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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
Artwork made and copyrighted by me. Do not use any of my images for any purpose without my permission
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Lol, yeah, I think the old sci-fi movies and artwork - although unrealistic by today's standards, can still be a good source of inspiration (not that I'd watch any,, my shallow mind when it comes to visual effects means I couldn't watch those old movies without sitting there and pointing out EVERY flaw "oh look, I can see the strings!" 
Lol, the contest has already been ennounced though, it was private so all entrants couldn't post their work anywhere until the finalists were announced, so I actually made this a few weeks ago and had to "store" it to myself until now
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Gah, didn't see the part about you not making it into the finals, really sorry to hear that bud. Better luck next time, aye?
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I saw this looking at the contest entries, and to be honest I'm very surprised it wasn't in there
Superb work though
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There were some other great and orginal ones I felt should have been in too, I loved that cave one with all the stalactites 
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Too bad about the contest but it's still a great piece
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Aw I love Saturn in the BG...or is that an OC planet
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Lol, "OC planet" 
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yeah that's true tooand yes "OC planet" got nothing else to say
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Exotic, eye appealing and alien. Brilliant
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I want to see what type of animal life could make a home there XD XD XD Great as always, you are da masta'
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Who knows, maybe these ARE animals 
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Would you mind if I used this background for my art's background? It's for personal use though , I'll give you credit of course ^^
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Your artworks look perfectly fine as they are, I'm surprised you would need someone else's background. But I'm afraid I don't allow such usage of my work. I suppose you could use it as a "dummy background" to temporarily fill in the gaps when drawing a character, but once done that - you'll have to make your own one in place of it or use a stock image
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oh that's a good idea! Sorry for asking >.<" and thanks! (I'm so weak at background so I need some references 
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Even with the amount of time you spent on this, it doesn't look as aesthetically pleasing as those in the finals.
The contest's finalists all had some natural and very vast pieces, while yours is small and cluttered with odd looking things.
The techniques and time you put into this picture make it definitely worth looking at, and while colorful and vibrant, when you compare it to the others, I don't think it really fit in with what they were looking for in this competition.
Just my two cents, love your art man!
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Well, I guess the finalists were very good from a technical point of view, even the few plain-looking ones could be passed off as photo's, but still - they also encouraged originality and cretaivity, and while everyone has seen hills and planets before, I bet no-one has conceived these bizarre alien...things like I have 
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A rant a day keeps the doctor away!
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Alien invasion~!!
actually I think the famous architect Antonio Gaudi will fall in love with your work. If only he was still alive...
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Hmm, if we got the photo of the alien planet, technically - WE are the invaders 
I'm afraid I have never heard of Antonio Gaudi, shows how much I know about the art world beyond dA
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LOL! Ok go google the "Sagrada Familia", it's one of the world's most famous cathedrals because of the fact that it is unfinished. It's the work of Antonio Gaudi 
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Beating myself leaves bruises that I must cover up with more art!
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Amazing, just amazing. Your always beating yourself.
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The judges were bribed or on crack cocaine, caues this is awesome, and looks very difficult!
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Either that or some were partially blind, part of me thinks they may deliberately include average-looking scenes in the finals along with the obviously great ones so there's no false hope when the judging comes, since there's three positions as well as three (out of 12) finalists that are head and shoulders above the rest 
Oh well, there's always next year's one 
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Yeah, there's always next year... I lost in my schools film contest... (for animation) and well, eh, it only had like three good scenes... However... You do awesome art, I makes me wanna go wolf on their asses! *grins evilly and snarls* heh heh...
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This looks really awesome!
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Thanks a lot 
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Makes me think of spore...
Speaking of spore....my homeplanet has a moon AND rings... I remembered XD
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Lol, I've never played that game, and probably won't since I only like console games rathe rthan PC ones 
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It's a very good game! X3
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nicely done, reminds me of spore kinda.
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I was waiting for a comment like that
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haha, suprised nobody said it before me.
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omg it really does liik like you spent ages on this!! you soooo should of won
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Lol, well I don't think it's winning material, but it would have been nice to at leats made the finalists
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ofcourse i love all your work
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interesting pic. :] Looks great again.
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Yay me,i did read the description this time!!
I did not understand but i did readat least
Damnit i miss to much words to say something corectly.
I'm just gonna say that's a nice work
A REALY NICE WORK
I started to learn A BIT 3D,with tutorials T^T
The tutorials are stupid,i never have the same result ;__;
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Lol, the important thing is that you tried 
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This looks tasty. They remind me of dragonfruits. hehe
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I never would have though of those, but now I see a loose resemblence
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This looks even cooler with those cracks, I don't remember they were there on your submission to the competition, but they make the HTs look much more natural. You already know my opinion about the rest of the scene
And a little more about the contest; don't worry and don't feel sad about it, cuz it's just one way of the million to show yourself to the world, and you have already achieved a high level. The time you work on a scene is not everything either; I worked on a scene for 3 days and it didn't really bring what I expected, but oh well, two days later I composed a random scene (Out of the city) in an hour, posted it to C3D, and within an hour I received the message about Out of the city and that project I can't talk about yet
Just keep posting your great work, because e-on is looking for masterful scenes....ohh
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