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)

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Meyrink

12:40PM | Thu, 18 March 2004

Io sono senza parole!!!

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Silgrin

2:57AM | Wed, 31 March 2004

rudaMajka, to nie mozg, to soczewica... Moze czas przejsc na wegetarianizm, nie beda Cie meczyc sny z zielona mozgownica w karmniku dla jeleni?? Sorry za zlosliwosc... Great and tasty, but traditionally I must stick to sth... these stick-like legs are too straight, they look unnatural ;) Delicious, anyway, it`s really close to Dali.

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RalfBlitz

3:32AM | Sat, 03 April 2004

stunning work!Exellent

Heart'Song

3:51PM | Tue, 11 May 2004

Totally incredible work!

FrenchTish

10:46AM | Thu, 13 May 2004

superbe image! (je suis un peu en retard) Bravo!

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utak3r

6:47PM | Thu, 20 May 2004

Well... what can I say more? Maybe the sand could be a little better? So - one of the best works I've ever seen. Tak trzymac! W takich chwilach jestem dumny z tego, ze jestem Polakiem :)

Daron_Kel

10:15PM | Sat, 22 May 2004

You truly are one of the best Vue artists around.. Great work! Absolutly excellent!

pascaleric

6:48PM | Thu, 10 June 2004

This is art !! Thank you for this glimpse in strangeness ; i really love your colors, and the depth of this sky...!

8beachman

3:25AM | Wed, 07 July 2004

yes, all that is true, but who can deny the amazing oral action that one can give to the other ones choch? look at the length of that thing!

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gerbach

4:29PM | Sat, 17 July 2004

Excellent Dali-like styled work!

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lulu18

6:35AM | Thu, 23 September 2004

Absolutely awesome work in your gallery. This image is superb :-)

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kilal

6:42PM | Sun, 26 September 2004

The quality of your gallery is incredible!All your work is fantastic!You have fine sens fo composition!Very,very impressed!

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Ensomniac

2:11AM | Sun, 14 November 2004

Your work is superb.

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Mollock_20

6:20AM | Tue, 16 November 2004

awesomne work :)

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Grubber

12:56AM | Tue, 14 December 2004

Jaw still dropped onto keyboard. Didn't know something like this was even possible. Star Wars should have looked this good.

Celinas

10:37AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

What a nice story! Bravo czarnyrobert! I love your imagination!

Jay7347

5:34PM | Wed, 16 March 2005

The words I could give right now would be those of a babbling idiot who had just been struck by lightning or some alien occurance. wowwwww.... Vote -jay

278

12:07AM | Thu, 24 March 2005

This image is a masterpiece !!! czarnyrobert is one of my favorite artists on the entire INTERNET !!! " STRIDERS IN THE SUN " takes me out of this world and transports deep into the fantastic imagination of this great artist. Congratulations on this fine image....and I hope to see it hanging in a MUSEUM one day !!! __ Signed: Robert Singletary[ SINGLETARY GALLERY pops up NO. 1 on google search ]. Thursday MAR. 24, 20051:07 A.M. (eastern standard time) USA

blemish

9:39PM | Wed, 13 April 2005

You are my hero!

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DukeNukem2005

10:22AM | Fri, 01 July 2005

Wow !!!

198

5:46PM | Fri, 08 July 2005

Very Weird & Wounderful!!!!1,Keep it up

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nootz

6:04PM | Mon, 01 August 2005

Wonderful! Has a dream quality to it.

telkomsa158435

4:51PM | Sun, 07 August 2005

Very Well Done.

agent_2

8:01PM | Thu, 20 October 2005

WOW! Que narrativa! A atmosfera desta imagem e assustadora, toques surreais trazem cheiro a imagem. Perfeita imaginao com capricho visual agudo. Parabs

gabrieltm

8:25PM | Thu, 20 October 2005

o clima desta imagem nos remete, com suas cores frias, a um ambiente calmo, tranquilo e relaxante fazendo um contraste com as criaturas grandes e bizarras.

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oooZENOooo

7:09PM | Sat, 05 November 2005

No critz from me, just praise and a vote!

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Romarch

1:33AM | Tue, 22 November 2005

Your tall, leggy critters: They are very like the Dark Crystal Landstriders. That's not a criticism, more like the preface to a clarification, since you may not have seen the movie; you may wonder what some folks are talking about: The DC striders were this basic shape. The stiltlike legs, heads like tuskless walruses, and especially those detached shoulder-blades angling out like wings, were very distinctive and still linger in my memory even though I saw the Jim Henson flick 24 years ago and have not done much to stay acquainted with it since. (I loved it, BTW, so that's not why.) BUT, iirc (that's a BIG "iirc", considering the time that has passed), I believe the DC creatures were shaggier, and their heads really did look like a walrus's. I don't think they had Chinese dragon-whiskers/tentacles like your beastie, and they certainly lacked the feeding tube/proboscis. I don't know what their feet looked like; I'm not sure they were ever visible in the movie. But I'm thinking that if I had seen them, they would have been mammalian like the rest of the critter, not insectoid like yours. Yours definitely evolved from insects (unless you say otherwise, of course!). I'll chalk this one up to another example of convergent evolution. Hopefully others will read this and quit pestering you about it. =({|;-)

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