Aboard the CSS SARATOGA humans are working together with other humanoid races, joined in a confederation against a mysterious enemy. But close contact leads to some unexpected consequences: inter-species relationships!
Tagolians live twice as long as humans, and they mate for life. They take courtship slowly – in Episode 2 you’ll find out why (hint: they become homocidal stalkers!) “Yikes!”
In contrast the Terrans must seem a fickle race, what with a Captain who casually dismisses her former marriage as “dumb”, and a hot-to-trot pilot who compulsively hits on his superior officer at a space bar….
Meanwhile the Verdians are a matriarchal race of giant green Amazons. Their men are puny (although still taller than human males) and stay home tinkering with science and engineering. The females are out being warriors and having space adventures – but don’t get any ideas, they mate for life too! (Gulp!)
Woods Creation has published three tutorials on exporting Carrara models and scenes to Blender, with the help of mCasual’s Blender Python script “mcjBlendBotSpecial”.
Here’s a Lego adventure short movie I created in my spare time during the past couple of months.
The last 4 minutes and 41 seconds of this movie (the cave scene) were rendered in iClone 5 Pro (first time using it). The first 2 minutes were render in Carrara 8 Pro.
All original music.
Lego adventure short movie.
The Andrey Pestryskov, Nerd3D, and mmoir models were purchased at Daz3d.com.
Enhance:C Space3D Shaders and Primivol help create this original planet
Realistic Earth-like planets in Carrara!
Need a high resolution Earth model as a backdrop for your blockbuster disaster movie? How about a newly discovered “terranova” for your space opera? According to news just this week, one in five sunlike stars observed by NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has an Earth-size planet in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water — and, potentially life — could exist….
Kepler can’t *see* those planets directly. It actually recorded dips in the brightness of their suns, indicating a planetary transit. Since no one has actually seen them, it’s anyone’s guess how they will look…. I predict a bull run on Terra artwork, and we’re going to need a lot more planets!
To celebrate I’ve put together 10 Tips to launch your planet scenes into orbit!
#1 – HIGH RESOLUTION EARTH MAPS
Carrara comes with a complete Solar System of planets organized under the Scenes Tab in the Browser. An Earth model is included with a separate cloud layer. It’s part of the Native Content download that is free with purchase. These planets are great except for one thing, they use low-res maps only 1000 x 500 pixels.
Low res models of the planets are included with Carrara
Serious players will spend $8 to download the fullsize 10k Earth maps from JHT’s Planetary Pixel Emporium, which are prepped to be used in 3D models with color, bump, and a specularity map for the ocean. While you are there, grab the free 4k maps of the Moon!
THE BLUE MARBLE by NASA
Perfectionists will find the high res maps from NASA’s Blue Marble Collection to be the definitive reference, courtesy the US Geological Service at Visible Earth. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of our planet.
This remarkable collection includes different color maps for each month of the year so you can show annual vegetation and ice cycles, an extremely high res cloud map, and this stunning night-side map of city lights. These images are freely available to educators, scientists, museums, and the public.
