Past dreams of a future Metropolis

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Past dreams of a future Metropolis #93708 04/27/04 12:16 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 53 draub Honorary
draub Honorary Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 53	It's been a long time... Finally getting around to doing some art again. It's been a long 6 months (both good and bad). This is an image I wanted to do a while back but never got to. It's a homage to the silver age LSH rocket ship clubhouse. In the background is a rendition of Metropolis from the silver age. As it once was, comments and suggestions welcome. -Dan- EDIT: Heh...just like old times. Shortly after I posted I ended up reworking the image more. Although I really liked the effect of a majority of the reflections (in particular, I thought it added somewhat of an illusion of height to the background cityscape), I found in particular that it was quite distracting in the focal area. It was difficult to tell where the HQ stopped and the reflection started). Also, added a very rudimentary door to the model. Finally, increased the amount of color to the HQ so it would stand out a little more. A little tweak on the render settings and bam! EDIT 2: Now that I know how to thumbnail...did it.

Re: Past dreams of a future Metropolis #93709 04/29/04 11:41 AM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 11,656 Paragon City on patrol Vee Time Trapper
Vee Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 11,656 Paragon City on patrol	Very nice work, Dan. I like both but the second one is really tremendous! "Hey Jim! Get Mon out of the Zone!! And...when do we get Condo back?"

Re: Past dreams of a future Metropolis #93710 04/29/04 12:10 PM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 17,274 Omaha, Utah, DC, wherever my j... Lightning Lad Time Trapper
Lightning Lad Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 17,274 Omaha, Utah, DC, wherever my j...	I agree Dan. Both are great and I love the reflective quality of the first one. With a door added to it perhaps it wouldn't have been as distracting as you say it was.

Re: Past dreams of a future Metropolis #93711 04/29/04 07:31 PM
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draub Honorary Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 53	Thanks for the comments thus far. I'll have to give the more reflective look a shot with the door added in. My initial test renders didn't give much hope, but there's always something that can be done to fix it...I just have to find it. In the meantime, doing this image put me in this strange silver age obsessive compulsive mode. I've already started doing the preliminary work on another image with that gosh darned swell silver age look.

Re: Past dreams of a future Metropolis #93712 05/01/04 02:54 AM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 5,890 here, more often than not Harbinger Wanderer
Harbinger Wanderer Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 5,890 here, more often than not	Both of these pictures are beautiful Draub, I think I prefer the reflection picture as you can feel the mist in the air with the beautiful cityscape fogged out in the background. Legion Worlds Ten - the final chapter is here. Find out the ultimate fate of our fantastic future friends.Only found in the Bits o' Legionnaire Business Forum.

Re: Past dreams of a future Metropolis #93713 05/01/04 05:38 AM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 9,915 San Diego, CA Nightcrawler Wanderer
Nightcrawler Wanderer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 9,915 San Diego, CA	I've been a fan of draub's for awhile now! These scenes are beautiful!

Re: Past dreams of a future Metropolis #93714 05/02/04 08:55 PM
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draub Honorary Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 53	Thanks again everyone for the kind words. Nightcrawler...damn you for making me blush! Yay! Doing bits and pieces of modelling and rendering over the past few days...I made me another silver age themed image. This one is of a group of Mark VI's racing off to some whacky emergency. (and yay! thumbnailed!) I'm going to have to revisit the first image. I have a way I can try to get the best of both worlds with the reflection issues. I can render a version of each (and some masking images) and composite them together.

Re: Past dreams of a future Metropolis #93715 05/07/04 01:53 PM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 11,656 Paragon City on patrol Vee Time Trapper
Vee Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 11,656 Paragon City on patrol	That's....stunning! (and really cool!) "Hey Jim! Get Mon out of the Zone!! And...when do we get Condo back?"

Re: Past dreams of a future Metropolis #93716 07/03/04 06:36 AM
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draub Honorary Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 53	Things have been busy in these neck of the woods. I've recently been engaged in a small online comic project, and have started doing reviews of 3D products again. The latest images have nothing to do with the LSH, but are things I've done for reviews. I don't know where this retro phase I'm stuck in is going...but I'm sure as hell enjoying the ride. The first image was of a blatantly retro 3D product...for copyright purposes I had to change the names to protect the innocent. Pardon the lack of thumbnail: http://stage.draub.net/glam_comic_800d.jpg The second image was of a product that was not blatantly retro...but...that didn't stop me.