Hi, my name is Karl Stöcker, and I was born a long time ago, way too long, in Berchtesgaden, Germany, grew up in Düsseldorf, and since 1966 have been in the US (mostly). I've traveled a lot, 46 countries by this time, and I am planning on many more. I've spent a couple of decades in the US military, active and reserve, and since retirement from civil service, worked off and on as a high school science teacher in a suburb of Sacramento. Ever since my original ID's Doom days, back when it was just released on a floppy disk as a free level advertisement, I was interested in learning about 3D CGI, but I didn't get started until I retired from civil service in 1996. Since then I have been working with Truespace, Bryce, then Lightwave 3D, and Vue. Also dabbled a little in Poser 4, but just bought Poser 6 and am starting sink my teeth into that a bit. My website, http://www.cosmic-pearl.com/, has more details on me, should anyone not be bored to tears by now, also there are LW Viking ship and Star Wars X-Wing tutorials, as well as downloadable meshes (which can be imported into Vue, BTW) - my free stuff to the CG community.
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Comments (23)
3Dillusions
Love it, what an outstanding background to compliment the paddle jumper well done. Angela
starlightpainter
Excellent. Nice atmopsheric effects.
Iguana9
Nice. Quite realistic. Only the blueish round edge in the sky looks a little unnatural.If it is another planet, it shouldnt be so sharp and should have some texture. If it is a force field, then I have nothing to say. :-)
jif3d
Very kool puddle jumper scene, the haze is just right, well done Karl ! ~Cheers~ :o)
fredric_lpn
great atmo!
lior
So wonderful render!
Traligill
I agree about the haze, excellent, and a fine composition, Am interested to see the next version:)!
pixeltek
Ok, a repost. I managed to get the unrealistic lighting off the central (featureless) gas giant and it is now in line with the direction light is falling onto the other moon/planet. That had really bugged me.
castaneda
Great scape scene.
milanautica
____ thank you very much for your freebies!
Gor111
A fascinating SF scene with this UFO over the forest! Wonderfully done!!!
MRX3010
Looks great, is that the gate in the clearing below?
drifterlee
This is fantastic!!
arwenone
A wonderful scene!
chimera46
Gorgeous view, I keep saying i'll get into vue but haven't yet. In some ways I'd argue this is better shot than what's often seen in the show (for one thing it doesn't look like British Columbia!).
richard57
excellent my friend 5+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! richard
pops
Your Vue work is jst fantastic-excellent image
jenay
great scene - love the forest and the misty atmosphere :)
Domi48
Thanks for your comments, Pixeltek. You seem to be an expert in SciFi images! I'll regularly look at them!
vikinglady
Congradulations Science Fiction Weekly Cover no. 530 June 18, 2007
zhaanman
Very cool look you've captured the feel and look perfectly!!
Nanothect
All of the above, with knobs on!
Silgrin
Wow! There were worlds with two suns, two moons, but here we seem to see two skies! What`s going on?! A mysterious setting... PS. It is great to see what can be done with Vue 5. I have Vue 3 and it is just another kind of application... The renderer must have been re-written from scratch! Nice to see how they improved... and that some people can make use of their work.