[Nobilis Draco]

I was bored this is what happened. Started out as another one of my fake attempts but I started PSing and it went in a different direction.

LW 7.5
PS 7

[Kamikaze]

Pretty cool.. has the alien arrival feeling

However the black ship things don't seem to fit into the image very well because the rest of the image looks like it is a photo (which it is) but the black ships look obviously rendered rather than being part of the photo. So I guess they're a bit too "clear"...

[Carl]

too black i think. jusr make them a dark gray, maybe R96, G96, B96, and they'll fit into the picture better, because the photo it's self is so bright. nice ships, though. they look more "alien" that most flying saucers you'd see.

[mikhael]

What Carl said, AND the ships are in too tight of a formation. Put a bit of wobble so that their corners aren't all in the same line. Nothing in the universe lines up perfectly.

[an0n]

Move the right-most one even further right, add some sparks and fire-balls and make it look like it hit the power(?)-lines.

[Anaz]

take out the word "arrival" and put some phony news-ish type stuff around the image

[Nobilis Draco]

Thanks

I have them in perfect formation intentionaly. they're super advanced aliens they should be able to keep their ships in line. it gives an advanced, mechanical highly inteligent feel. The noise is supposed to be interference to the electronics of the camera aliens cause all kinds of interference.

as for the brightness and all that nonsense
1.)they're in the shadow of a clound
2.)Triangle ufos are black saucers are metal/grey(pink if you're my uncle herbert.)
3.) bright picture not so bright plane

4.) it started as a photorealism project and turned into an art piece.

[Setekh]

I like it. Nowadays, I'm often able to blend reality and fiction... with the handy new camera. I should start rendering in a new way.

[Styxx]

The only thing that strikes me is that the ships see too flat.

[Nobilis Draco]

Originally posted by Setekh
I like it. Nowadays, I'm often able to blend reality and fiction... with the handy new camera. I should start rendering in a new way.

can't wait to see what you come up with! I love photocomposite.


yeah, the flatness bugged me to I've since changed some surface properties so it shows the geomety better.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Nobilis Draco

I have them in perfect formation intentionaly. they're super advanced aliens they should be able to keep their ships in line. it gives an advanced, mechanical highly inteligent feel.

Somehow they completely ignore errant winds, changes in air pressure, and Command Zirob's twitch on the stick... They're not just advanced, they're completely fantastical.

It doesn't give an "advanced, mechanical, highly intelligent feel" to me, ND. It gives me a "CG image pasted into photo feel".

[Levyathan]

If the aliens couldn't make their ships line up properly they'd hardly be on another planet. They'd be at home adjusting their flight controls.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Levyathan
If the aliens couldn't make their ships line up properly they'd hardly be on another planet. They'd be at home adjusting their flight controls.

There's lining up and then there's LINING UP PERFECTLY.

These are two entirely different things.

[Levyathan]

Who said they're lining up perfectly? You obviously aren't able to tell just by looking at a picture taken from that distance.

[mikhael]

Even assuming they are not in the same elevation, they are all in exactly the same orientation. The objects appear to have been cloned and moved apart.

I noticed the artificial looking formation. I mentioned it. Nobilis Draco confirmed that they were intentionally carefully lined up. Which part of that did you miss?

Short version: they look like CG photoshopped into a photo. A little IMPERFECTION goes a long way to making things look plausible (and dare I abuse the word by saying "realistic"?).

[Levyathan]

Originally posted by mikhael
Even assuming they are not in the same elevation, they are all in exactly the same orientation.

How do you know they are exactly in the same orientation? And don't say "because it's a render and he told me so" - assume, for a moment, that it's a real picture.

Originally posted by mikhael
Short version: they look like CG photoshopped into a photo. A little IMPERFECTION goes a long way to making things look plausible (and dare I abuse the word by saying "realistic"?).

Of course. I just didn't know you were a realistic alien technology expert.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Nobilis Draco
can't wait to see what you come up with! I love photocomposite.

Yeah, I think my latest one (quite a while ago) was this...

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Setekh
Yeah, I think my latest one (quite a while ago) was this...

Nice.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Levyathan

How do you know they are exactly in the same orientation? And don't say "because it's a render and he told me so" - assume, for a moment, that it's a real picture.

Um... because I've got a good eye for parallel lines? And I'm geek enough to break out a parallel line ruler and check?

Of course. I just didn't know you were a realistic alien technology expert.

You can be forgiven for not knowing. I keep my Doctorate in Advanced Fictional Physics and Theoretical Fantastical Technology a secret generally. Do you know how often I have Stephen Baxter and Peter Hamilton on the phone asking me how alien stuff works?

[Shrike]

Originally posted by mikhael
You can be forgiven for not knowing. I keep my Doctorate in Advanced Fictional Physics and Theoretical Fantastical Technology a secret generally. Do you know how often I have Stephen Baxter and Peter Hamilton on the phone asking me how alien stuff works?

Oooh, do you get Mike Wong and Curtis Saxton on the phone too?