Artifact by theSea

Vue • Science Fiction • posted on Dec 15, 2008

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Description

Hi thanks for looking! The Artifact just appeared one day off the eastern US coastline. It's half a kilometer in diameter and nobody knows what's holding up those metal slabs. The Air Force has two F-16's from Andrews Air Force base on CAP 24x7 but the thing just sits there... waiting. Nobody knows what for... Vue7i render. The Artifact was constructed in GroBoto and exported as .obj - imported into Vue and procedural texture from the library applied. F16's by Bazze and Tramp Steamer is from DAZ. High quality (sliders to +4) global illumination spectral atmosphere with one cloud layer. Vue7 infiinite water plane and some meta clouds for the smoke from the freighter. render time @ full resolution was ~10 hours on a Quad Core 64 bit Vista system w 4gb RAM.

Comments (28)

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DarkStormCrow

2:51PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Excellent work, cool image, well done...

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Star4mation

2:53PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Super image!! Love the expanding sphere :)

ramzaforce

2:57PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

el render es muy bueno asi como la composicion.la historia es interesante.

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ThomasMacCallum

3:27PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Epic vibe here - great render of a great idea

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PhilW

3:36PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Great sense of scale and mystery here - wonderful and imaginative image!

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marybelgium

3:40PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

very nice work !

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DAVER2112

4:10PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

That's so awesome!! 5++ :0)

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Amethst25

4:11PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Now this is cool! Would make a great Sci-Fi book cover!

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Biffowitz

4:38PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Fabulous mood at work here, I like it, very cool idea!

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jclP

5:04PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

special idéa.

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scooby37

5:06PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Simply Superb!!

LynLinz

5:12PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Amazingly cool artifact, maybe the stock-market's holding it up :-)

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Seaview123

5:23PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Very sharp looking render. I'm a little surprised by the time it took to render, though. I'm using a dual core laptop with 2G of ram rendering Vue 6 Easel images and not taking all that long. But I'm sure that V7i is probably doing a lot more in the background than mine is.

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dbrv6

8:02PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

Very nice staging and storyline. Would hesitate to suggest that sharper colors in the sky and ocean could streangthen the image. With Alien unknown artifcats its so hard to call on reflections and refractions!

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castaneda

10:38PM | Mon, 15 December 2008

cool concept. Great render

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swjkie100

12:06AM | Tue, 16 December 2008

Awesome concept! Reminds me a bit of Sphere -_^

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ras_silverfox

5:00AM | Tue, 16 December 2008

Awesome sci-fi image.

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Timesurfer

5:38AM | Tue, 16 December 2008

very cool!

SeraphimZion

6:07AM | Tue, 16 December 2008

Cool looking image.

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dreamlord08

9:20AM | Tue, 16 December 2008

Great one !!!

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dragonmuse

9:45AM | Tue, 16 December 2008

Great story image :)

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ontar1

1:54PM | Tue, 16 December 2008

Wow, fantastic scene, love the artifact, excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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johnny_damnit

6:36PM | Tue, 16 December 2008

Very nice image. Well done!!!

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Jilly

5:57AM | Wed, 17 December 2008

neat concept. Well done

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kobaltkween

1:01PM | Thu, 18 December 2008

i like the artifact, and i think it might be interesting to see how it looks from the inside. i'm not surprised it took so long to render with all those reflective surfaces. the cloud in the background has a beautiful shape. i like how you used the ship and planes to set the scale of the artifact.

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