Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Gateworld



One of the so called gateway worlds built around a star in a Dyson sphere -manner, called the Worldgate 6. With its three moons orbiting steadily and the massive quantum fluxuation coolant extract flaring out from the knotted sun, the Worldgate functions as a hub for millions of farcasters around the galaxy, processing Planck space reactions and arranging the quantum fluxuations to preserve safe farcasting. Also a home for a population of 1.5 million post-humans.

This started as a random torus-creation while waiting for classmates to join our planning of another school project. I soon found myself adding details and slapping space around it. Then I thought that what the hell, I just might use this as the assignment for the environment modeling -course.

So it became a world. So I have become inverted death, creator of worlds.

I might change the silly torus knot into a proper sun.


This is how it should look when finished, without the particle flow from the center.


And this is how the effect probably ends up looking. Might tone down the blur a bit, though it also might look better in motion as is.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Pretty flowers for the pretty lady

Yesterday I remembered that I had a lot of unwatched episodes of Pushing Daisies as I needed something to pass the fever-time. I know I should be working on multitude of school and other projects, but this cold is demanding some serious rest. And while I can't just sleep 48+ hours straight (a damn shame), watching fun stuff while being wrapped in a warm blanket does the trick.
Though I just might get some odd chills from the "you love her but you can't touch her" -thing going on there.

Anyway, it's a fun and sweet series, try it out.

We're also having a tv-graphics -class at school and we've been learning tracking with SynthEyes and after effects in Combustion. I'm still not that sure how different Combustion is from Fusion that I've been learning out a bit, but I guess time will tell.
I'd post some footage if I had some here.

Instead, this

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Icy supernova


Tonights Zen, straight out from Photoshop.