Great build well done -- high res is showing several stray white pixels

NICE FIX

Thanks Alan Tidied up the image by increasing the render quality. Lost the pixels. Thanks for the spot

Oddly shaped, but TOTALLY cool! Nice work, author.

Looks good BUT the design is totally un-balanced and wouldn't be able to move the way you've depicted it... it would need much larger wheels to support the cockpit, and they would need to be at an angle to keep the vehicle stable...

Thanks for your comment JamesD, but I wonder if you've ever heard of the Segway? You would imagine that given the Star Wars empire is set in a far technologically advanced galaxy, they would overcome this problem by using super powerful gyroscopes in the wheel axle housing, tied into super heavy material as a counter weight. Personally I shouldn't ever imagine the two legged walkers would ever be feasible either.

yeah I've seen those, but it relies on the riders balance... I guess the star wars universe is technologically advanced, but most look like they could work... I think the AT-ST's have an element of feasability... it walks, shifting it's weight over to the placed foot and has stable feet... I'm not dismissing your entry... I hope you do well with it... looks like you did a lot of work... im just personally not convinced by the design thats all... but it's not real so it's elementary!... GL!

This is a great image.. however, your DOF is not great.. there are patches of high blur and sharp images ( on the right side of the first machine is highly blurred while right under the canon of the first machine is very sharp) .. I think 3dsmax should have the option of render layers.. This could help in giving DOF effect in photoshop.. else maybe u can set it in the camera .. good luck

hsbee, I just read your comment... Hmm... There's an "export" trick when you export final 3d render in multiple layers (shadows, objects, lights, etc.) and that extension can go directly to Photoshop! I'm just not sure, but there is hope, there is hope....

Oh and one more thing for the work... You, author, didn't really explain exactly how you modeled cabins of those things... You just wrote you used extrude and bevel, but I would really like to see how you got their shapes...

Regarding your question as to the cabin model. First of all I started with a box primitive with 10x10x10 segments. The I added the FFD(cyl) modifier, and played around with the control points to get the shape I wanted. After that I extruded some of the edges inwards to get panels, then added the "greeble" (free plugin, just google it) modifier with a few adjustments to the default settings to get the space ship hull look. I couldn't add the 30-40 modeling adjustments to my SBS, that would make it ridiculously long.
BTW My name's not "You" Author, would have done fine

well Toca.. I know Maya has option of rendering in layers.. So i assumed Max has it too.. If not, you could shade each object by a particular color (surface shader) and make a render which could help in selection of individual entity in photoshop.. from the high res, it looked like the author tried to paint DOF manually by hand and it did not work out neatly...

Well, I should just remind you that background he used is 2d... :\

Good work.

Great job author...Star Wars rules...this entry goes instantly in my favorites...well done

Well done man! I've got to say you really deserved 1st!

Congrats this is awesome

Congrats...

Congrats, nice work.

congrates

congrats