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New avatar render for miika

Moonwolf — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:35:23 +0000

I decided it was time to come up with a new render to use as my avatar on sites.

miika's new avatar - June 2010

Rendered in Poser, postwork in Photoshop.

Gleaming Graphite – Graphite Angel

Moonwolf — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:45:53 +0000

The next image in the Gleaming Graphite series – Graphite Angel.

This one has much more postwork added than usual, mostly to clean up the wings.

Staged and rendered in Poser, postwork in Photoshop

Graphite Angel

Again, do people think the Gleaming Graphite series qualifies as “naked”? Let me know what you think!

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Face it

Moonwolf — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:04:37 +0000

Giftart I created for a friend online a while back, deliberately aiming for a high level of photo-realism. The image was based on my friend’s own online persona, and I’m told my interpretation was well received

Rendered in Poser, postwork in Photoshop.

Face It

Eagle and Flag

Moonwolf — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:20:32 +0000

A nice patriotic render for people.

This is a composite image, the eagle was created within Poser, then imported across to Vue where it was rendered against a sky also created inside Vue.

The image was masked to separate the eagle from the sky, then the entire thing was taken into Photoshop for compositing with a stock flag image.

The Eagle mask was overlaid over the top to bring it into focus, with some layering tricks done to blend the images together.

Eagle and Flag

He ain't your parent's clown!

Moonwolf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:25:36 +0000

Many many years ago I had the pleasure of meeting James A Moore, his wife Bonnie, and his sister Ro, at Dragon*Con.

Jim is one of those authors that reaches down into the pit of your guts and makes them whimper quietly in a corner, and in gratitude for him holding my hand as it were over the years at conventions (a scary ordeal that goes way beyond anything even Jim could write), I came up with this image of one of Jim’s most feared and loved nasties – Rufo the clown.

Image after the fold, click for the full sized version.

He ain't your parent's clown!

Building A Leviathan

Moonwolf — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:49:05 +0000

When I posted Leviathan Outbound over on deviantArt, the wonderful PrincessJaden pointed out that it looked a lot like a Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR) warship.

I hadn’t thought about that, since I don’t know anything about KotOR, but thanks to a link she supplied, I could see how I managed to inadvertantly come up with one. While we exchanged notes on the post, I came up with the idea of showing the bits that went into creating “my” Leviathan, and since Bog still nags me to do more animations, I figured what better way to illustrate the Leviathan than in a short movie?

Rendered in Vue.

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Leviathan Outbound

Moonwolf — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:31:09 +0000

A change of pace. I’ve used the Leviathan for an animation test I did, so I decided to make a less derelict version.

Created using Vue.

Ocean Crossing

Moonwolf — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:54:41 +0000

Scene-setting within Vue. A huge blimp approaches an ocean structure for landing. The blimp is a simple set of metablobs.

The image is 1600×1200 in a watermarked .jpg format, rendered in Vue using Final render settings and Compute realistic caustics.

Dark Knight Night

Moonwolf — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:00:44 +0000

OK, I’ll admit it, although I don’t like car renders per se, there’s just something about the Batman Begins/Dark Knight Tumbler version of the Batmobile that gets to me.

Background, terrain, and lighting setup is mine. Tumbler is a Lightwave model imported from SciFi 3D.

Rendered in Vue.

Quote in my banner a paraphrase of Jack Nicholson’s Joker in Tim Burton’s “Batman”.

Cyberlight

Moonwolf — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:10:03 +0000

A free desktop image to brighten(?) your computer workspace.

1280×1024 .jpg format 3D rendered image, created using Poser 7.

Click on the image above to view the full sized file for download.

1280x1024 .png format 3D rendered image, created using Poser 7