Alien Skies
Alien/Scifi Skies Gallery
November/13/2008 20:51 Archived in:Artmatica
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Preview
I am almost done with the Alien/SciFi skies
collection. Some of you might be curious to see what
the skies look like. I have just set up a gallery so
you can view each and every sky of the collection.
The pictures are renders from the Voyager scene files
included in the set. So the RGB surfaces used for in
the renders are also part of the set.
Enjoy!
-Alien/SciFi Skies gallery-
Enjoy!
-Alien/SciFi Skies gallery-
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Multiple Light Sources
Have you ever wished we had another light source in
Voyager besides the sun.
I think I have found a way to at least fake one.
When working on the 3D Pro set for Artmatic I discovered a way to create positional light (A light source that is near the viewever as opposed to the sun).
Now I have tried to make use of it for Voyager and was surprised that it actually works!
The picture below shows a terrain which is lit by the moon (taken from the upcoming Alien/Scifi Sky collection) and there is a second light source which illuminates the hole.
I think it has great potential...
I think I have found a way to at least fake one.
When working on the 3D Pro set for Artmatic I discovered a way to create positional light (A light source that is near the viewever as opposed to the sun).
Now I have tried to make use of it for Voyager and was surprised that it actually works!
The picture below shows a terrain which is lit by the moon (taken from the upcoming Alien/Scifi Sky collection) and there is a second light source which illuminates the hole.
I think it has great potential...
Asteroids
When I went through my moon, planet systems I was
quite happy with my arsenal. Then I saw a image of an
asteroid. The most obvious about it was that the
asteroid was not perfectly round but rather looking
like an enormous stone.
I also knew that this would challenge me and I equally knew that this would not be easy to achieve with Artmatic.
There were earlier attempts to create stones, meteors and asteroids but they all failed. But they all were experiments I did a while ago and since my experience with Artmatic had been growing in the meantime, I was tempted to find out if I could work it out this time.
...and after days of trial and error I finally found a convincing way to do it (see below).
I also knew that this would challenge me and I equally knew that this would not be easy to achieve with Artmatic.
There were earlier attempts to create stones, meteors and asteroids but they all failed. But they all were experiments I did a while ago and since my experience with Artmatic had been growing in the meantime, I was tempted to find out if I could work it out this time.
...and after days of trial and error I finally found a convincing way to do it (see below).