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More futuristic cityscapes, but am really enjoying doing them at the moment. Stonemason's Greeble Pack used extensively again, plus Dysopia Buildings, and a few of my own. The sky is a mix of six or so different photographs and a lot of painting.

As usual, a larger view is recommended. Thanks for looking and any comments...Cheers, Ian

Gislaadt Featured By Owner Jul 8, 2017 Hobbyist Photographer

Exceptionnal, bravo !! I do love the light on the right side. Do you also use Ron Deviney brushes ?

Maybe some of my scifi buildings stocks may interest you, if you need something special,i can try to do, enjoy..

Have a nice weekend.

EStreet Featured By Owner Jul 10, 2017

Thanks...Yeah, I use Ron's brushes all the time. Unfortunately he's started making his new ones for newer versions of Photoshop than mine, so I can't use his latest stuff as I can't afford to upgrade at the moment.

SporadicSp00n Featured By Owner Jul 29, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Excellent

EStreet Featured By Owner Jul 30, 2015

Thanks

hotchiwawa Featured By Owner Feb 16, 2014

Waw great!

EStreet Featured By Owner Feb 16, 2014

Thanks...Been a long time since I got a comment on this one...much appreciated

rg-12 Featured By Owner Feb 18, 2013

!!!!

EStreet Featured By Owner Feb 19, 2013

Errr...Thanks.

xzendor7 Featured By Owner Jan 27, 2013 Digital Artist

Fantastic.

EStreet Featured By Owner Jan 27, 2013

Thanks

Regido Featured By Owner Nov 7, 2012 Hobbyist

gorgeous cityscape, awesomely done

EStreet Featured By Owner Nov 8, 2012

Thanks...

Journie Featured By Owner Sep 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

That is so freaking amazing. It looks like a mix of some Star Wars city and Midgar (Final Fantasy 7)

[link] How did you even learn how to do stuff like this?

EStreet Featured By Owner Sep 10, 2012

Tutorials, books and mucking about with the software...I just love doing this stuff and can't help but play around with it every chance I get. Thanks for the kind words.

Journie Featured By Owner Sep 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow, that's amazing. And you're welcome.

vmpnable Featured By Owner Apr 7, 2012 Student General Artist

hi, is it alright if i use this photo as a background for one of my school projects? i'm making a 3D robot. i will credit you, of course.

EStreet Featured By Owner Apr 8, 2012

Yeah, sure...go for it.

vmpnable Featured By Owner Apr 9, 2012 Student General Artist

thank you so much!

MarkusVogt Featured By Owner Sep 27, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

I love those type of scenes. Very well done here! Allow me a question: When creating those large scenes do you create all the far away background city blocks in Cinema 4D too or do you use Photoshop for copying or filling out those large areas. I just ask because those scenes can be very RAM intensive and often not so easy to handle. So do you create many C4D files and composite them in Photoshop or is this one single C4D file with ALL models included? Thanks in advance for any kind of tip

EStreet Featured By Owner Sep 27, 2011

Phew, let me think, it's been a while since I did any of these. Actually, as I remember it the polygon count wasn't too high on this one. I did make seperate passes for Diffuse, Ambient Occlusion, Key Light and I think a Top Light pass as well, and composited all those in Photoshop, together with a fog pass to give it some depth. The foreground buldings I think were a seperate render. The sky, clouds and smoke and such were painted in PS. There's some great tutorials on the web, and in Ballistic Publishings two Matte Painting books, expensive but well worth the money if your serious.

Ironically I have a much more powerful 64 bit machine now which could handle a lot more than what's in this scene. Maybe I'll get back on the matte painting wagon again and see what I can come up with.

MarkusVogt Featured By Owner Sep 28, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks for your explanation

Charizard632 Featured By Owner Jul 9, 2011

I really like the futuristic factory design you put in this picture!

Dulcedent Featured By Owner May 26, 2011 Hobbyist

Incredible work, really sparks the imagination!

EStreet Featured By Owner May 27, 2011

Thanks...

mudersville Featured By Owner Jul 8, 2010

amazing and very moody

Affet-kak Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2009

stone masons greeble pack, is that a greeble plugin that actually creates pipes and machinery and shit like that?

my teacher was going on about something like that last year, he used to have a copy, but lost it

EStreet Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2009

No, unfortunately not...just a set of pre made buildings with lots of greeble like detail on them. I haven't the patience to model all that (But I did do some modelling in this one), but I did do a lot of messing about with the textures.

Affet-kak Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2009

ah damn coz i really want that greeble plugin that does all that

ah well

EStreet Featured By Owner Nov 20, 2009

Ha...me too!!!

billndrsn Featured By Owner Jun 16, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

in link below...

EStreet Featured By Owner Jun 18, 2009

Many thanks...

billndrsn Featured By Owner Jun 18, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

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Art-By-Mel-DA Featured By Owner May 9, 2009 Professional Digital Artist

Your work has been featured here. [link] If you want it removed, please let me know.

EStreet Featured By Owner May 11, 2009

Many thanks for the feature...

Art-By-Mel-DA Featured By Owner May 14, 2009 Professional Digital Artist

You're very welcome.

juanjoharo Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2009 Professional Digital Artist

Wow, this is great... how do you get that colurs and light?!!!

Bayushi-Tai Featured By Owner Jan 5, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

Cool, i want a widescreen 1680 x 1050 version !

SlumberingAces Featured By Owner Dec 18, 2008 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Words cant describe how good this piece of work is.

Jointor Featured By Owner Dec 15, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

First of all, I must say that I stared at this piece for about 5 minutes, before being able to clear my mind. I've been willing to create a cityscape for a long time now, and this one acts as a great inspiration to me

Attention to detail is stunning. How long did it take to model, texture and render it, because most of the time I get demoralized by the amount of effort, that has to go into such an undertaking. Your gallery is awesome and I just wonder why you don't have all the pageviews, that you deserve. Keep up the amazing work, as you have yourself a new watcher

AloeVeraO Featured By Owner Dec 2, 2008

awesome piece of modeling.. keep it up man

Bizzare-Freak Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2008 Hobbyist Digital Artist

please please please!!! you gotta tell me whats the best way to do all the little lights? with a texture? a plugin? whats yur technique for this?

EStreet Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2008

It's done using a texture...essentialy a pattern of white (or coloured) squares on a black background. In Cinema4D the texture is placed in the Colour, Luminance and Alpha channels (all the others are unchecked). I make a selection of which polygons I want lights on and set the texture to this selection, usually in Cubic mode. Because of the alpha channel it just overlays what ever building texture I have beneath.

Hope that made sense and is of any help

Ian