Darkevilme's 3d art.

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2009-09-24 11:26am

It's been an age since i've posted anything here. Lets change that shall we.

You all get three guesses.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2009-09-25 02:27pm

The modelling is good. The materials, lighting and rendering not so much.

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2009-09-25 06:32pm

Salm, i'll admit...i have no freaking clue about lighting whatsoever beyond 'things should be visible. Which probably explains it.
Though I've identified some weak points in the look of it materials wise that i'll be redoing...i think i got lazy towards the end of the project. And uh, no clue how to make the rendering work better.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2009-09-26 09:21am

A good start would be to read up on ambient occlusion and global illumination.

Thanas · Post by **Thanas** » 2009-09-26 10:28am

What is it supposed to represent? A cruiser?

Post by **Kuja** » 2009-09-26 05:19pm

Looks like some kind of city-ship.

TheLostVikings · Post by **TheLostVikings** » 2009-09-27 07:20am

Kuja wrote:Looks like some kind of city-ship.

Agreed, those rods and domes at the top immediately reminded me of buildings as well.

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2009-09-27 07:42pm

I tweaked it a little for this pic, reduced city size, redid the outer arm materials and added ambient lighting. It's meant to be a really large warship. It's the second re-invention of one i've posted before in fact.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2009-09-28 08:56am

You don´t need ambient lighting. You need global illumination or fake it with ambient occlusion.

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2009-09-28 03:29pm

I meant Ambient Occlusion, I cant get satisfying results from multiple lights as of yet, but i think i may have been too conservative with the ambient.
This is it ramped up to about 1/2.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2009-09-29 09:41am

Dark, I'm reposting this work you did for me last year, just on account of how awesome it is.

The Anarcho-Syndicalist guided missile cruiser Monarchs and Fascists Fear the Revolution of the Black Banner Fleet.

PS, just to be clear, this is Darkevilme's work and not mine.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2009-09-29 02:02pm

the Crossroads Central Control Tower, also wonderfully made by our lady DarkEvil

Bluewolf · Post by **Bluewolf** » 2009-09-29 04:57pm

Not bad at all. What programs do you use and on top of that, do you take requests/commisions?

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2009-09-29 07:04pm

I use the opensource crazyness that is known as Blender.
I mainly do this as a form of recreation so i'll consider any requests people have and do them if they'd be fun to do.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2009-09-29 09:29pm

A big (and easy) improvement would be using a better background. The current starfield sucks.

Bluewolf · Post by **Bluewolf** » 2009-09-30 02:57pm

Darkevilme wrote:I use the opensource crazyness that is known as Blender.
I mainly do this as a form of recreation so i'll consider any requests people have and do them if they'd be fun to do.

Hmmn I may have something for you to do if thats OK but I will PM you on it.

On topic, well, I agree on the starfield, it looks meh and drags the pic down. Some minor texture work can also touch the pic up in my mind.

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2009-10-01 01:08pm

Attempt at touching things up and giving it a new background.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2009-10-01 05:22pm

Better, but the starfield is still suxorz. Also, you might have to turn up your monitors brightness to see it but the moon has a dark gray box around it. NASA has good backgrounds for stuff like that. Or google for Hubble.

Here for example

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2009-10-02 05:01pm

I considered taking a nasa background. Then i decided to try and make my own. It's certainly better i feel.

Bluewolf · Post by **Bluewolf** » 2009-10-03 07:44am

Looks much better than the previous starfield. Part of me wants to be a party pooper and complain about that many bright stars close by but I wont. You are getting there though.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2009-10-03 08:36am

Yes, that´s a lot better. Personally i´d desaturate the blue nebula to get a more consistent background. Kind of like this:

Bluewolf · Post by **Bluewolf** » 2009-10-03 12:20pm

That does look a lot better, Slam and on top of that, making the nebula a little smaller could help make it look better. At least imo.

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2009-10-03 12:51pm

New trimmed and faded nebula. Also made the moon round again. Well this has certainly been educational.

Bluewolf · Post by **Bluewolf** » 2009-10-03 01:10pm

That is much better in my mind. It looks a lot more interesting and less...well tacky.

What do you think Slam?

salm · Post by **salm** » 2009-10-03 03:16pm

Yes, that looks good.

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