Originally by: murder one

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Someone's been playing with the explode modifier in max again...

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Originally by: Fabulous Shinigamy

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The explode modifier cant do much on its own tho'
To OP: Good job! I might have somethin to request. Ill send an evemail.

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Originally by: Gnulpie

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Very nice!!

The background is a bit bright for my taste though. I think it if would be toned down a bit the explosion would be even more dramatically

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Originally by: Nikita Alterana

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show us the pink thanatos!

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Originally by: Straight Chillen

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Verry nicely done, I take it you did this in MAX juding by the xplo?

I personally think the explosion could use a little lovin tho, I've never been a fan of the explosion plugins. I think it would look even sicker if u took the model (looks like a phoon?) and butchered it up into a few different objects, and then made it look like its breaking apart, and use volumetrics for the explosion and flames.

Donno how easy that is to do in MAX tho, i've always been a Lightwave3d man my self.

Great stuff, looking foward to seeing more.

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Originally by: Roc Wieler

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I enhance my RP experience by filling my bathtub with red jello, balancing a wooden plank across it, then play EVE naked on my laptop.

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Originally by: murder one

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Edited by: murder one on 15/08/2008 07:12:37
Art Critique:

There needs to be more contrast, the background is too bright so the ships lose some definition. You need to pick a focal point for the piece, depth of field wise. The positioning of the two ships relative to the exploding ship don't provide a good sense of scale and perspective as their fighting each other for control of both.

While you did blur the ships a bit it looks more like you're trying to simulate motion than depth of field, neither of which is working very well. There is too much lighting on the ships from the foreground. The main light source needs to be coming from the explosion and illuminating the ships from behind. A much darker background would provide more contrast to the explosion and allow the eye to focus on it better.

The image is too bilaterally symmetric with the explosion basically right in the middle of the frame, which really kills any sort of motion and dynamicism in the piece. I'll see if I cant chop it up in photoshop a bit and try and edit it a bit to show you how I might improve it, while still keeping all the elements.

EDIT:

Five minutes in photoshop. Nothing I could really do to fix the perspective as the ship's axis are different from each other, and that's all you really have to go on for depth and vanishing point. My paint over looks like ass, but I'm just trying to demonstrate overall composition, lighting, perspective and so on, not a finished piece.

REDO

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