Hey, don't forget I started out as one of those amateurs and only became a pro three and a half years ago
Model's looking good, sir!
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Model's looking good, sir!
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I’ve started pointing my antiproton beam at the ship so I’m gonna be heads-down for a while... see y’all in System L-374!
I’ve started pointing my antiproton beam at the ship so I’m gonna be heads-down for a while... see y’all in System L-374!
You were working with POV ray back then IIRC, and I think I still have some of those pics around from those days.
The Starship Constellation sails through space towards System L-374... and her destiny.
Vimeo (1080p)
YouTube (1080p)
Vimeo (1080p)
YouTube (1080p)
That is just gorgeous! Can't wait to watch it on the big screen tv! Excellent job Prof!
Yeah the subtle updates are what I really love about this ship (aside from, of course, it being a Constitution class.) All the tweaks still look very 60s era, and don't change the underlying vibe to the design. I really like it.Really awesome, subtly updated, loved that you can see hull plating, the engine dome effects are spot on, also the impulse engines look great.
Thanks guysReally awesome, subtly updated, loved that you can see hull plating, the engine dome effects are spot on, also the impulse engines look great.
I have to admit I am particularly fond of the warp nacelle dome lighting effect. The counter rotation of the blades in relation to the timing of the lights creates a pleasing strobe effect that I may need to steal for the Enterprise.
Been heads-down for a while. Before I fall off page 1 here's a frame grab from a video I'm trying to finish before the U.S. Christmas holiday.
Direct link to 4K image (since TrekBBS still hasn't fixed their website code
).
here's a frame grab from a video I'm trying to finish before the U.S. Christmas holiday.
Direct link to 4K image (since TrekBBS still hasn't fixed their website code
).
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Thanks There's actually several things going on here:
And here's a direct link to that 4K frame grab I posted yesterday, since the TrekBBS website code zooms in WAY too close when you click for the full-size image. Really wish they'd fix that.
There's actually several things going on here:- Up until the "debut" video of the Constellation posted a while back, I've been rendering my videos using Octane's "Direct Lighting" kernel, which is a biased renderer (i.e., not physically-accurate, but fast). The Constellation debut video and the one I'm working on now (as well as almost all of the stills I've posted since September) were created using Octane's "Path Tracing" renderer, which is slower but is unbiased and (imo) gives a much more pleasing photorealistic result. Below is an early test video of the Constellation that I shot with the faster (and more inaccurate) "Direct" mode. When you watch this back-to-back with the "official" debut video, you can see some of the differences (to me, mostly, the Constellation doesn't look as "flat" in the path-traced official video).
- The Constellation is an older ship, so I changed the materials and the tint from the Enterprise to give her a more gun-metal look, but I'm also using a strong blue-white light as the scene's main light source, which emphasizes the new materials.
- I'm experimenting with bloom and glare, so the image is now not so razor-sharp clear. One of my friends calls it the Star Trek Discovery filter.
(She's also flying by the camera, so there's some motion blur, too.)
And here's a direct link to that 4K frame grab I posted yesterday, since the TrekBBS website code zooms in WAY too close when you click for the full-size image. Really wish they'd fix that.
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I do too, but that look is reserved for when the engines are unbalanced/straining themselves (in the “official” video, the engines are steady-state).
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