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Chess Globe v3
Published: 2004-08-22 15:10:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 105140; Favourites: 1162; Downloads: 33848
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I am convinced this work is cursed. On every attempt I run in to the strangest problems, all the save files for the previous version have either been lost or have become corrupted. Not to mention the ridiculous number of problems and errors I encountered along the way. Everything from texture files not being recognised, fatal errors while rendering, geometry just plain disappearing and of course Maya crashing without warning.On the up side I did learn a lot, in particular, command line rendering, polygon reduction, some finer points of lighting with final gather and the exact breaking strain of my keyboard.
This work has become a kind of gauge, having to rebuild it so many times has severed to remind me just how far I’ve come.
Progess shots [link]
Made in Maya
Rendered in Mental Ray
Post in Photoshop
Update: Colour and contrast ajustment.
One of my moniters is dying, everything comes up too bright and slightly wrong colour. I didn't realise this at the time.
v2 [link]
v1 [link]
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Comments: 254
I almost feel the pieces stands for tall buildings and the masterpiece aims to critisize the current damage to environment around the whole world! Quite an awful work. Thank you for sharing.
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at first i thought i thought that was an akuma from D.Gray_man lol
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Good model and really good idea.
Have you ever tried building it in RL (magnets might do best) and actually playing it?
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dude this globe is really awesome!
used it here [link]
if you disagree please let me know!
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you should paten this. using magnits it would make a really great variation to the normal game of chess. i'd by it
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This is incredible work. All of it is beautiful, and I can see how much thought and planning was put into it. I'm sure this has all been said before, but I love this piece and wanted to say so.
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Your hard work paid off man this is an excellent piece. I am in my first 3d course at school now workin with 3ds but I've been self teaching maya so its good to see some good work come from it. Motivational for me.
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The world truly is the chess board of the powerful. Awesome picture.
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It's so awesome in so many ways.
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I'm going to track you down and sacrifice you in some horrifying satanic ritual to absorb all your artistic powers.
Just thought I'd let you know.
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This is amazing, i love the design of the knights!
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i like especially the steampunk style of the figures
amazing artwork!
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Brilliant! Extensive amounts of energy were put into this, I can tell.
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This is excellent work. Totally unique and very smooth throughout. Good work.
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i forgot to ask, y not try to make a real one?
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FREAKY COOL!!! how did you do it?!? i had no idea it was even possable!! i especially LOVE the pieces. i cant tell ehat is whough, eccept for the knights
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I'm glad you finished it, cursed or no. It is now my wallpaper.
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It would be cool to play on, albeit confusing at first.
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I think this is a fantastic concept. I would love to see it as an actual sculpture... do you sculpt?
I may (if I find the time) create the real thing, and of course I will give credit where credit is due.
Keep up the good work.
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thanks man, finally a decent one that will fit my desktop... i think... close enuf!
keep it up!
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all around beautiful piece of work. nice concept/design/modling/tex/light/render...
you just know your stuff!
i do wish there was a bit more diferentiation between the queen and bishop designs.... but that's me being picky.
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I really like this piece - I have one question, I saw you put a watermark on it - I was wondering how exactly you put it on there. It is really cool how it doesnt show up on the piece unless you play around with it.
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That is so sweet! 
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On a technical note: Have you thought about applying some fresnel to the globe?
The reflection intensity is the same in the center as it is on the edges... I think you'd like the result if you dimished the reflective intensity towards the center. But please don't take this as criticism as the piece is truly amazing the way it is.
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Did you ever try re-merging the scene into a fresh scene? You may lose your environmental effects and render settings, but those are easy to re-input.
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I have done that many times to save corrupted files, that [articular one was too far gone as I recall.
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Ouch... Kinda wish there were some external max-3ds converters because of things like that.
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