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Description Feel it...Fear it...




Well, to be honest, this is merely a practice piece. No real inspiration, no real story, no real concept - just started with some weird shapes and tried to give them a "raison d'être". My focus was on some subsurf modeling and some UV unwrapping practice (although you won't really notice it, the materials were done pretty quickly afterwards), just wanted to try out certain things and then combined them with my old school techniques.
If you know my work, similarities to [link] (which was released almost exactly one year ago as well!) are quite obvious, I think. The style of the model, the presentation with the simple, black background, the duplicated use of the model, the DOF, the use of colors (if you look at my current desktop, you may see where I got that colorscheme from - or actually, I didn't even know that it would be so similar until it was done, my subconscious tricked me)...this time it's a little bit darker but still, to me these works are more or less the same.

As there's not much to tell this time, let's get over with it. Here the technical details:
Model done in Blender and rendered with Yafray. Rendertime was 7:30:41.60 hours, in total 998,163 vertices and 630,086 faces. The lighting was (obviously) done with a HDRI and a three point lighting rig.
The DOF was done with a zdepth map derived from the image, using some simple Node setup (another practice!), and then a Blur done in Postpro. Also adjusted the colors and applied some nice glow to the lights in PS.

So, please let me know what you think - I can take it.
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Comments: 42

Xels034 [2010-04-15 20:46:40 +0000 UTC]

Very nice work! Back when i started learning Blender, this was one of the first images i saw, and i allways tried to do something similar. I learned only through crappy online tutorials, so it took me more or less 2 year before i was able to do something similar. And suprisingley i find this image here while browsing around I still love it, and its allways been a inspiration to me. Its just great!

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darkMyke In reply to Xels034 [2010-04-19 21:14:35 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! I really feel honored
Although, it did take me a while to do something like that as well. It's not easy to actually bring your ideas and concepts into life by actually modeling them...

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Strung [2009-01-08 21:58:12 +0000 UTC]

I envy your ability to model. I'm stuck with a free version of Cinema 4d without the instructions. Somehow you make everything look crazy and extravagant.

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steel-fang [2008-12-12 19:52:24 +0000 UTC]

Love the design and little details and the lights. Excellent work on the lighting and textures (particularly on the metal/pipes) too

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Cold-Levian [2008-09-16 19:54:58 +0000 UTC]

Echt tolle Mats, und auch die Kontraste wissen zu überzeugen! Du steckst wirklich viel liebe in die Details!
Wäre mir eine Freude, diesen Arm (?) in Bewegung zu sehen!

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darkMyke In reply to Cold-Levian [2008-09-17 21:35:32 +0000 UTC]

Du siehst einen Arm darin? Hehe, ich freue mich immer zu hören, was die Leute so sehen in meinen mechanischen Sachen. Sie haben keinen wirklichen "Sinn" außer einigermaßen funktional zu wirken und "schön zu sein".

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miseryxsoul [2008-03-25 16:12:02 +0000 UTC]



schaut echt geil aus

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Tamilia [2007-10-03 22:01:03 +0000 UTC]

Featured
CLICK TO SEE

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The1Blur [2007-07-22 20:02:21 +0000 UTC]

FREAKIN AWESOME!!

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Mandoragon [2007-06-04 09:06:36 +0000 UTC]

very nice, have always liked your work. Just wondering though, for the orange bits, is it emitting light?

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darkMyke In reply to Mandoragon [2007-06-04 19:41:20 +0000 UTC]

No, the orange lights don't emit light...it's easier to add some lighting effects in Postpro, if necessary.

And thank you

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spacewarp [2007-06-03 13:58:08 +0000 UTC]

Practice piece or not, this is good.

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2XVISION [2007-04-23 00:20:28 +0000 UTC]

Truly wonderful

Could you please tell me how you make your pipes/tubes/hoses? I have experimented with dupliframes in blender to make chains but I have had limited success.

Any help is greatly appreciated

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TheMorMor [2007-03-26 13:28:29 +0000 UTC]

You are such a blender ninja

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10am [2007-02-10 01:35:13 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations, this artwork has been featured in Issue 6 of The Third Dimension.

[link]

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dogparry [2007-02-06 05:53:33 +0000 UTC]

Lovely. Nice design, modeling, glow...

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AnubisGraph [2007-02-05 21:19:49 +0000 UTC]

awesome work

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Mr-Magic [2007-02-05 18:39:38 +0000 UTC]

good work man.

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1ALPHA1 [2007-02-05 17:52:55 +0000 UTC]

for abstract it looks like a something, nice practice work.

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Pypmannetjies [2007-02-05 13:52:19 +0000 UTC]

I think I just adore the detail you put into modelling! That's a damn long render time... I'd scream! I tried doing DOF with nodes but never coul get them to work... HOW?? I liek it very much, but I'd make some parts darker and some parts lighter.. To make the detail more visible and that grey thing in the middle less obtrusive. Great piece!

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darkMyke In reply to Pypmannetjies [2007-02-06 20:00:01 +0000 UTC]

Technically, this is not DOF with nodes (waiting for the new Defocus node by eeshlo! It gets so much praise, you just have to test it...) but it's merely DOF done in postpro. Only the ZDepth map was done with nodes - which is really not difficult (only three nodes, as far as I can remember...).
Since I used Yafray I couldn't even do it with nodes, as far as I know - the possibilites with nodes and Yafray are very limited yet. I could get a Zdepth map, though, since Yafray delivers Zdepth informations to Blender.

But if you still want to know, I can tell you how I did it

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Pypmannetjies In reply to darkMyke [2007-02-07 13:17:35 +0000 UTC]

yes please!

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axial [2007-02-05 10:38:10 +0000 UTC]

sieht gut aus das ganze vielleicht ein bisschen zu groß übers bild aber sonst gut ;]

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suckup [2007-02-04 23:06:14 +0000 UTC]

wow, very impressive!

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Colophonius [2007-02-04 20:03:50 +0000 UTC]

Hey...ziemlich geniale Arbeit! Ich mag die Farbgebung sehr, dieses warme orange steht zu einem netten Kontrast zum maschinellen, zum konstruierten! Hat etwas pulsierendes, beinah lebendiges! Sehr schön! Schön ist auch dieses schimmernde Licht, so eine Art Überbelichtung (Kann es nicht genau ausdrücken >__<, üfgt noch etwas mehr wärme zum Bild hinzu. Es ist jedenfalls erstaunlich, das du einer Maschine, so einem Konstrukt so viel lebendiges geben kannst, sehr spannend!
Was ich bei deiner Arbeit auch immer sehr schätze ist diese dezente und wunderschöne Beschriftung; Oder wie meine Kunstlehrerin sagen würde: Der Titel fügt hinzu und nimmt nichts weg.
Summa summarum: Brilliant work

(Und, wie gehts dir sonst so? Lang nichts mehr gehört von dir! )

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darkMyke In reply to Colophonius [2007-02-05 20:38:33 +0000 UTC]

Ich möchte dich auch ganz dezent auf den Font aufmerksam machen.

Von wem ich mir den wohl abgeschaut habe?

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Colophonius In reply to darkMyke [2007-02-06 13:43:09 +0000 UTC]

Die Schriftart ist ja auch sehr passend und in jeder Lage stilvoll

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forexus [2007-02-04 17:13:17 +0000 UTC]

Amazing!

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SimonWeaner [2007-02-04 16:56:34 +0000 UTC]

I like how it turned out

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sergo321 [2007-02-04 15:38:17 +0000 UTC]

looks awsome!! i love it!

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Lesak [2007-02-04 15:15:57 +0000 UTC]

great! looks amazing

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KathrynKelly [2007-02-04 15:12:29 +0000 UTC]

I see the similarities, yes, but it's still well-done. The surface textures looks great. (Sorry, I'm no modeler so I don't know the proper terminology.)

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zanidip [2007-02-04 14:56:51 +0000 UTC]

wonderfuuuul !

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jSh0ck [2007-02-04 14:42:46 +0000 UTC]

Very nice.

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amnesiacphlgm [2007-02-04 14:17:24 +0000 UTC]

seems calm and aggressive at the same time, kinda "awakening"
und im vergleich zu "Au" etwas klobbig, dennoch good stuff mMn
sehr schöne effekte, so unbekannt mir dieses genre auch ist

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prosthetics1 [2007-02-04 14:06:20 +0000 UTC]

amazing..

c4d or 3dsm?

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darkMyke In reply to prosthetics1 [2007-02-05 20:16:55 +0000 UTC]

The one and only - Blender

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prosthetics1 In reply to darkMyke [2007-02-05 20:21:26 +0000 UTC]

ah.. nice

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ZeroniX-Designs [2007-02-04 14:02:19 +0000 UTC]

Das ist wirklich klasse und einen auf jeden Fall wert.

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daluxe [2007-02-04 13:44:06 +0000 UTC]

naja myke du kennst meine Meinung deinen Artworks gegenüber

einfach Wahnsinn!

glg
Tommy

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Rc3d [2007-02-04 13:20:50 +0000 UTC]

I think it could be it a bit shaper but still its really really awsome

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lateralsnowflake [2007-02-04 13:13:40 +0000 UTC]

I definitely fear it; wouldn't want to meet up with this thing in some post-apocalyptic back alley somewhere.

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