Where are we? [updated]

Richard · 9 Oct 2009, 22:46

Come on it is pubic hair, two of us have picked it up so far!

Ecuadorian · 9 Oct 2009, 23:02

Every time I see this thread's title, I remember this dialogue from Yellow Submarine:

Where are we?
I don't know, it looks like the foothills.
The foothills of what?
The foothills of the headlands.
<Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds starts>

liam887 · 10 Oct 2009, 03:26

this is nice reminds me of some twisted tim burton production!

olishea · 13 Oct 2009, 15:32

Some more detail, no texturing yet just geometry:

And a sketchy accident that looked pretty cool:

d12dozr · 13 Oct 2009, 15:47

Its cool! ...for some reason it reminds me of that kids book "Where the Wild Things Are"

olishea · 13 Oct 2009, 17:58

haha that brings back memories. the illustrations used to freak me out

solo · 15 Oct 2009, 11:26

Looks great Oli, what renderer did you use? and what setting as that looks biased.

Ultimatez 32 · 15 Oct 2009, 11:37

a walkway of spikey glass? What renderer is this?

Frederik · 15 Oct 2009, 11:39

@ultimatez 32 said:

What renderer is this?

@olishea said:

twilight for this particular one.

olishea · 15 Oct 2009, 11:55

frederik.......is it possible to increase the AA of the alpha mask preset?

Ultimatez 32 · 15 Oct 2009, 12:10

Are there any render tutorials on twilight? I've seen a lot of great renders done with twilight (including this one )

olishea · 15 Oct 2009, 13:33

twilight for this particular one.

I used exterior progressive to flint template. spherical sky and sunlight enabled (although I added sky back in PP cos it was a bit distorted)

(previous renders were podium biased for speed)

Glenn at home · 15 Oct 2009, 13:49

Very striking images, I like them a lot. Great job!

notareal · 15 Oct 2009, 15:41

@olishea said:

frederik.......is it possible to increase the AA of the alpha mask preset?

In my knowledge no, but if you render alpha mask with 2-3x greater resolution and scale it down in photoshop, you will get AA + Supersampling.

olishea · 15 Oct 2009, 16:03

ahh ha!

thanks good idea

olishea · 15 Oct 2009, 16:13

yeah......the manual lol

this was very easy to setup, like 5 mins to setup the render (lots more time to model) and 15 hours to render it, although I could have stopped it a lot sooner.

See the youtube transition here:

sorry about the bad quality, thats youtube for ya

Ecuadorian · 15 Oct 2009, 17:26

@olishea said:

frederik.......is it possible to increase the AA of the alpha mask preset?

If it's for replacing the background, have you tried this with a big plane instead?
http://twilightrender.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=471

olishea · 15 Oct 2009, 17:27

Some more detail. Glass forest this time......still WIP

one iteration of subsmooth

AcesHigh · 15 Oct 2009, 17:38

Im amazed at the modelling... so organic... I dont have the minimum idea on how to even begin such modelling at Sketchup... congratulations!

TonyV · 15 Oct 2009, 19:12

Hey Oli,

Thanks for all the great images. You mentioned you use a technique called "sub-smooth". Can you fill me in on what that is exactly or point me in the direction of a forum that can help me learn. Thanks so much.