This is my latest work depicting a formation of 3 Spits flying low over London in the early hours of the morning. Fires still smolder in the background after some attacks during the night.

Models were created in Maya, the image is of London but with heavy photoshop work to remove vehicles, people and many large buildings that were not present in London in the 40's.

Questions and crits welcome, thanks.

Deetz

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If god used maya, this would be his work.

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Yay, not a freshman anymore!

Great work man, looks like a print!

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"No pressure, no diamonds" Thomas Carlyle

nice work!!

what method did u use witht the rotars to get that blur

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Deetz r teh 00ber artist! Justa suggestion but alittle smoke from one of the spitfire engines for battle wear would add a nice touch..

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pretty good work there
I think you could add some nice depth by fading out the background a bit as the houses of parliment and smoke clash a little with the spitfires.

Si

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Thanks for comments everyone. Good ideas and points noted.

Pbman, I take a screen of the nose and Prop blades from the front, head into photoshop and select them and make them all black and then use several varying layers of radial motion blur. Head back to Maya and throw that with the alpha onto a Nurbs circular plane and thats it. Works well for most situations.

Originally posted by kinddoggofwar
If god used maya, this would be his work.

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agreed

Really cool work! But perhaps you could have put some more people in London when you were in photoshop. Maby some old timer cars/people etc. The streets look a bit dead atm. I know its morning but some subtile tutches would have done the job.
But other than that, really great work!

Indeed I was really thinking about adding some fire engines or something on the bridge. In the end I chose not to for my on aesthetic pleasings. I'll definitely have to add those extra touches to the next pic for sure though.

Great job man, love the extra smoke effect

Is the cityscape all image or did u did u do some composite some 3D in it too?

How did u get the overal 'dreamy' look? It's like a photorealistic painting. Very cool.

as others have said - really nice work mate.

i tend to agree with Si's point about the smoke - it also doesn't seem as though there is much damage to the city.

Overall though, i think you did a really good job.

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Marlonjohn, Eelco and Arran, thanks for comments

The cityscape is an image with heavy photoshop work to remove buildings and boats along the Thames,and there were alot, hehe.

The horizon was a composite of 2 sets of clouds incorporated and hand painted to fill in the gaps on the cityscape.

I tried creating more realistic smoke in Maya but I still need a lot of practice with dynamics.

The look I achieved I think was mostly due to the lighting I used and rendering in layers. I had one point light as my main shadow then used an area light underneath and above each aircraft to create some softer shadows.

Arran, I didn't want a great deal of damage inflicted, it's still early in the war. However I could have certainly toned down the smoke a bit.

Cheers!
Deetz

VERY nicely done! My question is HOW DID YOU LIGHT THIS SCENE?! :-) I'm having s*&t for luck trying to light my aviation scenes (see my "Youtube" thread to get there). Whatever you did, THAT is the effect I am striving for!

PS is this a static shot or is there an animation that goes with it?

Again, superb work!!!

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