3DClose encounters of the third kind

harry33

I am working on the mothership of the classical UFO movie "Close encounters of the third kind" directed by Steven Spielberg.It is just a basic mesh by now.It needs some special lighted textures and uncountable lights to make it similar to the movie one.I guess,I will blow up my computer with it
Maybe I will post it as a 3ds Max Model next time if some one is interested!
I will be glad to get your opinions...

Lizzy777

*looks for R2D2 in the greebles*

Good start so far.

BolianAdmiral

That's awesome! IDK if anyone here has done this ship before.

nova1701dms

Looking forward to seeing more. Good start!

[Deleted User]

Can't wait for this one to be finished!

Sanderlee

Gorgeous!
But, lighting it is going to be a stone-cold be-yowtch!

:thumb:

Meph

Dun dun dun dun dunnnnnnn

Tallguy

First time I've ever seen this one done. Very exciting!

deg3D

Coolness, 'bout time, eh. Good choice.

deg

ChrisTOPher

such a classic and iconic Vessel.
i just picked up a collectors edition of the film the other day. im still debating on weather or not to open it and watch haha.
great start btw :P

harry33

Hello guys!
Wow, I was starting with this two and a half years before? Time flies... OK, a little update: The mesh is completely done and all details and textures are finished. But the lighting... It was disappointing. However, many lights were looking good- but my computer crashes all the time. Less lights- my computer was running properly, but it was looking crappy. The same with rendering in videopost. Just a few weeks ago I have made some tests with a new light add on for my 3ds Max program. It works very good. Short rendering time with some fantastic results. So I exspect to add some new renders of it in this week. Stay tuned....

Melak

You might have already tried that, but if you use the attenuation settings of the lights to limit their effective influence radius, maybe that could speed renders up, too?

harry33

Melak, thank you for this advice!
I really treasure every help on this. Yes, I have tried this before, but it doesnt help really. It shortened the rendertime only a little. I have changed some lights to glowing textures and use now Cebas final flare and it works very good and fast.
The fact is : The original ship was looking so impressive because of the fantastic light settings. At this time (1977) no computer was involved and so the lights were working very real. My goal is it to catch this effect.

Thanks again Melak- and Greetings to my hometown!

IRML

does it need lights? I wouldn't have thought the little dots all over the ship actually cast noticeable light, it may be that you can get away with leaving them as just a luminous surface

Capt Dave

Looks like a good start. But I've always wondered what a Close encounter of the 4th kind is?

Sanderlee

Capt Dave wrote: »

Looks like a good start. But I've always wondered what a Close encounter of the 4th kind is?

Abduction.

harry33

These two photos are showing the difference between my old and new light setting. I was not happy with the glowing of the old lights. Meanwhile I have deleted the "city section" of the ship and construct a new one. The buildings were made with help of a greeble add on. So they are not cylinders. The new ones will be cylinders with new textures.

harry33

IRML, yes, I have deleted the lights and have added lighted textures only. But it wasnt looking good. Maybe you can search for some movie scenes in the internet. It has many small light dots- right. But there is also some different glows at the ship. This all together makes it to this special kind of ship. But I guess, I am on a good way now!
Thank you for your advice!!!!

publiusr

Great work on Jein's ship.

harry33

http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj239/harry1963/?action=view&current=ufoanimation.mp4 A test run of the lights for the mothership.

harry33

Happy Anniversary Roswell!

I thought to make picture for this event.
Made with 3ds Max and Vue 10.

Saquist

Very Good work.
I haven't seen the film in a long time but the nostalgia is strong

roldy

I would love to get a 3D model of the spaceship. I'm attempting to recreate this in minecraft.

Guerrilla

@roldy two things:

1. First, this topic hasn't seen any action since 2012, so odds are that you won't reach harry33 this way, and he might not be working on this anymore.
2. Second, you really shouldn't just go around people's project threads asking for models. It's kind of rude, and against the rules here. Please have a read through the Community Guidelines, when you get a chance.