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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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Hmm, I should try this out as my own background then 
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You must know that every time you post something it becomes my background...at least I think every time, I try to keep track...
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I'm a bit scared of those plants. Like...they'd just reach up and grab you...Or they have a strange texture/feeling to them if you touch them. *shudders* Pretty. But creepy. I like it.
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That's how I feel about many existing sea-life...fun to look at, but it would be a cold day in hell before I touch them, invertebrates like anemones look so pretty, but they would feel so gross
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Realy realy realy realistic
You've done the background by 3D or by digital art work ? (like by electronic pad or mouse Oo)
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Thanks, I was going for realism in this one (or as real as a fictional world can look) many of my works are a mix of 3D and 2D, which means many use both mouse and drawing tablet...However this one is about 99% pure 3D and so, done by mouse 
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Woooooooooooh! OO
You're very very good then!
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If you don't mind freakishly huge anemone-like trees that can move at their own will, then go ahead
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very cool, I love these kind of alien-plant landscapes! I particularly the tentacley ones in the water.
Sorry you didn't place as well in the contest as you would have liked, I know how frustrating that is, but it's great looking piece for your portfolio.
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Glad you like e'm, since there's bound to be more alien plant scenes in the future, paced out amongst various others 
Yeah, I think we both have had times where contests feel so biased, most of the times I gracefully admit deafeat since I only win 1 in every 8 or so contests I enter without complaining, but this time - well, some of the finalist's work was really bland and cliche
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this is beautiful and original. poot that they chose cliche pictures. as for those trees, i wonder what would happen if you climb up and sit on them! LOL
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Thanks, oh well, at least the people that matter to me value the originality 
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I think you wanted 
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Oh, whoops. You're right.
And you're welcome kthx
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Your 50+ hours were not wasted; this is beautiful!!!
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Thanks! well I guess many 30 of those hours were actual working time (still a lot I guess, but I was trying lots of new things and having to make up for failed attempts along the way 
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It's amazing! I love it, very creative, and the colours are very nice.
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Thanks a lot, yeah I wanted to get as creative as I could without going overboard with this, something weird - but believable
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Haha well you did an awesome job at it, it's really cool!
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Somewhere in the universe this planet exists, I mean it's too beautiful not too! And somewhere on their planet the teen alien who is on the computer goes, "Look mom! Someone took a picture of our backyard!"
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Lol, it would be so weird if this planet were discovered by us hundreds or thousands of years from now, they'll dig into the internet archives and find this old thing and go "whoa, this guy must have been the new Nostre Damus" (I may have spelt that wrong 
If aliens could pick up on our signals, I bet they'd have a blast eavesdropping on Earthian culture
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I feel that, although your deviations have been getting more original and your ideas more creative and unique, you lost a bit of the general impact of the final images. To me, originality is just a subcategory of the overal impact. =S
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Yeah, I've been battling whether I should focus on doing more original stuff, or just do what everyone has seen plenty of times before, but be assured that its still good. Problem with trying new things is that they rarely come out as good as what I'm used to...not that I consider this to be original though
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Well, it's really up to you. Do you like spending more effort on originality? I'm sure with more practice, your original ideas will come up to par with your standards.
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*goes off to punch contest holder* lol i love this pic,it's rly funky awesome, and the plants don't scare me like ur last alien plants haha, so that makes me love it even more!
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Lol, I actually think these plants would be the most fear-inducing so far, they look like the first ones I've made that can potentially move and be carnivorous 
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lol! when I took a closer look they do seem kinda creepy:3
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Damn. I don't know how you do these things. I love the planet in the background. It looks like it's about to plow into the mid ground of the planet in front. Color, texture, accuracy of reflection... what did the other people in the competition have that you didn't?
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Lol, funny you should say that about the planet, since in the 3D scene file, to get it to look like it was over the horizon, I actually had to put part of it below ground-level, so technically, it has crashed into the ground, even though I intended it to look distant and rising over the horizon
The others were certainly very realistic, more than this even. But that's just the thing - realism is very limited and many were no different to the generic photo's of landscapes I see every day, I just wanted to make something more original and imaginative, but I guess that wasn't in my favour
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That is pretty funny. haha
Oh, I guess the realism thing really... rules the show.. in some places. And remember? Society is constrictive and doesn't like originality. 
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Thanks, it's hard to get wild alien worlds to look natural
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I took a look at the finalists, and I've gotta say that some of those entries were pretty awe inspiring (like jaw on floor inspiring) to someone like me who has a pretty limited knowledge of Vue.
That said, yours would have been the most original by leaps and bounds... you'd think they'd want to represent and promote that Vue can be used as creatively as you've done!
Just about all the finalist pieces are executed near-flawlessly to my eye, but imo only a minority show any sort of originality.
Anyway, really great piece with awesome imagination!
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That's exactly what I think! 
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Awesome job man, that sucks about not making it in the finals. 50 hours is a lot and i think you deserve a mention at the least because you've created yet another absolutely amazing art piece.
Keep it up man, you won in my books
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Thanks man 
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I always love the planets in the background!
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They're always fun to add and give it a real sci-fi touch
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Haha, that would be an idea, but I still think the planets are good, and as you said, with a nice sci-fi touch. (:
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Nifty! looks like an alien planet indeed, the plants are cool! they look aquatic, I wouldn't want to touch some of those, as I'm sure they would spit good in my eyes and then harpoon me with ling tongs they grab prey with.
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Lol, very colourful hypothetical situation there
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Heheh, well, I figured they could use sticky stuff and stinging tentacles, twice the nastiness!
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