Group Info Group Founded 14 Years ago 150 Members
49,282 Pageviews147 Watchers

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This group will be migrated to the new design soon. Please contact the group admins to start the migration and save content the group may lose access to.

Group Info

1. Models can be built in any program as long as the final render is carried out in Kerkythea.
2. Post-pro in any program is allowed.
3. Member join requests will be automatically approved.
4. If you think you have something to offer as a contributor, join as a member and ping us a message with your request.
5. At the moment submissions are automatically approved, any work that is obviously WIP or first attempt will be moved to those folders.
Group
Founded 14 Years ago
Aug 24, 2010

Location
Global

Group Focus
Art Creation

Media Type
Digital Media

150 Members
147 Watchers
49,282 Pageviews

Gallery Folders

Featured
Guitar Closeup by JonEastwood
Never Let Go by Snohyn
WIP Airship 3 by RizzaZerro
Architecture

Mature Content

marilynmansonsbedroom_3D_GIF_+13.11.2023_cr210 by AliceGothic

Mature Content

MARILYNMANSONSBEDROOM_RC150_+31.10.2023 by AliceGothic
Offshore by plasmid1
Georgian fireplace by plasmid1
Objects

Mature Content

tiktokanimatedlogo_+29.12.2023 by AliceGothic
Rotegrity {0,1} trapezoid color variation by TaffGoch
Rotegrity {0,1} trapezoid by TaffGoch
Victorian Candlesticks by plasmid1
Scenes
marilynmansonsbath_3D_GIF_+.04.07.2022_111cr. by AliceGothic
The Vengeance of a Dead Race by Reactor-Axe-Man
Eastbound and Down by Reactor-Axe-Man
Traveler by Reactor-Axe-Man
Vehicles
Eos by Sketcher-GP
Eos Hangar by Sketcher-GP
Cylon Raider - Pyramid and Socialators Reboot by Reactor-Axe-Man
War Paint by Reactor-Axe-Man
Weapons
40 Caliber CHI Series by SideWinder742
Blade of Still Water - 21MP Render Test by SideWinder742
Cobra Weapons NXT-357 Revolver by SideWinder742
Grenade by Micheuss
Work In Progress
Morax ITX by SideWinder742
Space Dock WIP 3 by Sketcher-GP
Space Dock WIP 2 by Sketcher-GP
Space Dock WIP 1 by Sketcher-GP
First Attempt Renders
Camaro-1969 by MASCH-ART
Knots Landing by MiniaKrn
University Campus: Master Plan 2.4 RENDERING by RMoy-Art
materials models globals
Alien Habitation II by 1DeViLiShDuDe
Clouds of Kahn-Fusion! :D by 1DeViLiShDuDe
DL: Broken Boat (.kzx) by LockRikard
~Matter Antimatter Matrix by 1DeViLiShDuDe
KT Group Images
Sphericon Pedant (by John Malcolm) by Micheuss

Favourites

SA 005-opt by scaulier69 SA 005-opt :iconscaulier69:scaulier69 3 0 Scoop Tram Render by MSgtHaas Scoop Tram Render :iconmsgthaas:MSgtHaas 38 6 bicol 2 by viperbrix bicol 2 :iconviperbrix:viperbrix 16 32 less is more.... by Neellss less is more.... :iconneellss:Neellss 74 13 The Mk 2500 Class C Zapgun by Nanaki-Murasaki The Mk 2500 Class C Zapgun :iconnanaki-murasaki:Nanaki-Murasaki 37 21 Kerkythea Fella by Furumaru Kerkythea Fella :iconfurumaru:Furumaru 9 11

Affiliates

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Our very own TaffGoch taffgoch.deviantart.com/ has been featured on popular geek blog BoingBoing boingboing.net/2014/08/30/sphe… with one of his marvelous geometric kinetic spheres.

92 Gears - Flash Animation by TaffGoch

Its an exercise in efficiency despite the complexity of the model, with the animation comprising only six frames. Of course all rendered in kerkythea.

Nice to see kerkythea is still relevant :D and congratulations TaffGoch on a little international exposure.
More Journal Entries

3D Resources List

Feel free to suggest the resources you can't live without

KERKYTHEA 2008 ECHO (obviously) www.kerkythea.net/joomla/
Downloads www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index…
forum www.kerkythea.net/phpBB2/index…
materials www.kerkythea.net/phpBB2/viewt… Fletch's exhaustive list of KT materials

Just found a OBJ exporter for kt nestling quietly in the kt forums www.nicetuna.com/kt2obj

The Main Contenders: major programs that you must have in your arsenal

GOOGLE SKETCHUP - do I really need to provide a link here? you could just google "sketchup"... oh go on then, here it is sketchup.google.com/
Sketchucation - sketchucation.com/ massive resource site for Sketchup
3d warehouse - sketchup.google.com/3dwarehous…
Ruby plugins - rhin.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibrary… an exhaustive list of ruby plugins for sketchup, any you can't find here should be at sketchucation

BLENDER www.blender.org/ Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite

GIMP www.gimp.org/ THE photoshop alternative

PAINT.NET paint.net/ Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software.

PICASA picasa.google.com/ very useful photo management program from google. very good for emergency tweaking of renders.

VIRTUAL DUB www.virtualdub.org/ is a powerful video capture/processing utility useful for compiling sketchup animations rendered in Kerkythea.

Other Programs you may not know about, but could change your life.

*NEW* insight3d insight3d.sourceforge.net/ opensource 3d photogrammetry software, produce models from photos... neat

SCULPTRIS www.sculptris.com/ think Zbrush but free, small and easy to use. (its so good that pixologic, the makers of Zbrush, have just bought it up)

TOPMOD code.google.com/p/topmod/ my latest favourite software (apart from kerkythea!) TopMod is based on a new paradigm that allows dynamically changing the topology of 2-manifold polygonal meshes.

TERRAGEN www.planetside.co.uk/ Terragen 2 is a powerful solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments.

APOPHYSIS www.apophysis.org/ Freeware fractal flame editor for Windows
ART OF ILLUSION www.artofillusion.org/index is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio.

WAX www.debugmode.com/wax/ is a very impressive high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software.

WINGS3D www.wings3d.com/ is a subdivision modeler (courtesy of dentex)

IVY GENERATOR graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft… does what it says...very well (courtesy of dentex)

LITHUNWRAP www.geeks3d.com/20090303/lithu… a free UV mapper

*NEW* WOOD WORKSHOP www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_over… is a free seamless texture editor that specializes in the creation of seamless wood textures... NICE!

Useful websites you won't be able to live without.

HDR LABS www.hdrlabs.com/ Site devoted to HDR photography

*NEW* Bernhard Vogl's free light probes www.dativ.at/lightprobes/index…

*NEW* A FLICKR COLLECTION OF Equirectangular Panoramas EXCELLENT! www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/set…

CGTEXTURES www.cgtextures.com/ strives to be the world's best texture site.

MAYANGS FREE TEXTURE LIBRARY www.mayang.com/textures/

DEVIANTART TEXTURE SEARCH only just thought of this!! browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&sec…

OPENCLIPART www.openclipart.org/

DEPTH OF FIELD CALCULATOR www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html a very helpful site when trying to get that lens blur just right

ARCHIVE3D.NET archive3d.net/ fairly massive object library with no registration required

ArchiDOM model database 66.196.80.202/babelfish/transl…

Archibase model library www.archibase.net/gdl

GIGAPIXL www.gigapxl.org/ a gallery of massive high resolution photos from across america

3D MESHES RESEARCH DATABASE www-roc.inria.fr/gamma/downloa… nanaki nanaki-murasaki.deviantart.com… suggested this one - 80000 models to choose from including a lot of sci-fi. non-com use only, remember its polite to attribute :D

FREE SKYMAPS blenderartists.org/forum/showt… from a blender forum

NASA 3D RESOURCES www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_res…

found this ancient link in my bookmarks objects.povworld.org/links6.ht… a large list of models sites... might still work!

The-Blueprints.com www.the-blueprints.com/is a website dedicated to collecting 3/4/5-view drawings, templates and blueprints for as many objects as possible

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:iconjoneastwood:
JonEastwood Featured By Owner Sep 7, 2010
hey hey hey, thanks for the invite.
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:icontechnohippy:
Technohippy Featured By Owner Sep 8, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
my pleasure, need some knowledgeable people around.

feel free to contribute... especially to the first attempt renders folder... its a kind of crappy renders/lessons learnt area
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:iconnanaki-murasaki:
Nanaki-Murasaki Featured By Owner Sep 6, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
Greetings and salutations! Thanks for the lovely invite. I'm rather shocked this group was just made given the greatness of kerkythea! If you would like please feel free to list me as a helper in using this program seeing as i know its inner workings by heart.
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Technohippy Featured By Owner Sep 7, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
great to have you on board. that iridescent glass you did is a brilliant piece of work. feel free to contribute to any of the folders.
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:iconnanaki-murasaki:
Nanaki-Murasaki Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
ohhhhh! so have you used my glass material on anything? *giddy school girl movements* heeheh you'r the first one to actually acknowledge the material pack as though you used it.
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Technohippy Featured By Owner Sep 16, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
so tell me... how long did it take you to render the preview image for the material? and what do you think the best render settings are for it?
(i'm not entirely sure my pc is coping too well with it) :-(
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Technohippy Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
i have tried it, but not produced anything worthy of it yet :D when i do i shall post immediately
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flaketom Featured By Owner Sep 2, 2010
Thanks for the invitation! Will join happily!
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:icontechnohippy:
Technohippy Featured By Owner Sep 2, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
excellent, feel free to submit your work... the gallery folders need more contributions!
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flaketom Featured By Owner Sep 2, 2010
Will do! :D
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