Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Spinny Celestia/Luna


I'm going to geek out for a second. I hope you don't mind.

We've featured these spinny pony models before, and they've always been very impressive. Tonight, we have some more, this time featuring our favorite princess pair. KP-ShadowSquirrel continues their march towards distracting us all to death with magnificent 3D pony plot with a Celestia (in both stereo and regular versions) and a Luna.

The Luna one details that these are made with Maya, ZBrush, and After Effects. I'm assuming they're passed through in that order- that the base model is done in Maya, refined and detailed in ZBrush, brought back into Maya for some final rendering, and then composited and prettied up in After Effects. I've used this workflow before, so, take my word for it that these are really impressive. Drop whatever you're doing and go take a look. They're magnificent.

Celestia
Luna

60 comments:

BND said...

These are awesome. :O

Godot-17 said...

Son of a bitch....

MY EYES!!! OH GLORY~

Torchman said...

Oh. Em. Gee. Spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!!

Eytan said...

Seriously? I thought we were past bringing up plot with these 3D models. Sethisto stopped doing it. I think Cereal is starting to become an issue.

TGPFluttershy said...

Wow! I just love the detailing on those!

s said...

Cereal, y u plot?

Narwhals' Bend said...

The 3D effect makes Celestia's hair look less ethereal.

DAT LUNA!

TenchiFreak5 said...

Oh god, a dedicated plot tag.

colt classic said...

man, that luna is incredibly detailed! that would make an amazing miniature or sculpture or.....whatever it is you guys call those things.

Mindomundo said...

I tried to work in 3D too. It is... So hard... These are extremely impressive.

Kentora said...

@colt classic
Someone should totally use these as a base for 3D printing. Oh sweet jeezus I have never wanted a 3D printer so badly.

TenchiFreak5 said...

The Luna one is amazing. Unbelievable detail.

The Celly one is nearly as nice, but the two tiers of feathers on her wings look rather odd.

Mr. Belfast said...

These are incredible.

Raven said...

Those models are very useful for drawing as well. Ya get a nice up-close look at the details of each pony. I am loving the Luna one by far!

Luna said...

Spin, me! Spin!
Haha! Now I'm as adorable as Scratch on a record player!

Oryutzen said...

Does this mean there'll be gmod models for these two?

DegeTheMighty said...

Absolutely incredible.

Stargazer said...

man... These are so crazy... Talk about excessive Tallent IMO...

Pinkie Pie said...

I was expecting filly vinyl scratch esque spin but this is just as good.

Eclipse said...

Wait...they both say Pose 1

More to come?

HeroInferno said...

Oh lord, their manes and tails, THEY GLOW!

also; http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/members/1/280/279096/thumb_620x2000/OMG_IT_SPINS.jpg

Octavia said...

Oooooh, so very very pretty. I love'em. I didn't think about it until someone above mentioned it. But yeah. Put these into a 3D printer and bam! Awesome pony figures. :D

Pony Corp - Ren said...

WIND WAKER PONIES! DO WANT!

Kentora said...

@colt classic
This is the gist of what a 3D printer does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZgFwCfx1JI&feature=related

HappyCrusader said...

Awesome! That's amazing work.

IkusaGT said...

These look way better than the Mane 6 models he did a few weeks back. These are just stunning.


Also plot tag why?

Suroguner said...

Just a heads up, the princesses are headed to Gmod courtesy of oogaboogaman once again. So expect to see them again.

Mattatatta said...

These are absolutely marvelous!

Guywithpasta said...

Urge to buy wider screen... rising...

colt classic said...

@Kentora wow, now i see why you want one so badly, i'm sure the prints would come out nicely but those things have got to be pricey.

Altherix said...

Looked up the stereo Luna one:

http://kp-shadowsquirrel.deviantart.com/art/Luna-Pose-1-Stereo-256044334

Read up on how to view: http://apophysisrevealed.com/viewing.html

Had a:

OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH

Moment.

Narwhals' Bend said...

@Altherix
I've been trying to do that. No luck.

supervanman64 said...

Excuse me, I had to lift my lower jaw off the floor.

This crap truly is amazing. I wish I had that kind of artistic talent. 0:

DJB123 said...

quite nice. Plot. XD lol.

Btw, forgive me ignorance but what's a 3d printer?

Lotharius said...

@Eytan

I pity the bland, pitiful life devoid of fun people like you live in.

Altherix said...

@Narwhals' Bend Be careful when you get there.

Like the 3D posters, when you get it to work, it's awesome.

You do it too long your eyes start to hurt and you feel cross-eyed for awhile.

Rubidia said...

These are incredibly well done... the MLP style, being intentionally 'flat', makes it very difficult to picture, let along render them in 3D... I've always considered Celestia's (and Pinkie's) mane to be the most difficult ones to do, but she captured both perfectly...

Narwhals' Bend said...

@Altherix

I got it after 40 minutes of seemingly random eye movements! I stared at 3D Luna for four whole glorious minutes until my computer went to screensaver.

Eytan said...

@Lotharius

Right, because one's life is devoid of fun if they don't enjoy staring at cartoon characters Ass's

Profesor Rod said...

LUUUUUUUUUUNAAAAAAAAA~~~

ActionScripter9109 said...

OH. MY. GOSH.

These are amazing... and that Luna is so freaking cute! I mean, grrr, bacon, guns, football...

Aaron Wright said...

I feel that this person does these too quickly.

It makes me feel inferior, as I am unable to make any art quickly, nor in rapid succession without lacking severely in quality. It would probably take me 2 months of planning and cooperative work to do something of this caliber.

Some day I'll do something important. Some day.

Caerdwyn said...

@IkusaGT

Because "plot" and "plotting" have specific meanings in 2D and 3D modelling which (oddly enough) don't have to do with ass. It has to do with coordinate and path definition.

SgtGarand said...

@ActionScripter9109

Why do I keep seeing these types of comments relative to mlp? Is it a new meme or something, or just a joke about denial of liking something pony related in order to salvage 'manliness?' It was funny at first, but that was back when I, myself, couldn't believe I was starting to enjoy mlp.

But I find these awesome AND cute. Im usually not much of a fan for Celestia, but this one I like.

ZavCoyote said...

Y'know, as a 3D animator who has been using the 3D pony models in Source Filmmaker and Maya, I've been toying with the idea of using these models to make a full animation of the first episode, but I scrapped the idea because there was no Celestia model ready.

Well, would ya look at that? Now we just need some clever person to rig it for Maya and I suppose I have no excuse to NOT make it...

Kidou said...

Oh man... Celly's hair is going to be a BITCH to ragdoll in Garry's mod. XD

Nämahs said...

Man, these are really well done models. I would be the animators at the Hub would appreciate them if they ever saw them :O

Rohit Eligeti said...
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Rohit Eligeti said...

I kept looking at her(both) for minutes now!
*staring* *burst out rainbows* squeeee!

VFX Kid said...

@ZavCoyote

Wait, Zav, do you mean an animation of the ENTIRE first episode? You'd need some other models for that. In fact, if memory serves, Celestia never directly appears in the first episode except in the book...

Ewyndall said...

I simply cannot understand how is it even possible that Hasbro, a huge international company with immense resources and experience on the field of toy production and marketing is still using those weird vectors in their advertisements, still unable to create G4 show-accurate toys/models whereas "simple" (i.e. not payed, not/semi professional) fans are pulling out stuff like this from under their sleeves.

Also, it took me 10 minutes to write this coz I have spent 9 minutes searching for my jaws which I have dropped.

Rohit Eligeti said...

Why not they make these out of a toy! people would love it! lol

Devil Dan said...

Amazing. OK, bronies with 3D printers, you know what you have to do.

wyatt1048 said...

My goddesses, these are absolutely magnificent!

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