Braaaains!

The Dark Elf · Mar 31, 2005

Well just the one actually.. I was just screwing around with a standin scene for a brain I'm making for someone.

short recoil · Mar 31, 2005

:shocked: damn that looks good, nice and juicy!

Danimal · Mar 31, 2005

Looks like something out of Unreal 3 :O

Sui · Mar 31, 2005

Looks like something out of unreal 4 :O That render's amazing, you can even see the individual viens! How long did it take you?

CREMATOR666 · Mar 31, 2005

Yummeh! Brains!

Razor · Mar 31, 2005

From the size of the brain, i see you didn't model it after anyone in here

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The Dark Elf · Mar 31, 2005

Suicide42 said:
Looks like something out of unreal 4 :O That render's amazing, you can even see the individual viens! How long did it take you?

Thanks!

Took quite a while. I'd originally planned to use a stock brain model for simplicity, but that didn't turn out too good (stock models suck), so ended up redoing it anyway but it helped for getting the shape right. Texturing took quite a while too, mostly cause I was forever fiddling with it and never happy. Then threw a basic scene together to put it in and rendered it off with FPrime at HD resolution, which took a few minutes (far quicker than regular Lightwave renders)

It's actual purpose if for a test animation of it pulsating and being generally icky (only requires the brain model). So that comes next once I've been to the dentists. Add some squelchy sounds and it should be pretty neat lol.

CREMATOR666 · Mar 31, 2005

The Dark Elf said:
Thanks!

Took quite a while. I'd originally planned to use a stock brain model for simplicity, but that didn't turn out too good (stock models suck), so ended up redoing it anyway but it helped for getting the shape right. Texturing took quite a while too, mostly cause I was forever fiddling with it and never happy. Then threw a basic scene together to put it in and rendered it off with FPrime at HD resolution, which took a few minutes (far quicker than regular Lightwave renders)

It's actual purpose if for a test animation of it pulsating and being generally icky (only requires the brain model). So that comes next once I've been to the dentists. Add some squelchy sounds and it should be pretty neat lol.

I once dl a stock brain model from 3dcafe...it crashed my 3dsmax the second I opened it :|

Bad^Hat · Mar 31, 2005

**** yeah!

G-Dub · Mar 31, 2005

WOW, that looks awesome TDE! :thumbs:

JellyWorld · Mar 31, 2005

awesome

Ennui · Mar 31, 2005

TDE that's amazing. As always; I've never actually seen work by you that isn't anything short of awesome.

Am I the only one who thought it was a picture (of a sculpture, or something) for a second?

G-Dub · Mar 31, 2005

Ennui said:
TDE that's amazing. As always; I've never actually seen work by you that isn't anything short of awesome.

Am I the only one who thought it was a picture (of a sculpture, or something) for a second?

LOL. yeah i did actually, thought it was just me! :O

Garfield_ · Mar 31, 2005

Damn it looks good. I once saw a real human brain. But cant remember lots. Could you make an rotate animation video of it ?

Ennui · Mar 31, 2005

better, can you make it pulse, then make me an avatar with it?

Garfield_ · Mar 31, 2005

Haha yeah. Give us a brain lesson mate

we wanna see it from inside :>

LittleB · Mar 31, 2005

Wait a minute- You can draw AND make CG?! AHRGhrgfghdgrhrg

/jealousy

Ennui · Mar 31, 2005

I'm telling you, he's god.

Garfield_ · Mar 31, 2005

dark elf is the father here ;D

LittleB · Mar 31, 2005

/me not worthy

ship · Mar 31, 2005

You've got to be shitting me...
I am so envious. So envious. ;(

The Dark Elf · Mar 31, 2005

http://www.phantomworks.co.uk/tde/art/brainpulse.mpg

teh pulsating, kept it more subtle and icky like it could probably crawl around in a struggling kind of way with its regular heartbeat kind of pulse going on at the same time. So if you saw it trying to crawl across the floor to you you'd probably go eiwww thats just wrong! (well more than someone would when they see a brain crawling along the floor) hehe

Garfield_ · Mar 31, 2005

Awsome. Perfect quility too

thanks
you wouldnt want to share the model ?

Maxi · Mar 31, 2005

Aren't real brains sorta pink-red colored?

Garfield_ · Mar 31, 2005

maybe this brain is out of date ?

Shippi · Mar 31, 2005

The Dark Elf said:
http://www.phantomworks.co.uk/tde/art/brainpulse.mpg

teh pulsating, kept it more subtle and icky like it could probably crawl around in a struggling kind of way with its regular heartbeat kind of pulse going on at the same time. So if you saw it trying to crawl across the floor to you you'd probably go eiwww thats just wrong! (well more than someone would when they see a brain crawling along the floor) hehe

Eeeew!

haha that's great

Vegeta897 · Mar 31, 2005

Jaw dropping, Fenric.

The pulsating could be done better. It just looks like you are zooming in and out. When one part expands, the other should shrink.

MuToiD_MaN · Mar 31, 2005

When I played that clip I blacked out. Came to a few seconds later and there was drool and teeth marks on my monitor. Guess there's some zombie in me. Prolly got it from my dad's side.

Garfield_ · Mar 31, 2005

what kind of zombie you think you are ?

(Fragger) · Mar 31, 2005

:E

LittleB · Mar 31, 2005

Hey Mr.Elf, which modeling/rendering proggy do you use?

The Dark Elf · Mar 31, 2005

vegeta897 said:
Jaw dropping, Fenric.

The pulsating could be done better. It just looks like you are zooming in and out. When one part expands, the other should shrink.

only has that effect cause the background is relatively blank (more noticable fullscreen btw)

littleB - lightwave for that one

Datrix · Mar 31, 2005

Hey TDE, have you ever used Bryce?
The brain is great BTW.

bliink · Mar 31, 2005

Kick. Ass.

The Dark Elf · Mar 31, 2005

Datrix said:
Hey TDE, have you ever used Bryce?
The brain is great BTW.

Thanks

Yeah I sometimes use Bryce, not really an app I like though, its too simplified and there's a lot you can't do right with it. Has some neat features though that I liked in it.

bliink said:
Kick. Ass.

LittleB · Mar 31, 2005

The Dark Elf said:
littleB - lightwave for that one

How can you afford Lightwave? I want to be able to afford Lightwave :|

The Dark Elf · Apr 1, 2005

LittleB said:
How can you afford Lightwave? I want to be able to afford Lightwave :|

Meh its not that expensive (Though I stopped after 7.5, don't like v8) I've been using it since the early days back on the Amiga and if you know where to look you can get plenty of good deals.. Or review software and get freebies, or get to know the guys running a company and have other people buy their software.

It's the plugins Lightwave needs that shoots the total cost up. But most people, including me just build up plugins over years and years, otherwise it would be impossible to pay for them all at once. And with LW you really do need them. The above was rendered in Steve Worley's FPrime, which is like the single most coolest plugin ever. Renders most stuff in minutes where LW's own renderer, or even other apps would take a couple of hours. It's a godsend. Only problem is you can't use certain features with it, and it generates huge files while its rendering (because of the way it works with refining images) which can fill up most drives quickly.

Besides Softimage was many times more expensive when I bought that, got it slightly cheaper cause I bought mine at the same time the company back then bought a load of them but was still expensive. Then Maya, I got stung with that cause the price dropped a lot a few months later lol shit

Datrix · Apr 1, 2005

The Dark Elf said:
Meh its not that expensive (Though I stopped after 7.5, don't like v8) I've been using it since the early days back on the Amiga and if you know where to look you can get plenty of good deals.. Or review software and get freebies, or get to know the guys running a company and have other people buy their software.

It's the plugins Lightwave needs that shoots the total cost up. But most people, including me just build up plugins over years and years, otherwise it would be impossible to pay for them all at once. And with LW you really do need them. The above was rendered in Steve Worley's FPrime, which is like the single most coolest plugin ever. Renders most stuff in minutes where LW's own renderer, or even other apps would take a couple of hours. It's a godsend. Only problem is you can't use certain features with it, and it generates huge files while its rendering (because of the way it works with refining images) which can fill up most drives quickly.

Besides Softimage was many times more expensive when I bought that, got it slightly cheaper cause I bought mine at the same time the company back then bought a load of them but was still expensive. Then Maya, I got stung with that cause the price dropped a lot a few months later lol shit

TDE, I with that I was even 1% as good as you

. Right now though all I use is Bryce 5, Flash 5 and a tiny bit of 3DSM

Do you know If its even possible to model in Bryce? I mainly import my models and just use Bryce to animate.

The Dark Elf · Apr 1, 2005

Datrix said:
TDE, I with that I was even 1% as good as you . Right now though all I use is Bryce 5, Flash 5 and a tiny bit of 3DSM Do you know If its even possible to model in Bryce? I mainly import my models and just use Bryce to animate.

Yep you can model in Bryce. Don't get me wrong its a very good program and it does a really good job of what its supposed to do. You can do a LOT in it, it just isn't as straight forward. This guy from way back called Kano used to do very biomechanical images in it that looked beautiful. Some are still floating about on the net if you can find them. The whole modeling method (for the advanced kind) is done differently than other 3D apps though, for good results. Apart from ZBrush with uses the same painting method of modeling.

Lightwave is a good place to start learning on, you can download the demo of it www.newtek.com its just the full version only cut down if it can't find the licence and dongle. No time limit though and works fine, good to practice with. I'd recommend it over Max.

Datrix · Apr 1, 2005

The Dark Elf said:
Yep you can model in Bryce. Don't get me wrong its a very good program and it does a really good job of what its supposed to do. You can do a LOT in it, it just isn't as straight forward. This guy from way back called Kano used to do very biomechanical images in it that looked beautiful. Some are still floating about on the net if you can find them. The whole modeling method (for the advanced kind) is done differently than other 3D apps though, for good results. Apart from ZBrush with uses the same painting method of modeling.

Lightwave is a good place to start learning on, you can download the demo of it www.newtek.com its just the full version only cut down if it can't find the licence and dongle. No time limit though and works fine, good to practice with. I'd recommend it over Max.

Ok, thanks.

I'll give Lightwave a try. :thumbs:

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