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Published: 2011-02-27 04:38:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1661; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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The Blue Star in its final preparations at the Lemnos Shipyards. Lemnos is the smaller and outer most of Orion's two moons. The early colonists established a mining base and factory there to manufacture the large exploratory ships sent to investigate the new neighborhood.This is kind of a prelude to Ariel-X's image, "Kelly" and my "Blue Star Rising":
The Blue Star ship and "gridthing" scaffolding objects were modeled by Ariel-X in Hexagon.
Planet and moon made in Vue.
Epsilon Suit for M4 from Daz3d.
Rendered in Vue 9 with backdrop made in Photoshop; composited two separate renders within Vue, with postwork in Photoshop.
This is part of the Extrasolar universe created with
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Thank you very much, bud!
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Yes, truly amazing Ryan. I say this because it is a piece that I can stare at without getting bored of it. So many elements to it that it doesn't matter where my eyes fall, there is something to capture my attention. Yes, you did very well here. Good job!
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Thank you so much, Kikue!
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AMAZING! Damn, the scale and detail are mindblowing! :eyespopping: Gorgeous job, beautifully put together... the lighting, textures and composition are amazing and all that scaffolding works wonderfully. Top notch, bud!
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Thank you so much, Lance! I had a lot of fun and learned some things with this one. Yeah, the "gridthings" as BjΓΆrn calls them were meant to be something completely different, but when I first saw them I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them and this ship. I had thought about making a hangar that enclosed the ship, but I wanted the vista to be seen too.
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Cooool! Bjorn's ship looks so awesome hanging out on the assembly dock. Love the perspective on this one, especially the tiny little guy way on top of the ship. He's glowing hehe You always do such a good job with the placement of your characters. They add such great interest to your images. Love that! Bjorn's "gridthing" turned out so cool, so that's how all these wonderful ships are built. haha I really love the dark atmosphere you have created here with the moon and nebula's in the background. Excellent work my friend!
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Thanks Suzi! 
I did this one in three phases - kind of new way for me instead of rendering everything in one scene (lots of CPU/memory overhead). I made the nebula star field in PS, then used that as a backdrop to the planet and moon render in Vue, then saved that as a new background and used as a backdrop to the ground objects for the final render. Sounds crazy, but it sure saved some render time.
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Your most welcome! Of course! I did see the other guys as well. Your characters always jump right out to me. The scene does not appear dark at all. Must just be the "workplace glaze" that got on your screen. Ewww! I loved the "gridthings". And you came up with such an innovative way to put them to use as well. I just love that cool ship Bjorn came up with. It's so unusual looking and swarthy. hehe
I hear you, I do my renders in bits and pieces as well and the Puppet warp tool is my best friend! haha It really does cut down on the resource overhead to piece it all together in PS. Besides, it's so fun in there. We are all about jumping through hoops. Yea! Sounds like a logical plan to me. Hey, we have to be innovative as technology passes us by so quickly. It's the only way to survive. They already have the first service pack out for Win 7!! That's pretty scary. Boo! I tell you, I feel like I'm constantly scrambling to keep up most of the time. But it's all worth it in the end. Woot!
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Thanks Pete!
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I know how that goes! Looks fantastic though.
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Hold on while I get the pieces of my head that exploded all over the place. 
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Oh Mr. Malone Oh I found a movie in the store today. It was called "Give 'em Hell Malone" 
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LOL! 
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OMG, I have to agree with BjΓΆrn, my head just exploded..... I think you have to get 2 shovels to clean us up Ryan LMAO. WOW... this is gorgeous! I just love how you did, what appears to be like a reverse DoF effect too, omg this is so pretty! For a girl saying that about scifi that means somethin! LOL You just amaze me every time, awesome job and I really dig the scaffolding wow, Bjorn did a superb job! I can almost "hear" the sounds of production because its so vivid!
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LOL! Oh, sorry your heads exploded! hehe So glad you like it!
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Looks like a Third Person Shooter game. Mass Effect 3?
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OMG! ME3! CAN'T WAIT!
I'm sure you've seen this, but I had to watch again: [link] Damn, we have to wait until the end of the year.
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Lol I didn't even know they had a trailer for ME3 out already. I take it you played the prequels?
But, if you're looking for something to help with the wait, here are 2 games (fantasy though, not sci-fi) that will definitely be worth it:
Dragon Age 2 (you can download the demo on it's official website - try it, it's amazing!)
The Elder Scrolls 5
Albeit this one comes out in November
There's also a possibility of Diablo 3, although I wouldn't hold my breath considering it's effing BLIZZARD that's making the game.
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Yeah, I've been eyeballing Dragon Age 2 - looks fun, and I've heard good things from the first one. Will check out Elder Scrolls too.
And back in the day I loved Diablo 2! Yeah, a little scared D3 will be like WoW, but maybe not. Blizzard will find some way to turn it into a cash cow, I'm sure. As long as they allow it to be played single mode with the option of multi-player, and with that hopefully on a free server.
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Don't get your hopes up - everybody's expecting Blizzard to kill LAN for Diablo 3 too, and truth be told, that's exactly what I'm expecting is going to happen. This will be a tragic day for the gaming industry and the genre of hack-n-slash if this happens.
Here's an Elder Scrolls V trailer with in-game shots [link] If you think Oblivion looked great, this one is just gonna blow your brains to bits and reassemble them all in a fraction of a second. What is best, however, is that 1: this is no longer built on the out-dated, obsolete Gamebryo engine, but the new Creation Engine, and 2: THEY HIRED NEW ANIMATORS, THANK PIKACHU!!!
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Yeah, hopes are not high for D3. Oh well.
Wow! That was an excellent trailer for Elder Scrolls!
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Check out the features of the game [link]
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