[Brett Morgan]

Awesome Becco, love the old war planes, i think mosquitos and spitfires would have to be my fave

More updates Please


Brett

[Becco_UK]

Brett Morgan: Thank you.

This update is just a rough composition of the second image in the 'Rainmaker' series. Yesterday, as the sun was going down I took a few photos to test, one of which is used in this update. Those electricity pylons will not be in the final render but they will prove useful to get the scale of the sky correct as things progress.

The control tower is the one I made last year.

A similar sky hdr image will also eventually be used to match up reflections and refraction.

[Bubbaloo]

Awesome model!

[Becco_UK]

Bubbaloo: Thank you.



Although the general composition of the 'Rainmakers' next image isn't going to change too much the scene requires more items.

With not enough time time to make additional aircraft I downloaded this free Spitfire from http://www.colacola.se - by Anders Lejczak, (also, a nice site for ww2 3d aircraft images)

The model is for Poser but the included geometry is in .obj format so easily converts for use in other 3D software programs. The only mod's I've made are to change the serial numbers and make some new materials.

[tanguy]

hi, really nice work dude, i think your texture work, isn't enough for your job, and generally i think that unbiased renderer user forget to work well on the texture and shaders... No bumb on your model, i think you are near the perfect work with a little more work around texture and shaders effects.

chears

[Becco_UK]

tanguy: Thank you. I hope to imrove the texture maps of the 'Rainmaker' before the conclusion of this image.

Just a coply of simple scene props':



The airfield windsock



A repainted low poly' figure from Poser 4

[Becco_UK]

Initially the grass and runway where seperate objects. Now they are combined into a single object and a little reshaping done. The composited sky has been tidied up.

[rusteberg]

Holly S!@# Becco.. that's looking pretty darn good!

[Becco_UK]

rusteberg: Thank you.

A quick update with some adjustments to the 'Rainmakers' texture maps and materials. The scene now has a suitable hdr image for reflections, providing a more natural appearance than Maxwells physical sky.

[Rickyx]

Maybe is my screen... but I see the subject of the render really dark, while I can see a perfect sky,
just like you set-up for a landscape photo and an airplane passed through...

[Becco_UK]

Rickyx: I'm sure your screen is fine. I feel the darkness of the aircraft is suitable for its height above the ground and low light conditions as the sun is fairly low on the horizon.

Everything is on seperate layers in my paint software so I can adjust lighting once I have the terrain finished and rendered.

[Becco_UK]

'Rainmaker' revival! At least for a short while anyway. I decided to leave out the second planned 'take-off' render from an intended sequence. I've been meaning to depict my Rainmaker model actually making rain, metal rain.

In this reduced size render, my 'Rainmaker' model is seen in the thick of some fictional action.