War of the Worlds - Men Hunting by czarnyrobert
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Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glittering tentacles swinging and rattling about its strange body [...] and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about. Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman's basket.
Heaven knows how long he had been there. It must have given some of them a nasty turn. He came down the road towards them, and picked up nearly a hundred too drunk or frightened to run away.
Strange as it may seem to a human being, all the complex apparatus of digestion, which makes up the bulk of our bodies, did not exist in the Martians. They were heads - merely heads. Entrails they had none.
They did not eat, much less digest. Instead, they took the fresh, living blood of other creatures, and injected it into their own veins. I have myself seen this being done. [...] Let it suffice to say, blood obtained from a still living animal, in most cases from a human being, was run directly by means of a little pipette into the recipient canal...
The bare idea of this is no doubt horribly repulsive to us, but at the same time I think that we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.
A Martian has only to go a few miles to get a crowd on the run. And I saw one, one day, out by Wandsworth, picking houses to pieces and routing among the wreckage. But they won't keep on doing that. So soon as they've settled all our guns and ships, and smashed our railways, and done all the things they are doing over there, they will begin catching us systematic, picking the
best and storing us in cages and things. That's what they will start doing in a bit.
Lord! They haven't begun on us yet.
H.G. Wells 1898 "War of the Worlds"
If you want to learn how I made this scene, visit "SCENES" section of my website (I am still working on the "Making of the Men Hunting" - so some elements are missing yet, and it may happen that page don't open due to transfer limits - if it occurs, just try later.
To build the 1900 London I used mainly Alain Gracia's buildings (available at Cornucopia 3D), Poser 4 Low Polygon man & horse, narwik's bridge, Bernard Dumas Renault G, and some other stuff from the net (more credits & links on my website)
If there is something you would like to know about this scene that is not mentioned on my website's article, just let me know - as I said I am still working on it, so I can add some further explanations.
I hope you will like this picture.
Take care :-)
Robert
Comments (264)
Pirx33
Powinno być SUPER EXCELLENT!!! Vote!!!
Malstorm
bloody hell...you've out done your self on this one...that thick smoke effect in the background looks super...stroof i cant stop looking at it lol...so much detail no wonder people go crazy over your work...and i alwayz have a question for you...how did you do that thick smoke effect in the background ?
Bernado
Excellent composition and atmosphere. There's lots of details and every one of them is perfect. There's no words to describe the work you've done other than vote.
tse60
Kurde, facet, czy ty musisz byc taki najdobrzejszy w te klocuszki 3D? Powoli wpadam w kompleksy i jak tak dalej pdzie, przestane w oge robic nowe rzeczy. Jestes do szpiku kosci wrednym typem, za tak 3D-rzezbisz bez pojecia... A i mala zlosliwosc na komiec - ze tez Ci sie chce dlubac takie szczegowe obrazki. Przeginasz i tyle. Zachwycony Sczur. :)
Glazy
An amazing piece of work !!!!!!!
Umbetro38
You are the vue master - wow
missie_mandelbrot
Your work is amazing and stunning. The attention to detail must take so much time and effort. You are indeed a master with Vue.
WPL2
That's an amazing image.
azynkron
Great, as usual.. But when are you going to start to use your own models? That's the only thing that puts the work down. ;)
nickvivian
Scary............. Ive seen it all now. Thanks for this............By the way Slonishko both clocks say the same 4.47. ;0)
VIART
The picture opens ingenious abilities of the artist and boundless opportunities Vue!
gmvgmvgmv
Incredible work - and the background adds that extra something to put this masterpiece over the top! Fantastic accomplishment!
Jilly
When did you eat? Sleep?
czarnyrobert
OK, so there are answers on some of your questions : --------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jilly - when do I eat & sleep? When my computer is rendering work in progress pictures ;-) In fact this scene was prepared during a long period of time, when I was doing a lot of other things - (work, website update, extensive cleaning up of HDD, browsing through net for cool sites with 3D stuff, helping my friend with apartment renovation etc...) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Clocks & Time - you are right that they show different time, but maybe one of them is broken :-) I was aware of this, and initially I wanted to set the same time, but later I decided to keep different hours :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- azynkron - when I will start to use my own models? I did it in this scene! - Martians and some other small stuff is mine, the building on the left can be also considered as mine (it contains about 80% of my input and 20 %original one), but I will never build casual items models - don't want to spent my time on modeling common items that were already prepared by someone else. This is how civilization works, and all of us use and profit of inventions and works of other people. In 3D it is the same, we are using pictures, textures, plants, skies, characters, meshes made by others. Tell me, what is the point to model a 1001st chair model or 102th model of a bench? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Malstorm - Big distant cloud of thick smoke, and whole sky is a bitmap - as it was just for background, and it was not intended to interact with 3D elements of the scene it was useless to make it as a 3D model (ex. with spheres as I did on "Thunder Child" picture) I made this bitmap using numerous photos of clouds and smoke, than I used a plan perpendicular to the camera to act as sky background. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- vince3 - don't underestimate the power of your computer - I did this picture on AMD Athlon +3000 & 1GB RAM - the original picture is 5670 pixels wide. It took 2 weekends to render in (superior) mode with HDRI sky map & radiosity quality (-1). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- RajDArge - you are definitely a clairvoyant - I don't know how you did it, but you are right - however what you see is the next picture that I did not make yet. :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- gracia - sorry Alain, I always make this misspelling - I am correcting this right now ;-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- nabit - I am glad to learn that my pictures inspired you to buy Vue - with me it was the same - but then it was the art of Pascal Marie (kiki) that make my jaw drop and I become addicted to Vue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- jesterhawk - my "secret" is very simple - experiment, learn, try to get better results with each new work, don't be happy with the "first prototype" , improve it until you see that it is good. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Elminster_ZK - strange smoke - maybe - I did not have too many occasions (hopefully) to observe a burning city so maybe it is not very accurate - my intention with the closer yellowish cloud was that it is closer, lighted from the bottom by flames - larger distant cloud is higher and much father, so due to haze effect it is bluish. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
gerberc
Simply outstanding! The amount of detail is incredible!!! V
Wire
Applause!
bigbraader
Wonderful, just wonderful. Really a piece to savour, and "go hunting for details" in. Absolutely brilliant work. Vote of course.
barticus
Absolutely brilliant. A masterpiece of the highest order!
czarnyrobert
ramhernan : Lights - very simple just one sun with radiosity set on and a HDRI mapped sky (however sky is not visible here, as it is masked with sky alphaplane - I will add a section in "making of" about atmosphere setting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- deep sense - I used a volumetric atmosphere and experimented with some simple cubes instead of buildings before I decided about such layout - I will add this to my article too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alphamaps - just for sky everything else is 3D model. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rendered at 5670 x3600 size in superior mode and radiosity -1 setting an single AMD Athlon 3000+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rokol : Sorry for French buildings acting as London - I did not have better ones, and as I explained I did not want to spend another two month modeling buildings. Maybe someone has something more British so I could use it in next scene? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- zorares : I did not checked the total time spent for this scene - but probably it is something around 1-1.5 month of full time worling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web link to my website isn't dead - just my provider limits the transfer, if it exceeds some amount it is blocked for an hour. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for green text :-) I use deep dark green background so it fits well - sometime I forgot that some people use white background - seriously you should try dark tones - this is much better for viewing the art :-) And thank you all for your kind comments !
konczj
Just excelent...;-)
Ethereal1
MAGNIFICENT!
MartinPh
Mind boggling. Better than the movie, actually - they ought to have hired you for the design!
alan42
wonderful image - such detail and clarity! love the little detail of the man taking the photograph:)
deci6el
Great scene, lighting, scale, all that everyone has covered already. Crowd scenes! I can commiserate with you as I am in the middle of several myself. Populating a city needs a bit of preparation unless you want a city full of clones. Very nice work as always. Love the touches of character as some run and some try to document the moment.
jocko500
to me you right on the money here super job
jmc95
Excellent ! You put the bar higher with every render ! By the way, I have a great time exploring Vue function editor since I purchased your great tutorial. It's a lot less scary place now !
TheWingedOne
clonk...That's the sound my jaw made while it hit my keyboard. ;) Well, actually I can barely think of anything to say which hasn't been said so far. With every new image I think "Boy, this can't be done better", but you're still improving. Your images are always so much fun to look at, so much detail and creativity. This image can be called a masterpiece for sure. Amazing job, Robert!!! :)
Rob2753
This absolutely fantastic !!! the detail is superb and it looks so real as if it were a still from a movie !!! truly awesome work !
lingrif
The amount of detail is incredible. The smoke is so realistic. Fantastic work!
3D-Machine
awesome work!!