Flight of the Rittmeister by glought
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The models are created using Carrara 3. Trans. Maps, bump maps for the wings and body and insignia are mapped using Carraras UV Mapper and applied in Photoshop. The smoke was added in PS post work. Squadron/signal publications were used for reference material for each aircraft. I am still adding more detail to both. Inside and out but hope you enjoy this image.
Comments (14)
Digimon
Excellent work!!! Fantastic modeling, downlaoded the demo for Carrara 3, can't see how one get's anything done in it! Wonderful post work too!!!
mmoir
Very nice image , I have thought of modeling a plane from this era. You did a great job.
sailor_ed
Great research, beautiful models and EXCELLENT post work!!
tallpindo
Does have that bugsmasher way that biplanes and triplanes fly. Hinting with the flying controls might add some drama such as a little up elevator on the tripe or rudder on the bipe to map their positions in control space. Pleasant, shameless.
solt
great work on modeling.excellent picture.
MarkBremmer
Nice effort George! Man I'm a push-over for aircraft like these. You might try warming the light on the aircraft so it more closely matches the yellow light on the clouds...
memaci
Spectacular image with great attention to detail and textures. Are the surfaces of the planes so reflective and shiny as shown on the wings? Fantastic.
glought
Thanks everyone for the helpful comments and suggestions! Reflections: The only color photos that I have to go by are from modern day re-built replicas of the type or built for movies. Surviving re-built Machines of the era would suggest a slight glossy finish from the dope used. The flying circus used lots of color so I went with gloss. The B&W photos for the DRI suggest that the green color aircraft have a heavy dulled finish and weathering on the doped fabric surfaces but this was after the pilot had a few kills in them and a few hours flying. For the blood red DRI photos show reflections off the wings struts and body from objects and the pilots that are close them. This was my best guess for reflection after converting the image to B&W a few times but I wanted to keep a shinny but light weathered look and try and give it the Hollywood off the assembly line feel. I am going to try Marks suggestion on lights; it may bring the reflections down a bit but show some more detail on both sides of the aircraft. Machines :)
Fogge
Amazing and most impressive image. Excellent work!
Smallworld
Wow, fantastic work on the modelling and textures, and a lovely feel to the whole piece, wel done!
Traumer
Wonderful image. Good modelling and despite of cloud issue, excellent rendering and composition IMHO. If you are still interested in old-timer aircraft, or just looking for reference materials, try to look at: mwmiller.net/. Theres lots of excellent 3d aircraft illustrations and very useful list of links. You will like it, I guess.
glought
Thanks for the helpful link for WWI art. CAD will always brings out the Detail for rendering real world objects and I hope that Carrara will make it there soon.
intro
Great...funny tho... I never understood why the germans painted their planes to make such visible targets. The allies(not to be outdone) painted targets on their wings and fuselage. A war later the Japanese painted their zeros yellow with red spots...blended in perfectly with blue water and sky don't you think?hmmm. If this is a work in progress, you'll do fine if you keeps your sights this high!
1998328is
This is a great picture. Can you show the Dr1 model from some other angles?