Topic awaiting preservation: 3d background

people i need some help in creating a 3d crystalized background like on this site http://www.dreaminfinity.com/. i have looked every where on the net but i havent found one single tutorial on how to make a '3d crystalized' background in 3D Studio Max 3.

ppl if yall could help me out i will highly appreciate it. thx

Start with a Teapot primitive.
Give it Noise and get crazy until it "shapes up".
Materialize it, and Render.

im not sure if the background at your link was made using a 3d tool!
could also be photoshop only.

Are you just looking for a jpg background image? or an actual 3D model for the background. A jpg is a good fake for backgrounds and is WAY EASY to render compared to a large model far in the background.

There is no 3d per sey in there. At least nothing in a 3D modelling program. That appears to be a big chunk of photoshop work.

Koan 63, written on the wall of cell number 250:
Those who Believe
Can
Those who Try
Do
Those who Love
Live

ya Skaarjj. very true... but I thought he wanted to try to do this in 3D.

So Black Knight... what do you say... and dont say that 'none may pass.'

the effect on the splash page HAS 3dsmax elements to it. the crystalized forms were created in 3d studio max using simple shapes and then i have applied a transparancy to the forms to give it a see through effect. it also uses a huge chunk of photoshopping and photography.

-synergy

well i would like it to be created in 3D Studio Max but eventually i will end up bringing it into photoshop to do the final touches on it like higlights etc...

and one of yall were asking me whether i want it in *.jpg or not. the answer to that is ''yes'' b/c i would need the file to be in *.jpg just so the background would show up crisp.

for the splash page for dreaminfinity.com, i did tons of photoshop stuff for sure. but the form itself is in 3dsmax

than how did u went about creating the effect [synergy]? i mean did u do it the same way that [warjournal] said in the reply to this post.

it really isn't that complicating as warjournal said. all i did was design bunch of triangles with opacity of about 60 or so, do some 3d modeling abstraction with it, render it, save, rotate and render, save, again and again

put it together in photoshop using layer blending modes, include some photography, type and some cool effects and that's what u should get. im not much of a modeler (im a graphic designer, not a 3d modeler) so i don't do much of these complicated stuff. i spent alot of time on motion graphics than 3d applications.

sincerely,
syn

thx alot for yall help............