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[Ehlanna]

Ehlanna,
it really depends upon the mood, the atmosphere that you are trying to project.

Yes, that latter rendition is clearer with detail but there is still something about the first if you wanted something that suggested a somewhat misty morning with the sun struggling to get through.

It's all a matter of the artist's purpose.

A lot is just plain chance and luck - I'd like to think that there's a quiet voice in my head that says "no, just a bit to the left - there, stop! Now tweak that juuuuuust so .." which subconsciously is trying to tell me what is good. More often it is me messing about with things, with nothing much in mind. This one (or least the original) had an aim, which was to conform to a theme of the challenge which was 'bound to please'. Since I had a prop and an allied V4 pose fro the chair and chains (which I had not used up until now) I decided to 'drag them out', dust them off and use them. From there it was a case of, well - need a floor to stand them on, so a floor was added. Then it was, what do we do about the rest of any scenery? To hide the fact that there wasn't much it was a case of either heavy use of Depth of Field or volumetric effects. Since I am still trying out various setting to get decent volumetrics I opted for a bit of DoF allied with a stab at volumetrics. That led, therefore, to the window (just a wall with the windows in) to use, and then to the 'but soft, what light through yonder window ...' moment, when I opted for a spotlight - mainly to not need to slap everything in a box to stop ambient light from getting in had I opted for HDRI, Sunlight, etc. The angling of the light was mainly down to proximity of wall/window to the scene and was arranged (in Daz Studio) by the simple expedient of selecting the spot as a camera device for the view port and arranging it so that the light fell where I wanted. The spot's cone was then narrowed, again to avoid 'light spill'.

It was then just a case of sparking up the render engine and waiting a while to see how the image would develop and it was at that point it became clear it was going to be an 'early morning' or 'late evening' feel image - which I kind of knew when setting up the light

I know you said don't worry, but ...

Oh, Ehlanna -- just for little old me? You shouldn't have! I was actually thinking landscape rather than portrait, but that works as far as I'm concerned and it makes me feel ...special!

Yup, just for you ... and I was thinking landscape but that would just have left large blank spaces (just light and volumetric effect) so went in the portrait direction. The lighting is also probably a little different as I messed a little with the volumetric settings and probably did not use the exact same camera settings in LuxRender.
I'll have a think about a 16:9 version - suitable for using as desktop wallpaper ...

[Ehlanna]

As threatened ... a 16:9 version (actually 1600x900 png, so it's 1.5MB) and, being those dimension had some blank space so had another play with lights (after adding a back wall) and the fog, plus added a cat man with an eye patch ... remind you of anyone?

[Rikwar]

As threatened ... a 16:9 version (actually 1600x900 png, so it's 1.5MB) and, being those dimension had some blank space so had another play with lights (after adding a back wall) and the fog, plus added a cat man with an eye patch ... remind you of anyone?

@Greebo now that should make you feel quite special your own title and a few extra inches and I don't mean the picture size

Very nicely done Ehlanna

[Greebo]

[Ehlanna]

As threatened ... a 16:9 version (actually 1600x900 png, so it's 1.5MB) and, being those dimension had some blank space so had another play with lights (after adding a back wall) and the fog, plus added a cat man with an eye patch ... remind you of anyone?

@Greebo now that should make you feel quite special your own title and a few extra inches and I don't mean the picture size

Very nicely done Ehlanna

Oh, that's cruel .. hilarious, though

[Niauropsaka]

This is an outtake from my next comic, which will be atypical for me in a few ways:

[Rastifan]

This is an outtake from my next comic, which will be atypical for me in a few ways:

Like the skin tone on these beauties. Looking forward to it

[Rastifan]

Sonya and Sindel (Mortal Kombat) overseeing the training of Mila (Dead Or Alice 5) and Harley Quinn.

[Rastifan]

Woo dhae desthub? Ahm wolhing whele...

What Juliet is saying is! Who dares disturb. I am working here.

[Niauropsaka]

I don't consider this finished, really, but I think it's good enough to show. I was inspired.


See the whole image on deviantArt

[Greebo]

interesting! Particularly the partial transparency effects -- made me think of the early experiments of H G Welles' invisible man, when he treated a cat and everything went invisible but its eyes.

Mind you, the visible parts of the girl look good and are attractively posed even without the somewhat unusual visibility effects and I like the way the shadow adds to thw whole image

[Rastifan]

Not easy playing hide and seek with Chell and her Portal gun showing up everywhere^^

Not that Samantha or Faith are complaining. The penalty for getting caught is most... pleasant.
And with that in mind, the girls don't make much of an effort to hide.

Girls at play!
Samantha Nishimura (Tomb Raider Reboot)
Chell (Portal 2)
Faith (Mirror's Edge)

[Rastifan]

Samantha and Lara pinup.

[Niauropsaka]

I'll let you fill in what you think the story is here.

[Greebo]

Someone stole the wastebasket? By the way, do those used condoms glow in UV light?