[l3lueMage]

Okay i know some of them show some pixel polygons or some other sort, but thats what new graphic cards are for, and well, I have not quite ordered a new one yet SOoo, here they are...

http://www.adenu.com...ySpike_full.jpg
http://www.adenu.com...rthsun_full.jpg
http://www.adenu.com.../techy_full.jpg
http://www.adenu.com...losion_full.jpg

(info on the earth: the earth has 3 layers, the clouds, ground, and atmosphere that I created in the program, I then used textures from nasa to show the ground on one layer, clouds on another, and atmosphere I completly made from scratch.)

http://www.adenu.com/graphics.htm for the rest of my graphics, I have not posted them all so you can go see the rest.

[Gardna]

WOW! This is really amazing. I could do something in Blender, but i'm not that good. The curvy spike is great. How are you doing it?

[Ganon]

Awesome! My favorites were the first and third! Third especially because it had that evil out-of-control look.

[Ravenblade]

Very impresive l3lue Mage, I liked them a lot. I'll go check out your site properly at some point too. If you're willing to teach on how to do stuff like that on your forums (which i noted had no adverts - nice! (at least i didnt notice any x.x;:() then i'd probably register and try some of it at some point.

Anyways, good work.

[l3lueMage]

TY for the comments, well I use cinema 4D Release 8, I dont think its that expensive(I got mine from a friend) so you can prob buy or get it some other way :(

Or try finding a trial and well you know what to do next if u want it forever :|

anyways ya first get that program and then I will show you how to do it on my forum I guess.

BTW the landscape ones were done in Vue 4 Pro which u can get a trial(I have the trial) and it lets u render up to i think 480x640 rez and the trial lasts forever. the program is like $100.00 or something like that then u can render at the highest rez u want.

thanks again for the comments

[Nemphtis]

Now ones man, I have yet to explore 3D imaging. The only time I try 3D is when I try and create something that looks 3D on Photoshop. But I don't actually have programs like Bryce etc.

[l3lueMage]

Here is one I did a while ago in photoshop but never bothered to upload, I originally had a pepsi bottle in the middle cause it looked like what they put on their vending machines.

http://img211.exs.cx/img211/682/pepsi7pf.th.jpg

[Illidan]

Hey those are pretty good. Did you make that using photoshop? Keep it up. ^~

[l3lueMage]

the last one I used photoshop.

[TheDogWho]

Very nice Photoshop-age. You're better than me at it.

[l3lueMage]

lol >_>
it takes practice, I have been working with all my programs for almost 3 years now, and i still suck...some less than others, but i started fireworks, dremwaver, and flash 3 years ago, photoshop bout 1.5 years ago, and cinema 4d like 6 months ago.

[Enoch]

The photoshop one was interesting. What filters did you use?

[Ravenblade]

That new one is awesome BM - very cool. I love blue stuff so it gets extra marks XD Seriously though, it rocks to the nth degree (<---i had to use that...its been so long) I love the effect, it really does catch your eye.

[l3lueMage]

I used alot of filters, Motion blur, Radial blur, um i cant remember the rest, but those were the main ones.

[Andross]

1st: The render is good, well done, but you've got problems with the material mainly. Not natural, looks like you're going for reflective blue here. Though it's abstract, not an actual object, so don't make it look like it's sitting on something.

Go into Photoshop and cut out that bottom reflection (which isn't natural; I can teach you how to make good ones at my site if you wish). Then with a black bg, you should start playing around with brushing. There are loads of abstract brushing tutorials at pixel2life.com, so take a look there.

It's all about the brushing, and you could fix the material in Photoshop I think. Excellent modeling, just need to work on touch ups.

2nd: It's decent, but only that, and a bit cliche. Very blurry, sorry to say. It's better than I could do though, as I've never bothered with learning how to do it. The clouds need to be sharper, but not too blocky or rigid. The land has to have a definite outline, a kind of glowing blue. The sun is also not realistic enough. It wouldn't have those spike rays. It should also be a bit larger, but further below the horizon, shooting a nice lens flare to top it off.

I may not know how to do space scenes, but I know how they should look. Try looking around pixel2life once again, as well as other 3D places with tutorials. Maybe deviantART as well.

3rd: Well, since it's the same as the first, I'll refer you to there. Avoid the 2D/tech before you learn from somewhere/pick up brushes though. It's tough to do, and I can't even do it well yet. Kill the overlay as well.

4th: Bad quality. That's really the only problem in the end. Use a radial blur, set at best, and if you get those dots (left side), blur them out, and smooth/sharpen edges that turn out rough as well.

5th: Don't wanna be rude, but just trash it. Low quality, and way too much blue contrast. Depending on who and in what conditions a person is looking at it, their eyes will hurt after a bit. I tried a similar thing once - now that I look at it, it was a bit trivial and bright. Although it was smoother - this one could've been much smoother too.

Overall, it's a matter of getting accustomed to Photoshop. You're obviously good when it comes to C4D, and your work will look better once you begin to get better with Photoshop.

And that's how you contructively critique a work folks :P

[l3lueMage]

lol hehe ty for the tips, but alot of it, render sucking/pixels and polygons show are because of my graphic card, actually I have proven it also.
I went to a tutorial on pixel2life a few weeeks ago and there was a tutorial on reflections that also gave the file so u could just render it, oh I rendered it and I closed it right after it finished, worst thing i have ever seen, but theirs looked so good o.O

but ya that is like the first image i have done techlines on :P

the 5th one I never really liked either thats why it never was put up on my site...

ty for all the tips ^__^

[l3lueMage]

My first Music Vid for a game, MR inspired me with his FF movie XD
mine is not FF its halo2 though and the song used is Crawling - Linkin park

http://www.adenu.com/h2mv_0001.wmv

ENjoi =D

[Enoch]

Linkin park songs get used for ton's of music vids now adays. Not a big fan of em. I guess it's allright.

[l3lueMage]

not EVERY song, but someone did point out there was an h2 music vid that used the exact same song >_>

[Enoch]

I didn't say every video. I said alot of videos. And they do. It wouldn't be a big deal, if it weren't for the fact that I sorely dislike linkin park.

[l3lueMage]

I was going to find another song, but none suited it :wacko:

[l3lueMage]

Here is an image I made, I tried making something I could look at so I chose my cellboost thingy.
http://i145.exs.cx/img145/3923/cellboost2hw.jpg

[Ravenblade]

Thats cool and quite an odd effect as i cant quite place my finger on what you've done with it o.o..

Nice work though, looks like a good piece of computer graphics.

[Enoch]

That's very interesting. I like the backround, and how it inversly shade from top to bottom.

[Zxor]

l3lueMage, on Mar 16 2005, 04:08 AM, said:

My first Music Vid for a game, MR inspired me with his FF movie XD
mine is not FF its halo2 though and the song used is Crawling - Linkin park

http://www.adenu.com/h2mv_0001.wmv

ENjoi =D

Oh, that was really Awesome, sort of makes me want to get Halo.

[l3lueMage]

Zxor, on Mar 28 2005, 11:59 AM, said:

Oh, that was really Awesome, sort of makes me want to get Halo.

It almost made me buy it too...To be honest I dont own a single one of those games, I just goto my cousins house if I wanna play it...

[l3lueMage]

Here are 3 sigs i Made...Plz rate/Critique/

http://img226.exs.cx/img226/7605/sig1glass8wu.jpg

http://img226.exs.cx/img226/2042/swordhawk7fo.jpg

http://img226.exs.cx/img226/5491/ladygreen2bk.jpg

http://img46.exs.cx/img46/8113/sig7mi.jpg

[Enoch]

Those are 4 sigs. not 3, but all the same, there good. I especialy like the guy with the swords. That perticular one looks rather (for lack of better words) "action packed".

[Zxor]

Holy Crap!!!
Those are so good. use the second one, that is cool!!!
DO MORE!! Do more, Do more, Do more, Do more, Do more, Do more, Do more.

[l3lueMage]

Ty, I was gonna use the second one, but I didnt like the red color I chose, so I was just gonna stick with this one for now...I am going to make like 3 more later XD

[Zxor]

The one you have now is good too, and the color looks good also.

[l3lueMage]

I made these because I finall found some good Abstract Brushes for PS7, all the super cool ones for CS ><
Anyways, ya so I keep messing with them, I will have a couple done tonight again =]

[Zxor]

Well keep going, they look Great!

[l3lueMage]

HERE COMES MORE!
well just one more for now

http://img113.exs.cx/img113/3861/witch6um.jpg

[Venus_Man1]

Wowzer. That one looks veery good. Do you have any tutorials or something?

[Wiflewood]

That Rocks L3mage. The background kind of looks like a Tornado or something, and the smoke looks really good. Nice colour theme as well. Top job!

[Elliott]

You're VERY good at digital imaging.
I won't offer advanced critique as your level of skill is out my league, but what you have displayed here is very nice =) .
I would just say work on what you do in photoshop with the renders, they were good, but I've seen better, try heaps of filters and brushes. And high stauration is always good when working with renders such as yours.

[l3lueMage]

thanks guyz, Here is an atempt at water drops, challenged from someone at another forum...
http://img218.exs.cx/img218/6942/water7ix.jpg

[l3lueMage]

using that raindrop effect above, I decided to make cloud cry XD

http://img197.exs.cx/img197/9619/cloudcries8ls.jpg

[Mars Djinni]

Now that's good art! The water droplets thing is very authentic. Cloud looks like he has a scar there, though. (Who knows? maybe he's crying because of that scar.^^)

[l3lueMage]

TY MD, anyways i made sort of a rusty/bloody thing 1024.768 rez

http://img178.exs.cx/img178/1320/rustybloodfull7jf.th.jpg

[l3lueMage]

Me working on a website design, but im dead out of ideas, and I came up with this...please critique and tell me how bad it sucks

http://img194.exs.cx...50/adenu4dj.jpg

[Blink]

background of one color, but textured boxes? That makes no sense! Reverse and try again!

[l3lueMage]

Reverses o.o okay, but I put that one up temporarily o.O

[Omega]

Actually it looks quite good! You just need some texture on the background.... only a little.... try making the background Black or something...

[l3lueMage]

New image ^^ its going on the redesign of my site, I figured I suck at HTML/PHP sites so I am just gonna go with flash, I have it pretty much layed out, well here is the new graphic

http://img144.echo.c...actspace3uz.jpg

[My Best Wishes]

I like the latest one. It reminds me of
Ice
winter
snow
water
mirriors
space (kinda)

Very very nice.

[l3lueMage]

here is another one =D, Right now I am just having fun in Photoshop XD.

http://img63.echo.cx...xplosion5ro.jpg

[l3lueMage]

BTW, I have released my site with I say WITHOUT ANY BUGS ZOMG PWND XD, I hope u like it =D

[Gardna]

Wow, they're really good. You are somewhat talented artist.

[l3lueMage]

well actually there is one error, graphics dont popup in new window, bad for dialup users ><

[Nobody]

l3lueMage, on Apr 11 2005, 06:54 AM, said:

here is another one =D, Right now I am just having fun in Photoshop XD.

http://img63.echo.cx...xplosion5ro.jpg

That's great. I like the background effect. It's virtually undescribable.

[l3lueMage]

yay TY, I tried something new, as in dimension and brushing wise, I hope u like it ^^

http://img152.echo.cx/img152/1552/abstraction6xn.jpg

[Omega]

hey... you made that when I was telling you about Homestar Runner T_T

[Illidan]

Very nice brushing you've done there l3lueMage. Keep it up, I'm liking it. :P

[l3lueMage]

Omega, on Apr 12 2005, 12:08 PM, said:

hey... you made that when I was telling you about Homestar Runner T_T

ya cause homestar running is stupid XD and so I just let u sit and talk until I am done making it then i finally answer o.o

[Nobody]

That looks like a piece of greenish-tinted glass (or something like that) that is chipped. Not bad at all.

[Ravenblade]

Thats a darn good piece of work BM (It must be cos the all knowing Illidan said so XD). I love stuff like that, you're very talented^^ Post more with greater frequency T_T

Welldone!

[Somia]

wow-ho gosh I donno what to say...I have ALOT more to learn? Briliant? Well, my point is..THEY ARE EXCELLENTIST!!

[l3lueMage]

ty guyz ^^, well um ya, wont be making any for a couple days ;_; i lost my inspiration after that one, took alot out of me to get it to look like that, and look right.

[l3lueMage]

Enjoi XD

http://img166.echo.cx/img166/3989/crazysplatter3ty.jpg

[Ravenblade]

Thats an awesome image, it really is a shame that art like this is lost on most people.

Only thing that bugs me is that it doesnt have a name - all art should be named =/

Anyways i love the blues you have in it and the way they get progressively deeper into the middle of the image. I also like the way that the middle is offset from the centre of the frame^^