I decided it was time for a new avatar for my social media presences – Facebook and Twitter at least.
I still wanted to keep to my favourite themes, primarily tattoos and redheads. Normally I render images of me with braided or dreadlocked hair, but I wanted to continue the theme I explored with “A New Look“.
The extreme short redhaired bob has its own stark yet sharp appearance, as the Red Witch series proved, and it’s kind of interesting to change my “look” so radically.
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I liked this first version, but after uploading it into Twitter, I decided that it was too dark to be able to display properly in the Twitter thumbnails. So I went back to it and zoomed in on the head alone. The end result looks much nicer at the small resolution Twitter (and others such as Microsoft Live! and Yahoo) use.
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Rendered in Poser, postwork done in Photoshop.
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This ended up the result of just doodling to see what I could come up with for ecosystem painting within Vue, but it grew to have a life of its own once I started adding the dead trees. In the end, I started thinking of Indiana Jones-style ruins in the middle of jungles, and so came the mauseleum.
Once that was in place, it obviously had to have a night sky atmosphere added, this one with global radiosity in it, but it also had some basic lights brought in closer to the mauseleum. A light behind the building with softness and volumetric turned on gave it the strange light-beams effect coming from inside the dome area.
When I brought the resulting image into Photoshop for postwork, it really had some problems with the definition, the lights had almost washed out a lot of the mauseleum itself, so I used the alpha mask I’d created for the building on its own to remove the surrounding terrain from a copy of the background layer, and made that layer overlay at about 40%. That brought the building nicely into darker focus.
All in all, a fun doodle.
Rendered in Vue, postwork in Photoshop. Total time to setup including hand-painting the forest ecosystem, 3 hours. Total render time, 2 hours. Postwork time, 30 minutes.
Dark Forest Mauseleum
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The full moon above casts an eerie shine over the water in this widescreen-rendered shoreline landscape image, reflecting off the placid waters and casting dark ominous shadows in the forest above the beach-line.
3200×2000 .png format 3D rendered landscape image created using Vue » Continue Reading…
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The full moon above casts an eerie shine over the water in this widescreen-rendered shoreline landscape image, reflecting off the placid waters and casting dark ominous shadows in the forest above the beach-line.
3200×2000 .png format 3D rendered landscape image created using Vue. » Continue Reading…
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A free desktop image to brighten(?) your computer workspace.
1280×1024 .jpg format 3D rendered image, created using Poser 7. » Continue Reading…
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Deep under the canopy of the forest, plants reach towards what light they can get.
1600×1120 .jpg format 3D rendered image created using Vue. » Continue Reading…
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