Wicked. Interesting mix of elements.

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thanks.

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very cool, It looks difficult to render, your style is so polished. very nice. Do you contract with large animation companies?

I found this link over on Newstoday.com a few days ago, sweet little animation, I think it's a demo reel, but quite long, thought you might like to see [link] you will need Quicktime

Thanks for the compliment. Not too difficult to render, it's a bit like taking a photograph a few times over till you get it right. The hardest bits are the modelling and the textures. Vue d'Esprit is a program tuned for producing outdoor scenes, so it helps a great deal with modeling landscapes and atmospherics. It's pretty easy to produce impressive terrain features these days. This one's relatively simple in comparison to what more dedicated 3D landscape artists produce. It's easy to go haywire with these tools I tried to balance the terrain features so that the scenery would not compete with the subject matter. The one glaring thing this scene needs are the tire tracks from the wheels of the teleportation device. But considering this is an 'offcut' from my experimentation, I didn't feel like going any further with it. Doing tracks as part of the 3D scene would have involved a few stages of additional effort and creative experimentation, but it would have polished the scene well methinks...



Do I contract with big animation companies? no. that's an easy answer.

Oh yeah, I watched the animation. It was excellent, sweet, and very inventive. I think the black strips on the top and the bottom of this picture combined with the desert landscape may have triggered your memory of the animation... Hell, even the logos are in the lower right...

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Thanks for the compliment. Not too difficult to render, it's a bit like taking a photograph a few times over till you get it right. The hardest bits are the modelling and the textures. Vue d'Esprit is a program tuned for producing outdoor scenes, so it helps a great deal with modeling landscapes and atmospherics. It's pretty easy to produce impressive terrain features these days. This one's relatively simple in comparison to what more dedicated 3D landscape artists produce. It's easy to go haywire with these tools I tried to balance the terrain features so that the scenery would not compete with the subject matter. The one glaring thing this scene needs are the tire tracks from the wheels of the teleportation device. But considering this is an 'offcut' from my experimentation, I didn't feel like going any further with it. Doing tracks as part of the 3D scene would have involved a few stages of additional effort and creative experimentation, but it would have polished the scene well methinks...



Do I contract with big animation companies? no. that's an easy answer.

Oh yeah, I watched the animation. It was excellent, sweet, and very inventive. I think the black strips on the top and the bottom of this picture combined with the desert landscape may have triggered your memory of the animation... Hell, even the logos are in the lower right...

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thanks for the reply! . . . I'd been forwarding that out to a few friends the past few days previous to seeing your work. Wasn't trying to compare the 2, just thought you above the others not in the field might enjoy more.

nah... no worries matey. I was the one making the comparisons. I thought it was sort of coincidental. I had just looked at my picture and then looked at the animation right afterwards and instantly noticed a resemblance in layout. Sort of freaky in a nice way. I loved the short animation, it was very classy. Thanks for linking to it.



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hehehe, funny worm =^___^=

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