Megaurchins Canyon - TUTORIAL AVAILABLE NOW ! by czarnyrobert
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Still exploring ET016 - but this time our explorers are investigating some wreckages that were found on Southern Desert, in Megaurchins Canyon. On the left, we see five megaurchins - those big animals are as large as a cow but are less agile than a snail - for almost all their life they lie on rocks and only from time-to time agitate their 4m long, sticky tentacles which act as a "fly paper". Their daily haul is not very impressive - about 1,5 kg of small flying animals, but considering megaurchins very slow metabolism & ability to photosynthesize organic compounds - it is enough for survive. To devour its pray, megaurchin simply lick up his tentacles.
It's only just after the birth that small warm like megaurchins larvae travels several kilometers looking for adequate rock, on which it will usually stay for its whole life.
Next time perhaps a report about wreckages would be ready - actually it is only known, that those are remaining of small landing ship and its crew. What is the most interesting is that this ship was not build by ET016 civilization...
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Only minor postwork was done to this scene - gamma adjustement, low pas filter, sharpnes enhancement &few shadows adjustement.
Sky is original Vue sky (no bitmap), the same for all textures - they are procedural(except megaurchins head & spikes, explorers suites & leafs)
(originaly non-postworked wersion was post here, but i decided to replace it by this "boosted" version. Original version in reduced size is still available on my website)
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Everything except Megaurchins and Explorers figures was build in Vue Pro.
Ships wrecks were assemble from primitives, alien plants were model using Vue Pro Plant Editor.
Megaurchins were set up in Poser - I used great & easy to pose Tentacle Hair (made by Ajax)
& some horns from "Monster Parts set" - Body was made in Cinema 4D, Explorers are Poser 2 low res figures.
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TUTORIAL AVAILABLE NOW !!!
You can learn how I modelled Megaurchins Rock - it was assembled from several Vue terrins.
Please, if you have any comments, questions or proposals concerning this tutorial, don't hesitate to post them.
This is my first scene MADE IN EUROPEAN UNION
Hope you would like it :-)))
Cheers!
Robert
Comments (107)
bigbraader
Incredible work - as usual. Makes me want to make Sci-fi images, too. And I agree more or less to your opinion on Bryce, with this addition: Bryce is much more useful for modelling, and renders soft shadows, true ambience and DOF much, much better than Vue (no matter how high the setting), but at a price of insanely - and thus not really feasible - long render-times. And, oh yes - a VOTE
Kutter
Superior render Robert, you ability to create high impact scenes is unsurpassed, another masterpiece!
beetle-car
Yes! Yet another image overflowing with incredible detail and imagination. I would love to see a simple fly-through animation of some of your scenes!
liewald
Robert as usual I'm Speechless. the quality the depth and the perception required for something like this puts us all to shame. Astounding V
AnneCHPostma
I found this image to be really nice when scrolling to the right (scrolling on my 1600x1200 sized windows !) and saw the right part of the image. I think this part really makes the image come to live and as a terrain-guy I certainly like the rocks ! Excellent job !
czarnyrobert
Thanks Liewald - but don't exaggerate - it's true, that I care for details & rendering quality - but there are hundreds other people at Renderosity, who produce quantities of excellent masterpieces, who have much better ideas, whose technique is better than mine. There is also the other side - Perhaps some people should use more self-critics while preparing to post a picture. What is the point to display every scrap produced after 5 minutes of tampering with a 3D application? I made much more renders than you can see in my gallery, but I am aware, that only a few are good enough, to be enjoyable for my viewers. Only those are displayed :-)))
Alexander_Kroener
The worth of Europe is growing ;) Again a fantastic picture - especially nice are the rock textures, and that strange animals with the even stranger name. V, no doubt.
calum5
To true Robert~your work is a real joy to look at.Thanks for being fussy enough to send in the best of the batch rendered!:-)I enjoyed looking at this very much,but I wont tell you your god just yet!but your close!!lol!:-)bye calum uk!
Dani36
Woooooooowwwww very very beautiful excellent picture Fantastic :)))Vote Vote Vote ;)
lingrif
Wonderful textures, composition, vegetation, terrain - everything! I love the image and especially love the megaurchins. Very imaginative!
3D_Explorer
This is too cool. I really dig this alot. Nice work.
Drakath
Great setting, Robert. I love the feeling of this one. A bit like old Science Fiction movies and covers. The quality of the picture is, like always, perfect.
ebsmooth
WOW!!! like all the other images you do, this is amazing! i really can't say anymore, there is just to much to rave about! truely outstanding work!!!
Shari123
I am always impressed with your work. I just adore the megaurchins! They are so unique. You keep this up and I will start liking Sci Fi ;) Thank you for showing me what Vue is capable of!
rds
Outstanding scene.:O)
jwdell
Fantastic scene!!! Amazing work!!!! Gets my vote
estevez
Wonderful scene with a beautiful atmosphere and excellent job of modeling of terrains and textures. :my vote: Congratulations!
kitz
Looks fantastic ... the terrains and the colours are amazing ... V
Django
Looks good ..the detail on the plantlife is exceptional
Calanthe
Majestic vista, great work! This is really psychedelically fabulous! My vote!
joshus_hund
The terrain is certainly totally cool, best textures that Vue can do! I am mostly amazed by the plants! The overall scene is just fantastic as is your writing! An impressive project that deserves a vote (or two ;-)!
Pelican
Very good job on the modelling... I always like your plants - or animals? Very nice panorama with a lot to view !!
McDetti
WOW !!!!! Excellent work Robert ! VOTE !!! Thanks for the great tutorial.
DMFW
Fabulous work! There's a real sense of place in this picture and the megaurchins are wonderful. I think I want one as a pet :-)
stealthman
This is so phenomenal! What an excellent piece! I love all of the vegetation - and the scale of everything is incredible! Excellent +++ !
Bonker
Welcome to the Union. This render is really great as the others, I am allways amazed by your sence for details. The modelling is great, the story really enhances the pictures making it alla comte together.
trev3k
excellent!
lrf
Alot of fun and depth all in one shot. Though I'd love to se some of your humanoid characters involved here, for that cinematic touch. Beautiful render.
avidflame
Wow. Superb artwork. Great sense of fun pervades this one.....and you even produced a tutorial. Most impressive. Excellent work!
Flycatcher
Great render of a highly imaginative scene - love it. I just wish I had a super-wide monitor to be able to view the scene as a whole, though it is almost a voyage of discovery panning across from left ot right. One of your best. Sorry the vote is a tad late.