Star Trek - Vulcan base

[MacX]

Hi,

this is my latest work. It’s a Vulcan base built into an asteroid. It will be part of the upcoming Star Trek fan movie “Star Trek ENTERPRISE II : The beginning of the end” (2012) by Jürgen Kaiser which is a stop-motion movie with CGI elements.

www.enterprise.lhermann.de

The station was modeled in 3DS Max with a few surface editings in Zbrush. The asteroid’s rock surfaces were done in Zbrush. I made alot of use of Zspheres for the rocks jutting out.

I used clay brush all the time to get a rocky appearance and some alpha brushes to achieve the typical structures and cracks.
Materials and rendering were done in 3DS Max using Vray, textures and post-production in Photoshop.

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[AngelHoof]

Very nice and detailed, the size of the thing is impressive (or should I say illusion of)

[MacX]

So here are some out-of-Zbrush screenshots showing how the rocks were made.

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And this is the final low-poly version with normalmaps and ambient occlusion maps which I used for the materials.

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[SadamHu]

Very nice, I really like what you got going on in this scene. Would you like to
show us how you went about making stone like that?

[lm1]

That’s some far out stuff. Definately the kind of detail that when textured, lit properly, and rendered looks REAL.

[MacX]

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And a close-up of the rock. The tiny lamps/windows are simple square polygons with light materials.

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[ojallard]

That looks very cool

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[crystalbaud]

Thanks for sharing your rock technique! The rock formation in this scene is fantastic.

[SadamHu]

Wow, thanks heaps for that! Thank you for taking the time to show us.