[Stryke 9]

Choose your own damn title. I'm tired. I'm going to bed.



Very much a WIP, but even a little common sense will tell you I ain't gonna finish it, so there.

[Knight Templar]

one of those was over my house today... made the dog go crazy.



Side note: Odd looking fighter you got to the bottom left. Dragonfly-ish.

[Stryke 9]

Ornithopter. Had the idea for one sitting around in my head for a while, as something sorta like those custom-modded cars you see out on the roads (talk about conspicuous consumption, here)... I was trying to capture the wing movement with some motion blur but the ESV pseudoblur effect worked a little too well...

Anyway. Yeah. This is what happens when I get sick of my desktop- I spend a week micromanaging parts of models you never see in the final render and then just toss something together in an hour.

[Gortef]

allright, the title will be "Bob".
Bob is that huge airship floating above that bridge or something...

Nice render so far nevetheless

[Stryke 9]

Hmm... Should I get rid of that huge barge-type thing in the background? I think it's kinda ugly, but I couldn't think of anything to replace it with at the moment...

[Stealth]

the ornithopter looks very cool.  did you make it yourself?

[Stryke 9]

I make all my **** myself. Oh, except some of the textures. But most of those are procedurals I generated, too.

[Stryke 9]

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You know, y'all are useless.

[Knight Templar]

Except me. I have that gas powered pogo stick you love so much

[Stryke 9]

Are you... hitting on me?

[Nico]

well, for now, I'd just work on the fog, coz it screams "Max volumetric fog" so loud my eyes hurt ( interesting medical paradox, isn't it? ).

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Are you... hitting on me?

Don't flatter yourself, pretty boy...

[Stryke 9]

It's not MAX.

But anyway, yeah, I'm working on increasing the scale so it isn't so puffy. Problem is, something seems to have happened to the scene since, I may have to do so in Photoshop...

[Nico]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
It's not MAX.

well congrats, coz you've achieved the look of the default Max volumetric fog just perfectly

[J.F.K.]

Reminds me of a loading screen from Freelancer.

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Sorry, I didn't mean that.

[Stryke 9]

Updated.

Advice, you ungrateful bastards!

[Knight Templar]

Go to bed.



on a side note, the render is great, but wtf is that pole supposed to be?



Also note, the offical theme song of this render is Michael J's Thriller.







Goodnight.

[Stryke 9]

Sleep? I've got a whole bottle of sleep right here!

That would be a launch catapult- rather than spend all that money on chemical rockets and such, just load everything into a mass driver with an geosynchronous sattelite on one end to keep the thing from falling apart. It's also about four miles off (or 8000 inches, if you wanna listen to Ray Dream...).

I've got an animation somewhere of one in action, a portable one with four truck-loaded sides that connect and extend like a hydraulic pump, but since I fudged the dimensions to the point of the ridiculous I think I tossed it (something that could fit on a double semi extending into the outer atmosphere? Well, it sounded cool...)

[Knight Templar]

So it really is a Freelancer pic then.

[Stryke 9]

Hey, **** you. I never even played the game, I don't think.

It's a common concept- it's basically assumed, even by NASA, that something like that will be what gets ships into space in a few decades.