After winning their second war against the Narn, a lone starfighter returns through a wormhole to Centauri Prime.
(Actually I didn't really like Babylon 5, but thought the ship would lend itself to a good image) All the individual parts were rendered and then composited in Photoshop with some overpainting. I wanted to create more of a Matte painting effect rather than a straight forward render.
Software used:

Vue R10 Xstream
Photoshop CS5
3DS Max 2012.
all 64bit. (116 days ago)

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Centauri, Prime

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Titan85 says:

Very nice concept and a great composition. Its hard to talk about realism in a contest like this but i think your loosing it with the blue background. I relate a blue sky to earth or an atmosphere of some sort. Space is black, and even when a nebula or galaxy is in a photo their light does not effect the rest of the photo or image. In my opinion you should tone down or rethink the blue. By the way your renders in the step by step look amazing, they remind me of the desert scenes in Star Wars. Reply »

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mircea says:

cool and dinamic. Very well done! Reply »

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acharyaD says:

Awesome work. Reply »

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Nator says:

Very nice idea! Reply »

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pearlie says:

Cool scene, love the ship. Reply »

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lchappell says:

Congrats r1k3r! Reply »

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pearlie says:

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sande1001 says:

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Used as an environment map, The NASA photo Credit: Astronaut photograph ISS029-E-31270 was acquired on October 18, 2011, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using a 110 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 29 crew.

Lots of inspiration for this project taken from here: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html (110 days ago)

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Docking, Maneuvers

Drivenslush says:

the docking station is exceptional... reminds me of how great it is to replace a lightbulb.. hehehe.. giggle snort GOOD LUCK Reply »

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erathion says:

Beautiful work author...very nice details...best of luck Reply »

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pearlie says:

Wow, looks pert near real, author, details down to the rivets. Very nice work indeed! Reply »

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pearlie says:

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The great mining ship qo'ravus sat in the water as the overseer looked on. H2o was the most valuable commodity in the galaxy, fusion drives were redundant without the hydrogen extracted from it. (112 days ago)

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The, Overseer

erathion says:

Great work author...love the details, mood and the perspective...best of luck Reply »

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pearlie says:

Great mood here, author, even with the 'premades', love the 'greeble' texture, that adds a lot to the feel of this. Good chop! Reply »

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pearlie says:

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lchappell says:

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Check the High-Res it really is much more impressive.

Thanks for viewing and voting!
As always comments are appreciated. (114 days ago)

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Packaviva

Drivenslush says:

MINES! hehehe.. so galaxy quest LOL.. good luck Reply »

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pearlie says:

Cool ship, love the work on the engines, and the purple! Reply »

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I used an old project of mine for this entry. The ship was done by extruding a cube multiple times. Unfortunately this project was not intended for PXL eyes and so, i don't have a SBS for the creation of the ship. You can see a short animation by clicking the seccond source (116 days ago)

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Space, Invaders

Tess Pressey says:

Love the colors! Reply »

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Nator says:

Wow! That looks very cool. Nice effect with the glow! Reply »

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