[Razor]

It's been a long time since I posted a render here. I decided to get back into rendering buisness again and here is what I made:
Hope you like it.

[Galemp]

The Erinyes look great, but it needs more depth. It looks like yhe fighters are all right next to each other.

Oh, and use a different Lunarcell planet. That one stinks. Make sure you get the lighting right next time.

[FreeTerran]

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
The Erinyes look great, but it needs more depth. It looks like yhe fighters are all right next to each other.

Oh, and use a different Lunarcell planet. That one stinks. Make sure you get the lighting right next time.

[Tiara]

If thats a render, then I can render without rendering...

To be honest I don't like it that much. A few pointers:

- When you create a planet in lunar cell, make sure the clouds are soft and not hard as they are now. They look like big blocks of swirling ice now.
- Relief on the planet is too high. It reaches the level the clouds are at and flattens the mountains because of that. Lunar Cell bug or something. Its not very noticable but still...
- As said before the Erinyes look good but need more depht. (Think like bored pilots who go playing a bit with their fighters on a long patrol)
- The Background.. well let me guess? bad JPG compression? Save it in PNG format. A wee bit bigger but the quality is better.
- The lightning, it seems as if the sun shines from 2 sides. try to add some shadow on one of the sides (in this pic it'd be the lower left side or the top of the planet [can't really make it out where the sun is])

I hope this helps with your future pictures.

[Stryke 9]

JPEG compression ain't a problem there, far as I see. Antialiasing would be nice for the fighters, though.

[Razor]

If thats a render, then I can render without rendering...

Bleh! Why do I even bother posting my work here? No matter how hard i try I always get a bad response anyway. Maybe I am not cut out for this job.

[Galemp]

The Erinyes look awesome! Just... lose the planet, that's all. Don't get discouraged...

[Amon_Re]

Originally posted by Razor

Bleh! Why do I even bother posting my work here? No matter how hard i try I always get a bad response anyway. Maybe I am not cut out for this job.

Compared to me you're a genius (Ok, it doesn't take much to beat me but hey )

Did you texture the erinyes yourself? It looks sweet!

Cheers,

[Sheepy]

Its just that degrading work is away to fource you to improve it.

I have been constantly *****ed at in my current course and its help me hella lot more than my previous tutors who went around saying they loved everything

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Razor

Bleh! Why do I even bother posting my work here? No matter how hard i try I always get a bad response anyway. Maybe I am not cut out for this job.

You got it all wrong. I can't say its the best when I think it isn't. I say what I think. I gave comments so you can work on that when you go for your next pic. Use those!

You can't expect all your work to be good. If you'd only see my first few attemts on CG art you'd laugh your ass off.

[01010]

If it's any consolation, I like it, a lot just as it is.

[beatspete]

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
The Erinyes look awesome! Just... lose the planet, that's all.

If you saved it in a file with layers (ie a .psp) - as every good renderer should - then surely it can't be hard to go back and delete the planet, replace it, and leave the rest un-touched?

Also, not sure what program you use, but paint shop pro has an optimizer for most files when you save them. If you save it as a jpeg you can choose the compression level, between 7-10 is fine, the default is 14.

[Bobboau]

did a great job on the Erinyes but the planet isn't very good, the background looks fine to me
this doen't look like it was rendered in a renderer, why don't you try to use TS or some such

[Stryke 9]

Because TS is Satan's trap for the foolish. As soon as you open it for the first time, it claims your soul for eternal torment and leaves you with a ****ty program that only works in the most technical sense of the word, adding insult to injury.


Whee! I should do product reviews for a living.

[Shrike]

You need to work on the lighting, that's the biggest issue.  Right now the lighting is too flat.  The planet itself is easy to fix, just check 'real clouds' then play around with lunarcell.

[Razor]

Originally posted by Bobboau

this doen't look like it was rendered in a renderer, why don't you try to use TS or some such

Ehh..it's done in Lightwave.
By the way, here is an update. Hope this one doesn't suck too.

[kasperl]

ok,lot's better, just tryto make a mutli-layered nebula, and make the blue ring around the sun a little more vague and further out.

but overall,

[Ashrak]

1 dont use backdrops they suck
2 engine glows dont look so great
3 a bit of motion blur never hurts
4 if you use nebulae as background dont use such HARD edged nebs
5 use lvlshot tag
6 can you send me the erin??? pliz

[Razor]

Originally posted by Ashrak
6 can you send me the erin??? pliz

Well the model is the same so if you still have Freespace 2, you have it too.

Btw about backdrops. You have any other suggestion. By the way, how do you turn Field rendering on?

[Galemp]

Originally posted by Ashrak

2 engine glows dont look so great
 

What are you smoking? They look fantastic!

But yeah, soften the nebula lots and make the sun ring much larger and fainter. You might want to tone down the intensity of the nebula blue, too, since it's overpowering the lights on the Erins.