Hmmmm, interesting. Very nice! =)

I love the decay of the civilization and the haze that rizes above the plants. Looks as if the pollution is pushed away by the nature.

I like the depth in the picture and how you have a feeling of decay like marina08 stated.

good entry.gl.

Great concept, nice angle and good result in low resolution. I miss a proper high resolution version though. I also miss a proper SBS. It only shows the cages. What about the bridge and the bushes?

Nice Work

Very cool , love it

like this . well done

Nice work, congrats, I just hope it's fair, since you didn't show how you made the bridge, plants and the background stuff in SBS.... But congrats anyway!!! =)

Congrats for your first place, Whiteshade!

Congratulations for 1st

Congratulations!

nice job. I hate nitpicking but i get the impression that the planet on the right is inside the atmosphere...

Beautifully done. Very inspiring too.

Fantastic!

Tnx! =D

I do like it, it looks good in LO-res, but it's impossible to review any details.. so, please render a bigger HI-res version!

PLEEEEASE don't make me do it, there are millions of polygons there! =(( To be more precise 3927095. So you can be sure there's a lot of detail =D This took me like an hour to render 800x600.... Imagine how much would 1280 x 1024 take me. Do I REALLY have to do it?

Are you kidding me - an hour?! That's nothing when it comes to one frame 3D rendering! My late test render usually takes about an hour and my final at least 4H!

C'mon now, crank up the details and let the CPU burn over night. There's plenty of time until deadline. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's curious about the details.


(About the poly-count, I know the feeling. I'm sure 3DSMax has some sort of polygon reducing function)

I saw your little problem, if you dont mind..1. you have Optimize modifier, this can reduce 20-30 % poly whitout visibile quality loose 2. according SBS you made„few planes”. why ?can make a single plane, convert to Edit Poly or Mesh, apply displacement map and then,for adjusment, select one or more poly (see also Soft selection) and move on Yaxis with Move tool. This will take few minutes more than displacement but will reduce dramatically poly number and render time. And you will have a full control of how your planet will look.

OK, OK. Actually, it didn't take me an hour more like 20 minutes Anyway, I'm rendering it now, it'll be done in a few minutes. =) @your comments, well, I don't want to reduce polycount because of the details, and I'm just to lazy (read: have no idea how) to make normal maps =P I made a few planes because I have had several displacement maps, I didn't mix them all in PS. And I could never manage to do something this detailed with Edit Poly. Well, maybe with Edit Poly and some Normal/Bumps and Displacements, but nothing with edit poly onnly =) Thanks anyway! Here comes high-res!

Here! It's finished! =D Satisfied? But really, what's there to see? Nothing so important that it has to be high res... =) =P

I'm glad you spent the enormous amount of time to re-render it! By doing that the great ground texture is visible.

The only flaw I can see is that you've applied it planar - stretching it when it gets steep. You could fix this by making UV-textures, adding a displacing texture on steep parts, or simply reproduce a similar effect with procedural bump and color textures. But don't get me wrong, I still like it.

Hmmmmm, yeah, it does get stretched... Tho I must say I kinda like the effect.... =P Especially at these high.... whatever they are? =D But OK, I'll bother with UV mapping a bit, and see what I get. Thanks! =)

Tnx Missy. =)

Author: nooo, don't change to UV if you like the present result. If that's the result you wanted to achieve then that's what it is. In that case you could enchance the melted effect by adding an adjusted version of the ground texture image to fit as a bump and/or diffuse map.

Already did that Bump map is the same texture with a little higher contrast. But thanks for the constructive comment! =)

nice image,gl

Good work.

boring hU? not boring to the eye...

Congrats for your second place, Wlado!

Congratulations for 2nd

Tnx everyone =)

Congatulations!

wow!!!!

Wooooow! Awesome! Winner.

wow!

Unbelievable! Good job!

Love those rings...they almost take on a neon effect. The shadings give a great mood.

nice job,gl

beautiful colours

great!! I love it!

Awesome Entry.......G/L Author.

Congrats for your third place, Genuine!

Congratulations for 3rd

thx all for comm and congr....

Congratulations!

Congratulations! great entry!!!!!!

cool...in IMHO...maybe a little less reflections to pyramid....gl

very nice work

Surreal and very interesting. Really like the color of this image!

I realy like this.

nice image,gl

really fantastic work but the impression of the whole image is somewhat strange to me.

wow .. love the colours in your image.

Congratulations for the 4th place!

It's great except the shadows, they look like squares.

wlado, the ground is very bumped, very out of level. thats why the shadow is not uniform. is not made by me, like in photoshop, is a realistic mental ray shadow map.

I was reffering to the shadows of plants, animals and such, but i see that you have already correctd that, cause when I commented they were really low-detailed. I know what bumpmaps are. =)

Really like the water effect...perhaps soften the edge where the water meets sand...

Thanks, pixelkid, you're right. Blur tool from PS is forbiden on 3d contests.What can be done in 5 sec in PS suppose few hours to work on Max. Have to make selections, to assign different materials blured on Mat editor. Maybe I shall try.

I'd reduce the intensity of the shadows & blur them a bit, and give some dimension to the 2 moons. Otherwise it's a good image.

interesting