Morning Over Hoth by theSea

Vue • Science Fiction • posted on Feb 24, 2012

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I know, it's been a while since I've posted. Mostly, that is due to a lack of completed personal work. That's not to say I haven't *started* a lot of personal projects, just that I haven't done much work that I'd consider 'finished.' Maybe I need to lower my standards. Here is something I did for fun in Vue. I'm going through something of a Star Wars geek-out at the moment, so the idea here was to make something that could pass for a frame from 'Empire.' The Snow Speeders are freebies from Vanishing Point. I added some procedural grime layers and some procedural bumps to the textures, but they are otherwise a straight-up export from Studio, import to Vue. Terrains are procedural, you might recognize them from the earlier 'Peaks' image in my gallery here. Atmosphere is global radiosity lighting with a good amount of fog and haze. Just a little lens flare in camera and the sun has a nice 2% blur on the shadows as well (don't forget to turn up the quality of the shadows for final rendering). I rendered out some masks for the two Snow Speeders and did the motion blur in post, mostly because I didn't feel like fiddling with the animation and settings needed to do it in camera. There are some levels adjustments and a bit of noise added to simulate film grain. Thanks for looking and may the force be with you! --m

Comments (17)

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texboy

10:41AM | Fri, 24 February 2012

gorgeous!

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PhilW

10:47AM | Fri, 24 February 2012

Wonderful atmosphere and detail - it could indeed pass for a frame from Empire!

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saphira1998

11:15AM | Fri, 24 February 2012

great

Tugpsx

11:38AM | Fri, 24 February 2012

As usual, great work and thanks for the mini-tutorial. Great to have you back keep 'em coming.

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Fidelity2

12:08PM | Fri, 24 February 2012

It is a "yes". I thank you for this one. 5+!

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ArtistKimberly

1:06PM | Fri, 24 February 2012

Gorgeous

rembo11

1:07PM | Fri, 24 February 2012

amazing

tagan

3:23PM | Fri, 24 February 2012

very beautiful

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grafikeer

9:13PM | Fri, 24 February 2012

Fantastic image...could pass for a scene frame shot for sure!

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anitalee

1:34AM | Sat, 25 February 2012

Excellent

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ia-du-lin

12:46PM | Sat, 25 February 2012

cool sci-fi scene, great terrain, excellent atmo/lighting

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dragonmuse

3:59PM | Sat, 25 February 2012

Couldn't make it out in the shrunken version, but full size is excellent.

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2ni

11:05AM | Sun, 26 February 2012

Nice, I love the 'Empire' 's photo. Maybe I'd put more light on the speeders or something to set them more on focus, just a thought...

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kobaltkween

1:19AM | Mon, 27 February 2012

I think the terrain looks great, though I'll admit that I'm not enough of a landscape artist to be a good judge. I love the atmosphere and sky, subtle as it is. The snow looks good, but it also shades about like the speeders, which seems odd (the snow should have SSS and the speeders shouldn't as long as they're metal). I agree with 2ni about the image possibly being stronger if the speeders contrasted just a bit more with the landscape. Overall, it's very realistic and dynamic. I like the motion blur, which wasn't overdone (as it is most of the time). Great work!

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