Black Hawk FKA Apache Podium and LightUp renders

[sepo]

I was playing with Podium. Found this on Google warehouse. Quick render. 1min 47 sec render. Must warn you, before you ask , this helicopter is remotely controlled and it was shot by high speed shutter camera, so motion blur is very, very small.
Comments welcome.

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[Daniel]

Impressive, Sepo.

[liam887]

nice, i modified this model to make my transformer also using podium!

[Khai]

psst it's a Blackhawk

[holmes1977]

Sepo
Is that motion blur from PP or is this a sneaky look at Podium 2

[sepo]

Thanks Daniel and Liam.

Khai , you are absolutely correct and thank you for pointing it out. I presumed it was Apache. I thought , well, it looks like an atack helicopter and name is kind of appropriate.
That tells you what I know about military stuff. I do like the shape of it though

Holmes , no it is not V2. This is beta 1.7 and little motion blur in the second image was done in Photoshop.

[sepo]

This is LightUp try of the same model. Could not decide which version to post so I posted all of them.

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[Patrickpr]

Is that make with Sketchup???

[sepo]

The last 4 rendered in LightUp.

[sepo]

OK this would be last with military theme, I promise This one mixes SU output with background and Podium clay render. The idea was to get NPR, noir ,image ...kind of painterly effect....I know the plane has wrong badge , did not want to offend anyone.

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[michaliszissiou]

Very very nice sepo.
I suggest to add some more noise before glow effects to avoid posterization.

[sepo]

Thanks Michael....just 2 more and no more. These are from LightUp mixed media.

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[kwistenbiebel]

Wow! I am very impressed.
Both the Podium as the LightUp versions look very good.
It shows in the images that you are having fun making them.

A little question on LightUp: Are there tricks to get bigger scenes working?
In the limited time of experiment I had, LightUp worked very well on smaller scenes, but the bigger ones tend to freeze Sketchup when you're not careful. Any tips to overcome this?

[holmes1977]

The first Plane render would have to be my fav.
Well done sepo, I really like your PP style in all your work.

More pic's please

[EscapeArtist]

Great renders, guys. If I could make an observation - with the backgrounds so blurry and the models so sharp, it makes the model look like...well, a model. Maybe a little less blur in the background and more blur on the model to even things out and it might fit better in the scene. JMO, I'm no expert.

[sepo]

Thanks Chris . You comments are very encouraging…They mean a lot to me. 
I do not have any tricks on large models, but I know Adam is working on this.
So if you have a problem file do send him a .dmp file. I had only problem with one file so far. If we help Adam he will just make LU better.

Holmes…thanks . Yeah, I enjoy playing with wild post process. Maybe enough of military theme for now. Need to move onto archviz .

EscapeArtist…Thanks for your comments. I used HDR background for LightUp renders. They are by nature blurry, if not huge resolution. In Podium ones I mixed raw SU output (post processed) with Podium renders. They all have certain amount of blur. But I agree some of them need perhaps more.

[sepo]

Added pilots and motion blur. Motion blur was done in Sketchup rather than in postprocess. Rendered in Podium postprocessed in Photoshop.

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