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tuna57
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2001 Moon Monolith

Post by tuna57 » Fri Apr 13, 2018 3:35 pm

My spin on the "Monolith on the Moon" scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Both scenes rendered on Easy 9, 100 passes. Rendered at 2400 x 1235 px. took about 15 hours for each render on my iMac.
Lighting as follows.... Sun-Sky set to sky color. Sky color r-70, g-70, b-70 . 0.600 brightness, sun strength at 2.000. All the floodlight lenses are fake emitters. Small floods have one point light in front with an ies. file loaded for a 3,000 lumen floodlight. The gang light have 3 or 4 point lights spaced out in front. Those point lights have an ies. file for a 20,000 lumen floodlight.
Ran quite a few tests with a bunch of different .ies floodlight files until I found a combo I liked. Also created a bunch of my own textures for the weathered paint and other objects in the model. Post pro was done in Gimp and Affinity.
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Re: 2001 Moon Monolith

Post by RTD Laboratories » Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:52 pm

Looks really good! :rspkt: Put some more work into the post-pro (some bloom/lens flare from the lights, etc) and it would probs be enough to fool me :lol:

Only other thing is the ground, it looks a bit flat to me.. Im guessing that for a large open area like that the bump map alone doesn't really cut it.
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Re: 2001 Moon Monolith

Post by tuna57 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:34 pm

RTD, thanks for the input. Funny you mentioned adding lens flare. Tried putting it in with Gimp and wasn't liking the results I was getting. Haven't worked enough with Affinity yet to figure out how to do light effects in that software :! .Find your comment about the ground texture interesting. Actually it looked better in the raw renders but used Affinity's d.o.f. function with the focal point being the monolith. Result was a blurring effect on the foreground dirt. Maybe should have left well enough alone ? Still trying new things to try and improve my post pro so your comments are well appreciated .
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Re: 2001 Moon Monolith

Post by Mike1158 » Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:04 am

The ground looks fine to me and I don't miss lens flair. Nice image mate. :clap:

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Re: 2001 Moon Monolith

Post by tuna57 » Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:04 pm

Thanks Mike. Have to remind myself sometimes that everyone "see's" these things a little different.
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Re: 2001 Moon Monolith

Post by Fletch » Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:34 pm

:shock: great! :clap:

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Re: 2001 Moon Monolith

Post by tuna57 » Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:19 pm

Thanks Fletch. :^:
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