[msantana]

Hello everyone!

This is my first post in the WIP section! This is a piece I have been working on for quite a while and I am happy with the results I am achieving in Maxwell.

During the 80s there was this Japanese animation series called Macross. I liked their robot and ship designs so I decided to try to model one in Maya and render it on Maxwell. For those of you who don't know the series I am enclosing a design reference:








Anyhow, my attempt at modeling it in Maya and rendering it in Maxwell is so far is this:










Please critic!

Thanks for looking!

M.

[NicoR44]

Ultra cool Mauricio!!

[4 HeRo]

UBER Cool dude

[jespi]

Mega cool!

[yanada]

super duper cool

[Fernando Tella]

Cooly cool!

Awesome job!

A small critic: maybe the size of the light source is too big in relation with the size of the ship making it look small?

[Mattia Sullini]

Gasp! I hoped for half a minute you were trying to joke us by showing a model photo...but then i saw somewhere a little noise on a surface and realized then you didn't!
Great for effort, for technique...and for the subject!
I loved that serie as well, and the soundtrack still almost make me cry...

[-Adrian]

Maximum Extreme!

The objects looks interesting, unusual scene for Maxwell.

[Bubbaloo]

Wow, pleasantly surprised by this one!

[KurtS]

excellent modeling and texturing!

No crit, but I think it would be interesting to see this scene with an "outer space" kind of lighting setup. (High contrast, directional light ...)

[simmsimaging]

If that is supposed to look like a model version then it is bang on, but if not then the scale is not reading well yet. Modeling and texturing is phenomenal so far though.

b

[devista]

nice and diferent shot. Congrats
saludos
luis

[tom]

Great design! Materials and lighting could be more realistic, though...

[Mr Whippy]

Hehe, that is pretty damn cool!

Nice work on the modelling, you've captured the feel of the original wonderfully.

Dave

[msantana]

Thanks everyone for the kind words!

Sorry I didn't reply back immediately, but these past several months I have been improving this model and also playing with the lighting.

I agree, the scale is not reading correctly, I attribute this to two reasons: the lighting and the textures. I have tried to attack both on the examples below.

I tried Mike Verta's little trick for space lighting as outlined here:

http://maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopi ... highlight=

However I found out that the rendering time is terribly long. On a 3GHz 8-core machine the image looked like this after 48 hours:





Oh well, maybe with the Next version of Maxwell I can get something more workable.

However, going in another direction I managed to have this image, which hasn't been retouched from Maxwell in any way (after 2 hours or so of rendering on the same machine):






Thanks for looking!

Maxwell is a lot of fun!