Pillar of Fire by TomPeters

Lightwave • Space • posted on Aug 01, 2008

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Description

One of my favorite movies is "Lawrence of Arabia", and one of my favorite scenes in that film is Lawrence experiencing a huge sand devil as he crosses the Sinai desert with only a single companion. This is my take on that scene, transplanted to Mars. The Mars terrain, rocks and astronaut were modeled and textured in Lightwave. The robot is the R800 available at Daz. After a lot of experimenting with hypervoxels, I eventually fell back to painting the Sand Tornado and other atmospheric effects in Photoshop CS, with a lot of custom brushes (some of ehich were the same ones I originally made to do the landscape textures). Thanks for having a look!

Comments (15)

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BLUESTONE

10:18AM | Fri, 01 August 2008

Nice work!

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necrophage

10:22AM | Fri, 01 August 2008

Cool sci-fi render, fantastic coloring.

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JOELGLAINE

12:20PM | Fri, 01 August 2008

Damned fantastic work! That rates a WOWEEEEEEEEEEE from me. The cyclopean size of the Martian dust-devils is awesomely overwhelming. Very inspiring work.

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dbrv6

1:15PM | Fri, 01 August 2008

Fantastic work and what a site! I really like how the shadows are really long from all the objects on the ground.

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arcas

9:08PM | Fri, 01 August 2008

This is a rework of an earlier piece, isn't it?

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722

9:08PM | Fri, 01 August 2008

great work

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TomPeters

9:37PM | Fri, 01 August 2008

Well...sort of arcas. The basic pose I've used once before, as well as the basic terrain, but from a different POV. The backpack is new, as is the composition and respective elements.

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deci6el

12:24AM | Sat, 02 August 2008

Great picture, Tom! It also reminds me of a scene from the beginning of Mission to Mars. Great work on all the stormage (sic). I especially like the most distant twister. This is still a scenario that doesn't exceed what is possible in our lifetime. Somewhere there could be a person living today who might see this as you have fore-seen it. Now if you could only convince them to check out the rock to the right, there are some interesting markings that might be signs of life on Mars. ; )

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Lotus253

2:50AM | Sat, 02 August 2008

Awesome!!! (5)

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DarkStormCrow

10:58AM | Sun, 03 August 2008

outstanding sci fi, well done...

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AlphaWolf007

4:20PM | Wed, 06 August 2008

That's a really cool image!

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NefariousDrO

8:42PM | Thu, 07 August 2008

wow, this is truly a wonderful render! You did an incredibly good job on all of it: the terrain, the light, the posing, and that dust-devil is truly epic! Great work.

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