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Published: 2011-05-18 01:35:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 45410; Favourites: 1829; Downloads: 2437
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My first Avatar-inspired deviation!
yeah, only took like - a year and a half, but the timing seemed right and hopefully this turned out to be what is arguably one the the coolest pieces inspired by that movie anyone will ever see 
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Or use Shift or Control keys to do either.
Click and drag to look around.I could have gone for a ground view showing one of the many epic landscapes. But that can always be done later. I don't see much of the space scene seen very early on in the film, so that combined with the fact I promised many people my next 360 "Vue It" work was going to be a space one just meant it was the right theme to choose. It was at least lighter in polygon count than my first two that were very "tree-heavy" bumping their polygon counts into the several millions which resulted in countless crashes. Still had a fair amount with this but comparatively not as bad so bouts of swearing while making this was minimal
As for technical aspects, this was testing a version of Vue that can't actually render planets to its limits, that along with clever use of postwork allowed me to simulate a pretty authentic looking world below the viewer anyway. Rendering would have taken eons for me and so I got help, so I'll jump to credits for help before continuing:
SOULSSHINE Did the rendering after I made the scene, took WAY too long on my comp. Smattila exported it into this Flash format after I had completed all the artwork.Anyway, this required constant hopping between Vue 7 and Photoshop as some areas needed to be painted on and then brought back into the 3D world again to be rendered with the right amount of distortion and then composed in Photoshop again etc. I won't ramble on, Ill just say it was as hard to do as it looks, so just enjoy it!
Others in the "Vue It" series:Vue it - Pine Shrine
Vue it - Christmas Village
Vue It - Holiday House
Vue It - Haunted Harvest
All artwork and animations in my gallery are my copyrighted property and are not to be used without my permission, this includes any screenshots of parts of the scene.
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Comments: 828
That is mind blowing! The way the ship totally changes shape is the coolest. Just out of general curiousity, are you going to do a space scene that is purely out of your own mind? That would be sweet!
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Lol, the ship changing shape is actually just due to the perspective warping 
I will do original space scenes eventually, ones more bizarre indeed, but now not for quite some time
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Ya thats kind of what I ment, but for the lack of memory of a technical term
It does, its really cool!
Aww I cant wait to see!
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I always love these.
Also, Lovely use of :La:
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I can tell by your avatar you love the
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man i love it when you do these!!!!
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F---ing brilliant.
(looks around)
Now where'd my jaw drop?
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..........MAAANN.....
How do you make it? O.O
It's beautiful... So perfect... ><
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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Oh man, I'd have to write so much to answer that literally 
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XD I imagine... ^^
I hope see others like this ><
Congratulations [again ^^']
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Ok..
This is just FUCKING AWESOME. I'm speechless.. too much details to see O_O
Everything look Perfect, i'm stuned
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My mind:
absolutely stunning. I love looking at the pieces you share with us that take us to where your imagination has been. They give me a nice point of departure for my own stellar fantasies as well. Beautiful job, Matt!
Lol, also was listening to Star Traveller by Ferry Corsten when I saw this. My brain was GONE :3 [link]
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Thankyou, and that's a good way of describing it, showing others where my imagination has been. Seems like a waste to to share it
Hmm, I can see how that song would fit, not entirely my taste but it sounds pretty futuristic
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omgomgomgomgomgomgomg
I've never seen Avatar but OMG this is gorgeous! I accidentally spun around too fast and I actually got dizzy, as if I was whirling around in space above the planet. So pretty!!! I had fun zooming in and out, too.
I'd totally love to see more space environments!
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Spinning fast can be fun, but we all know slow motion is the true way to soak it all in
Glad you enjoyed it so much. More space ones will be done, original non-movie inspired ones too. But that will probably be a long time off
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Awesomeeee. I'm still waiting eagerly for the day when I can actually go up there myself, lol.
The sense of vertigo just proves how real it looked, and felt!
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I've never been in space, but i feel like i have now! awesome job
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Probably the closest the common person shall get unfortunately
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Thanks for sharing this is awesome, you're always transporting us to different places, thanks for the trip I enjoyed a lot!
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A trip that cost people nothing 
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just...just.... WOW. that's it. you are a genius, you know that,rite? 
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Thanks a lot for the nice comment
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if i gaze upon its epicness any longer this will happed --------------->
top score my good fellow
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Wo, that year and a half were so productive!
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Well, that's only how long ago the movie came out - this was started maybe a month or two ago only
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This is so amazing.
I love all the details in the clouds~
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Those were probably my favourite parts by the end myself, but also needed the most work
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Hey Matthew, what can I say that hasn't been said? This is by far the most awe inspiring piece of art I've seen in a long time. Congratulations. And if this doesn't get a DD real soon, I'll have to resign from DA.
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Thanks, I'm glad you like it. I remember trying your planet creation methods for starters but since we're so close to this one I realized I needed real, volumetric clouds (which were a lot of extra work and render time, but worth it 
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Yeah, I'd say this is a pretty big thing, I dare say its a milestone in your spaceart career. Well, most people will love the gas giant or Pandora as a whole, maybe the spacecraft. I really dig the clouds. Especially the two thunderheads. Any pointers how you accomplished those?
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The two thunderclouds were painted partly, some thick clumps of clouds were in the right spot, but they were just normal-shaped clouds like all the others. I used careful digital painting over the top of them to create the "anvil" of them both and added some shadows onto the main cloud-body beneath it to make it look like it was rendered like that
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You sure did a good job on that. It's hard to tell where render ends and painting begins.
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Holy crud, that's Avatar-inspired?
Heh, had a feeling, but wasn't totally sure until I finally switched from the Wii Internet to my actual PC to be able to view this for myself.
Needless to say, your efforts were once again well spent in creating this enormous intergalactic environment. 
Keep it up dude! Another nice job going on right here.
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It sure is...I'm glad you also got a chance to view it on a normal PC too, I'm not sure what the Wii internet is like but I think this would load and display better on a PC anyway 
The zoom in and out feature is fortunately a default thing that the program automatically applies, just as well since anything that requires technical "programming" to add just isn't my area of expertise
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Yeah...it wouldn't load diddily squat here on the Wii, so luckily I got to see it for myself on the PC instead. You really have to appreciate the effort that goes into something like this, so you're to be commended for going all the way on this one.
Ah okay...well I guess we can both consider ourselves lucky for its inclusion then.
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beautiful as always the attention to detail always astounds me well done
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Thanks, I love detailing the Hell out of stuff
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lol and you do it well
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I'm probably having too much fun with it. lol
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This made my day, thank you!
It's so calm and peaceful, I love the color of the giant planet next to Earth. Especially because it looks like the place to go since Earth seems to be having a hurricane and all...
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Thanks! I was pleased with the colours, was a bit of effort to get them just right but they're quite true to life I think
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no words to describe this man, simply amazing!!! the clouds are beautifuly painted, the textures and the atmosphere is absolutly perfect in every way!
where can i find a tutorial on how to make 360 scenes like this?? im very interested in trying to make one to see what comes up
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Thanks a lot! some clouds started out as Vue ones, they needed a lot of painting over though.
There's no tutorials so far. But one thing that's almost mandatory is knowing something about 3D. Getting as much done in 3D as possible makes it easier since you need a certain amount of "warping" at the edges of the artwork to compensate for the fact it gets "wrapped" back into this format. This warping is almost impossible to draw since it has to be mathematically calculated at the time of render (so long as the exact right camera settings are done - just a one-pixel margin of error can screw the whole thing up 
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You have really outdone yourself this time.
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