agep Posted August 7, 2006 Author Posted August 7, 2006 Thank you for your comments That turned out nice. I think it needs some dirt and the guns need to be less uniform in position. Then you got a damn fine desktop wallpaper. How's the water done? I have not yet rigged it so when I do, Ill get those guns in different positions. The water is actually the ocean material on the A:M cd, I believe Sutton made it? That's awesome! I do have one problem with the renders though: there are no dark hard shadows anywhere on that ship, which make this images look very unrealistic. It looks like you used an IBL exr map, which is good for simple normalized colors, but very bright values in the exr image will create major visible irregularities and take a render downhill. That's one amazing ship, Agep. Wish I could test her out This render was supposed to use IBL, but I got some artifacts (have had it before, when I try to render the image I get a very blue tint all over, usually I've fixed that by simply restart A:M, but in this case it did not work. So this is an AO with Global Color Stian, Excellent renderings. The ship does look too perfect but I am sure you will address that. What was the render time for each of those views? Can you do a view with one of the guns raised and off to the side (long perspective view)? I'd like to try something. David Hopefully I'll make some dirtmaps, but at the moment I don't have the time. Unfortunately I've forgotten the rendertimes I could try to do a quick pose for the guns (since its not yet rigged) and do a render, but I dont understand what kind of view you want it in... Thanks again Best regards Stian Quote
oakchas Posted August 7, 2006 Posted August 7, 2006 Stian, I've already said all that I can say. This is positively awesome. The head on view (front) has no DOF or perspective that I can see. It is so (much) head on that it looks like a round boat with no pointy parts (no bow). On the other hand.. the modeling is so perfect, I don't give a rip. It's just scary good. Sigh. Less time commenting on stians work, more work on the batmobile. Quote
3DArtZ Posted August 7, 2006 Posted August 7, 2006 Stian, wonderful, just absolutely fantastic work! I'm interested in knowing how the response time in the modeller was. Did you get to a certain patch count where you found that the software really slowed down, even when making the smallest of changes? Thanks Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com Quote
patrick_j_clarke Posted August 7, 2006 Posted August 7, 2006 Wow. (that's all I got) How many hours would you say you've put into this? - pjc Quote
Mr. Jaqe Posted August 7, 2006 Posted August 7, 2006 I've been lurking about this thread for about a week now and I don't really have anything to say that hasn't been said, your work simply can't be described properly by my vocabulary. It's quite simply... indescribably beautiful. Maybe you should model Blucher next and make a flick about what happend to that one? Quote
Scottj3d Posted August 7, 2006 Posted August 7, 2006 I'm with everybody else here. "Wow" Incredibly detailed! Quote
agep Posted June 10, 2010 Author Posted June 10, 2010 Hi guys! I know this thread is really really old. But I've just rendered out a HD turntable of KM Bismarck to have on my youtube channel. Quote
KenH Posted June 10, 2010 Posted June 10, 2010 Great job. I notice some circular "light banding" in the background. Or is it just my screen? Quote
Paul Forwood Posted June 10, 2010 Posted June 10, 2010 That is just incredible, Stian! I know that you are a stickler for modelled detail so could you possibly show a closeup of just one of the life boats? How about adding a circular plinth with waves crashing against the bow of the ship? Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 10, 2010 Hash Fellow Posted June 10, 2010 Wonderful work! I'm glad you showed us. Quote
agep Posted June 10, 2010 Author Posted June 10, 2010 Thanks guys! I know that you are a stickler for modelled detail so could you possibly show a closeup of just one of the life boats? I only have this render at the moment. Its a close up of the midsection of Tirpitz. Tirpitz is just slightly different than Bismarck Quote
Paul Forwood Posted June 10, 2010 Posted June 10, 2010 Well, yeah! That's what I'm talking about! Just so people realise what is on the deck of that enormous model. You get another "Amazing!" from me. -------------- Edit: I should have looked back at the last page of posts. I didn't realise that you had already posted renders with an environment. Quote
HomeSlice Posted June 10, 2010 Posted June 10, 2010 If you put a little more detail into that, it will look like a real ship! ... just kidding. You are a sick man Stian, just ... sick. Quote
apprentice Posted June 11, 2010 Posted June 11, 2010 Whoa! Wow! I'm speechless. I have no speech. Quote
MattWBradbury Posted June 13, 2010 Posted June 13, 2010 Holy Cow that's a lot of detail! That model looks like it's pushing over 100k patches. What are you modeling that with? My computer gets sluggish around 10k patches. Quote
agep Posted June 13, 2010 Author Posted June 13, 2010 Holy Cow that's a lot of detail! That model looks like it's pushing over 100k patches. What are you modeling that with? My computer gets sluggish around 10k patches.The magic word is "Action Object". I used the Hull as a "Base Model". Then drag and drop the other parts onto the Action. You simply assemble many small models to become one big model. The cannons are one model, the lifeboats are one model and so on I am using the same technique on the Nidaros Cathedral model, which at the moment consists of 54 separate models with a total of 734,742 patches Quote
itsjustme Posted June 13, 2010 Posted June 13, 2010 Holy Cow that's a lot of detail! That model looks like it's pushing over 100k patches. What are you modeling that with? My computer gets sluggish around 10k patches.The magic word is "Action Object". I used the Hull as a "Base Model". Then drag and drop the other parts onto the Action. You simply assemble many small models to become one big model. The cannons are one model, the lifeboats are one model and so on I am using the same technique on the Nidaros Cathedral model, which at the moment consists of 54 separate models with a total of 734,742 patches You are a very scary man, Stian! Incredible work, as usual. Quote
Kamikaze Posted February 17, 2013 Posted February 17, 2013 I enjoy going back and searching out old projects, and this one was one of my all time favorites..........!! Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted February 17, 2013 Hash Fellow Posted February 17, 2013 Hey, Stian, is it OK if I use one of your AO renders for a tut on A:M rendering? "Yes," you say? Great! Thanks! Quote
agep Posted February 17, 2013 Author Posted February 17, 2013 Thanks guys. It is actually not so long ago since last time I worked on this project. Last year I think. I had to brush up the model to be used as book illustrations again Hey, Stian, is it OK if I use one of your AO renders for a tut on A:M rendering? "Yes," you say? Great! Thanks! Haha, Of course Robert Quote
Vertexspline Posted February 17, 2013 Posted February 17, 2013 Stian--After looking through this whole thread and all the modeling----I was just truly amazed. You have gifts and skills Sir beyond the excellent. On a level truly magnificent. Quote
nino banano Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 Hi Agep...very well done , you have a lot of work here, I like so much the details ...congrats Quote
ChuckGram Posted March 21, 2013 Posted March 21, 2013 I only now found this topic. Wish I had back when you posted it. I was friends with the only Bismarck survivor living in the U.S. He would have liked your model! Quote
pixelplucker Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Amazing model, are there people in the planes or are my eyes playing tricks on me from all the details? Great stuff Quote
Gerry Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Hiey Stian, that model is so fantastic I don't think the turnrtable does it justice. A nice flyby with some closeups of detail work would be nice. GEnuinely awesome model. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 3, 2013 Hash Fellow Posted September 3, 2013 I watched a movie today that reminded me of this, "The Battle of River Plate", about the Graf Spee, which is not quite the same as the Bismarck. It's one of those weird 50's war movies where, in between shooting at each other, everyone is saying how much respect they have for each other. But it had a few scenes with those small, boat-launched seaplanes like in Stian's model here. Most of the film used real ships but the planes were rather unconvincing miniatures, they should have had Stian and A:M! Quote
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