Hi all,

I’m just sharing my intentions with you. Normally my art involves very little planning. I just play till something nice appears. Today I want to actually plan a picture and share the entire process with you. As I want to challenge myself on a few things, this will take a few weeks.

My goals with the picture are:

• to have dramatic lighting (think Caravaggio or Film Noir)
• to tell a story in the picture
• to construct all the architecture in Sweet Home 3D
• to create and use as many of my own textures as possible
• to UV Unwrap in Blender
• to understand and apply Displacement Mapping as a viable partner to Bump Mapping
• to have multiple people in the picture, each doing something
• to push my understanding of DAZ Studio’s lighting and shadow functionality

My initial thought for a picture is set in a corridor, late afternoon sunlight streaming through tall thin windows causing stripes of light and shadow. In the corridor are people in Renaissance/Fantasy outfits. I selected these elements because I believe that the clothing could be spectacular and the arrangement of colours interesting.

I will share the journey with you guys and hope that you will participate by giving me advice (both technical and artistic) as it progresses. I may ignore some of it. But I may not. However I will deeply consider every bit of it.

regards

Greg

PS: Does anyone know why when I go to the WordPress reader and select “Blogs I follow” I am not seeing the posts from all the blogs that I follow?