The Artifact (wip)

[Mahlikus The Black]

Trying to make a Pix Render.
Still have to add grass and pebbles...twigs and cracks. lots of detail left to do.
121 Comments welcome.

[Bastard76]

So far so good, Malikus.
Look forward to seeing future development.

[Ron Harris]

pretty kewl so far Mike..looks like you have a keeper here

[Stargo]

Looks great

Stargo

[Svengali]

Dazzling Alien Artifact, Blackie. Let's see where it goes.

Sven

[rhom]

Very nice-love the surrounding rock texture.

[nocturnal451]

Looks great.. I like the semi hidden alien hieroglyphics and the texture on the edges of the corrosion on the artifact.

[Mahlikus The Black]

Thanks for the comments everyone!
Keep em coming!

Here is a change to the GDI and the dirt diffusion. Some info...all ZBrush of course. Tons of simplebrush work. No textures really. Just a bunch of painting. Articact has about 3 or 4 materials in it and 2 for the dirt. The alien text was an afterthought, made possible by a custom stencil.One light.

[Belleski]

Excellent image! Looks great as is, but I know you plan take it even further. Love the distressed look of the space alien relick.

[adamac]

that cool you should put some archeology tools around it like for what they use for digging up dinosaurs

[Mahlikus The Black]

Thanks for the comments.

Here is a second set. Still trying to find that render.
To Mentat, Thanks for showing us all that cool plant script. This grass is a modification to that process.

[MrBraun]

Really good image Michael!!! Great !!!

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi MtB
Do you know this thread ?
Pilou

[Mahlikus The Black]

Thanks frenchy. After seeing that and doing a little more guess work, I happened upon this lighting change.

[Skaven252]

Looking really good! X-Files, anyone?

121? Well, the picture is more or less fully functional as it is. Maybe the metal looks a wee bit plasticky now.. perhaps some reflections on the 'clean' parts could help? (unless it already has them )