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).
Category Archives: 5K Images
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 43
Decided to spend some time with the Narns. Or Narn. It’s ambiguous what the correct plural is.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 40
At the urging of Rhys over at Foundation3D, yesterday I finally figured out how to adapt my workflow to use linear color.
There are many explanations on-line for what a linear workflow entails. It’s fairly technical, but the upshot is that computers have to mess with images to get them to look right. That’s great, except when you process those images, say by using them as texture maps in a 3D rendering calculation. All of the renderer’s math is thrown off, because it’s using source data that was filtered for display, and things come out looking wrong. Everything is wrong!
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 39
A panicky, last minute render. I ended up recalling a shot from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Best of Both Worlds.”
I intended to try doing my post work in After Effects rather than Photoshop, but that didn’t work out (apparently, After Effects, 5K frames, and eight-year-old laptops don’t mix).
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 38
A Stargate-inspired picture, set thousands of years ago, imagines the last of the Ancients, crossing paths with the Goa’uld during the rise of their own empire.
I used the portrait orientation to mix things up a bit. Same with the choice of subject.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 36
I realized partway through the main image I was working on yesterday that I probably wouldn’t be able to finish that night, so I switched gears. I had a few false stars before I ended up doing a Firefly beauty shot. One little touch was moving the starboard shuttle out to launch position, so it could pick up the glint of the sunlight.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 35
Having run the numbers earlier, I decided to go with a portrait-oriented Star Wars image to mix things up a bit. I also spent too much time screwing around with the Borg Cube model to do anything very elaborate.
Just before I ran the render, I remembered that this is a scene that takes place at Tatooine, so I added a second key light to represent the second sun, with a 60/40 split between them as far as lighting goes. They’re also different sizes, so one set of shadows is sharper than the other set.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 34
Last minute picture. The Defiant’s shuttlecraft returns from a visit to an Intrepid-class ship.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 33
There’s a certain ebb and flow to these pictures, I’ve noticed. This one was another “getting acquainted with the model” image. I’m hoping to do a couple pictures representing scenes from the Star Trek novel trilogy “Destiny,” which involves, in part, a massive Borg attack on the Federation. The nebula is a Hubble photo I considered as a possible background for yesterday’s picture.
