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After all these years, I hope you'll enjoy

Oh my god, how time flies...
The forum has already warned me while I was writing this post:
WARNING! This is a REALLY OLD TOPIC!


I hope everyone is well after all these exhausting and challenging years. May this new year bring us peace and joy.

This is simply a sign of life of this project. The past few days we have actually completed almost the last task with the voice over in a recording studio. Now "only" the soundtrack is left to be done.

We expect to release the movie in any case this year

And now we have the second third of our fan film project completed.
This year we had a lot of live action shootings but were also busy with CGI and Post Production.
The last third is now action time for the Wilde Karrde. And since I started here with the Karrde some years ago, I like to show the final version of that ship for CGI production:









quite a difference to the first picture six years ago

@evil_genius_180 Thanks! :thumb:
The works on the Karrde are somewhat in the background now, but only because other topics of the fan movie are currently in focus. The Karrde comes last but not least in the production pipeline Still it's a beast, since the necessary additional detail work is really time consuming... :rolleyes:

At the moment I work on the preparations for outdoor and green screen shootings this year. Meanwhile we have already some great characters in the cast and I'm sure they will make a great appearance. Checkout www.darth-vader.ch for more.

In one of the 'real' shootings on a fantastic mountain summit, there will be some additional CGI building elements and the shuttles. To have my both shuttles ready at hand for compositing when the time comes, I already converted them for Arnold now.
And all I can say myself is 'WOW', because it's so fun to dive into the parameters of a new material system, when the outcome is that great, although you aren't a material master. Arnold just does it right and I hope they continue to expand the possibilities to provide this renderer also for users on a budget. Since it's Autodesk now, I'm sure they will do somehow.



"Closed formation!"



So all depends now on the camera tracking function and if that works -> rock'n roll

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

Wow, that Star Destroyer bridge render with the new renderer is a vast improvement.

ChrisGFX wrote: »

looks really great!
yes, Arnold is the best renderer out there IMHO ... its very versatile and really easy to use

Yes, an incredible renderer :thumb:

I really would like to rerender all the stuff I already made for the movie, but at some point, the movie should be finished.

The pending second half of the scenes contains now only to things, the Sentinel Shuttle and the Wilde Karrde.
This first two ships I modeled for the movie are to much influenced by my former architectural works. So I'm going to partially rebuild them using Substance for materials and Arnold for rendering.

I decided to give the new Karrde body much rounder edges



First details on the crew modules (some elements have yet a basic material).