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Category Archives: Photoshop
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 80
A minor settings error and a lack of time to make up for it led to todays super-tiny render. The angle was based on a common stock shot from the Original Series.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 79
Crusade had a particular look to its visual effects. Nebulas and stars were much less saturated than they were in Babylon 5, and there was a tendency for sweeping camera moves that exaggerated the movement of the starfield. I probably could’ve moved the two or three times more to get a more faithful effect.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 78
A shot from the season 1 Babylon 5 episode “Signs and Portents.” Even at a 5K resolution, the scale of the Raider fighter seems a bit small.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 77
You know, I specifically made the airlock on my Archer model consistent with the movie-era docking collar, so I suppose I should show it in use.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 76
I was hunting for inspiration for a quick render last night, and the music from the final scene of Star Trek IV came on shuffle. Probably not the best scene with my current mish-mash of lighting and surfacing workflows but, hey, it’s a picture.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 75
The E.A.S. Hyperion places itself between a Dilgar warship and a Brakiri cruiser during the first day’s of Earth joining the League of Non-Aligned Worlds in repelling the Dilgar’s invasions.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 74
I recently finished reading the English translation of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past novel trilogy (also referred to by the title of the first book, The Three-Body Problem). I thought they were really good, a bit of a throwback to the Clark and Asimov school of hard science fiction. I think going into the books cold really helped me appreciate them, so I’ll just say that this depicts a scene from one of the novels involving a device nicknamed the Droplet.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 73
I should really model the power pods that were on space-based stargates in “Atlantis.” It would greatly open up my options for Stargate renders, especially ones involving the Puddle Jumper. In this case, I got away with it by using tight framing.
Incidentally, “Tight Framing” is the name of my cinematography-themed spoken-word jazz concept-album.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 72
I took this picture in Fairchild Gardens years ago, thinking it’d be a good place to put a Stargate. Then when I looked at it after I got home, I realized that it actually wasn’t, since you’d have to sort of sidle along it to get to the front. But, hey, maybe on this planet they just thought it was a decorative ring someone buried for some reason and only found out when someone dialed in.
(I imagine that, by acclimation, falling four feet into a pond was deemed to be the stupidest way the SGC lost a MALP)