An "old" one

[Biohazard]

...you've perhaps already seen on a cg board.

[restoeboemi]

great work! make me remember the film 'lost in space'

[GoncaloP]

Cool image!

I would love to know more about the image and what is behind it! Can you say something about it and the technic that you have used?

Gonçalo

[RErender]

Cool render Bio, very nice mats. I would love to see it as a "sphere" render.

[R2J2]

groovy idea, great image

[Dogzilla]

Lovely

yeah I remember seeing this on CGTalk a while back.

[Biohazard]

Here's a close-up of the astronaut. As you can see, I've been a bit lazy about finishing the character.



The only bitmap is the one used to texturize a burger (I must admit).

Here's the comment I've wrote in my WWW pages.

"I've had a strange MSN chat with a friend this afternoon, about lightspeed, mass, energy transfers, tendencies to infinite... Huh ! It was totally weird and nonsense (cause we aren't scientists, and we're french, perhaps). Then this sunday became rainy around Montreal, VERY rainy... Then I decided to do some homework in CG. This poor guy has gone a little bit too fast. Here's an electronic microscope view."

It was fun to make, very quick and intuitive.
The way you'd like it to go.

The technique is quite simple: It's a remix of the well known (now) and exploited "Fall-off-who-wants-to-be-a-microscope"... Put a falloff in the diffuse and the self-illum slots (using the camera Z), tweak a bit, then use a vraydispl mod to give the whole thing a little bit of bumps (The birger bitmap)...
For this image, add some DOF, then a bit of 2D tweaking (actually a previous lo-res render I've repainted then put in the environment's back (screen)... then re-rendered with the geometry againg (the black frames around some parts of the planet / pollen are coming from there).
See how interations are missing in the DOF...

Here we are.

Sound strange for me to re-explain all the stuff, but, hey, it was made with Vray !!

[Syclone1]

lol looks great, nice fresh idea.

-dave