My First Real 3D Model

well the reason I didnt post much in the past two weeks is because I was learning 3d nonstop

and now I can finnaly show you what iv been up to lately

everything was done using lightwave 3d 8.5

no photoshop no nothing

full modeled, textured and rendered by me

please its my first model and I would like to get as much feedback as possible

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and thats wireframe render so you can see how I built it

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as mentiond before feedback would be appriciated

thanks
eX.

nice job dude

thanks

any bad things with it or anything?

Damn man, something I couldn't have the patience to do, nice one.

thanks

is there any bad things in it?

It dosent look like mountains to me... really... and theres a glitch on the left bottom.

yeah I saw that

its a shadow that turned like shit

why its not mountains?

really cool man, but what is it used for like pictures or like animation>

pictures, animation...whatever your mind want it to be

its phat I think yeah theres the glitch but hey first time PRRREEETTTY DMAN SWEET!

hey thats cool ex.

Yeah some parts look pretty square in the bottom left, it's pretty good though man, aswell looks a little bit cartoony but for a first go that's awesome. Not trying to be a cunt with the negative things but you said you wanted the stuff that was wrong with it.

aside from that one mucked up bit, looks pretty fucking slick.

Cool man, I keep meaning to learn some 3d shit. Never got round to it though.

Dude thats awesome,how long time did it take to make?

you should start but its hard as fuck



4 hours maybe

Thats well good man well done, id love to see ya end up advancing to like people or cars or something too as you get even more better :-D

Keep it up

nice dude !!

and everything is good....

awesome man.. just one thing in the bottom righ hand side some bits are like sticking out and dont fit to well.. but thats it

Nice job

I like it, but it looks pretty untidy

Looks good man, the time you put into it shows.

Its cool man, recalculate the normals? theres something dodgey going on at the bottom of the mesh I think...

It this really your very first 3D-model? Nice work, mate.

Welcome to the amazing world of 3D!

Here are some tips I can give you to make this even better, some mistakes I made myself when I started 3D-modeling:

The upper scene is too bright! Try to use only one light first. You should read some tutorials about classic 3-point lighting of scenes. If you obey simple lighting rules, you'll see that your landscape will look way more vividly.
Put it the way you need to genertate the mood you want to create. Maybe put it a bit lower for more shadows.
The lower pic has too much pseudo-fog.
The texturing of the fractal landscape has several seams or whatever. It doesn't look right at some locations.

I know, it's hard to focus on one thing at a time if you have such a powerful tool with tons of options.
Look at photos of real landscapes. This will help you to make your work even better.

Keep it up! I'm looking forward to your next work!

For some inspiration you can have a look at some of my work-in-progress and finished renderings in the forum.

See you!

Got any examples of your work?

hey thats pretty damn sweet, it looks almost real to me. looks like the background to an old video game

looks awsome man nice work

pretty cool, nice work extazy

thanks people

and I appriciate the tips too

I've been doing graphics for quite awhile aswell... won't lie, never used light wave, but if you are doing backgrounds and scenery, I would reccomend Bryce, I believe they recently came out with Bryce 8, as for humans etc. you should get your hands on poser (believe highest is 4). With Bryce, you can create very adverse backgrounds, and it can also be used to create everyday simple objects. if you learn to create negative objects you can create images like for example, I created this pistol (kinda space agey I know... and btw the back ground was changed by someone with photoshop... I have all my original work on my desktop which is currently dead)

Anyway, to tell the truth its good to mess around and find your own style... oh and about that glitch, did you let the image fully render?

*EDIT* If you or anyone else want Bryce tips, id be happy to help. And remember the pistol was photoshoped... so the edges are choppy, look at the content as apposed to the edges

I used bryce once 3 years ago but it was very glitchy so I quit before doing anything really and I have poser 6 at my computer now but im gonna use houdini for all my 3d work from now on

houdini is fucking sick and coast like 17.000 usd

and I got it from a friend for free so yey for me!