The first shot is away!

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Yeah... I know. It's just a boring old star-field... (or is it...!?!) but trust me: when you see the rest of the shot, it's a doozy. I'd actually put it in the top-3 of shots I've conceived of...

Also I should mention, this is the first shot of the trailer, not the first shot of the film. The trailer is comprised of original footage, separate from the film, and needed to be completed first as a test platform and proof-of-concept for the rest of the movie.

So the render should be wrapping up any minute now. I'm gonna go put it together! =D

Cyber-Chick for Roc-Con

Suuuper excited for Roc-Con, and when I asked what they had for cover art for the program, it was suggested that I could submit something. So here is what I've come up with so far:

(wip) Click for larger image...

Didn't want to spend too much time on this (and spent way more time than I might've liked, as always) but I think I put much more attention to detail in this one than I have in the past, and didn't really cut any corners on it. Still, I would've liked to have spent another week with it just to customize a lot of it more and given more time to the textures.

Due to time constraints, I had to kit-bash some of this together. A keen Star Wars eye will notice one of the engines from a Y-Wing, the laser from a frigate, and a portion of the leg of an AT-ST. [=

I'll see what they say and post the final when it's complete.

May the 4th be with you!

I decided to spend my day watching the entire saga while working on this piece, which I call Eye of the Storm'. No real `rhyme or reason' to the scene except that it's mostly comprised of a few of my favorite (Star Wars) things.

While not exactly my greatest work...I did put all of it together today (and I'm about 15minutes into Jedi now...) I didn't do any of the modeling (except for a bit of alterations to the helmet to get it to at least hold up in HD...) but I didn't have any of it `assemebled' before today.

It's all `in-scene' as well (which I'm a big fan of whenever I can get away with it.) This is all one render. The trickiest part was getting it all to line-up in the reflection properly. I suppose if I was trying to pick a project to do in 1 day, I could've picked something a little easier. lol Maybe next year I'll just do the shuttle, or just do the walker or something.