This image was based on an aircraft photo I saw on-line last week. And now, actually following the giant watermark, I don’t think I’ll be hurting for inspiration for a while.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 52
Another portrait-oriented image, and my first in a while using only video-game assets. Oddly enough, textures designed for a 480i CRT more than a decade and a half ago may not hold up in 5K HDR renders.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 51
This feels like one of those renders that every Babylon 5 3D fan-artist has made, but I don’t think I ever have. Or if I did, it was in the Ray Dream Studio days.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 50
An experiment inspired by Star Trek Into Darkness, and a recent conversation where I talked about my fake water reflection trick. I think I should avoid water until I have some tools to do it in a more modern way, rather than just a procedually-textured plane and old-style CG draw-distance fog. Sometimes the old ways aren’t classic, they’re just old.
As an aside, comics artist Lucy Bellwood has started shipping handsomely printed copies of her own hundred-days project, which was the direct inspiration for all of these pictures I’ve made over the past two and a half months, generally of boats that fly. If you like the boats that don’t fly, I’d check her out.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 49
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 48
I noticed while I was doing post on this that I should’ve recolored the shuttlebay’s lights red, to match the movie. And I just realized that the other shuttle was in the bay during this scene. Oh, well. Next time.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 47
Hooray! This is my first image made since I’ve returned to the world of the gainfully employed, and I think you can see that I was a bit tired and desperate when I sat down to lay it out (the decision to plop in an HDRI photo background rather than lighting the scene at all was particularly lazy). I will defend the composition with the fact that my square images are meant to be used as phone and tablet wallpapers, so I give a little more “safe area” on the edges since they’ll be cropped down in those uses.
I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to make it through the second half of this project now that my days are no longer my own. The first idea I’ve thought of is to try and lay out several scenes in advance during the weekend, so I only have to worry about rendering and post-work during the week. We’ll see how that works over the next couple days.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 46
This image is based on a painting by Andrew Probert, depicting the launch of the Enterprise-D.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 45
An effect I wanted to try out is something called a “split diopter,” which is basically a sort of camera bifocal, for when you want two (or more) subjects at different distances to be in focus.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 44
Another quicky (well, not that quicky; I did have to do some rejiggering of the textures on the Blue Star to get it look right).