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Published: 2009-07-31 09:23:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 29312; Favourites: 924; Downloads: 0
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This was my entry to the e-on software's Vue environment competition for this year, sadly I didn't even make it to the finals, rendering the 50+ hours I spent on this utterly useless, only to be beaten by some of the most mundayne and generic-looking Vue scenes I've seen an dthat I could have made in an afternoon using little mor ethan what the program provides you with. So much for originality in a landscape being taken into account, there's only a few finalists that I felt deserved to be there
Anyway, the original entry had no postwork (since it wasn't allowed) but this dA version here did have a little bit of it just to fix up some areas and make it look a little more natural, but nothing that I couldn't do in a single session. The actual 3D part is what took forever, modelling those weird alien plants in Cinema 4D was a pain, so was finding a creative way to make the surrounding landscape. Even the planets are pure 3D models, scaled up huge and pushed way beyond Vue's world limits, all materials are procedural too (but afte rthe final render I did overlay some faint rock texture on the rocky cliffs)
My comment here has just focused on the process of making it this time, there's surprisingly little to say about the concept itself, jut another one of my weird alien landscapes
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This is so cool! I'd like to model something this complicated.. but it takes too long to render with my computer at the moment
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Most 3D programs wouldn't have handled the billion or so polygons this had 
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Aw man, I SO need to buy Vue! Keep those awesome works coming! They're inspiring!
PS: I know how you feel about the competition. I always tend to think outside the box when working on a piece for a competition and I usually come up with an original idea. The thing is that the populistic and generic ones usually win. You should've won the competition..
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this is my kinda scene lol!
you should try being in the terragen scene:/
at least vue people are more accepting of scfi vistaz, Most terragenerz wud rather marvel at rocks and sand wtf aye.
but this is just wow man^^ i love the details in the flora all ur own imagine it looks very humid but i wud love to wait round 4 da sunset i bet that would b spectacular lol! I luv the ringed planet 2 and how u have managed 2 squeze in a little sister moon ^^
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Thankyou very much 
Yep, I create dit with the intention of it looking humid, this area is probably slightly warmer than the tropics, the water would feel like a nice bath 
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regular eclipses me thinkz lol!
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Desktop use if fine. What bothers me is people who save it and post it everywhere
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wow! Thats awesome!
And your telling me that this didnt even get to the finals?
Either your right bout the other work TOTALY sucking, or theyre are some damn good artists out there!
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Thanks! this is the first time in years where I have felt that a contest I entered was unfairly judged. I wouldn't say the others "suck" but they wer eincredibly plain and nothing that the Vue community hasn't seen hundreds of times before...This here better demonstrated Vue's less-used features too, like the ability to import objects (the large plants) Sub-surface scattering (on their materials) metablobs and displacement (the large rocks) metaclouds (for the horizon) and just the plain clever use of using procedural materials to make actual 3D planets in the sky directly in Vue (the default Vue planets are too low-res 
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Well, you put that very well. I know nothing about the software your talking about (I like JUST googled it!)
I cant imagine something like this WOULDNT need to use just a whole bunch of nifty features! (when I do elaborate edits in GIMP, I use a whole bunch of the filters and tools and whatnot)
Meh, Realistic images are cool, but hardly ever does a digital scene HAVE to look realistic to look good.
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Absolutely breathtaking. I love the sky, with Saturn and one of it's moons.
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Thanks! well that's not really Saturn (too bad, since life in our Solar System would be an amazing find 
Thanks for faving too
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Oh, I see. It's still really cool looking~
You're welcome~
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omigosh! this is sooooo beautiful
i have question o.o wuts 4D? (i'm a noob lol)
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Thankyou! and yeah, many other entrants also thought the results weren't fair either
Cinema 4D is just a 3D art program I use along with Vue 7 and Photoshop to create my landscapes
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your welcome ^^
ohhhhh thank you lol
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Is this "alien landscape" even in our Galaxy??
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Probably it is...There's more than enough suitable planets in our galaxy alone
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Yah, and even more so in the Universe... Can't wait to see what else is out there. You know I will, too, right??
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wow-this is gorgeous. It's so serene looking. I think I like the water the best, and the plants and such reflecting off of it and the ripples ^^
The color choices worked well too~
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Water is actually kind easy to do in 3D (unlike most other things 
The colours were almost going to be very different, I remember experimenting with a white or yellow sky, but purple semmed to match the plants better
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*claps*
I love it!!!
It's awesome! Muche better than what I could do on Photoshop.
It looks kinda like a place that would be on Final Fantasy. o.0
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This one is actually mostly 3D (and the proper contest entry was pure 3D, but this had Photoshop fix-ups) your'e the first to mention Final Fantasy actually...Even I never thought of that
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Well, it kind of reminded me of some art I saw for the Final Fantasy Wii game I saw yesterday.
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Holy carp! This is like, finalist material here!
Personally, I think you coulda won.
It reminds me of a Ratchet and Clank game for some reason. XD
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Thanks! the one that ended up winning was disappointingly simple, I could have done the same in an hour, but I stupidly spent a week on this
Glad you liked it though, but I havn't played any Ratchet and Clank games
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But because you "stupidly" spent a week on it
you made some thing awesome! ^^
Lol I only have the first one, but im addicted to it
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Not enough modern digital space art/sci-fi landscapes feature weird and exotic alien scenery like this, so I'm glad you do make them. 
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Lol, when it comes to sci-fi artists, you can bet 70% will go no further than space and planets (even though those are cool but can be hard to make original at times) of the remaining 30% - 29 of them will only ever focus on the mechanical side of things like those dramatic sci-fi cities and spacesgips (which if I knew how to do - I'd do that more often too 
I have plenty more ideas for later too
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Indeed, and awesome that you've got more on the way. Also, your style is rather different than that one other person's. 
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Thanks, I feel like only recently have I only embraced my own style instead of copying what the "masters" are doing...realising that was an unrealistic goal, I figured I can't have the best gallery, but hopefully one that's unique
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its defrinately unique, its great that you have embraced your own style
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all your artwork is so beautiful that i can hardly come up with decent comments.
but i can hardly comprehend that you didn't even get finals for that contest; this is so amazing.
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Thankyou very much, yeah the contest winner was disappointingly simple, I could have whippe dup the same in an afternoon and it's the first contest I've entered that I feel like it was rigged, since there were DOZENS of better entries than the winning one
Anyway, those others never get as many people comment their work as I do here anyway
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Love the rock formations.....you and I both like to mix or own models with solid growth, hehe....I really like the almost triangular, small, tan things....they're quite similar to some of mine....
Oh, and I assume you noticed that the simple, palm tree island won the big prize.....next year I'm gonna go simple, a sunset with palm trees....
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Thankyou, I modelled the rocks out of Metablobs with displacement materials which were then "baked" into that shape, what I learned from =nukeation
I can't believe that island one won, that has gotta be the least creative Vue scene I've seen in the finalists right after that two grass covered hills...I personally think it was a rigged competition
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Love the oceanic theme on this one^^ ...too bad i'm deftly afraid of seawater, would have had quite the time exploring this place....
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I'm not afraid of seawater - just that weird things in it, I hate slimy things 
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well, keep the art coming^^ Your stuff is some of the most creative of all the landscape ideas i've ever seen.
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Now THAT is a badass desktop background! The shrubs are adorable btw. I'm trying to imagin still walking out one morning and seeing Saturn on the horizon.
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