Comments on: Latest blender project

By: RL

RL — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:44:03 +0000

All the lighting in that still frame is a single sun-lamp and the earth… and the sunlamp is responsible for essentially all the illumination of the model…

By: RL

RL — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 01:51:45 +0000

It is a little dark, but probably more realistic… (edit- actually when I compare more carefully there isnt a huge difference – odd, I really turned down the omni-directional lighting)

I modeled it after this:

The ‘earth’ is actually an area light – a 4k video clip used as a light source

By: mcfly

mcfly — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:12:51 +0000

Is the spacecraft an original design?

I like the brilliant spot of light at the point where the beam exits.

I know you want to show the model–you invested time in building it, after all–but I bet you could crank up the drama in the shot with starker lighting…a nice bright spot for the sun, and a low-intensity area light* for the light reflecting back up from the earth. Just a thought.

Nicely done, though!

*Not sure if they’re called area lights in Blender. I think that’s what they were called in trueSpace (showing my age).