It was quiet this week, so I spent some time whooping up a little personal project.
Some of you might remember I wrote a short story a while back. As no one's bought it (so far, at least) I've decided to 'publish' it on my website. And I thought it deserved an illustration.
The story takes place on a space station orbiting Ceres, which I had fun building.
Render 1:
Current version:
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Only recently did I realize that I'd put all the windows on the floor - that is, the outside/tread of the wheel. Oops. I've moved them up to the 'sidewall' where they belong.
Nice work Mark :thumbsup:
that's awesome!
A couple of stars in the sky wouldn't look out of place though 
The stars always get me. I want to put them in cuz they look cool; but I want to leave them out cuz you would not see them. (It is way too bright.) Witness actual photo of the ISS:
very nice bit of work MC. When you see the current version compared to the first render it's amazing the difference! - great job!
:thumbsoup:
Nice work MC.
Originally posted by: mclarkson Older
... and added some small details that no one but me would notice.
it's like spotting the 10 differences between similar images. The newer one looks a lot clearer.
You need to do some interior designs. I'm interested in future-proofing myself from the catastrophic decisions happening on earth. What sort of apartments/compartments are available on the baby?
So you can animate it by rendering and rotating the model? How many polygons is that?
Yes, I can animate it - rotate, etc. It's a full 3D scene.
It has way too many polygons, as I wasn't planning on doing animation and building with fewer polys is harder/slower than building with lots of polys. So I was sloppy. If you're only doing a still frame, you don't care so much if it takes two minutes to render. If you're doing animation, that'll kill you and keeping poly count down is essential.
I'd say a little in excess of a million polygons, as it sits right now. That includes the two little spaceships that nobody but me can see. 
Just for poops and giggles, I did a quick video test:http://markclarkson.com/video/supra_video.html
Originally posted by: mclarkson Just for poops and giggles, I did a quick video test:http://markclarkson.com/video/supra_video.html
Cool! It's neat how it actually seems more realistic while in motion.
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forget taking over the world, MC's taking over space!
I'm assuming what I thought were lights must now be the spaceships you added. Easy to see when you compare the first image with the newer one.
Originally posted by: tenPlus I'm assuming what I thought were lights must now be the spaceships you added.
Bzzzt! I'm sorry, no, but thanks for playing! 
yer mc got the moves!
Originally posted by: mclarkson [quote]Originally posted by: tenPlus I'm assuming what I thought were lights must now be the spaceships you added.
Bzzzt! I'm sorry, no, but thanks for playing! [/quote]
.. dayum!
there's not really any little spaceships - you're just delusional from working at it for so long