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Here's a work-in-progress piece that I've got rendering on four different computers at the moment (a total of seven cores). The scene uses a parabolic mirror to get parallel rays coming from above. To keep the shadows soft, I used a medium-valued Phong exponent on the parabolic mirror so that not all of the rays are perfectly parallel.

Very woaw image, and heavy

TopMod ?

CTZn wrote:Very woaw image, and heavy

TopMod ?

Thanks! No, I modelled this in Wings 3D and tweaked it a little bit (and did the UV mapping) in ZBrush. There's a smoky texture on the object baked in Maya 7, and final scene setup was done with Softimage XSI 6.5.

(I know it's weird to own both Maya and XSI, but the former I purchased and the latter I got for free from the latest CGSociety contest.)

I don't know what it is, but it's really amazing !

Thats just too great

Few days later

I think its one of the greatest images ever created to be honest. Its on my desktop as background. I'd love a 1920x1200 version tho. Where can I send the check?

Thanks, folks. The 1600x1200 version is the highest resolution available. I'm not selling it, though you can download it freely for personal (i.e. non-commercial) use from this website (it's currently in the "New Artwork" section) or from my deviantART page (http://vmulligan.deviantart.com). If you'd prefer a lossless format, let me know and I can send one your way.

I've uploaded a new retouched version. I didn't quite like the post work I had done on the previous version, so I reworked it a bit.

@v_mulligan: private message for you.

Thanks, Riccardo.