Striders in the sun - TUTORIAL AVAILABLE NOW !!! by czarnyrobert

Vue • Science Fiction • posted on Nov 20, 2003

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Created with VUE PRO

If you want to know how I created this scene, you can read my tutorial that was published in Computer Arts magazine (March 2004 - English edition page 62)

Déja vu ? Partially yes - Same place, but different time and perspective...

After a short visit, kitshy deers have being sent back to their fairy tale poser world. In the calm dawn of following day, striders reappeared. Those majestic & big but skittish creatures came back for feeding. Their planet is located in central regions of Milky way, where distances between stars are much shorter than on galactic peripheries where Earths Sun can be found. In such highly crowded region, gravitational interactions between stars are frequent since several hundred years striders home planet orbit started to shift slightly as consequence of close passage of a star. It resulted in profound climatic changes and destruction of natural habitats of many species. Indigenous civilization tries to protecting their endangered species. In feeding generators synthetic organisms are quickly grown on hydrocarbon nutrient.

Credits go to :

Darkworld Designs for Land Strider model in poser format ( I applied a totally new texture )

All the rest was made in Vue - feeders were made from double terrains & boolean operations on primitives, alien plants were obtained by assembling of cactus & corals. Distant city was build from . tableware shipped with Vue :-)

- 350 objects
- 4.5 mln polygons
- 15 lights

rendering time of 3500 x 2600 picture (resized later) - 30 hours (AMD Athlon 2000 + 1GB RAM)

Hope youll like it :-) Now, I must go and try to find a way to get off from Worm Blaster Virus that eat my antyvirus... and make a lot of mess inside my computer (fortunately it attacked only my laptop - my desktop has no internet connection) I never understood those stupid bastards who write viruses...

Comments (152)

dikaios

4:37PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

powiem to tak - temat nie dla mnie, ale wykonanie nieslychanie estetyczne. jedna z najlepszych prac jakie w ogole widzialem. niezly realizm 'postaci' jak na Vue, ciekawa kompozycja. brilliant work although not my cup of tea. 3d mastery

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Polax

4:39PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Very impressive scene, top imagination, highest talent!

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RobertJ

4:43PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Now those Sekroid do look rather familiar, just like the landstriders from the movie "The dark Crystal", design by Brain Froud.

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DigitalAtrocity

5:03PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Marvellous!!!Your textures are so realistic...You put sooo much effort into this! You are truly gifted My friend. Stunning work!Thankyou for sharing this!

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rudaMajka

5:11PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Dla mnie to sa surrealne klimaty Dalego. Swiat jak ze snu. I to,mimo sielankowej kolorystyki, horroru. To co sie znajduje w tych pojemnikach na karme? zbyt przypomina mozg. I co z tego,ze nie szare. We snie mozg moze byc przeciez zielonkawy. Superbv

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RodsArt

5:28PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Outstanding Image, Super imagination!!

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Artzy

5:57PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Excellent Work Indeed!

Flycatcher

6:53PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Excelent piece. Imagein seeing those at your garden bird-feeder! I've grabbed a copy of this vote-winner for my wallpaper.

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Benettor

7:10PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Excellent Work Very excelent lights....for your virus ... if you can download the solo scan antivirus .. i had norton antivirus and with this everything mesh... after all i download solo antivirus and now ok :))))))))0 AVG also very good antivirus..good luck!

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Hyria

7:42PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Stunning Image :)

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EngleWolf

9:07PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

stunning creation!!! excellent job !!! :o)

Richard T

9:48PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

WOW! Beautifull modelling, texturing and composition.

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redbeard

10:10PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

Excellent image with strange dwellings and scenery and most fantastic creatures.

pazu

10:54PM | Thu, 20 November 2003

A most exceedingly brilliant creation! Technical perfection and imaginative genius!

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Django

12:45AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

Those are definately the "Dark Crystal " Striders , Robert.. Still i find this piece of work very good, full of mood and imagination,well worked out. great job

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gerberc

12:45AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

This is absolutely awsome!! You are getting better and better. IMHO this is technically and artistically top quality work, BRAVO!! I have to vote now ...

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zulaan

1:55AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

NIESAMOWITA PRACA, DZIELO SZTUKI - BRAWO !!!

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kenwas

3:03AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

The textures are excellent as is the concept and composition. Excellent render all around!

MixedNut

3:25AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

Brilliant - yes, I thought "Dark Crystal" as well, definitely not a bad thing. Death to virus programmers!

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cermit

3:39AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

uwielbiam takie pracki....ten gigantyzm wspolgrajacy z tak duzym renderem robi niesamowite wrazenie.....dalej Robercie dalej....ja chce wiecej :) amazing render...and vote

raffyraffy

3:55AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

Even if I am not spellbound very from the sci-fi scenes, I appreciate a lot the technique with which has been done. Great texturing, bravo and vote!

AnneCHPostma

4:23AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

Simple amazing .. Very nice scene !

runningcollector

4:45AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

I have missed your excellent works long time!

Calanthe

4:48AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

Superb originality and skill! You're a genius!

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sacada

4:54AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

Brilliant scene. Textures, composition, light and ideas. Excellent.

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McDetti

4:57AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

Outstanding Image, excellent work!

syllogz

5:07AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

Excellent stuff. The story reminds me of the Heliconia trilogy. (BTW, this is my new wallpaper:))

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DrmzRmyne

5:40AM | Fri, 21 November 2003

I'm just completely blown away by this! I'm sure many people have said the same, but this is truly outstanding work! I can sit here for hours and just stare at this, it puts a story in my head, it takes me away to another place, just brilliant. ~regards Mel

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