CGI | Sci-fi Art

So, after a week of working off and on on the project (family visiting and we've been running everywhere!), I've gotten to this point:




Figuring out greebles as I go.  I thought I knew about greebles.  Nothing like ILM's starship design team to force you to reconsider what you know about that kind of stuff.

Dan

I've always liked the Super Star Destroyer from Star Wars.  Let's build one.



Dan

Ahh, another demo reel done.  Hopefully people like it.

Dan

Available for sale here.





















On to the next!

Dan

The captain's office on the Adamant.  Available for sale here.










 
Fun times. =)

Dan

New music for Plagarus.  In addition to the Amotz Plessner piece (which receives multiple uses throughout the film), another signature tune I purchased rights to recently was from another pretty big heavyweight in the music industry, Craig Stuart Garfinkle.  He has composed work for video games, film and TV. 

The piece I bought fits pretty well with a particularly dark part of Plagarus just before an intense action sequence breaks out.  Hopefully the effect will work like I have in mind.

We'll have to see.

I have also finished upgrading my computer.  It's now pretty much maxed out and can't be upgraded anymore.  Because of this, I figure I've got two to four more years on this machine before complete replacement.

The upgrades:

16 gb of RAM.
New solid state drive for the OS.
New storage hard disk.
New graphics card. An nVidia GTX560TI 2 gb monster.

The graphics card is the big one.  I can now GPU render using Cycles in Blender.  This will slash render times into fractions, and I can produce more shots quicker that way.  Interestingly, I can now also render two scenes at once.  One scene can be rendering on the CPU and another on the GPU.  This should make life much easier. =D

So, yes.  Plagarus is on the roll. =)  Part II is probably going to expand a bit, because right now it's quite paltry and needs help.

Have a great day, everyone!

Dan

One of my favorite things to do is character development.  I've been thinking of a short film that will happen after Plagarus.

Drannica. =) Yes, almost all of my movie titles are just one word.  And they're usually planets, for some reason. =D

Some characters. (And a couple of familiar faces, if you've seen Plagarus!)

1080p orthographic renders.

To be honest, I don't know what I'll do after Adamant is done!

Hope you're all doing great.

Dan

The bridge is nearly done!


Now working on some other features of it.  Hopefully will be able to upload to the storefronts soon.  Maybe it'll sell?




Then we'll be moving on to the captain's cabin.  Star Trek calls it the captain's ready room.  Which is an interesting name, if you think about it, considering a ready room is where pilots get prepared for flights on aircraft carriers.

Have an awesome day, everyone.

Dan