It feels great to be using blender a lot again. In fact, my University is teaching some blender classes that I’ve gotten myself enrolled in, I can’t wait.
Here is my latest, I know it’s a tad cliche, but it was based on an ooooooold sketch I finally felt needed to go to rest. Done in 2.49, unfortunately I had no time to learn new features and the slick new interface. My next works will be in 2.5, though.
Thank you for looking 
Wow I really like this one. the textures look awesome and i like the light shining through to the plant. Great job! 
Thats a beautiful image and I like the mood that you created. I’d definitely would like to see more of that world :eyebrowlift2:
Amazing textures! Did you use the compositor for that image?
@blenderman Thanks! I really appreciate it 
@doubled Thanks for the compliment. I didn’t end up using the compositer… 
I finished this late last night and threw the passes together in PS. It’s easily do-able in the compositer, but I’m a bit more proficient in PS so I was just trying to get it done quickly, if this were animated, I would be definitely using the compositer…
Yeah, this looks really perfect.
Could you just upload it in higher quality, please? The image is really spoiled by being a 100K Jpeg.
yeah, definitely need higher quality… maybe its just the quality, but it seems a bit… messy… and confusing.
but its a really great job, nice! great texturing and all that.
oh and maybe a touch of focal blur, vignette, more contrast (you’ll need to increase the brightness for that) and some colour grading and would make it even more pretty
oh and btw, how did you do all the cables on top of each other? manually making the path and making them go over and under each other? that must have taken a while
wow this is like 4 post from me in a row… whoops… should think before i type… anywho, forgot to give you 5*s
make that 5 posts… lol… can we see some wires? particularly of the leaves please
@Greg As far as changing the image… I’m not sure how much I don’t like the way it currently looks, I honestly don’t feel like changing it. ( also don’t really know what you mean by ‘colour grading’ but I can definitely google it…
Thanks for the tip on the image post! Evidently, when logged into your dA account it doesn’t give you the true link when ‘downloaded’… I had to log out first, which explains the broken link problem which forced me to try attaching the low res image… info for later I suppose 
I’d be happy to provide the wires… heck, I’ll toss up the .blend if that helps, it’ll just be later tonight.
Thanks for the great comments 
Beauty can be found in even the darkest of places
=)∍
wow, I love how there are so much details in the image.
Sweet! the blend file would be awesome!! dont forget to pack it 
and then i could see what some compositing can do
btw, are those light rays done in PS or blender? Well, what is done in ps?
it looks brilliant and unique already! if you want to learn the most important thing about colour grading please read at least this one comical blog post : http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html . not colour grading this image will retain the separation between plant life and mechanical substance.
I love this. Great colores! Indeed, a node-setup would be interesting!
Warning: O F F - T O P I C
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@ zeffi - you have a point with the orange and blue, but in your blog you fail to mention - even once - that orange and blue a complimentary colours. just like red and green (christmas?) and yellow and purple. Complimentary colours are used everywhere, not just blue and orange, to make something look more attractive - why do you think sunsets are so pretty? orange and blue. Hence we decorate in green and red at christmas time. Film makers simply choose orange and blue most of the time because blue is the colour of the sky and orange the rough colour of our skin. In this image it would be stupid to use OB colouring because the leaves are green! In fact all i would do regarding colour is increase the saturation of the green and decrease the saturation of the surroundings. maybe do a feint glow of the green bleeding into the surroundings.
You should learn more about colour before making a long ranting blog post and expect everybody to believe in your hypocrisy
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gregzaal - there is thing called edit post - so there is no need to make 4 posts in row.
Anyway cool image. Graphes could use some sss -now they look kinda metalic (SSS example - bottom
@ zeffi whoops ok then… i just dont like some bloggers… so arrogant… any way, sorry then 
