[Fineus]

I don't know what possesed me, but I decided to take some of Greg Martins tutorials and do what I could to get back into the habit of rendering. Everything in the attached file was done by hand (so to speak) except the engine glows on the Typhon which were rendered in Axion. The result? Well, let me know what you think...

[Taristin]

I do like the clusters of stars in the nebulas, but I think it's a bit overkill. Nice lighting on the bottom of the Typhon..

Overall: Anyone who renders a Typhon or a Seth is good in my book.

[J.F.K.]

Dude, that's serene. Beauty.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
I do like the clusters of stars in the nebulas, but I think it's a bit overkill. Nice lighting on the bottom of the Typhon..

 

[pyro-manic]

Sweet.

The only slight niggle I have is that the front of the typhon is completely black - a few lights, either from windows or just running lights on the hull would be very cool.

[Ashrak]

ok time to learn to use photoshop

[Nico]

I just love that planet. how did you do it?

[Turnsky]

looks like he did it with the assistance of photoshop (he made it by 'hand'.. not lunarcell)

[Ashrak]

he followed gregs tutorial which im trying to follow currently


Gregs Tuts

[Turnsky]

in short...

Must.... get....wacom...

[Ashrak]

whats a wacom?

[Fineus]

A drawing pad - think of it as a digital sheet of paper, you use an electronic pen (thats shaped like a normal one) and a program like Photoshop can pick up pressure etc and put it directly into the program. Makes it a lot easier to draw things than by hand then scanning since these often have marks etc. that look poor.

Glad everyone likes the picture - it was indeed done using that tutorial - more or less to the letter - but I'm trying different things as I go along, it's all a big experiment at the moment.

[Nico]

w00t! cool tuts. But I hate having the french PS even more, words aren't translated as is, so it's painfully difficult to figure what tools he is using

[Ashrak]

nice

[Razor]

Not too bad. Typhoon is a bit greenish fix that. By the way, what settings did you use for a glow in axion?

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
A drawing pad - think of it as a digital sheet of paper, you use an electronic pen (thats shaped like a normal one) and a program like Photoshop can pick up pressure etc and put it directly into the program. Makes it a lot easier to draw things than by hand then scanning since these often have marks etc. that look poor.

Glad everyone likes the picture - it was indeed done using that tutorial - more or less to the letter - but I'm trying different things as I go along, it's all a big experiment at the moment.

AKA a Tablet....
Expensive buggers....

[elorran]

Doens't look half bad.  Actually it looks damn good, nice ambience feel to it.

[Thorn]

I could send you some lightmapped FS ships if you wanted Thundar
I've done a few...

[Gloriano]

Nice:yes: