Star Wars Vehicles: Air/Space

And here's one I did a few years ago, that somehow made it into the Washington Post -- no seriously. I actually ended up exchanging some messages on FB with a few of the airmen at MacDill AFB that flies these tankers. They told me that they made a plaque of this pic for one of their buddies who was retiring who was also a huge Star Wars nerd. The whole crew signed it for him. That made my day.

Despite having just recently shared a pic of this same ship, I've been tweaking the shaders and adding texture data from the other UV channels to dirty it up a little. Again rendered at 8K.

Some great renders, especialy Badhorse... How do you Render that Deathstar trench it kills my 3d max?

or lots of time. i could cycles that trench on my craptop too. bit of post processing.

btw BadHorse you should render that trench again without specularity. i don't know what exactly they reflect, but those fireflies look nasty.

yes. those are illuminated windows and some of the sun lamp reflection. it's a 'specular' result tho. hence why dim the specular to not include those.

or you mean to, remove the light mesh emission? sure. that might work too. i know in blender it's very hard to get mesh lights to shine soft, without bumping their ray count.

Rogue Squadron on the hunt.

That post got a lot of traction on Reddit, not all of it friendly, but that's the internet for ya. Honestly though if I'd have known it was going to be seen by so many, I would have spent more time on the original post. I chose my words poorly and I can see where it could have been interpreted that I felt I deserved payment, which couldn't be further from the truth. I don't own the properties depicted, and protection under “Fair Use” dries up pretty quickly when you try and charge for the work. I've already got a day job and I'm perfectly happy continuing to render as a hobby. I don't expect or deserve compensation, but the sellers of the wall art deserve it far less. 

Sadly, there are many talented and hard-working artists out there who do deserve to get paid for their work who are definitely getting robbed by these shady operations. I was really more just trying to raise awareness amongst the potential customer base for such wall art in the hopes that in the future they'll be more likely to do a Google reverse image search to identify the real artist before hitting the 'buy' button.

One can hope. In the meantime, I'm going to just keep honing my rendering skills and trying to come up with cool wallpaper ideas.

X-wing, Jolly Roger squadron:

Thanks, and yes they are.

Some fun dramatic lighting

Thank you! Ill check KeyShot9 out, will be very useful in the future, will post any questions a Google search cant get me to