July 2009

[bmckain]

I'm really pleased that so many of you like this new format and seem to be enjoying it. It's always a pleasure for me to watch and see your creative talents put to work and I am sure this month will be no different.

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Entries for July



Silent Running by SteveMoody

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U S S Balmung by Pernik

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Pit Stop In Hell by VK08

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Waiting... by Zippy

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Night Prowler by bmckain

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Q Who by Zippy

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Standby by Jonesy

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Out of the Black by Vergigorm

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Sorry to Wake You by muadib25

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Fly Me to the Moon by Vergigorm

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Over the Top by Drell-7

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Apollo 11, From Earth into Eternity by DaveK

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Mayflower 2 under construction by Elowan

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Babylon 5 - Sundancer by Elowan

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Raider by Rigel

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HAVCAP by Tenement 01

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Weekend Holiday by VK08

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The Eagle by bmckain

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Sleeping Giants by Mayaman


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XWing Flight by RonGC


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[SteveMoody]

Here's an early entry for this month to get things started :) Using Treybor's Valley Forge model.

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[Tenement 01]

Very cool! Great start to the month.

[bmckain]

Here's an early entry for this month to get things started :) Using Treybor's Valley Forge model.

http://www.foundation3d.com/uploads/general/2009/07/22-03-609732_tn.jpg (http://www.foundation3d.com/uploads/general/2009/07/22-03-609732.jpg)


Awesome, it's been added. :)

[GrahamTG]

Picked up the excellent USS Balmung model by Madkoifish, couldn't resist giving it a whirl.


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USS Balmung model by Madkoifish
Background, scene and post processing G T Gazzard

[bmckain]

Picked up the excellent USS Balmung model by Madkoifish, couldn't resist giving it a whirl.


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USS Balmung model by Madkoifish
Background, scene and post processing G T Gazzard

Ahh, nice to see one of the Premiere models used. It's been added. :)

[bmckain]

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My entry for this month

Love all these early entries, it's been added. :)

[Tenement 01]

Must complete picture!

[Treybor]

Here's an early entry for this month to get things started :) Using Treybor's Valley Forge model.

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That must have taken forever to render.....:rolleyes::D

[Zippy]

Here's my entry....

Waiting...
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[bmckain]

Here's my entry....

Waiting...
http://www.foundation3d.com/uploads/art/2009/07/203-06-932419_tn.jpg (http://www.foundation3d.com/uploads/art/2009/07/203-06-932419.jpg)

Thanks, it's been added. :)

[bmckain]

Decided to enter one myself this month, I haven't done much rendering this year and I have a few images that needed finishing, this being one of them. The model is straight from Premiere content with a little spec adjustment from me.


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[Tenement 01]

All excellent stuff!

[SteveMoody]

That must have taken forever to render.....:rolleyes::D
Render time wasn't too bad on that one, could have done with a bit more ram on the machine i was using though :D

[Treybor]

Sean's VF took me about an hour to render out on this machine. By contrast, Koi's Enterprise under full Monte Carlo radiosity took 4 hours...

there's a major problem with those numbers :eek:

My VF is mostly polygons.... not textures :D

[Zippy]

Q Who!?
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[Treybor]

Q Who!?
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Great image

[Tenement 01]

Brilliant work, Zippy!

[Jonesy]

I wanted to do something with a moon theme for the 40th anniversary of the landing, and I seem to be on a bit of a Gerry Anderson thing at the moment so I came up with this using Fabio's Eagle Transporter conversion and a little help from the Lightwave content CD.

Rendered in Lightwave, tiny bit of post work in Photoshop.

[MayaMan]

Nice :D good work there man... I just hope Allan isn't flying one of those Eagles or its going to take a header in to a moon mountain... ;)

[MayaMan]

Q Who!?
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I'm so glad you submitted this! Great work :)

[MayaMan]

Zippy and Jonesy images updated to the list good work guys :)

[Jonesy]

Nice :D good work there man... I just hope Allan isn't flying one of those Eagles or its going to take a header in to a moon mountain... ;)

Cheers! I wonder if Mr Carter did the same piloting course as Deanna Troi?

[Vergigorm]

Here's my entry using Treybors updated Serenity, thanks Treybor

Rendered in Vue

[MayaMan]

Added, good work keep em coming! :D

[Tenement 01]

You go away for a couple of days. Excellent additions.

[muadib25]

Hey guys, here's my addition, I set it up in a haste, using Londo Molari's Viper MkII.

The rest is mine. I am thinking of submitting the sandworm when I finish modeling it...

What do you think?

[MayaMan]

Hey guys, here's my addition, I set it up in a haste, using Londo Molari's Viper MkII.

The rest is mine. I am thinking of submitting the sandworm when I finish modeling it...

What do you think?

I think its cool but if I remember correctly the image needs credits on it before it can be submitted to the contest.

[Rigel]

I think its cool but if I remember correctly the image needs credits on it before it can be submitted to the contest.

No, it actually says details regarding credits in your post. But, having them on the image is nice.

[MayaMan]

I sit corrected ;)

[muadib25]

I think its cool but if I remember correctly the image needs credits on it before it can be submitted to the contest.

My apologies, then. Here is the updated picture!

[Vergigorm]

As the rules state we may enter more than one, here's my second, using the F-29 Rapier by BillS, for some reason the textures would not port to Vue so it's been partially retextured by me.

[BillS]

Added muadib25 and Vergigorm's images to the first post.


@Vergigorm. Yeah I've noticed that Vue is really picky about textures. It doesn't like it at all if they aren't UV'd and that was from back before I started to do that. :)

[Drell-7]

Here is my first entry to the monthly competition. I love the work Dennis Bailey did on not only the geometry, but the textures and lights for his Enterprise Refit. I was trying to come up with a less-frequently seen viewpoint for her, and finally came up with this view from above as she passes over the north polar cap of a superjovian planet, avoiding the worst part of its massive radiation belts. You can see an energetic auroral display on the nightside above the pole.
Rendered in Lightwave 8.5, with post in Photoshop.
Thanks!
Tom

[Treybor]

Here is my first entry to the monthly competition. I love the work Dennis Bailey did on not only the geometry, but the textures and lights for his Enterprise Refit. I was trying to come up with a less-frequently seen viewpoint for her, and finally came up with this view from above as she passes over the north polar cap of a superjovian planet, avoiding the worst part of its massive radiation belts. You can see an energetic auroral display on the nightside above the pole.
Rendered in Lightwave 8.5, with post in Photoshop.
Thanks!
Tom

Except for the bit of spiking of the Saturn texture on the top of the planet, that is an altogether outstanding image! Good job!

[Drell-7]

Thanks, Treybor, I appreciate the kind words. I realize now I should've tipped the planet up to put the spikes in shadow. Are there any good ways to get rid of that effect?
-Tom

[BillS]

Added Drell-7's image.

[bmckain]

Thanks guys for making sure the entries were added to the list while I was away. Some really nice entires came in but there's still time for more. :)

[Treybor]

Thanks, Treybor, I appreciate the kind words. I realize now I should've tipped the planet up to put the spikes in shadow. Are there any good ways to get rid of that effect?
-Tom

1) Create a separate surface for the top and bottom of the sphere.
2) Use a texure with UV distotion at the poles.

[DaveK]

Not having posted anything for a while, I wanted to do somtheing for the Apollo 11 aniversary.

Shrox made these cool Command, Service, and Lunar Modules. They worked very well to show the trans lunar trip.

[bmckain]

Not having posted anything for a while, I wanted to do somtheing for the Apollo 11 aniversary.

Shrox made these cool Command, Service, and Lunar Modules. They worked very well to show the trans lunar trip.

Thanks, it's been added.

[bmckain]

Just a reminder, a little more than one week to go.

[Elowan]

My 1024x960's worth:

[Elowan]

One more --

[bmckain]

My 1024x960's worth:

One more --

Thanks, they've both been added.

[Rigel]

Here is my entry for July.

Resources used:

Alix by TateSF
B-17 Crewman by Woody
Pirate Chest by bmckain
Amenothep II Tomb by japa

Edit: July 28, 2009 Bob McKain was kind enough to take this into Photoshop and play with the appearance a little. Hopefully this makes things more visible to everyone.

[bmckain]

Here is my entry for July.

Resources used:

Alix by TateSF
B-17 Crewman by Woody
Pirate Chest by bmckain
Amenothep II Tomb by japa

Very resourceful, it's been added.

[Bishop]

Here is my entry for July.

Resources used:

Alix by TateSF
B-17 Crewman by Woody
Pirate Chest by bmckain
Amenothep II Tomb by japa




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All I see is a black square with some white lettering at the bottom for the credits?

[Davide_sd]

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All I see is a black square with some white lettering at the bottom for the credits?

your display is too dark.

[Gordon Robb]

Hmm. That's strange as, I can see there is something there, but can't make out what it is, and I have no problems seeing other images at what I think are the right brightness.

[Gordon Robb]

Just tried tweaking my brightness as high as it would go, and changed the contrast as much as I could, and the best I could get was I can see that there are some feet. Are other people seeing this image, is my display gubbed?

[Tenement 01]

It's a big dark blob for me on my office display.

[Meurig]

I can just about make it out on my hardware calibrated monitor at work :p Only just though.

[Jonesy]

I can just make out some shapes, but it's all very dark.

[Bishop]

Okay, last night I was looking at it with my laptop. This morning I'm looking at it with the desktop. 20,000:1 contrast ratio, calibrated to hell and gone ... I can actually see -some- details. Figure with a sword and a ponytail, a chest of some sort, some square-ish pillars or walls.

[Rigel]

Okay; the figure is in shilouette and not entirely by design either. Although it is facing the light to the left, the surfaces on the figure just don't pick up the light (her ninja stealth trick I guess). The set itself is very squarish; it wasn't modelled to have the camera right inside of it, but to be viewed from a difference (take a look at the image on its download page).

I was aiming for a dark, torch lit tomb and on my monitor, it turned out reasonably. Not entirely the way I wanted it, but reasonable.

Bob is going to photoshop it for me to see if he can bring it out better for you guys.

[Tenement 01]

Another one for the mix. :)

[Tenement 01]

Here is my entry for July.

Resources used:

Alix by TateSF
B-17 Crewman by Woody
Pirate Chest by bmckain
Amenothep II Tomb by japa

Edit: July 28, 2009 Bob McKain was kind enough to take this into Photoshop and play with the appearance a little. Hopefully this makes things more visible to everyone.

Looks great and everything is a clear as a bell.

[TheMightySpud]

Another one for the mix. :)


While I like that one very much, really nice composition, I persanally think that there's way too much grain added.

Drop it down to about half of what it's currently set at and I think you'd be onto a winner :)

TheMightySpud

[Tenement 01]

While I like that one very much, really nice composition, I persanally think that there's way too much grain added.

Drop it down to about half of what it's currently set at and I think you'd be onto a winner :)

TheMightySpud

Hmmm, think you might be right. (Thank God for keeping multiple variations of things.)

[MayaMan]

Front page updated :) Looks like a good turnout this time :D


EDIT - Ahh if you do an updated version Tenement 01 post it up and I'll update the front page

[Tenement 01]

Update of earlier picture.

[TheMightySpud]

Much Better grain imho.

I just did notice something else though.......dont' shout at me LOL.

The engine exhaust on the 'main' ship of the scene has a very hard black edge on it :-/

TheMightySpud

[MayaMan]

Updated again... Though I suspect third time might be the charm... That black edge is a transparency / alpha channel thing

[Tenement 01]

I didn't notice it on my moniter at home. I think I'll have to spend a bit of time calibrating my screen. Cheers Mighty Spud, and I agree about the the grain. The first render had way too much contrast because of the grain texture and I was losing detail. Serves me right for staying up too the wee hours in the morning.

I'll see what I can do about the alpha channel tonight and see if I can correct it. Thanks though for suggestions guys.

Tenement

[Tenement 01]

That's very cool indeed!

[MayaMan]

Another cool one added to the pile.... This vote's going to be a toughy I think

[bmckain]

Adding this one to the mix;

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[bmckain]

Way cool, lots more images, this should be a really fun vote.

[MayaMan]

For this one I wish I had more time... Still more the merrier eh :)



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[bmckain]

Indeed, I think this is the most we've had for an RA since we fired it back up.

[Treybor]

For this one I wish I had more time... Still more the merrier eh :)



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Oooh Yay! Someone used my old Discovery mesh!
Cool image!

[Treybor]

Another one for the mix. :)

Yeah! and all my old Star Wars meshes...
Cool stuff!

[bmckain]

Oooh Yay! Someone used my old Discovery mesh!
Cool image!

Yeah! and all my old Star Wars meshes...
Cool stuff!

A prime example of why we started the RA in the first place. :)

[RonGC]

This is a little bit older pic, but i wanted to upload it to thank everyone for their generous givings.

I would like to thank Bob Mcain for some fabulous BG photos used in many renders besides this one:D

Credits on the pic for the meshes used but still a very public thanks to Charles Woods for the splendid Xwing, the Great Raja for a very nice R2 unit.

Thanks again to all the contributing members, Does sucking up gain extra points?;)

Ron

[bmckain]

This is a little bit older pic, but i wanted to upload it to thank everyone for their generous givings.

I would like to thank Bob Mcain for some fabulous BG photos used in many renders besides this one:D

Credits on the pic for the meshes used but still a very public thanks to Charles Woods for the splendid Xwing, the Great Raja for a very nice R2 unit.

Thanks again to all the contributing members, Does sucking up gain extra points?;)

Ron

I don't remember seeing this one so its new to me and its been added. :)

[Tenement 01]

I think I have the engine glow fixed.

[Epiphany]

This is a little bit older pic, but i wanted to upload it to thank everyone for their generous givings.

I would like to thank Bob Mcain for some fabulous BG photos used in many renders besides this one:D

Credits on the pic for the meshes used but still a very public thanks to Charles Woods for the splendid Xwing, the Great Raja for a very nice R2 unit.

Thanks again to all the contributing members, Does sucking up gain extra points?;)

Ron

:jawdrop: WOW one of the best X-Wing images I've seen :cool: Very nice lighting and the texture maps on the X-Wing are great