Something I’ve wanted to do once I had access to a HD-quality Babylon 5 model was to recreate some of the early publicity shots of the show, the ones with the really blown-out contrast (probably because the on-line copies were scans of printouts, and not straight renders). I always thought the distortion made the station look more like a model.
Category Archives: 5K Images
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 83
Another scene from The Dark Forest, featuring the Droplet.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 82
I believe this Myst rocketship was the first complete model I made in Lightwave, some twelve years ago. At first I wasn’t sure what I could do with it for this project, but I realized that with a judicious angle, I could hide the fact that I didn’t have the rest of the island. I quickly surfaced it with textures from 3DXYZ, and plopped it into an sIBL setup, and we’ve got a picture. The lens flare is from Photoshop.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 81
There’s a great deal of history that you should know, but I’m afraid that I must continue my writing…
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 79
Crusade had a particular look to its visual effects. Nebulas and stars were much less saturated than they were in Babylon 5, and there was a tendency for sweeping camera moves that exaggerated the movement of the starfield. I probably could’ve moved the two or three times more to get a more faithful effect.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 78
A shot from the season 1 Babylon 5 episode “Signs and Portents.” Even at a 5K resolution, the scale of the Raider fighter seems a bit small.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 77
You know, I specifically made the airlock on my Archer model consistent with the movie-era docking collar, so I suppose I should show it in use.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 76
I was hunting for inspiration for a quick render last night, and the music from the final scene of Star Trek IV came on shuffle. Probably not the best scene with my current mish-mash of lighting and surfacing workflows but, hey, it’s a picture.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 75
The E.A.S. Hyperion places itself between a Dilgar warship and a Brakiri cruiser during the first day’s of Earth joining the League of Non-Aligned Worlds in repelling the Dilgar’s invasions.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 74
I recently finished reading the English translation of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past novel trilogy (also referred to by the title of the first book, The Three-Body Problem). I thought they were really good, a bit of a throwback to the Clark and Asimov school of hard science fiction. I think going into the books cold really helped me appreciate them, so I’ll just say that this depicts a scene from one of the novels involving a device nicknamed the Droplet.