2022 Collab: Week 40 ¨Non-human city¨ - VOTE CLOSED

[Tyger2]

I love this project idea! Primary colors and translucency look so good.

One thing you could do is just have loads of them going every direction, like that old pipes screensaver for Windows.

Otherwise I think you’d need rooms. The pipes are kind of like the roads of the city, and the rooms would be like the buildings.

But those are just my ideas. Can’t wait to see what you come up with!

(One note: the yellow elbow bend in the front seems to be losing some of its color to the reflection. IMO it would look nicer if we could see the yellow better.)

[Tyger2]

I was thinking similarly to @FedPete . If you didn’t want to do a flat image, maybe you could reduce the detail of the geometry in the background. I know some video games have a way to switch to low LOD models automatically based on distance, but there’s probably an easier way to do it manually for a single image.

Looks cool, BTW.

[Joey_Cuevas]

I like this idea, like a huge rodent highway

[NP5]

I suppose I could apply the arrays and curves and then be in a position to delete the two thirds not in the camera view. I am a bit surprised as there are only 2 ‘cells’ and all the rest are just array instances, but it fails to write the first rendered tile at my usual 4k image size. That may be low ram? As half mine died several months back. Promised myself a new machine when these new generation parts are out hopefully by the end of this year ‘ish’.

[Miss_B]

@Yee

I remember that duck, Is that the same from that pool animation you did years ago?

Exactly my thought as well when I first saw it.

[Tyger2]

Here’s my work in Progress:

Anyone have any good ideas on how to light and texture it in such a way that the tunnels stand out from the rest of the dirt? Here’s how it’s shaped:

Check out my geometry nodes thread for more info if you’re interested.

[FedPete]

• One big area lamp, the size of the farm (no shadows)
• Use the compositor to render only the tunnels (different lighting), and render the ground (without tunnels).

Just ideas popping up.

[NP5]

Just make the soil a dark colour and the tunnels lighter. Then a general soft light or hdri.

That or they can be advanced ants and have a lighting system in there!

[Tyger2]

I thought about that. Is there any way to do that without applying the Boolean modifier and selecting the faces manually?

[Tyger2]

I like the idea of rendering them separately, but the tunnels are carved with a Boolean mod, so they won’t really exist separately. Right now it’s one object.

[Joey_Cuevas]

Use X-ray and select the tunnel faces from the X axis view

[NP5]

Make the tunnel cutter object the colour you want them to be when cut into the earth object?

[Joey_Cuevas]

¨Irvaris 6C¨
While there are some similarities with our architecture and lifestyle, humans are yet to reach Irvaris 6C the third and smallest station right above Nurbana 4, where geothermic energy is permanently harnessed.

[FedPete]

Maybe I’m incorrect, but you can mark faces (by material), and filter them out on the render pass. Like render only this marked item, etc.

What I can remember, there was something about anti-aliassing and alpha transparency.

[Tyger2]

@NP5

Make the tunnel cutter object the colour you want them to be when cut into the earth object?

Ah yeah I forgot that booleans work like that. This fixed it for me. Here’s my entry:

I ended up lighting it with an HDRI. It still needs a lot of work, but this is as far as I want to take it for now. Thanks for the helpful suggestions everyone!

[FedPete]

Inspiration came too late! Tons of problems. Huge render times due to the plastic look and volumetrics. Not enough render time. So this is it. Nothing to do with a “Non-Human City”. But it is an entry.

5 min before deadline … but we aren’t that strict.

[Willrun]

Didn’t have any time this week, so yeah I’ll finish it later.

by FerdinandLadera
loosely based on his design

UPDATE… quick dwarf statue sculpt have to do armor but this is a far as I can go on this one for now

[FedPete]

We @BlenderCollab have a few days to vote. You can vote fast but also think slowly about design, colors, technique, difficulty, subject, realism, etc. Choose consciously and not on your own entry.
And the new subject week 41 “Vulcano” has already started. The winner of this week’s “Non-human city” challenge may select a subject for next week 42 and wins a badge.

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Living in a non-human city

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[FedPete]

I found this a difficult subject. Because the non-human worlds are also based on gravity, land, water and air. A city is therefore based on those aspects. And has the same solution. It’s hard to create something new. Maybe something virtual, like the movie Tron. But there you also see flying machines, cars and motorcycles. You need this type of visualization or else the viewer will get lost. Viewers need referrals to know what they’re watching.

[Tyger2]

Yeah it was a tough one because cities are so complex. Interesting, though!