The Making of of ‘Her Majesty’s Air Fleet’
Gleb Alexandrov aka Spelle describes the creation of his image ‘Her Majesty’s Air Fleet‘ in an extensive article.
Gleb writes:Hello there! My name is Gleb Alexandrov aka Spelle. “Her Majesty’s Air Fleet” was the first cg competition, in which I dared to participate using Blender. To my surprise, I managed to win the first place. Competition provided real stimulus to touch various aspects of Blender: modeling, making uv layouts, texturing, lighting, rendering layers and passes, optimizing viewport performance, establishing project structure and so on. Now I’m really excited to tell you about making of “Her Majesty’s Zeppelins”.
In 1880 young Nikola Tesla proved the existence of the Ether and capability to use rotating magnetic field to create the lift force directed upwards. Tesla believed that the technology was the common heritage of mankind, thus he sent packages with the detailed description of the technology and all the instructions for the production of “Ethereal engine” to Governments of all the major world powers. The British Empire, wanting to establish the status of not only the greatest sea power, but also the greatest air power, first managed to build a shipyards and lay the fleet of armored airships on them.
Invulnerable to anti-aircraft fire, carrying a heavy armor, well-armed and maneuverable airships of Her Majesty’s Air Fleet started to terrify enemies of the Empire
The idea of the picture can be described like this. However, it has begun with searching of composition for the blurred image in my mind: huge zeppelins flying through the archway. Right away I was trying to formalize this image on paper. I came up with open environment, light and shadow play, gothic cathedral with ribs on the arches, dark spots of the ships on a light background of the sky.
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One of the greatest images made with Blender. Ever.
Tons of hard work here and you can see it in the final image. Btw I’m not getting the images in the English vesion.
As I wrote at the ba thread this image should be the 2.70 splash.
Gongrats Alexander!!!
Maybe it’s time that Blender had rotating splash screens, as some software do these days (like Corel Painter). That way, you can get a good showcase of several great works like these created in Blender. Plus, it’ll had a bit of refreshing, dynamic touch to Blender, I think.
Not a bad idea!
Totally agree!!!
There are many cool images, worth being on splash screen. But anyway, thanks, Dimitris :).
Thank you, Spelle! Everybody has waited for this making of! Very detailed explanation and made with soul! Also people like you made Blender more recognizable in Russia.
Спасибо тебе, Spelle! Очень ожидаемый мэйкин оф. Сделал все душевно и объяснил что-почём ) Благодаря таким художникам, как ты, Блендер будут признавать, в нашей упрямой стране, как полноценный 3д-пакет!
Thank you!
I’d like to make a small announcement: English version of the making-of is in works. In a week or so it will be ready and posted.
Wonderful work Spelle, my congratulations.
The making of page works best in Google Chrome – the translation is passable and the images are present. Good to hear that you’re working on a full english translation. Your work is certainly inspirational. :)
Thanks for sharing the “making of”! :D
Ikkarus, you are welcome!