Nyrath
May 9, 2007, 2:22pm
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The pictures:
The comments:
A “3-D Illustration Whiz” writes: Exceptionally good CGI work – remarkably well done, but just not quite perfect enough. The last two pics kind of give it away. Note the blur factor on the blooming trees in the foreground and the starkness and sharpness of the “craft” in the last pic. It’s a nifty craft design, for sure.
danny:
I think it’s just someone’s Photoshop experiment. It’s a pretty good one, considering the blending with the various sky and trees… but some of the shadows on the craft don’t seem to jive with the shadows on the trees.
In the first photo (the cell phone)… it looks like it was just something that was added in. In the third photo… why is the underside so brightly lit? Shouldn’t it be in shadow? The lighting on the trees seem to indicate that the sun is above and to the left. And in the 5th photo… the object seems to be in way too sharp of focus. I think it’s fake. But if it is real, then I blame our high gas prices on it.
I’m a graphic artist , and have been a working as a commercial artist for over 15 years now. Now I could be wrong, however I am reasonably certain that the photos of the craft on your site have been doctored. I love the images, and wished they were real, but what I notice right off, is:
The lettering on the craft is extremely similar to a number of fonts I’ve archived here at work
Pixel doubling, in multiple places around the perimeter of the craft, in particular the underside shot.
Inconsistent blurring algorithm around other spots on the craft.
Also the model (and I believe it’s a 3D render) really looks like it was rendered with Global Illumination which is a really cool effect, and really makes the detail of the model pop and read well, but is not a real-world lighting model.
Jonathan:
I saw the photos of the craft on the website. I am a graphic designer and 3D designer, and I can see from the photos that the craft was obviously made in Maya3D, and is fake. It closely resembles the clay renders found on deviantart.com . This page
How’s he so sure it was done with Maya? There are a lot of other 3d programs it could have been done with.
Nyrath
May 9, 2007, 5:26pm
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Probably because he does not know as much about other 3D packages as he thinks he does.
Alltaken
May 9, 2007, 6:26pm
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It was done with Maya’s UFO plugin v1.7.
Everyone should know that, i can’t believe that Nyrath didn’t know that.
LOL I love this quote:
It is almost totally silent but not quite.
Totally silent but not quite?? Hmm…
Yeah, it was made in Maya,. . .by AN ALIEN!!!
OMG, I’m being probed, help me blenderartists, . . oh wait, I just sat on the cat. Carry on…
so, nyrath, r u Chad? If you use our WIP forum next time, we can spot those lighting errors and make it last a little longer next time.
@Alltaken : Maya’s got a UFO plugin! Sweeet. How much?
Alltaken
May 10, 2007, 1:06am
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Na its open source. Made by an Ex-Blenderhead who upgraded to maya.
macouno
May 10, 2007, 3:15am
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Downgraded you mean…
BTW: I’m sure we’ve got some people here that can do better than those images, they’re not exceptional at all.
Cessen
May 10, 2007, 4:57am
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Also the model (and I believe it’s a 3D render) really looks like it was rendered with Global Illumination which is a really cool effect, and really makes the detail of the model pop and read well, but is not a real-world lighting model.
(Sorry for being a terminology nazi. :-P)
macouno
May 10, 2007, 5:29am
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Cessen, well if you want to go about it that way… hehe… I think he means “hdr lightmaps” (as a real world lighting model). GI is just a general term, and AO can be part of GI, not “another sort of GI”. GI isn’t about accurate really, it just means you’re lighting everything globally…
JoOngle
May 11, 2007, 3:16am
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The Ambient Occlusion-Noise looks awfully close to Blenders own results with AO
Pretty nifty ufo design though. The things that made it fake to me was:
The materials used on the “wing” and the light quality on it was way different then
The Ambient Occlusion “dirt/shadows” where too unrealistic when compared to
If they’ve made it here so far away…they’re probably already here and WAY too smart
Bring on the FOIL hats!
