Posts tagged scifi
Reboot Destroys Starbase
Aug 12th
Oh, poo. Here I am partway through putting together one epic scene. It’s getting late so I hit Render just so I’ve got a work-in-progress shot and walk away, leaving my little netbook chugging to itself.
Of course, I forget to save the scene. After all, I’m coming back to it in the morning, and nothing’s going to happen to it before that, right?
Wrong. Windows &^*()*&ing goes & runs an Update overnight and reboots without warning. The least it could have done is stopped and waited ’till I woke up, gawdammit! There’s a setting in there somewhere to fix that. I’ll find it.
Hey, at least DAZ Studio had the common decency to auto-save the render for me so I’ve still got the work-in-progress shot I wanted, even though the scene itself has been lost. Ah well. I may well remake it. I’d planned to add about another 40 or so characters in there from different films and TV series. So far I’ve got a few robots, aliens and vehicles in from Doctor Who, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Aliens, Babylon 5 (Cyclon kneeling to a Vorlon ftw!) & Black Hole and have barely begun to stratch the surface. I’d just started adding the spaceships before moving onto the characters – I was going to put Luke hanging from one of the base’s antenae while the Doctor (Tom Baker incarnation) was passing down his scarf. Something like that, anyhow.
See what Windows Update has done? Damn you!
Ah well. Back to the drawing board.
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The Lazy Sunday Caption Contest
Aug 1st
I think it’s time for a caption contest, don’t you? To celebrate the release of the frankly awesome Dystopian Console Station for free, I’ve thrown together this render.
All you have to do is add a caption to it. Because that’s how caption contests work, right?
Winner gets a fabulous one of a kind unsigned no-prize. Trust me on this one; the unsigned ones are much rarer.
Have at it!
UPDATE: Jim from Carjacked Seraphim wins with this:
What do you mean? Skynet was supposed to be HERE! Not there! Now you’re telling me we have to go to the RED dot… If only I’d followed the Cylon. They never frak THAT up…
Congratulations!
I got your sci-fi mixed up in my fantasy again
May 24th
DAZ Studio, postwork in Photoshop. Click to enlarge. You know you want to.
Hot robot in neon full plate armour? Works for me!
Don’t know about you, but I would definitely buy an RPG with this on the cover.
Shapespace
Apr 30th
After all this techieness I think it’s time for a pretty piccie, don’t you?
Welcome to Shapespace where reality meets warpfield, that fleeting moment where colours and patterns merge, where objects unify and coalesce, becoming nothing more than shapes, yet more, much more. This is the realm between realms, the gateway to the stars. Cross through Shapespace as your warp drive kicks in, and say a silent prayer for those who never made it out…..
Feeding the birds
Apr 26th
Render and z-Depth layer in DAZ Studio and composite in Photoshop. Click to enlarge.
Dedicated to Christa who also feeds the birds, but not from quite so high up.
There was no Render Dump Sunday yesterday because a borked DAZ Studio meant I hadn’t churned out anywhere near enough images to make it worthwhile this week. All is well now though, and that’s good.
Image setup: 20 minutes
Render time: 1 hour 20 minutes (1.10 for image, .10 for z-Depth)
Postwork: 10 minutes
Total time: 1 hour 50 minutes. Not bad, considering 1.20 of those the netbook was doing all the heavy lifting.
Addenda: Here’s the z-Depth layer on it’s own. Kinda pretty, ain’t it?
Coming Home
Apr 16th
This is one of those times when I can’t decide which image I like more – the postwork’d one above, or the non-Photoshopped version below.
What do you think?
Christmas comes early to Mordor
Jan 22nd
Dark Trek
Jan 8th
You know what I’d love to see? A full-on horror version of Star Trek where the crew of the Enterprise visit strange new planets. Then get savagely eaten.
The series could end with with Wesley Crusher and Deanna Troi as the sole remaining crewmembers who have to eat each other’s legs to survive.
Yeah. I’d watch that.
The Mechanic
Jan 1st
DAZ Studio, postwork in Photoshop. Click to view full size.
Why C3PO, you’ve changed.
This took a heck of a long time to render – about 7 hours churning on my little netbook while the year rolled over from 2009 to 2010. Lots of shadows, grungy shaders and metal to thank for that one. Love how she turned out though.
