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Forum in English / Re: Adventures of Tichy

« dnia: Grudnia 28, 2006, 11:48:13 pm »

I did not read yet The Adventures of Tichy but I read  The Futurological  Congress, I found this story very funny, smart and incisive. I think that Lem's humor in this novel is very close to those of Douglas Adams in The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What is your opinion about that ?

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Forum in English / Re: Pictures of Solaris

« dnia: Grudnia 07, 2006, 11:13:53 pm »

To create the formations of the ocean I use a software called AMORPHIUM, it allow to manipulate and twist virtual objects like clay. I set them into scenes created with VUE D'ESPRIT, a worlds creating software (like BRICE) and I retouche the pictures with COREL PHOTOPAINT (a PHOTOSHOP like Software). I use a WACOM graphic tablet for this. I notably rectify incorrect joins between objects and  I added also certain details such as fringes scalloped by the longus, the exgrowths between the mimoïde and the helicopter or the trunks extremities of the agilus. The symetriade part 1 and 2  are not CGI, I painted them entirely with the graphic tablet in COREL PHOTOPAINT because I am not enough  skilled in CGI mastery (for the moment) to allow me to model directly a thing of a such complexity. I start to work on a  preparatory sketch and I then integrated the image into a CGI backgrounds.

For the size of this pictures, they are around  30x30 cm for square pictures (symetriade) and 27x36 cm  for others. All are in 300 dpi.

Le roman  mean  the novel in french.

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Forum in English / Re: Pictures of Solaris

« dnia: Grudnia 04, 2006, 11:34:47 pm »

Thank for your comments.

For Terminus:

Yes, the colour of the sky is strange but it is said in the novel that during the red day the sky is purple. I prefer to place my pictures during the red day because I do not like too much the colours of the blue day but I would try a day.  

For Deckard:

The design of the symetriade have evolved much. I had planned for a moment to place membranes on the "branches" but finally I did not retain them. I would probably use them for a other version later. For the mimoides,  yes you are right, they look like very CGI  but  I don't dislike it. However, today I must say that I find them a little small, Lem speaks about structures being able to reach the size of a continent. They are are old mimoides, who shrinked  with the time. I would make one day a version showing of a mimoide much larger (and less CGI).


Thereafter I would add other pictures on my site. Currently I work on a asymetriade.

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Forum in English / Pictures of Solaris

« dnia: Grudnia 03, 2006, 05:27:33 pm »

Hello,

I am a french reader of Stanislas Lem. I have made a website in which I show pictures I made from the novel Solaris. The website is in french (may be a day I'll made an english version) but there is a lot of pictures you can watch. Please, tell me what do you think about il.


http://signodom.club.fr/Solaris/Index%20Solaris.html