2014 Edit: all that remains of the original 2010 renders is a few thumbnails. The images themselves have vanished along with a deleted account from which they were called, or remote-loaded. However, I do know this character very well indeed -- Amadeus the Vampire. He's been through numerous incarnations across the years, and I can fill in here, bulk this post back out, with other images...
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| Past tense: in the tavern (raytrace) |
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| Past tense: with cousin Dimitri - a castle |
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| Contemporary: Amadeus, 2024 -- Lux Render |
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| Contemporary again... Lux Render |
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| Future tense: Amadeus and that android |
3D fantasy ... just a few beauty shots today, because I grabbed the opportunity to take a day off, and it's been a great day but I'm really tired! So these are sort of experiments in color ... and they worked.
There's a color combo that is so impressive. You see it in movies: there's a purple sky in the background (twilight or dawn, or a storm), and they light the actors in the foreground in gold or orange. There's a shot like this in Mad Max 2, and also in Conan the Barbarian, and also (for my money, the best one) in The Vikings, which might be a classic movie -- 1958 -- but has some of the most amazing photography ever done. Still. The magic is in the juxtaposition of colors, and I've wanted to do this for ages.
The figure is the Vampire Amadeus. The background is just a quick set made of columns, a floor, a top beam. The most important items are the sky and the lights. The sky was done in Bryce and imported as a backdrop. The lights were set up soooo easily. There's only two -- an orange one and a pale yellow one, with deep shadow maps set for both.
And it really works!
Jade, 21 April
