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Serenity: Entry (version 2)
Thursday, November 24, 2005

Not much different from the last one.... Just a few little changes I thought looked better. Adjusted the contrast, added some more glow, and I decided it'd look good with "Serenity" at the bottom. Thanks as always to Sean Kennedy for the outstanding model. Enjoy!


CATEGORY: GRAPHICS    TIMES READ: 2422    RATING: 10    SERIES: FIREFLY

COMMENTS

Thursday, November 24, 2005 6:43 AM

ORCBLASTER


Again, amazing image! I especially like the lighting in this; it really feels like he's hitting atmo! well done!

Thursday, November 24, 2005 6:44 AM

ORCBLASTER


I'm sorry, Serenity is of course a she, not a he :-) (Damn, I do that all the time!) :-)

Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:13 AM

CASIVONA


Thanks Orcblaster!

Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:13 AM

BELLONA


wow, our girl sure is purty...

b

Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:32 PM

STONEY3K


Sean has made an amazing model of our wonderful little lady. I have it on my HDD and I'm trying to do animations with it but the thing is SO gorram polygon heavy... If I try to render one frame it already takes me 30 seconds if I want to do a decent one! I'm gonna need a big renderfarm!

Anyways, nice static pic. How much of it was rendered in LW and how much was Photoshopped? If you can pull the atmo glow off in LW I'd be really glad to hear how you did it.

And a minor little detail: Adjust the landing lights a bit. They now look like someone slapped a few blobs of red and green on with a paint brush. Make a few point sources and add a little bit of lens flare (with star) to make them look like actual lights. :)


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