth to the image.
ajtooley
I disagree with pnevai. Well, he's correct in a technical sense, but there are exceptions to every rule, particularly when you're recreating a scene originally envisioned by someone else. Some months ago I recreated a scene from Close Encounters, and had I done it "correctly," the scene would not have looked like it did in the movie. Truth is, the only thing in your scene which does not accurately reflect the original is the second light on the Yavin moon; in the movie (I'm an inveterate Star Wars geek and have to admit that I checked!), the second light is indeed a radiant red light from the Yavin planet. Other than that, you got it spot on. Great job!
raydurz
Wow. It's hard to tell the difference between this and the movie.
Mikepol
You are very good. And you what program you are working with???
DragonWalk
Awsome rendering.
MichaelEaton
I especially like the textures on the spacecraft. That always adds versimilitude. They need some traffic lights up there.
Zoonchilde
-whimper- oh my.. this is awesome! Had to double take, I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought I your Escher was brillaint, this is like looking at a still. ''Rebel scum'' hehe
MINTY1974
From one fellow star wars nut to another: The force was certainly with you when you made this pic mate. Excellent POV(spot on!) and composition is fantastic:) Top work!
funkfrog
a classic scene, bravo, this is fantastic!!!!!!