Spheres MUX - Images
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Obasan - here are two short videos I did, the first is set at the pyramid in Kefetiu. The second video is taken over the waters from Mythrayel, an attempt at simulated time lapse. Both of these are quite big, around ~10 megabytes, and require the Indeo 5 codec to play. Most recent windows computers should have this codec built in, and Mac users should be able to view them with Quicktime 4 or greater. If you are running windows and can't view the video try downloading the indeo 5 codec or go to windows update and download the latest version of windows media player.
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Stormdancer - I thought I'd take a shot at rendering one of the creepier areas of Shkrill. A barren and blighted area, where the light plays strange tricks, and the earth often seems stained with blood.
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Stormdancer - This is a VERY early shot of a work in progress - I'm trying to build a model of the entire sphere of Shrilk. It's very tedious working on something this large - each mountain and hill is it's own object, and there are thousands of them.... or will be. The very-smooth areas are all placeholder, so I'll have a starting point for the 'real' stuff.
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Stormdancer - Looking northward along the Grael river, near the interface to Kefetiu. Still needs tweaking, but this is part of an attempt to build all of Shrilk in a single scene file.
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Obasan - This is a small pool in Kefetiu. Eventually I may get around to adding some spires in the backdrop. I'm considering making this one into an animation, it has some interesting possibilities. The shoreline was a major pain in the butt.
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Obasan - My second attempt at doing the valley of Alethiu in the unicorn sphere of Kefetiu. This one worked out rather nicely, though I'm not sure what happened to cause the strange rutted pattern on the mountains in the distance. Oh well. :)
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Obasan - My first real rendering of a full landscape. The spirals are supposed to be unicorn arcologies. Yes, there is a lot of work to be done here. :) I'm playing with some improvements on this one, but most likely I will abandon further development on this picture, and write it off as a 'first try' since I made a number of design flaws early on which would be difficult to correct at this point.
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Obasan - The Shkrill do seem to enjoy strange things. Favorite pastimes include caging stray Windhaven's and leaving them dangling where they can see out over the open spaces of Shrilk that they can't reach. Pleasant gryphons, those Shkrill.
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Stormdancer - Sailing on the ocean in Mythrayel, looking towards the great spire of the Arcology, and the smaller Pyramid. In the distance you can see the hazy disk of the Interface.
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Stormdancer - Quick render of one of the pyramids, possibly the one in Mythrayel, from the single sun and nice woods. Need to play with the lighting to get the glint and highlights correct.
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Stormdancer - Sunset over the Faelrah mountains, the second sun is in place in this shot. Can you tell I'm having fun tweaking?
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Stormdancer - Looking down from about halfway up the Faelrah mountains. The lake needs to be a lot larger, I think. Starting to see some problems with scale.
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Stormdancer - Sunset over the Faelrah mountains. Got the lake in there!
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Stormdancer -A view over the pyramid in Shrilk, looking almost due West, at the Faelrah mountains. Still lacking the lake and river, which I'll work on next.
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