Thanks for the comments on my w.i.p thread, plenty of good tips!
And here is my final submission of the “Civilian Monolith Encounter”!
This entry takes place in the near future where our global transportation system will have advanced quite significantly. But instead of finding the monolith on the moon in Arthur C. Clarks and Stanley Kubrick’s “2001 Space Odyssey”, this piece shows that we actually will have came across the monolith on earth.
Fantastic job, great idea and execution but I can’t help feeling that if you put it through an external unbiased renderer like indigo you would have achieved an even greater result.
Only crit is that it seems a bit too grainy to me, even so it’s my favourite of the competition so far, great job and good luck.
The details are so subtle and very very effective. Plus the very calm lighting and proper set-up and a fantastic camera angle. All in all a great piece. ^^ Congratulations. ^^
I agree with everything said here. Stunning piece of work. On a minor thing, the little we can see of the truck drivers face looks like, well, less on the par with the rest of the scene, but that’s just minor thing, as the face really isn’t a center point here.
This is really a beautiful image. I agree with the crit about the truck driver’s face.
The road in the center of the image, furthest in the background, that runs almost vertical in the image… that roadway is messing with my head for some reason, and I can’t stop staring at it. I dunno why. It just hard to not look at it, you know?
Your version of the monolith is awesome. I haven’t seen 2001 in ages, but I can’t recall seeing it depicted that way, and it looks so awesome like that. Like a door in space.