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)

SylviaG

3:59AM | Mon, 08 December 2003

AMAZING !!! UNBELIVABLE !!! Each of your pictures overruns everything that was ever posted in vue gallery!

IgorRostov

4:08AM | Mon, 08 December 2003

Stunning artwork my friend - the ultra best of SF!

IanPerder

9:10AM | Mon, 08 December 2003

Astounding & brillant fantasy

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amapitodd

3:37PM | Mon, 08 December 2003

Once again, Robert, you have created an image of great imagination and scope. Keep up the great work. :)

KasiaMali

2:36AM | Tue, 09 December 2003

Excellent ! :-)

pfrank

6:06AM | Tue, 09 December 2003

Spectacular imagination Robert! You get my vote!

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mwkloh

9:41AM | Tue, 09 December 2003

This is excellent! Wonderful imagination and execution!

masdan

5:03AM | Wed, 10 December 2003

Cool atmosphere! Chapeau !

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Magician

11:27AM | Thu, 11 December 2003

What a MIGHTY IMAGE and SCENE. Your landstrider texture is OUTSANDING. Congrats!!

illTRON

3:25PM | Thu, 11 December 2003

incredible picture

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lemonjim

6:51PM | Thu, 11 December 2003

I love it, plennnnty to look at! sorry about the virus!

arek

10:19AM | Mon, 15 December 2003

Robert... Robert... Wiesz za co

Gumboot

6:58PM | Sun, 21 December 2003

Love the detail and lighting. Excellent.

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Izabela

1:13AM | Mon, 22 December 2003

Oh Wow... that is an awsome scene... imaginative.. and well put together.

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marcfx

4:35PM | Tue, 30 December 2003

Amazing!!!!!!! well done and happy new year to you and all others :)

monia

5:21AM | Wed, 31 December 2003

I realy like it even if sometimes it seems different. I am happy for your sucess and I love seeing your happy eyes while you talk about your pictures:))

elharry

3:15PM | Fri, 02 January 2004

Great work! I noticed that the creature to the right is a female. God knows what comes out of that hole, lol.sorry. Anyway, a fantastic render and a big applaude for your patient working with a "noncomputerfriendly" image like this

-onyx-

10:43PM | Mon, 12 January 2004

Super! Swietna kolorystyka i ostrosc obrazu.

aramin

3:28PM | Sun, 18 January 2004

Powiedzieli Ci ju chyba wszystko. Ja podziwiam Twoj wyobranii kreatywno Nie pozw sobie na zamordowanie tego. Czekam na kolejne dziea. :o) Excellent work.

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