Fantasy art

Site changes, Iray, new digital art, and film reviews

Hi all, it’s been a busy few days since my last post. In this post I intend to: tell you about my further site changes and how they relate to my writing make a brief mention of DAZ Studio’s new renderer Iray show you my new digital art – two characters from Shade review “Jupiter Ascending” and “Grown Ups” Yes, way too much for one post. So just scroll down

Using Doris Fiebig's model

The other day a modeller and artist whom I admire greatly (Doris Fiebig) created a particular abstract-type object. Here is the post. So I said that I thought I could use it in a science fiction scene. Well, we chatted and I got a copy of the model and as I played with textures and scenes the following kind of happened. Hope you all like (especially you Doris). I have

New artwork begins plus my first rejection

Today’s topics are the man in desert scene that I said that I would commence, and feedback from the Monsters anthology publishers (perhaps my post title is a spoiler). Desert My plan went like this: Make a desert landscape in Bryce (because I already own it) and export that to the Unreal Engine. In the Unreal Engine create some totally awesome materials and paint them on the desert. Create a

Progress of writing and plan for next art work

Hi all, today I will submit a progress report on my writing and also my plans for my next work of art. Let’s do the writing bit first. Lost Voices My story for this failed at about 1,000 words. No, not because I had lost interest. Simply put, I could not find a satisfactory ending. Here’s the synopsis: Refugee girl (deceased parents) works in a children’s gang that mugs children

Step Six of new image: Lighting

Slap me in the face with a herring and call me Stinky! My last post I said that it was time for post-production. Totally wrong. That’s what happens when you spend six straight hours positioning and posing models – the brain goes gaga. I also forgot to tell you what models and gear I used. Well, I will leave that up to my concluding post on the topic. So lighting

Step Five of new image: Adding and posing figures

Hi all 🙂 Today I played a tiny bit more with colours (the carpet is now purple) and added and posed some figures. So I thought that I would tell you my philosophy about posing figures. It is based upon my little bit of experience in amateur theatre. You see, back in the 1980s I had this cunning plan to meet girls. The plan involved being one of a small

A few more minor additions to scene

Hi all 🙂 I am at one of those artistic judgement stages where I am just fiddling to see how things go. I’ve added a banner on a wall using one of my bought textures (one of Ron’s Background Images and Textures). I also added a plain orange carpet for the length of the corridor. I am still uncertain about that colour. Also, at the top of the stairs, in