The Arrival by JCD
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Description
This one started out with a matte painting commission that I did a while back and ended up not being used in the client's production. Multiple photo resources are used in the landscape and both photographic and Vue renders for the sky.
Since I already had the base scene setup in Vue, I dropped in a Basilisk and then began building the formations of Epici low-poly soldiers, a few mechs and wheeled tanks. To save on resources I rendered out each group one at a time and and then moved them over for the next render, adjusting to show more movement of the troops and vehicles until getting to the two airborne Basilisk units. With all of these rendered out, I merged them together in Photoshop saving the shadows to a separate layer for easier blending over the original painting.
The foreground is a separate Vue scene built using the original scene file to retain accurate camera position and lighting. The final piece was rendered to match the size of the matte painting which came in at just over 12,000px wide. Thanks for looking! :)
Comments (73)
cyberknight1133
That's one heck of a big pic! Stunning job. I've never had a lot of success with the multipass thing, although I suspect it's more a limitation of my 2d editing program, rather than Vue itself.
Ridley5
Very nice to see this insight into the creative process. The foreground scenery is so vivid with the fantasy elements contrasting beautifully against the 'arrival' of the troops. The sky is the icing on the cake. Superb sci-fi!!
moochagoo
Love this one !
raggioverde
WONDERFUL idea and realization
Swidhelm
Wow! Great work. Love epic shots like this. I have issues getting that to work. Keep it up!
chabot
fantastic work!
jbtrimar
Wonderful job Jacob. Thanks for the rundown on how you went about creating it. Always nice to get an inside look.
Moebius87
Absolutely stunning and it does have a somewhat "Avatar" feel to it!
ontar1
Totally awesome, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DarioFish
WOOOOW WOOWO WOOW!
hameleon
This awesome work much better than any words what can i say about this.
Pelican
History repeating ? I hope the newcomers do not kill the native people ! Beautiful image with a sad backround !
Marrekie
Hi there! Didn't you post this on DA as well? Cool image my man.