the making of Desert Spitfires

[kiwi123]

Hello folks,

This is a link to a quicktime that shows the layers of Desert Spitfires, please right click and save as (1.7Mb):

http://kiwi123.military-meshes.com/spit/making_desertspitfires.mov

It's quite funny looking back, how the background was done.

For the end result:
http://www.military-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=633

Cheers,

Wiek

[Evan]

Wow, that's quite awesome Wiek!

The original layer of dust/cloud you add, is that hand painted in or is that from a photographic source?

Thanks very much for putting that together..much appreciated!

[kiwi123]

Actually, it's not done in order of creation, but by order of layer. Obviously I rendered the models first, then started painting in the rest. The clouds you see added first are taken from one of my photographs.

[Evan]

I wouldn't have guessed the original plate was so different from the final image.. beside the colours that is. It's very interesting to see how you did this...

[Galgot]

That's very interesting ! I like that way of getting the main background and speed effect from a photo...Smart. Please what's the image size ? With a lot of layers , must have been heavy.
Asking this cause i've been doing a big scene earlier this month, 80 cm width 300 DPI, lot of layers, I had to cut the image in pieces to keep reasonable size for working...:lol:

[kiwi123]

Yeah, not much left of the original image to be honest, might as well have painted the whole thing :lol:

The image is about 7000 pixels wide.

[Skyraider3D]

Cool idea of showing the buildup of the image in a movie :) Mind if I steal it for my Tiger's Revenge image?

[kiwi123]

yes of course I mind. I invented the principle of movies :lol:

[Skyraider3D]

Thanks mate ;) :p

[franken_johan]

You must have been drunk when you got the idea of changing that original picture into your desert runway!
Very inspiring/refreshing to see this transformation.

[Big Red 11]

Haha, I love how you turned an image of a marsh into one of a desert with a mountain backdrop. Great job.

[Lukem]

I'll have to try downloading this later - sounds great though.

[giant551]

really a nice gesture sharing you workflow, thanks mate:D

[Buelliful]

I would NEVER have seen this final image coming from that original photo! Wow!
Nice work mate!:D

[digiartist]

Thats fantastic mate, I've always wanted to do something similar form the model stand point but been too lazy....wish I had now because that really looks cool

[peter]

This is great to see a part of the process of Your image creating:) Looks fantastic:) Now I know where is the dust from:)

[bzhyoyo]

I love this workflow step-by-step, creation-in-the-making stuff!
Thanks !

Haha, I love how you turned an image of a marsh into one of a desert with a mountain backdrop. Great job.

Oh the irony! :lol:

[andrew march]

I get an error - 2048 this is not a movie file?

[kiwi123]

Works fine here....and also for others looks like.

[andrew march]

Are you using a non standard codec?

[andrew march]

That's interesting, it plays online, but if I download it, it doesn't play. Wierd.

Excellent insight into how you work Wiek, or is it how you Wiek work :)

[Danoku]

Man that was awsome, thanks,

[Gadzooks]

Outstanding!

[IRML]

great video, cool way of making the background too, I never would have thought of that

[kiwi123]

Can't say it was the first thing that came to mind when I took the original photograph :lol: