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Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Weavling on April 30, 2004, 06:34:23 PM

Working on my short movie for school, and rigged this up. I'm using 3D Max, and I'm making a 15 minute max short movie as a culminating project for my senior year of high school. It's about WWIII. Anyways, this shows a flight of spacefighters, known as the XSF-31 Phoenix, enroute to take out a formation of satilites. I've had no lessons, and what I know about this program is from messing around and a few tutorials found online, so it aint the best.

(http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/fredmeyer/Phoenix_Flight_4-5.JPG)

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: hawker238 on April 30, 2004, 06:44:01 PM

Very cool!

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Echo on April 30, 2004, 09:09:13 PM

impressive for someone in highschool with no training. a word of advice though. If you plan to make a carreer out of this, try to stay away from the space fighters theme. I can't tell you how many demo reels i've seen with these, and they are never impressive.  i know they are fun to do, heck I used to love doing them too. anyway just trying to help ya out. again only if you want to get a job doing this. if not, knock yourself out!

Cheers:aok

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Weavling on May 01, 2004, 12:56:23 AM

Space scenes are so much easier, lol.  

I've done some atmospheric fighters too.  The story behind the Phoenix in my movie is that it was originally meant to be a normal fighter, but was scrapped due to poor performance.  It was then revived when it was seen that the design would work for as a space fighter.  Thus it was dubbed the Phoenix.  

Here are the fighters
Top Left: F-35 Valkirie
Top Right: F-151 Mustang
Bottom Left: XSF-31 Phoenix
Bottom Right: MiG-42 Reaper

(http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/fredmeyer/4_planes.JPG)

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Furball on May 01, 2004, 09:32:00 AM

I am a professional graphic artist.  Here is a picture i did, as you can see i use advanced layering techniques in the most advanced graphics programs to do the clouds and tree's.

If you need advice to be as good as me, just ask and i will only charge you a small fee.


(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/71_1083421898_masterpiece.jpg)

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Overlag on May 01, 2004, 05:34:39 PM

LOL furby!

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: DJ111 on May 01, 2004, 06:20:59 PM

What? No uber-mega death rays Furby?...



JOO AR3 TEH L33T DRAW3R



:aok

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Echo on May 02, 2004, 11:19:58 AM

I am a professional graphic artist. Here is a picture i did, as you can see i use advanced lighting techniques in the most advanced graphics programs to do it.

If you need advice to be as good as me, just ask and i will happily tell you for free.


(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/472_1083514464_renderf4u.jpg)

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Tarmac on May 02, 2004, 12:44:26 PM

Very nice, Echo!  Who do you work for?  Anybody we'd have heard of?

A buddy of mine just got a job with Zipper, working on SOCOM 3.

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: frank3 on May 02, 2004, 01:31:56 PM

I like fur's better...

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Weavling on May 02, 2004, 06:39:37 PM

Man, I just can't compete.  Furball, how do you do such great work!  It's amazing!  How much for the lessons?!  :D

BTW, great model of the Corsair Echo!  That's top notch!  How long did it take for you to do that?!

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Ecliptik on May 03, 2004, 01:59:49 AM

Did you go to college to learn, Echo, or were you more self-taught?

I have some interest in 3d modelling on a more casual basis.  I use Maya.

A Heckler & Koch Mk. 23 Tactical I did after about a month of fooling around with the software at the beginning of the year, using some decent reference photos.  I haven't been able to do anything since this, but now that finals at uni are over, I might delve back in.

(http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~wilson/Mk23f.jpg)


All materials, no textures:

(http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~wilson/hkmk23107.jpg)

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Echo on May 03, 2004, 09:04:27 AM

thats a heck of a great model Ecliptik. Yes i went to school to learn how to do it.  Weavling i can't tell you how long it took to get that far, as i've just been doing it on and off in my spare time. If i had to guess i would say about 5-6 hours. Actually haven't worked on for over a month now.  Tarmac i used to work for a company called Kitchen Sink Studios. go to their web site.
 
http://www.kitchensinkstudios.com

They just do mostly architectural stuff.  I live in NY now though and just have a job doing autocad, till i get a decent portfolio together. hehe so i guess i told a fib when i copied furballs post.  It seemed like he was mocking either me or weavling so thats why i posted what i did. it was a mistake to bother though. oh well....live and learn.

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: BenDover on May 03, 2004, 01:07:41 PM

Wish we could do cool watermelon like this in school over here :(

Title: Ultimate Perk Ride
Post by: Halo on May 04, 2004, 04:41:25 PM

Dazzling work, Furball, even better than Atari Tank and Biplane.