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Published: 2009-07-31 09:23:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 29337; 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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Amazing! I bet they didn't believe it was made with Vue, so they didn't choose it! They probably want pieces that reflect what you can do when you jump straight into Vue, which is sad, because this shows what you can do with a lot of experience and imagination. (and no offence, but I'm sure you're not the only one to show what you can do with both). If people could see this sort of stuff, they'd have a much bigger market!
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Very good comment 
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Heh, very true!
Anyway, looks like you make a good unofficial ambassador for Vue on dA! 
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Awww... You're still #1 in my book. 
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Lol, I've only herad of one of those two ;XD: I surprisingly don't watch most of the good 3D artists here, many illustarte the sorts of things I'm interested in
Now that I have gotten used to the programs, I do admit that I can do most things rather easily provided it's something I've done before (like landscapes for example) but even so, it just takes forever to make everything
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Me too. I tend to stay away from artist more talented than me because... I don't like to be looked down upon. 
And I agree that it is much easier to get the job done better when you've gotten to know your program very well. Practice makes perfect. ^_^
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This doesn't look weird at all! In fact, it looks like a futuristic opening scene about the creation, as in Genesis
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Lol, I meant the good kind of weird - which I actually like!
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There is none other that respects your work as I do. I "Play" with Vue Infinite 6.0 and drool when I see your works... I dream of having your 'touch' and using that artistic ability/out-of-the-box thinking you have to be able to apply simple backgrounds in my work.
This is definitely far more original than the images I saw from the competition. (yes, I got the email from e-onsoftware.com yesterday and spent some time looking at the images from the finalist)
The next statements are said from respect for all you do on DA and your incredible talent.... so do not take this the wrong way... ((Please ???... warm-grin)).
The first thing I look for in any Vue image is "Is it believable?"...."Does it look real?"... your past works have been there! They were believable. This is very unique but it lacks the believability you've spent so much time on in past images.
The plants on the right 1/3 are just too crisp, the overall color/lighting is just somehow off a bit... too bright??? It doesn't blend together as much as your previous images. Purely my opinion but I see Rich colors coming through and all this is "washed-out" a little.
I REALLY think you were going the right direction and with enough time would have made this a virtual masterpiece.... but it 'appears' rushed and not as finished as your previous works. (I do understand the render times... ((huge sigh)) )
Again... I'm a novice at Vue and speaking out of place... I'm hoping to offer constructive advice... ((although I'd have no idea how to get to where you need to go... sigh)). Please don't take this poorly. I still consider you the MASTER at 3D renders!
don't give up on this piece (unless it bores/disgusts you).... have fun with it and keep working on it.. There IS something there and with yout talent I trust you can bring it out...
okay.. I've WAY over spoken myself... (please understand this said from adoration of your work and NOT cutting you down)....
take care!
robert
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A realistic scene in Vue shouldn't be too hard, I think maybe the lighting would have a lot to do with it. But yeah, since your'e using real models, you would need higher expectations of realism too, at least enough to trick people into thinking it's one solid image. Just make sure the lighting on the scene is the same as on the model, no point making a sunset manipulation with a daytime-shot model
Many of the plants do appear rather solid instead of leafy, mainly because they were inspired more from marine invertebrates than actual plants. I remembe rmaking some custom plants that actually had leaves, but I couldn't find a place for them here (oh well, two more aline plants that I didn't have before, I'll save them for a more appropriate sci-fi scene)
Well, since I'm out of the competition, there's really no point me adding more or changing anything. I'll leave it as is. I have a bette rlooking scene coming up soon anyway. Plus this one has a big file size and moving and changing anything as I was nearing the end of it became a slow and painful process and it was getting on my nerves...If I had a more powerful computer, I could have done so much more
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Understood on the more powerful computer!...
regardless... you are still the 3D King in my books! (grin).
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Mate that's one beautiful work! Sorry it didn't make it to finals - but also it's not making any sense.
There are cool works indeed - but this one is much more creative than others I observed there.
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Glad you like it, and thanks for faving again 
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Absolutely incredible. Bravo, sir.
I especially like the colors and textures you gave to your alien tenta-plants. They look fleshy and delicious.
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Thanks! I like making my alien plants look fleshy and either gross, or delicious 
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"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."
where can I see that?
anyway, this is a very nice work - reminds me of those crazy planets seen in star wars episode III.
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Here [link] don't get me wrong, some are great! but others look no different to the millions of other Vue landscape I've seen
Hmm, don't Think I've seen Star Wars III, then again - I havn't really watched much Star Wars at all
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Man, that's a disappointment.
Well, it's a real eye popper anyway. I give you 10 out of 10 
That would be cool planet to visit...if it's not hostel.
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Yeah, I'm kinda bummed about it. Hopefully I'll get over it anyway especially since I have another, more successful deviation that I'll submit later 
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WOWWWWW BRO very very NICE!!!:
VIDEOTUTORIAL wahahaaha.
:+Fav: :+Fav: :+Fav: :+Fav: :+Fav: :+Fav: :+Fav::+Fav:
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I doubt I'd ever make video tutorials, maybe just regular read-ones one day. Some things weren't done just in Vue though which complicates things even more. Others use dmethods that already have been explained, like the rock formations were made after following a tutorial on making elaborate rocks in Vue by =nukeation
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brilliant work Matt. I love the depth you get thru different levels of mistyness (is that a word?)
Maybe there will be other comps to enter it into
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Thanks, I guess "Haziness" would be a better word, but it's more like mist or steam anyway (the things in the water are probably creating their own gassy atmosphere, or maybe the water is just very very warm 
Hmm, not sure if there's other contests going on that this would be appropriate for, oh well - guess it's another picture for me to add to my gallery anyway
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thats amazing! its very pretty! Good job
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I'm thinking a good game for you to play is Spore ( I believe that's what it's called). You make EVERYTHING, planets, worlds, species, buildings, etc. I'd get the game myself, but my archaic PMSing computer doesn't have the memory (even though it does, but keeps saying it doesn't. I swear the fickle thing gorges its bitchy self on its own memory.)
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Lol, SPORE looks interesting, but something tells me I might be limited to the boundaries of the game and I might lose interest. In my art however, working in 3D almost make sit feel like a game, but I'm free to create anything I want from scratch and keep going until 1. - I have worked long enough and consider it done, or 2. - my computer keeps crashing because the file size is too big and I have to call a quits and accept it as is
I get the same program when I try to use Vue, it's telling me my video board's driver is obsolete or something, which is stupid sinc emy laptop isn't even a year old yet. Bah, it still runs pretty well, and problems like that are more effort than what solving them is worth anyway
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Wow, incredible dude! Extreeeemmeee detail! Wonderful work!
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Oooh.... Pretty... You should have won!
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Maybe not win first place, some of the finalists are great! but some others were kinda...eh 
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i went and looked at the finalists D:
shouldn't have, it just makes me angry, yours and a number of others should have made it to the finals instead
the finalists are all blah-regular-landscape-that-i-could-have-taken-a-picture-of sort of pieces (well i suppose the ice one is okay...)
the judges could have chosen some more original pieces of art. *sigh* well i can't do anything about it so...
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Lol, I warned ya! 
I actually liked the ice one the most too!
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GOD ! All your landscape pictures leave me so speechless * A *. It's so exotic and mysterious looking. I would love to go there and just swim (if it's not poisonous), while gazing upon the clouds and Saturn's rings. : D
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Thanks a lot, glad you like my landscapes, in a search for originality - many future ones would probably have some weird features like here, since even I get bored of hills and trees all the time 
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hmmm, we'll check back in 4 billion years when the expanding Sun warms Titan's surface to a possible habitable state 
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I've always considered your usage of Vue to be the most original, especially since you make most if not all of your own models and render crazy, awesome worlds with it! Don't be discouraged by the lack of mainstream attention; think about all the Renderosity "art" you see for example... 90% naked poser chicks, 5% horrible beginner artwork, and the other 5% decent work gets lost in the mix almost entirely.
I haven't gone to look at the Vue winners, because I had a feeling it would be entirely disheartening.
But don't consider this one wasted time at all, my friend! It looks great, and you've done well.
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Thankyou! Yeah, with so many Vue users using just Vue on it's own (which is fine, I love seeing the renders) I feel obligated to make mine different than the mainstream by incorporating my own models, plants and of course - postwork, which is probably the same reason why mine didn't get the mainstream attention in the competition, sinc emine Vue scenes aren't mainstream ones
But oh well, at least they get a lot of attention on dA, few Vue users can say that, so in their faces 
I don't go to Renderosity purely because I expect just what you said!
Oh, yu can still look at the finalists, some are really great (I liked the one titled "ice" the most) but there's just a handful there that I felt could been beaten my mine, and some of the other's entries
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wow, thats amazing! its like underwater, but above the surface of the ocean.
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That was my state of mind when making it, the plants are heavily inspired by sea-life, who know s- maybe they are amphibious, starting life in the water and moving on to land later
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i love these sort of surreal landscapes you do, i think you should have made it to the finals at least... this is awesome, i can imagine all the motion and everything... great job
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Glad you like them, since I have plenty more in my mind with even weirder looking plant life
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yays weird planties! can't wait to see more! you're welcome
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Haha, this somehow reminds me of one of those 1970s space movie flicks, like Planet of the Apes or something.
Heh, best of luck in that contest dude, keep it up.
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