Maze World, 2964 A.D. by Rutra
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This is my third image in my "Colony Series". Links to the first two are below.
I hesitated a bit on how to classify this one because it's a bit of a mixture between surrealism and sci-fi. In the end, I opted for sci-fi because it was in that way that it was born in my mind.
I have been a bit absent from the gallery, from the forums and from comments. Sorry for that. It's been a mixture of real life activities and a bit of demotivation towards CG. I have plenty of ideas for new images but not the will to make them. I think I need a break and embrace other activities so I will probably not post anything nor comment for the next few weeks.
Thanks for watching!
Note: this image is for sale as a print in RedBubble, here.
"The Colony is also for sale, here.
EDIT:
I don't usually write much about the technical details of my images but once in a while I get some questions so, for those interested in these things, here goes:
The maze was made with a terrain. I made the design in PS, made it tileable and then applied to the terrain. In the terrain editor I made some changes to remove the too obvious pattern repetition and also made those cracks. The material is a bitmap from bricks I found somewhere on the net.
The sky is an alphaplane of a photo I fetched from NASA site. That's a real thing, somewhere in the universe. Amazing...
The statues are M3, morphed and posed in Poser, of course. In Zbrush I made them the "hair". In Vue I textured them.
The structure on top of the first statue was made in Sketchup. Started from a cube and then applied dozens of extrusions.
I made the city in Zbrush, textured it in Vue.
The atmosphere has little fog and high haze, at a very low altitude and with a strong luminosity.
The planet has two materials (rock and lava) mixed with a bitmap I made in PS.
The ring is simply a flat torus with a rock ecosystem.
There are two directional lights here, very close to each other. One of them is iluminating the ring only, the other is iluminating everything else. The lights have soft shadows of 3 degrees.
This was rendered in GI, with a very high sky dome gain (about 15).
The original image was rendered with 3000 pixels wide, AA of 98%, subrays of 8 and 20, about 6 hours in a quadcore.
EDIT:
I don't usually write much about the technical details of my images but once in a while I get some questions so, for those interested in these things, here goes:
The maze was made with a terrain. I made the design in PS, made it tileable and then applied to the terrain. In the terrain editor I made some changes to remove the too obvious pattern repetition and also made those cracks. The material is a bitmap from bricks I found somewhere on the net.
The sky is an alphaplane of a photo I fetched from NASA site. That's a real thing, somewhere in the universe. Amazing...
The statues are M3, morphed and posed in Poser, of course. In Zbrush I made them the "hair". In Vue I textured them.
The structure on top of the first statue was made in Sketchup. Started from a cube and then applied dozens of extrusions.
I made the city in Zbrush, textured it in Vue.
The atmosphere has little fog and high haze, at a very low altitude and with a strong luminosity.
The planet has two materials (rock and lava) mixed with a bitmap I made in PS.
The ring is simply a flat torus with a rock ecosystem.
There are two directional lights here, very close to each other. One of them is iluminating the ring only, the other is iluminating everything else. The lights have soft shadows of 3 degrees.
This was rendered in GI, with a very high sky dome gain (about 15).
The original image was rendered with 3000 pixels wide, AA of 98%, subrays of 8 and 20, about 6 hours in a quadcore.
Comments (52)
kimariehere
awesome work of art and spectacular creation!!!! this compo is top notch!!!
chrispoole
Another super fine render, wonderful mixture of sci-fi and surrealism, it's like the people of the city have built this maze to protext and entertain them in some way. Superb atmo and I still love that planet. I think we all need a break or a change at sometime or another, I had one a short while back, and now I'm really going to knuckle down and learn to model to re-kindle the fire.
Clouseau
Excellent, smooth render.
thefixer
Very strange but highly fascinating piece, superb!!
Umbetro38
very creative and a lot of excellent effects here - cool Artwork
ralph49
Fantastic Sci-Fi vista_the sky is breath taking_great work.
gizmee
Excellent scene!! Nice work!!
sapa
all 3 are fantastic but my fav is The Colony
LBAMagic
Outstanding.
Igolochka
Fantastic!!! Superb artwork, great detailes, like the atmosphere!
jgmart
Beautiful render - I like the ring around the planet
NefariousDrO
That's some incredible work! Everything is so well-done, and very mysterious. Cool!
OrphanedSoul
Creative genious!
JOELGLAINE
I've missed your comments, but I can understand wanting to take a break when real-world things start to overwhelm you. I will miss your art more. Anyway...this is as good as any book-cover I've ever seen and has a really classic age science-fiction feel, back when all SF book jackets had a surreal flair for the alien, the mysterious and unknowable. I think you really hit that mark dead on! It's really kick-ass.
thecytron
Awesome Sci-Fi composition! Great render! Bravo!!!
jrdesigns
Stunning image!!!
Stardust_Crossing
Fantastic world! It seems surrealistic works.
VegeBrain
This is a very fascinating and well done image! I notice in your comment that you had a hard time deciding whether it was Science Fiction or Surrealism. Personally I've always thought there's a lot of overlap between them so I'm not surprised; my first reaction on seeing this picture was that it was also surrealistic.
faroutsider
Brilliant. Your artwork is inspired - I hope you find the motivation to match the inspiration real soon...!
kobaltkween
i have had a lot of real world concerns whomp on me recently, so i'm quite sympathetic. i'll miss your posts, but i think it's absolutely best that you take the break you need. rejuvenation is absolutely key. i love the combination of elements in this image. i'd love to see a closer or different view of the city when you're back to CG, but i like its role in this image. the brick on the maze is wonderfully textured. the sky is incredible. is it all Vue? i think it would be more consistent and interesting if the non-uniform elements (figures, distressing) weren't just in the foreground, and the green digital tree sculpture has a material that (to my eyes) doesn't mesh with the rest of the picture. it's not that it's shiny, smooth and synthetic; it literally looks like a different style to me. overall, it shows a lot of the strengths of Vue in a highly creative way.
FrankT
Strange but very beautiful. I was wondering how you'd done the city in the background, it looks great
Rob2753
I like the surreal effects it's a stunning and very creative image !
PETs
Very nice work!
pixelmeister
Cool!
Miska7
Very creative image. Great details. Excellent work!
Xpleet
very nice Rutra, I guess these windows on that city are the city light textures from Vue. Wish I could do stuff like this in ZBrush.
imaga
Simplemente espectacular!
supermarioART
An other impressive work!!!WoWWWWWW!!!!!!!
gillbrooks
Bloomin' brilliant!
nucks
A beautiful image - striking symbolism.