Night by faroutsider
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My corporeal form lives with my wonderful wife and six eccentric cats in beautiful Sedgefield, but my dreaming body is frequently elsewhere, exploring the fractal universe and marveling at nature's chaos. I love traveling to places that exist only as mathematical constructs on my computer and bringing back snapshots that sometimes remind me of the real world (whatever that means), sometimes of metamagical worlds we can visit only in our imaginations. I trained as a biologist and run a small company specialising in science publishing - writing, editing, illustrating and typesetting. For 3D world building I use Vue, Daz Studio and Poser, but I've also used Bryce since version 2 and done some work with Terragen, Carrara and Groboto. For technical illustration I use mainly Illustrator and Photoshop.
Thanks for visiting my little corner of Renderosity, and to everyone who has kindly commented on my images or added my works as a favourite, thank you for that too. Craig.
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Comments (19)
shingleboot
Awesome image, love how the two materials merge
necrophage
fascinating sci-fi scene!
Black-Carrie
Fantastic scenery! Excellent done!
gillbrooks
Super !
babuci
Nice render. Like the soft shine here and there just to give us a form of the space building.
hipps13
a nice little spot I see warm hugs, Linda
psyoshida
Stunning POV and the lighting is out of this world!! I love how that one tree's silhouette stands before the moon and the clouds form a ground cover. It does not look simple at all. Great place for a vacation! Excellent sci-fi, I love it.
grafikeer
Very cool render Craig...especially like how the structure is lit,and the overall mood of the piece.
KnightWolverine
Simply Kick Ass..Excellent Scene!... -Will-
lyron
Fantastic scifi. Excellent work!!!
Umbetro38
The perfect Light for this scene Friend - the POV is great and the Building fantastic
Savage_dragon
It looks like the Long Beach fwy interchange after a good quake. Very cool! ")
SIGMAWORLD
Sehr schöne Bildkomposition!
carlx
Fantastic composition and mood, Craig!!!
dayna2
Cool work great scifi scene
cole4965
Very cool image!!!
adrie
Outstanding sci-fi image my friend, excellent work.
artgum
You're right- the lighting sets a great mood here.
anahata.c
you sure do have a way with looming forms in the night...and a "17 hour render"? Do you know how outlandish that sounds to a 2D artist? I can picture 17 hours making something---and I have no doubt you've spent long periods setting up your images. But rendering? I've left my drawings for 17 hours, I've even begged them to get better, but when I came back? Nada. Zilch. Too bad...What's so sweeping about this piece is the broad perspective: This ship/colony/futuristic architectural structure sweeps across a large chasm, held aloft---it appears---by dramatic rock formations. And it hovers over a vast cloud cover (!)---telling us that this city may be suspended in the cosmos, or on top of an atmosphere somewhere. What a fascinating vision! And it's wonderful that you didn't solve it for us: You gave us a shot 'in medias res', in the middle of things where we don't know the whole area & so feel we've been dropped into it; a magnificent view. Great work with the light too, how it's intense on parts of the ship, but deep & dark on most others. It's lit by some intense moon(s), but perhaps also by some phosphorescent compounds in the skies, perhaps a glow from cities below (which light the clouds). We don't know. And it looks like you even added a waterfall. And the intense moon, with that silhouetted tree in front, is wonderful. Very fine sense of space, sweep and intense lighting. I like this one a lot, Craig.