WIP for star trek original series

michaliszissiou

Trying to build Mr Spock. OK some modifications are needed. Rendered for my friends in podium forum. Now I need a background, these LoFi rocks, skies, etc, I love them so much.

Mr Spok.jpg

Rob D

That's amazing! Is it all done in SketchUp?

nomeradona

now you are really rocking with zbrush, blender, su, podium workflow.. keep it up man.

michaliszissiou

As nomer says Rob D, blender > zbrush > blender > SU > podium render

michaliszissiou

In this work flow now comes SU. Bridge (TOS) from 3dW, rendered in podium, some PP in Gimp.

Macker

Why (when you're clearly very proficient with blender) would you bother rendering with podium? Podium is pretty crappy.

michaliszissiou

Thanks for reply Macker, lot of people asked me the same.

I have some good friends in podium forum.
I've posted some work, rendered in blender, in blender forum.
I've also posted in zbrush forum.
Less is more, it is also a challenge.

solo

LMFAO.

Podium is as crappy as the person using it.

olishea

@unknownuser said:

Podium is pretty crappy

lol is it? If you have a crap model then your render will be crap.

You can make podium photo real. Don't mistake simplicity for crap haha

Im working on a bridge at the moment michalis

michaliszissiou

Please don't misunderstand me. I can understand Macker's point here. All these are for fun anyway...

matteo

LOL

Sketchup is practically the door to Podium!
and, wow! - there's no scent of Poser or Daz Studio here.

Great work!

olishea

Here is the update for the "bridge" ive been making to accompany Michalis' figure.

Only 10% finished but it's getting there. It's supposed to be an update to an old classic.

We are just doing this for a bit of fun, why not.
Sketchup Lines:

Podium Render + Photoshop

Podium Render + Photoshop(galaxy overlay for fun)

The sketchup view of the model set within the "star globe"

solo

Looking great guys, so are y'all gonna make a combined scene once done?

olishea

yeah that's the plan, a big old mash up. feel free to contribute!

michaliszissiou

Here's an asteroid, quick modeling in zbrush> blender (baked displacement and normal in UV map) > SU > podium.
(Feel free to use asteroid.skp.)

asteroid.skp.zip

michaliszissiou

Come on pete. Do your magic here. Just for fun. An alien figure is coming soon.

olishea

alien meets spock on the bridge? i need to model a teleporter thingy

michaliszissiou

Beam me up oli. Please!