Doktor Atomik: the Genesis Project by theSea

DAZ|Studio • Science Fiction • posted on Aug 26, 2009

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Hi - Thanks for looking in. I created this image for the "B Movie Tribute" challenge over in the Platinium Club forum at DAZ. Geek Check: Yes this is a riff on Watchmen - I imagined that, given the threat posed by Dr Manhattan, the Soviets might try to create their own counter-superhero.. hence "Doktor Atomik." Production Credits: Mike 4 and Freak from DAZ. M4 Bodysuit. DAZ Silver maps. You can't really see it in the image, but there is a displacement map on his head with the 'Dr Atomic' logo from the movie poster which looks pretty neat in closeup. I think I'll have to do at least one more Dr Atomik image. Chamber is from "Sci-Fi Chambers" and room greeblies are from "Tekknika: Quantum Drive Tubes" both by coflek-gnorg. The rest of the room is plane primatives with textures by me. I also created a cylinder in Modo for the plasma effect - basically a tube with an inside and an outside that were different material zones. Lighting: Started with Basic Studio Lights by Dreamlight and added a bunch of things. Moved the back light over the plasma chamber. I also added an reddish brown environment light for the bounce light. Rendering and Postwork: I rendered the key, back and fill lights seperately and then rendered the environment light. I rendered a pass with the plasma texture on the cylinder. Next I set up the inside of the tube as a red area light and rendered that. Then I did the outside of the tube in the same manner. This was necessary because the DAZ Studio 3 area light shader emits light in one direction (out from the surface normal of each polygon) and I needed light shining both in from the cylinder and out from it. Finally I added another cylinder primative of the same size and applied the volumetric shader to that and rendered it with the overhead light only as a smoke layer. None of the renders took more than an hour or two, with the area lights being the worst offenders. That's a lot of render passes... but I put the whole thing together in Photoshop and played with the layers until it looked cool. This is one of the big reasons to use multiple render passes. I *might* have been able to achieve the same effect in a 1 pass render - but it would have taken a lot of tweaking and test rendering and the final render probably would have taken days. Using multiple passes I was able to gather a bunch of lighting elements and spend an hour or so playing around with them to get an effect that seems to me to be pretty cool. I painted in the eye glows and then added the framing and text to give this a movie poster vibe, in accordance with the contest I was entering. Once again, thanks for your comments and critque... always most appreciated!

Comments (24)

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Mondwin

9:13AM | Wed, 26 August 2009

Brilliant and cool work...bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx

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Splix

9:21AM | Wed, 26 August 2009

The is brilliant! love the layered effects and movement.

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doarte

10:00AM | Wed, 26 August 2009

Sublime...all your work and energy is displayed brilliantly in the fantastic image. Bravo! +5 from doarte's MADHOUSE

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Biffowitz

10:43AM | Wed, 26 August 2009

Very nicely done it all looks so good. Love the Fx and presentation.

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evilded777

10:45AM | Wed, 26 August 2009

Sweet, Mike. Geeks rule...'nuff said.

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PhilW

10:52AM | Wed, 26 August 2009

Cool overall look and great plasma effect - top work!

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Tholian

12:02PM | Wed, 26 August 2009

What a great image and the technical means used to accomplish this. I shudder to think what trying to do this image in one pass would be like. I almost think it could not be done that way. Just marvelous.