by nicholashower » Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:55 am
nicholashower
Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:55 am
"Ozymandias of the Modern Era"
The modern skyscraper epitomizes human pride and power yet it is just as vulnerable to the ravages of nature as anything else. I was inspired by this classic poem by Shelley:
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
Info: 1,868,680 polygons, about 12 hours to render at 2520x3210
The scene was created with 3dsmax and ZBrush. The textures on the hero skyscraper were hand painted in ZBrush while everything else was photo based. The background buildings were based on models and textures from Google Maps.
Post work consisted of curves, color washes, color balancing, distortion, chromatic aberration, vignetting, and combining different render layers (main scene and separate cloud scene).
Unfortunately I don't have any interesting materials to add to the database because everything interesting was done with textures.
Sad to see that there are so few entries. Now that the deadline has been extended again I may make another entry.
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