My orginal HL2 Wallpaper (Work in progress/crit)

[brisck1]

Started on this in MAX this evening, kinda inspired by the docks vid and the fact that the earth is supposed to be 'drying up' in HL2

This is a preview shot I will be rendering higher res tonight (this is a slooowww bugger! :P )

Let me know what you think :)

[Letters]

What is this 'this' that you speak of?

[brisck1]

damn file was too big! i'll try again :P

[Murray_H]

I love it!

[brisck1]

thanks :) haha funny sig quote about jpgs!

[switch]

wow thats very nice, cant wait to see the full image. keep going

[Sgt.Igneri]

DAMN! That is NICE!!!

[LoneDeranger]

It's a beach :p

[Incoming]

Looks truly awesome ! Put me up for one at 1600 x 1200, will ya ?? Great job !

[Northwood83]

Thats very nice looking, Keep it up. I might actually use this on my desktop!

[mindless_moder]

very nice work finidng a high res texture.

[brisck1]

Hi guys well I finally got the sand one finished and also made a nice simple chrome type one for those of you who like it simple! :)

sandy one (http://www.scott-morgan.com/wallglass1final.jpg)

chrome one (http://www.scott-morgan.com/wallchrome1final.jpg)

Enjoy

[exNihilo]

Great work, those textures are amazing.

[EVIL]

Wicked renders man.. is that HDRI?

[mattjackson]

Ace!

[mredd27]

Brilliant. How about getting the chrome one in the sand?

You've even got the near and far focus just right in the sandy one! That makes it look much more realistic.

[Murray_H]

Absolutely fantastic! The chrome one is gorgeous, i keep wanting to pick it up and feel its smoothness

[brisck1]

cheers guys! yes i did use HRDI lighting

[Zerox]

Looks as if BWMASTER has competition

[mindless_moder]

are u using final render? that chrome is uber sweet :) but the sand really looks like stone id sugest modleing the sand on top fo the glass instead of imersing the glass into the plane.
oh and model some tiny grains for realism and try some motion blur on the sand.

[merc]

that is some sweet stuff man! how you make that?

-merc

[BWMASTER]

If only BWMASTER could use 3d render programs extrude shape of HL2 logo and add chrome texture to it. Then maybe render it with brasil.

hmmm

[qckbeam]

that's great stuff! I'm using the chrome one as my background. Keep up the good work!

[Murray_H]

Originally posted by BWMASTER
If only BWMASTER could use 3d render programs extrude shape of HL2 logo and add chrome texture to it. Then maybe render it with brasil.

hmmm

Was that a dig?

[wbcheater]

jesus how did u do it? i wanna know all the programs u used (i wanna start doing stuff like this) because this is soo sweet its too sweet i need to know how... GREAT JOB keep up the good quality work:cheese:

[@bel]

WOW! very very nice renders.

[mindless_moder]

if u want to learn how to do this then u want to learn how to do 3d.

[@bel]

could you PLEASE make a 1280x1024 for me? THANK YOU!!!

[Wybe]

Very nice wallpapers!

[brisck1]

BWMASTER hmm.. if only i could get an hl2image and add a photoshop filter to it. :P

[@bel]

:laugh:

[EVIL]

lol.. I really like the crome one dude.. (do you have thit as 1600 x 1200?) exelent render. you should make a nice utorial about this and post it @ the modeling sections so that the modelers can make a nice publish render of thier models

BTW.. did youedited the crome one in photoshop?

copy layer, set upper layer to softlight and radial blur it with a value of 4.2?

[nsxownzme]

Originally posted by brisck1
damn file was too big! i'll try again :P

Make is bigger man, 800x600 is gay as ****. This shit owns all..!!! Make larger! Do stuff like this BWMASTER!

[brisck1]

Well i would be happy to post the HL2 logo in MAX format (it was an arse to model so i wont blame you if you would want it :))

Nsxownzme I posted the final at higher than 800x600!! I think you must be looking at the preview image, scroll down further for the finals.

I'll do some higher renders when i have some spare time, so prob in the next day or so, so check back later for them.

Cheers for the feedback guys

[Statoone]

Well done ;) !

great ;)

you can put a small text on the bottom as : "The invasion as begun"
or something like that.

[mindless_moder]

well if that was hard for u too model then maybe u should try learning how to model more .

[Gashtar]

Originally posted by BWMASTER
If only BWMASTER could use 3d render programs extrude shape of HL2 logo and add chrome texture to it. Then maybe render it with brasil.

hmmm

Seriously man, all your wallpapers are from tutorials and then you add an HL2 theme to them some how. Some of them don't hae anything to do with HL2 and just have some text that says "Half-Life 2" or the HL2 logo. None of your work is original. When anyone critiques your work you start saying how they could not do anything near what you can do. The truth is, anyone with Photoshop, an internet connection and a medium attention span could make wallpapers like yours. And when someone makes a comment about how you might have competition, you start questioning the difficulty of their work? Difficulty has nothing to do with the quality of an image.

Brisck, that is awesome, keep up the good work man.

[brisck1]

Cheers Gashtar, the wallpapers were just made for a bit of fun and to have something nice to look at on my desktop, Im not after any kind of competition BWMASTER has nothing to worry about.

The logo was a bugger when i was trying to give it nice smooth edges, and an overall rounded look. Brazil had major normals problems.

Statoone, what image do u want this on?

[mindless_moder]

im totaly with gashtar i second his opinion:).
oh yeah and for ur info black and white master there is nothing easy in wht he is doing.

[wbcheater]

brisk what programs did u use to make this masterpiece, did u find a piece of steel and shave it to look like the HL2 logo or blow glass to form this shape? or was it just a 3d program without a name...?

[brisck1]

LOL nah i didnt use glass or steel im crap at making REAL stuff :P Used a number of apps, mainly MAX 5 and a little photoshop.
Got another one coming up soon which im workin on in my spare time.

[nw909]

Ahh, HDRI is awesome, I wish I had brazil :(

[tim8604]

Originally posted by nw909
Ahh, HDRI is awesome, I wish I had brazil :(

what's brazil? I have LW, i know nothing of these max terms :-p

[nw909]

Oh, brazil is just a renderer thinger for max, makes really nice shadows and lifelike renders.

example: http://www.splutterfish.com/sf/gallery_view.php?photo_id=154&screen=2&cat_id=2&action=images

[Gordon'sFreeman]

five thumbs up!

[EVIL]

yup.. HDRI is teh win for reflective surfaces.

[un0x]

VERY nice brisck

im having a 3D and photoshop-break but this is really cool... Im going to use it as my desktop wallpaper :)

[Tork]

Very awesome man. The links dont work anymore though. I do some 3d modeling on Maya too but not that good yet :). also did you model the HL2 sign yourself ? could you please send the wallpaper to my email ? halflife@pacbell.net thanks :cheers:

[Sigoo]

Could you bring the links back? I didnt get to see them.