I took a picture of my desk yesterday This still fantastic model was, of course, built by Dennis Bailey.
Wow. Thats nice. I had no idea Dennis was so handy with a model kit. Is that a modification of an existing kit, or a scratch-build, or what? Cool catch no matter what!
Thank you so very much! You just made my day. Thank you! But, this (the ship) is indeed a CG-model composited into a picture of my desk . I wish it were a real model.
Nice render. Of course, it's a little blurry... was that a "cheat" to help with the compositing, or just an issue with JPG-ing it for the net?
Very nice. The blurriness may be helping with the composite but it also looks much more realistic that way. Props.
Thank you No, no cheat. The original image was already blurry (I used the camera on my mobil phone [HTC-Touch ]). So, I just tried to match that...
AH... so you had to match the blur of the phone's camera... Given that, that's a remarkably nice job!
That's one of the best photo composites I've seen in a LONG time! The only thing that gives it away (besides the fact that I instantly recognized Dennis's Phoenix model) is that the lighted nacelle caps should have caused at least a faint diffuse reflection against the woodgrain of the desk.
Both the model and the fake out composite photo are frighteningly impressive. Ben Finney himself probably couldn't spot the fakery.
Y'know, the fact that I instantly knew the reference frightened me. Then I realized where I was reading.... Great photo! I definitely had to do a double take.
Thank you I had the reflection set to 1,5 % or 2 % (not sure right now). At first I had it set higher, but that looked far to fake, to me at least... Could we (well, that we means 'I') see more of your 'Doomsday' project? A new thread, some preview images? Please.
Well, I had to work with what I had... which is a lot (namely your mesh). Are you planing on building a new ship? I haven't seen you in quite a while at SFM or LWG (now Foundation3D).
Thanks, but it's your composition and lighting and rendering work that really matters there - it's excellent. I've been working on "Starship Exeter" pretty steadily for a while, and doing designs for sets for a micro-budget movie that a few of us hope to get into production next year. I do have a finished mesh floating around on my hard disk for this old thing: http://shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/cruiser_phoenix.jpg but I haven't gotten to texturing it yet.