Nope, just shitloads of reflective surfaces. it took like 10 minutes to render because of the enclosed reflective surface. Reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections of reflections.....
And did you to the swirly effects with some outside program?
I actually made the plasma in lightwave, but rendered it seperately, brought it into photoshop, blurred it up, and used various blend settings to get it all nice. The entire thing was retouched in photoshop alot before the final product here. Before it was touched up it looked like this:
and the plasma looks like this before using transparency maps and modification in photoshop:
Sì! Abbiamo un' anima! Ma è fatta di tanti piccoli robot.
That's bad-fucking Ass, Koji! Your storytelling abilities may be lacking, but your artistic abilities certainly are not!
Theres something like this on a stage of AvP2. It looks like the room where the Pilot Artifact is located....Again...Kickass...
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