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Paul-Francis
09-05-2008, 06:20 AM
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Title: The Lady of the Lake
Name: Paul Francis
Country: United Kingdom
Software: Photoshop, Poser, Vue

Madrugada Eterna is a soul guardian; she has tattooed her skin with a multi-dimensional map of the journey she must make in order to move on to the next level of existence.

The figure (a commercially-bought model), foreground vegetation, water and rocks were all rendered in Poser 7. A 24-hour render, thanks to the water material, but worth the wait; this is the best water material I've ever created in Poser. Bit puzzled by the little square artefacts, but fed up with looking at it now.

I've done my usual trick of separating out the render into individual layers using object masks, so I could paint between, behind and in front of the different elements, although they were all rendered together initially. The background is a section from an older piece of mine, produced in Vue 6 and Photoshop.

The tattoos were created with some amazing free Photoshop brushes from Deviant arts called Clockworks by Chrissy79.

Hope you like it!

Yes, yes, I do know about refraction; I'm aiming for something more like an illustration than a photograph. Yes, she is a Vicky, but she's not (quite) naked, nor is she in a temple, and she in fact has TWO swords.

Turri
09-05-2008, 09:17 AM
wooooooow thats an amazing piece of work. i am very impressed. :applause: :applause:

LadyPurple
09-05-2008, 09:38 AM
She's a little thin.. btw good work :thumbsup:

fluxist8070
09-05-2008, 02:49 PM
I think the mushroom is too distracting. The red is too intense. You might want to balance out the image with some of that red in other places, or de-saturate it a bit. The arms look too straight.
Other than that, it is a nice image. The concept of the character is nice too.

Marcinek
09-05-2008, 04:23 PM
Good work! very nice enviroment :) 4*

hakanpersson
09-05-2008, 05:17 PM
Nicely done. Render and comp looks great. Love the style of the character (included she is thin).

My only crit is the mood of the image. Minor remarks though. I would have wanted her to have a dull expression, it kinda disturbs me that she seem to be smiling. I also think it would have been better with full fog in the background, yet again seems a bit to happy/serene. "Why" is simply because she is a pale women with battle wounds, dual blades and probably some kind of 6th sense instead (instead of eyes), simply she is VERY serious:cool:

trance_dom
09-06-2008, 01:14 AM
set as desktop background ^^ ...however..i desaturated it in PS, looks much better now

souledge3
09-06-2008, 04:28 AM
ohhh super cg girl super env. superr jobbb:applause:

carlmentier
09-07-2008, 08:39 AM
nice cg girl

urban-rebellion
09-07-2008, 03:34 PM
If only all poser stuff was like this! Cool concept, I think tatoos on your armpit would be slightly difficult to read when you're trying to travel between dimensions but maybe she can read them without seeing them. Although it does beg the question why she needed to tattoo them onto her body when she wouldnt be looking at them. Or...maybe just write them down on a peice of paper? :P

No look ignore my machinations on her look, its a cool image thats it. keep it up :thumbsup:

Paul-Francis
09-07-2008, 08:47 PM
Thanks for the feedback everyone; it really helps getting someone else's eyes on your work.

Hakan - you're right about her smiling, she should look more sombre.

John - your armpit is all you can see when you're inter-dimensional.....!

zzjgo
09-08-2008, 07:18 AM
Very nice scene.4*

matacloud rather too

urban-rebellion
09-09-2008, 05:32 AM
your armpit is all you can see when you're inter-dimensional.....!

That explains a whole lot for me :D

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