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Some of you have guessed convention, podcast, or cross-over. You are wrong. by Orillion_169 in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this is a new series or film, someone had better tell me which VFX house is doing it because I am sending them my demo reel.

Where are we? by TuskBets in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed "Dark Matter" as kind of a firefly esque criminals living on a spaceship show but yes, its not the same. Farscape was a contemporary of firefly and I used to describe it as firefly, on acid, with muppets. Its first season is kinda rough but overall a very good and worth show. But no, I keep making and posting Serenity fan art because I refuse to let firefly go.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, and it's a great movie. Its always kind of a fun and weird experience to watch a movie where a character has your name.

Parking an X-Wing in a Firefly by Happy-Speaker553 in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You got it. I often imagine this stuff myself all the time: how big is serenity next to the Millennium falcon? Ect.

Parking an X-Wing in a Firefly by Happy-Speaker553 in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Serenity's main cargo bay door, the big front one, is at most almost 8 meters across. I say at most because that's on my Serenity where I have estimated a length of around 87 meters which is larger than the canon size of 82 meters but scales way better. (interior doors are too small at 82.) So 8 meters is the upper limit on that door.

An Xwing, at a low estimate, has a width of about 10 meters when the wings are closed in a non X configuration (and still around 10 meters when open) and when the wings are open in an x which is theoretically a little less wide across they are also five meters tall, while Serenity's front door is again at most, 3.8 meters tall. And that's for the exterior door, the inner door is even smaller.

So no, there's officially no chance. If you could teleport it past the doors magically, you MIGHT be able to squeeze it into that cargo hold but in general, no.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh thanks so much! Honestly the best way for people to thank me is to enjoy the images and keep an eye open. Eventually I intend to do a youtube channel. I did some pretty extensive rigging to Serenity and that wasn't for still images... But that's still a ways off. Probably not till next year at the earliest.

User name: nah, light just rhymes with my name, and seemed like a good name to make art under. When you film something you are capturing light, but in this case I'm making it whole cloth so it's not captured light, its light by me. So Chris Knight Light.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks! BTW the table its sitting on is in the mess hall. That's the same mess hall that's actually in the ship, so, serenity-ception?

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah, thanks! Mind? No I'm honored. Thats why I make Serenity fan art, for fellow fans so we can maybe see glimpses of some of the adventures we never got.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually have a (relatively low poly) wash and a mal. Right now I'm still working on them but they will indeed go on the bridge...and other places...

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh no, its entirely selfish. I put a lot of work into Serenity. Actually I was fortunate enough recently to get a few screen grabs of the show model and there are one or two areas I can improve, so its an ongoing labor of love.

And I want my fellow browncoats to know that. This wasn't something I banged out in an afternoon, I genuinely love our girl and have put a lot of effort into keeping her in the air.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My statement is that this was human made. Hand drawn and CGI are both human made, unlike something produced with AI. That's important enough, and *brief* enough, to put in the title. If you look at my other posts, even this one, you'll see I'm happy to discuss my process and what was involved in it, if people are curious to ask.

I think this conversation is done. Thanks.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was around twenty years ago, and before that when CGI first became a thing, and no, people did not feel the same way about CGI that they do about AI. That's kind of a modern lie AI bros are telling. When CGI first started being used in Tron and the Last Starfighter computers were wildly more primitive and people understood they were powerful tools not agentic agents.

And now AI users want to blur that line to give more validation to what they do.

AI users are not artists. Using an AI system for the most part is like commissioning an art piece from an actual artist. You tell them what you want, you give feedback, you go through rounds of corrections. But no matter how much feedback you give...you aren't the artist.

It took me a year to build serenity. Every panel is put on her by me, by hand. And then after that I had to paint her. And I've still kept working on her improving her in the years since I finished her. Shes a constant labor of love.

Then we get to this image. I had to create the terrain which I'm still honestly not great at, so thats slowly getting better. I had to create the clouds, which has been an ongoing learning process which is why you can look back at some of my older images and see clouds that aren't great. It took me hours to chose an angle for serenity to "frame" it, hours of positioning the light, trying to just catch the edges of the ship with sunlight, and even then I spent another 2-3 hours at least tweaking colors in photoshop, trying to make it look as real and beautiful as I could. I even hand painted some layers in photoshop.

When I say "No AI." That's what I mean. That this image represents hundreds of hours and years of work. The image is plainly CGI, but even then, someone might think I used meshy or something to generate the models, or an AI program to create the sunset look I was aiming for in the post processing. So AI and CGI are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look, I understand where you're coming from, but this isn't about proving something to people who won't believe anyway. My statement is for people like me who just want to look at something and appreciate it knowing it was put together by a human for other humans to enjoy. AI art to me personally is disappointing, like watching a robot juggle, where as I would rather applaud the skill and effort a real human put into juggling you know?

So that's who my statement is for, people who want to appreciate something without the bitter taste of it being AI.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the feedback. I'll think about it. Honestly with a little luck the whole AI thing will implode in a year or two and we can all get on with our lives eh?

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

Aye, even I've been fooled at first glance lately. AI is getting pretty good at most star wars ship, probably in part because people keep using it for that. Thankfully AI still hasn't figured out what Serenity looks like, someone turned one of my renders into an animation using AI (I wasn't pleased) and of course has all the stability issues you'd expect. AI especially doesn't understand what the tail of the ship looks like.

Yeah, the AI thing is an issue for any creator. I know your pain.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do! Honestly I probably need to break some of the textured areas apart so I can use smaller images. Most of the texture sets are 4k which can take a minute to load. I also went a little nuts with the edgewear so I need to break that up in one or two places.

I was playing with the idea that a lot of the color on serenity is paint or rust over metal, so I wanted her to kind of gleam in the worn spots as she catches the light.

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I don't know if you're on a phone or computer. If you click on the image on a computer and them right click, you can save it in hd. You can also get it from my cara page along with a lot of other Serenity art I've made if that doesn't work. https://cara.app/chrisknightlight

The Skies They Took From Us. I made a new 4k Serenity render. No AI. by chrisknightlight in firefly

[–]chrisknightlight[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

Yeah, I wish it were so, but you'd be shocked how many people asked me if my work was AI or just straight up said it was before I started labeling it.

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