this image is not primarily about the two robots.
it would be too much to say that there’s a complex story hidden in the context of this image. there is however a certain feeling i was going for. it’s probably too hard for me to explain with words, so i better let it speak for itself.
this one took me quite a while since i’m now sort of busy with university, learning maya, making weird movies and traveling here and there with blender in my backpack.
the mountains were made from a plane with sculpt mode with a simple normal map material, just like the snow.
Great work there, huge amount of details and very nice mood. The usage of B&W is very welcome and gives to the image a dramatic feeling. I personaly would prefered with the head falling too, the actual postion of the head let me a non well balanced feeling, can’t explain. Great job anyway. Congrats.
awesome work as usual!
couple things: a slight bit more contrast maybe? i think itd give it a more dramatic feeling.
also, maybe a slight vignetting effect could put the focus more of the robots, right now they blend a bit with the background.
id be really interested to see the project at its different stages (without materials, with materials, lighting, raw render, post processing, etc) if youd be willing to show.
thanks for sharing
The overlays really help to tell the mood, and I wish more people would include post-pro in stills more like this, it can be very useful. You should continue to inform people of your methods in post pro, it is much craved information =)
I really do like the poses of the robots, and it does tell a story, In my opinion due to the extreme conditions you’ve shown it feels like a more dramatic version of the same pose would help let this inner story be an emphasis to the great visuals surrounding.
I personally think you could have made this image look better.
There seems to be alot of 2D looking overlayed elements; one that stands out the most is the soft, white brushed-like areas (looks a bit like a blurred cloud filter as a whole). While it might not be 2D, it looks like it’s covering up areas to take our focus away from the snow or act as a replacement for lack of rendered snow?
IMHO I think less, soft blurry patches and more densed up snow /snow storm in the background would have given more impct to what appears? to be one of the main focal points of this image?
It almost seems a shame that the wondeful looking mountain in the screenshot is blurred out so much :(.
I also wonder, did you render that image in b/w or in colour first?
I really liked this - and I kinda made a bit of a background story in my head while looking at the image.
I imagined that it was an old time-warn illustration of a fore-father robot who crossed the treacherous peaks to find a new land, from a robot history book or similar.
He led many and many perished, but he forged a new life for us robots in the plains of Robotland. This image is of course a famous artistic render of fore-father robot carrying his wife - Robotina who became crippled during the journey by a very nasty fall. She did not end up surviving the journey.
OK - so probably not what was in mind when this picture was done, but I’m glad I got a story out of it.
After all that shite I might as well say that I really like the post-pro on this.
Good gravity! You name every object? I admire your level of organization. I never name anything, much less even look at the outliner. How does it help you?
Some people might ask for a wireframe. Could we see your OOPS schematic, please?
