I made this scene back in July just for fun. It’s Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot on the Satellite o’ Love, from Comedy Central’s 1990’s flagship program, Mystery Science Theater 3000.
I modeled and textured everything from scratch except for Tom Servo’s hands, which are aBlendswap made by Glorund. I used lots of reference photos from the show to match the lighting, textures and set design. It’s not a perfect 1:1, but it was still lots of fun to make.
After opening the .blend file, I guess 3000 samples wasn’t enough, so it looks like I rendered it at 6000 samples. Probably took a few days to render in Cycles, even on the GPU.
Fun fact: just before my first render attempt at this scene finished, my liquid cooling system sprung a leak and cooked my motherboard, power supply and GPU! Good times. The parts have since been replaced and it’s nothing but air-cooling from here on out.
This is really good. I’d only suggest not having Crow look directly at the camera, and perhaps give a little shine to his eyes. It’s kinda uncanny at the moment. You could also go the other direction to make Tom face the camera as well, and make the picture positively horrifying. It’s all up to you, friend!
Thanks for the feedback, SolarLune. I see what you mean about the pose, I was a little concerned that giving them both sideways glances might make for an uneasy back-and-forth composition. I probably should have given Crow something to hold, like a terrible VHS movie or something, but I never really finished his forearms.
I’ve moved on to other projects since I made this in July, but it’s great to get community input now that I’m a member here. Much appreciated!
