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The Animaniac · July 11th, 2008, 09:54 AM

The Renewed Valor docked at Tan-Vedra, made with Cinema 4D, postwork with Photoshop, hope you like it!

ulimann644 · July 11th, 2008, 06:37 PM

Amazing scene - I like the colours for it.

Is the Planet a pic or a mesh ??

evil_genius_180 · July 11th, 2008, 08:53 PM

It's probably a mesh render, since there aren't any background picture credits. Besides, I think The Animaniac makes his own planets.

Great image as usual. I really love how the chrome on the ship is reflecting the dock and the planet (another reason I think the planet is a mesh.

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The Animaniac · July 11th, 2008, 09:50 PM

Thanks! Yes, all my Planets are Meshes, it looks better if all is in 3D with the same Light-Source.

evil_genius_180 · July 12th, 2008, 12:04 AM

That's because your planets always look great. Some of us don't have that so we have to cheat.

gmd3d · July 12th, 2008, 01:08 AM

When I render planet scene I try to use meshed planets too, fine work Animaniac hope to see more soon

The Animaniac · July 13th, 2008, 12:51 AM

Thanks! The Secret is to find the right Adjustments about Lighting and Textures.

The Animaniac · July 13th, 2008, 04:46 AM

And a view from a other angle:

gmd3d · July 13th, 2008, 06:06 AM

thanks for the new angle . love to see your work ..

more mate More

evil_genius_180 · July 13th, 2008, 09:37 AM

The second image looks great. Because of the angle, it looks like the ship is about to blow out of that dock and go into slipstream at any moment.

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Originally Posted by The Animaniac

The Secret is to find the right Adjustments about Lighting and Textures.

Another thing that helps is having 3D software that can handle big textures. For some reason, trueSpace (which I use) can't handle larger than 4k textures (and it barely handles 4k.) So, I can't use high quality textures. It also tends to do weird crap when I back-light a planet mesh. So, I usually wind up making my planets in Gimp or using Nasa imagery and matching up the lighting as best I can.