A Keryx Robotic Freighter delivers Splododyne Explodiatory Explodolators and other supplies to a Martian mining operation.
These autonomous freighters are designed to operate in hazardous conditions.
ORIGIN
I made made the Keryx Robotic Freighter for a monthly modeling challenge a long time ago for a forum far far away. The theme was Research. I chose to research the work of another CG artist, Vitriol3D, and attempt to create a new scene in his style. Even with his advice my imitation didn't resemble his images much but I like the resulting air/spacecraft. I modeled the craft in Daz Hexagon. I think the original scene, a KRF in space near a planet, was rendered in Daz Studio with Iray. Recently I imported the model into Blender and Blenderized it.
KERYX NAME
I made up the name Keryx. It has sci-fi flavor. Searching the web I found that a biopharmaceutical company is called that and it means 'messenger' in ancient Greek.
MATERIALS
The edge wear grunge is done like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIxq_QAO7Og
The ground mixes two textures by slope. Flatter ground gets one while steeper gets another. That is done with method number 11 here https://www.creativeshrimp.com/texturing-mix-tutorial.html
Change the color ramp to change the mixing of the textures. There are several interesting and simple node setups there.
The Logo decal is done with a second UV map
The the freighter has several vertex groups and coresponding materials. The wear grunge is applied to the base material but does not affect the other vertex groups unless I duplicate the wear nodes for each one. Hopefully I will find a way to apply it over everything without that duplication.
TIMES
Blender 3.0. Rendered in 1 minute with cycles at 4096 samples, adaptive sampling, no denoise, Panavision 2.35 to 1 ratio for 1090 x 2560 pixels. Including research time to learn about the wear and slope based materials and not including the original creation of the KRF model it took about 10 hours to make this scene.
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