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Building A Leviathan

Moonwolf — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:49:05 +0000

When I posted Leviathan Outbound over on deviantArt, the wonderful PrincessJaden pointed out that it looked a lot like a Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR) warship.

I hadn’t thought about that, since I don’t know anything about KotOR, but thanks to a link she supplied, I could see how I managed to inadvertantly come up with one. While we exchanged notes on the post, I came up with the idea of showing the bits that went into creating “my” Leviathan, and since Bog still nags me to do more animations, I figured what better way to illustrate the Leviathan than in a short movie?

Rendered in Vue.

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Infinates

Moonwolf — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:15:43 +0000

My long-suffering yet eternally-patient 3D mentor, Mark, keeps pushing me to poke more at animations, so I did another test to get some idea of how Vue handles rendering animations and how jerky its responses to camera moves can get.

The test anim concept is really simple – an infinite terrain, with an animated god-rays atmosphere, 1% distance blur on in Final quality mode. It took a day to render on a single box, but it came out pretty well.

Don’t forget to check out Mark’s Honorverse anims.

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Alien Derelict

Moonwolf — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:46:14 +0000

Alien derelict ship fly-past (through?) test render using Vue 7

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