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pardon the 'roughness' of this image, but i could only work on it this weekend... otherwise these crazy orange guys would've chopped my head off.
http://www.artificial3d.com/images/butterfly.jpg
this is a bit more gimp than blender, but... oh well...
i just rendered out some little thingies and then stuck them together in gimp.
the idea for this image is a bit older and so is the little dino character.
enjoy!
.andy
Roughness? This is beatiful!
Truly magnificent! I am speechless.
Wow!! This is truly sensation! It has left me with a great sense of wonder.
This is excellent! Wow, seriously keep these things up in your free time!! :)
i think it's rather spiffy. i'm particularly impressed with the cloud/dust effects and the earthen background. :) i'd like to see the seperate parts you had put together for this finished piece.
though .. my only bug is the starry sky. far too many stars, scrunched together there. even "way back when," the stars are spread on too evenly and thick. as well, they're all basically the same color. it needs some new blue stars, and some old red stars, and patched about in a "Milky Way" sort of fashion.
spiderworm
15-Jan-06, 12:21
Hi @ndy,
Really very good... not your best work, but really very good.
Of course I should probably be very glad that it's not your best work, because that means you're putting most of your time in on Orange stuff. Good choice of priorities!
If, in the future, you were to touch this up a bit, I might suggest you remove some of the dust cloud and give the image a better feeling of depth. The clouds need some work, and it seems like the dino is a bit too lit. If anything, you should darken him up to bring more attention to the butterfly. The butterfly would look cool if it appeared to be lighting up the immediate vicinity around it and glowing, and while the dino is important too, he feels too important as he overpowers the butterfly with his lighting.
Of course, all this is subjective, and you may have a different vision than what I think you're trying to portray here. All in all, this is a very good work, and with a bit of tweaking, has the potential to become a masterpiece.
<3,
spiderworm
heey finally posted it! way to go, i sat next to this guy pumping it out in like one night, bloody insane skills.
Congrats =)
edit: i'm now currently trying to grab that technique for the asteroid, that stuff is insane, theres no post pro on that thing, or maybe no more then 1% contrast post O_O
@ndy : Could you make bigger version ? I want to do wallpaper from it :)
joostbouwer
15-Jan-06, 13:44
Can't believe you're apologizing for this great piece of art....
Joost
indigomonkey
15-Jan-06, 14:15
@ndy, you're right, that's such a rough image! It's like, "Oh my word, that is one of the best pics I've seen yet" rather than "---" (instant death from extreme shock) ;)
No, seriously, a really great picture, plus it gives me a bit of a chuckle. Seems a shame that such cute things wouldn't be around for much longer!
So tell us, what's the asteroid technique that LohnC's talking about?
woah @ndy, what a great piece of art!!! I'm so impressed of your work, again and again!!!!
thelonesoldier
15-Jan-06, 15:22
That's magnificent. It looks like a painting or something. Incredible work.
Nice colours, everything! Pleased to look at an image like that :P :P :P
hi andy,
great particle system, you used for the smoke ( do i sound like yoda?)
i am not sure if the dino looks at the butterlfy or somewhere above and next to it.
claas
I love how it has more of a painted look than photoreal.
Was the render time quick since your working elephant's dream?
Ronin.
Personally this is the best image I've seen from you yet. This one would make one wicked poster. Pretty little scene.
Timothy_L
15-Jan-06, 17:43
Nice, but I think the skin on the dino could use some work, it looks a bit off to me (it looks a bit too hard and soft at the same time, can't quite put my finger on it). Also I think the 'lightness' of the butterfly contrasts a bit with the background, maybe that's what you intended but I think it could be just a tad more in sync with everything else. The flow of the back of the neck has a strange bend as well.
really good work nonetheless, surely if you rushed it.
heres no post pro on that thing, or maybe no more then 1% contrast post O_O
...
I would pay for a screen captured movie of you working. It doesn't need to be a tutorial. Just... you working.
This is such an awesome image. Great job!
--Colin
I wonder what is 3d and what is gimped in this image.
The look and feel is constant, which is a big plus.
but... Stars are too bigs imho.
GJ.
YAA@R: Yet Another Amazing @ndy Render...I'd expect nothing less from you.
Excellent. Great play on the cute with the imagery of immenent death that will come.
I have to agree with the comment made earlier about the clouds in the BG. They are a bit over done and thick, which does detract from the overall depth of the image.
The bit of glow you have painted around the dino's head threw me for a bit as well. Why paint it only around his head and not the rest, or more of the body? Just does not seem to fir IMO.
As always, great use of colour and damn, i still love your particle meteors! Superb use of particles.
BgDM
Super Wu-Man
16-Jan-06, 08:49
man it is gerogous, you are a super star
it would be awsome if one day an animation like project orange, would take place using only your characters.
i went back and saw the moon-guy again and i couldnt beleive how cool that thing was. i was thinking they should be making a fantasy animation about this guy, and other fantasy characters.
but i guess that wouldnt be as fun to make fun of, haha!
great stuff, i guess that project orange has really rasied your confidence as an artist. you stuff before the project was really good, but now during project orange your work is phenomonal.
also could you explain what is going on in that photo of you in your avatar, and where can we see a larger one :D
good idea, and good picture!
i think that the horns on the dino are a bit, hmm, not so real as the nails are
the ''hands'' could be more like tyranosauros, they look like if they were fliped up... :P.
well itīs a wonderfull work, but defenitly not the best on your collection
Awesome image as always @ndy, I have been very much looking forward to seeing some more of your work, this image like the rest has, what I now call the "@ndy Glow" ;)
I've always liked your use of colours.
Mystery
Well, @ndy, you've impressed us all again. ;)
Great work!
Wow :o I love it :D The title fits the image well though and I love the dino. Cute stuff. And the background is stunning!
Awesome work. I'm Flabbergasted
knellotron
16-Jan-06, 14:38
I would pay for a screen captured movie of you working. It doesn't need to be a tutorial. Just... you working.
http://video.blendertestbuilds.de/index.php?dir=BC2005/&file=za06b_andy.avi
:)
I love how it has more of a painted look than photoreal.
Was the render time quick since your working elephant's dream?
Ronin.
Wow^3 hax! The Walt Dysnei жжёт! How Very astonishing!
How Very astonishing indeed! ;)
enricoceric
16-Jan-06, 15:26
That's really great, nice composition and good use of Gimp in addition to Blender.
StompinTom
16-Jan-06, 16:32
incredible use of the particle system...
i remember you had a tutorial on your old site about making those goodlooking asteroids in Mindfields, any chance of seeing it again?
top notch work, as usual.
tom
actually, there was no tutorial, just a screen capture of the material settings.
If It's not too much to ask, could we have a tutorial for the asteroid effect? i've tried and tried to replicate it with those material settings, but to no avail. I simply can't figure out how to get them to be shaded and shaped like that. Do you use a texture on larger sized halo's to make them look shaped from the texture, or do you use texture emmisions? please, I'm not asking for a huge 7 page tutorial, just a quick guideshowcasing the entire effect instead of a little part of it.
Great concept and amazingly executed, @ndy!
RobertT
*gasp* Iīve seen better.
o o o o o o o o o o-KILL.....o -HELP
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*Runnning away from the angry elysiun mob*
...
j/k Great work as usual.
Evolvingwerewolf
16-Jan-06, 20:49
Love it, just so awsome, man hope i get this good at 3D, great work, keep it up
I would pay for a screen captured movie of you working. It doesn't need to be a tutorial. Just... you working.
http://video.blendertestbuilds.de/index.php?dir=BC2005/&file=za06b_andy.avi
:)
OoooOOOoh!
... I just learned a great deal. Who knew you could edit with faces, edges, and vertices all at once? Crazy!
--Colin
Oh, why did I overlook this for so long.
Nice job, @ndy!
--- Elubie
Cute little Dinosaur
Super Cool :D
Nice one @ndy, the dinosaur is really well modelled with some great detail round the face. The eyes and parts of the head remind me bit of the creature you modelled at the conference !!. Nice to see you're still finding time to do some of your own artwork.
Levi
vliegtuig
18-Jan-06, 16:32
Screw the asteroid. I wanna know how the clouds were done.
There's a strange unreal glow around the dino, but it's OK.
I can live with it.
P
thats a fu*!ing great creation !!!
take a bow
:o
--
rishi
LoonieToon
19-Jan-06, 19:02
all i have to say is :o
Woodman5k
19-Jan-06, 20:43
The heck with the blender tutorial, how about a gimp tutorial!!!
Beautiful :o One of my favorites i've seen from you. Amazing work!
Looks fantastic man. Great contrast between the sky and the dinosaur
JCTiger
SpindleRift
20-Jan-06, 20:17
I'd love to see your work flow on any one of the projects you've shown here. I'm curious what all you do, what order you do it, and what you do it with to get a scene to come togather like this. The color is phenominal.
I'd love to see your work flow on any one of the projects you've shown here
Back on page 2.
I would pay for a screen captured movie of you working. It doesn't need to be a tutorial. Just... you working.
http://video.blendertestbuilds.de/index.php?dir=BC2005/&file=za06b_andy.avi
:)
I just finished downloading it. It's really got me moving to do some new work. Within the first 10 minutes I picked up enough tips to completely change my own workflow and get results.
That image is some very well executed work and the video is a real trove of information and inspiration.
Chimp
Technically, a really impressive piece, as usual. Your sense of color is really great as well. But I can't believe no-one is bothered by the staging of it. There are 2 quite large "mistakes" (as far as a mistake exists in art) that really kind of screw it all up :-)
First, is the feet. Try to think in the silhouette. If I colored the dino black, I should still be able to see what he's doing. This communicates way better to the viewer. He won't get confused, even if he doesn't know what is causing it. Right now, his left foot is right in front of his right. You start to get confused about which foot you're actually looking at... whether another part of the foot is actually a part of the upper leg or not. Sure, if you look closely, you're able to see it, but we shouldn't have to look closely to find that out.
Second, I believe the goal was to make the center of attention the butterfly, or the butterfly-dino eye relationship. For a big part, this works great. Most of the rocks and the mountain are aiming at that part of the screen... so is the line of action of the dino... and so is the asteroid. The big problem is though, that the asteroid is TOO light. It is so bright that it creates the biggest contrast on the screen (light asteroid - dark night sky). That contrast is bigger than the contrast of the butterfly and its BG. Big contrast always asks for attention... and now my eyes just don't know where to look. I want to look at the buttefly and the dino, cause their relationship obviously is the most interesting, but my eye always drifts back to the comet. The comet (and how it will change/destroy the relationship between the two creatures), is a secondary thing, that requires that relationship to have its full impact. If you're thinking about an asteroid before you see what it's about to destroy, you don't get the full story as easily, and it won't work as well. Plus, because my center of attention constantly drifts between the two, I didn't get the time to focus on the story. It's only now, when I was critiquing it, that I saw how the comet and the dino/buttefly relate storywise. And looking at the crits you've been getting, I doubt a lot of other people had realised this.
Your work is always great to see, @ndy! It's the main reason I come back to this forum once every few weeks.
- Benjamin
holeshotv311
26-Jan-06, 14:17
Wow dude! I would love to see this in animation some day. Beautiful!
Hey @ndy could you explain how you made the meteor ?
Me is learning ;) .
I want to do one in my animation, but I didn't get any good results so far...
-- Rui --
pardon the 'roughness' of this image
...erm wth?
I love it how the eyes look like they possess life
CubOfJudahsLion
03-Apr-06, 17:01
@ndy, sir, ...
No, I don't find words.
kargath64
03-Apr-06, 22:07
I was expecting www.thebutterflyeffect.com.au -_-
I am disappointed in you, your art and your painted toenail.
Great work as always, reminds me of whatching The Land Before Time when i was a little tacker.
:)
Please don't bump old threads. Thanks.
BgDM
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