The Last Day (Violence)

[WingedOne]

I was experimenting with those high-res Earth maps and a Lunar map I found.

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1015177611kbu.jpg

[Ron Harris]

WOW!!!!!!! tell us about how you made the mushroom cloud....I love where this piece is going for sure..... :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

[aurick]

Awesome job! The composition is really effective, and nicely balanced.

I think the lunar map that you used is actually too detailed for the size of the moon. You can't see any of the features that should be readily visible.

[JOHNVQ3]

:eek: EYE-POPPIN EXPERIMENT, NICE JOB :tu: :tu: :tu:

[Smiles]

WOW fabulous job here! I would love to hear on how you created the explosion!

[Muvlo]

Wow! :) Great job! :tu: :tu:As the others said... how did you do it?

[drjjwow]

its a sad image...because its so true.. awesome job wingedone..

[Mentat7]

Wicked wicked wicked!!!! That must have been one helluva nuke or meteor! Booooom!!!! I see you did the same alpha bumping on the earth as I did in my ATLAS image. Excellent work! The color contrast is exceptional. :tu: :tu:

[Stargo]

:eek: :eek:
Absolutely fantastic :tu: :tu: :tu:

stargo

[Gerlon]

its cool how you can see that the reddish light from the explosion is reflecting off of the moon sorta

[DeeVee]

Nice work, a very unique image.

[WingedOne]

Thanks all for your replies.

Actually, rather than use an alpha map, what I did was use a material where I made the color bump value slightly negative (light areas raised, dark areas lower).

As far as how I did the mushroom cloud, first I modelled a basic mushroom cloud shape out of a sphere and I placed that on the Earth's surface and marked it. I also used a yellowish-orange glow matterial with noise turned up and a noise size of about 2 or 3. I also used a bunch of flattended toruses for the shockwaves. I used the snakehook tool to draw the trails behind the shockwaves. Also for the outer shockwaves I used the sphere tool with the freehand stroke turned on on covered up the two outermost toruses with little spheres and then I used the smudge brush on it. For the torus around the middle of the mushroom cloud I turned the noise up a bit in the deformation pallette and I turned RGB add down a bit on the draw menu when I drew that torus. I then used a darker red glow material and added some strokes with the speckle alpha here in there. In the Earth layer, I simply darkened the surface of the Earth and then I used one of the glow materials again on some parts of the Earth surface.

I'll try to work on a script tonight, because it might be a little clearer than my long-winded paragraph. :)

[Smiles]

A script! Thank you!!We get to peek over your shoulder now :)

[picsas]

Ive not seen anything like that explosion done in Z before, it is exellent :eek: :eek: :eek: