A Work in Progress: man and his mass destruction



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man and his mass destruction
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step 1 of 17

I started out working on another contest, and it transformed into this, so my source image for this step is one of the contest photos....

Creation of man and his mass destruction: Step 1
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step 2 of 17

I enlarged the image and masked out the portion i wanted to use...

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step 3 of 17

I did this on a basic black background....

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step 4 of 17

I masked out a portion of this old Bryce image (will upload steps for creating, but i have to download the terrain) and masked it to fit the layer underneath...

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step 5 of 17

I got this shape as a result...

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step 6 of 17

I placed another old Bryce image, will upload steps, a basic earth form....

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step 7 of 17

I used the shiny portion of the ball layer to mask out a piece of the earth...

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step 8 of 17

I duplicated the layer and gave it a blur...I layered the unblurred layer on hue, and the blurred layer on linear burn. The skull layer was on pin light.

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step 9 of 17

Using Bryce again, I created this image of a city stretched over a sphere (will upload Bryce steps)

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step 10 of 17

I layered the first copy on color...

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step 11 of 17

and a duplicated copy on hard light.

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step 12 of 17

I masked out pices of the city, warped them, and layered over the skull on overlay.

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step 13 of 17

other half of masked and warped city...

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step 14 of 17

This is my rendered frame in Bryce, showing the final image....

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step 15 of 17

and this is the wireframe, showing my objects and their placement. I just used a basic sphere, black background, and an imported futuristic city model downloaded at renderosity.com

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step 16 of 17

this is the Bryce scene for creating the earth....just a black background and a sphere with an earth mat applied....

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step 17 of 17

bryce scene for making of the skull image....i can't remember exactly what i did to distort it, but i opened up a skull mountain terrain from the presets and started editing it, playing with the elevation and what not......

Creation of man and his mass destruction: Step 17

Final result

Creation of man and his mass destruction: Final Result

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