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Alethiometer by ~Xailia:iconXailia:

Categories Digital Art > 3-Dimensional Art > Objects > Miscellaneous

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Submitted: December 1, 2004
Image Size: 894 KB
Resolution: 1542×976
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The Alethiometer from "Northern Lights"/"The Golden Compass" (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman.

Modeled in Rhinoceros3D
Rendered using Flamingo

Update (2008.03.24):

I'm thinking of revisiting this model, improving it, and rerendering using better techniques. Stay tuned.
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~smuli:iconsmuli: Dec 1, 2004, 12:00:29 PM
That's a good looking compass... must have taken forever to draw all those little pictures.
Only thing I don't like is the spotty metal material... but maybe I'd understand it better if I read the book =)
~Xailia:iconXailia: Dec 1, 2004, 5:51:06 PM
I stole the symbols from a drawing of it...

The compass itself is gold, but when I rendered it when it was smooth, it didn't look to good, so I used a hammered gold effect. It's not perfect, but it's better than the first.

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~smuli:iconsmuli: Dec 2, 2004, 6:54:56 AM
In the thumbnail the textures look good... I guess it's just the big resolution that was bothering me...
~Gnade:iconGnade: Oct 16, 2005, 5:54:12 PM
that's awesome!!! i've read that story too, all three actually, strange stuff but cool!

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~Darkmoon12:iconDarkmoon12: Mar 4, 2006, 6:24:16 AM
I love how you picture the alethiometer! So beautiful...:+favlove: I've just read the 1st book, and I'm reading the 2nd :)

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~pandarune:iconpandarune: Sep 10, 2006, 9:00:55 AM
Beautiful! A wonderful rendition of it :D

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~standardstrat40:iconstandardstrat40: Sep 23, 2006, 2:13:57 PM
I can think of thousands of people who should read Pullman's trilogy....
Beautiful work! =)

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~squoose:iconsquoose: Sep 26, 2006, 5:53:48 PM
amazing! i love the His Dark Materials trilogy and I'm happy to see awesome art from it like this! :D
=MattCarter:iconMattCarter: Dec 6, 2006, 4:06:59 AM Mood: Joy
I made an alethiometer in maya too a while back, hehe =D! I Love northern lights, I can't wait for the film to come out next year!!!

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