Playing with Lightwave - Again

[TwoBrainedCylon]

Nothing fancy. I loaded up Lightwave again after a long break. Amazing how unfamiliar things become after a couple of years. This one is rendered out to resemble Peter's preference of not looking CG.

http://www.lostpirate.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Basestars-70mm-Example-01-halfblur.jpg

[maudib]

Beautiful. Composite scene rendered fully in LW? or rendered in LW then composited with the background image in an image editor?

[Senmut]

"Red Alert! Red Alert! Cylon Task Force now passing Mars! Repeat, Cylon Task Force now pass...."

[TwoBrainedCylon]

Maudib,

Three renders of the basestar model with alpha masks in Lightwave. Hand drawn starfield in PhotoShop using three different scatter brushes. I painted the planet in PhotoShop as well and then composited it all in PhotoShop. The original was rendered at 70mm. This pic is scaled down with a post-production blur to resemble what you would see on television.

[Titon]

Looks good my friend!

[martok2112]

Russel,
Good to hear from you again...and those basestars look GREAT! :)

[gmd3d]

Looks great :)..