{"id":2573,"date":"2016-06-12T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2023-03-24T03:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T03:32:26","slug":"another-new-fantasy-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/06\/12\/another-new-fantasy-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Another new fantasy image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My twelve year old daughter is trying to write her own fantasy novel So she came to me to design some artwork for its cover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you want on the cover?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A fairy fighting a demon in front of Sparkle City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does the fairy look like?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She pondered for a while. &#8220;Fairy wings, blue clothes and blond hair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The demon?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um&#8230; leathery wings and black clothes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alas wings are not in my collection of 3D objects and I was sure that it would be easier to buy some than make them. So I popped over to the DAZ store and with Rhiannon&#8217;s help picked two wing packs that suited the need. These were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"product-name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/downloader\/customer\/files\/prod\/18720\/\">Fluttery Wings for Genesis 2 Female(s)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"product-name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/downloader\/customer\/files\/prod\/24138\/\">Universal Demon Wings for Genesis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is my stage setup in DAZ Studio.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2575\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-12_21-05-37.jpg\" alt=\"2016-06-12_21-05-37\" width=\"815\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-12_21-05-37.jpg 815w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-12_21-05-37-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-12_21-05-37-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The model city is Dystopia 6&#215;6. I love these Dystopian city models. They are very useful. In this case I changed their diffuse, specular and ambient colours to a pale blue and also made their opacity 38%.<\/p>\n<p>The Iray render ended up like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2576\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rawback.jpg\" alt=\"rawback\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rawback.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rawback-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rawback-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rawback-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SO now it was time to do some Photoshop magic.<\/p>\n<p>To cut a long story shot I did the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>changed the levels to make the characters paler and therefore &#8220;pop&#8221; out<\/li>\n<li>added a gradient layer<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My twelve year old daughter is trying to write her own fantasy novel So she came to me to design some artwork for its cover. &#8220;What do you want on the cover?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;A fairy fighting a demon in front of Sparkle City.&#8221; &#8220;What does the fairy look like?&#8221; She pondered for a while. &#8220;Fairy wings, blue clothes and blond hair.&#8221; &#8220;The demon?&#8221; &#8220;Um&#8230; leathery wings and black clothes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[27,28,139,111,11,16,13,146,147,3,17,83,5,30,141],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-gnlong","post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-3d","tag-3d","tag-3d-art","tag-3d-render","tag-adobe-photoshop","tag-art","tag-daz-studio","tag-digital-art","tag-fairies","tag-fairy","tag-fantasy","tag-fantasy-art","tag-iray","tag-magic-2","tag-photoshop","tag-render","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-12_20-52-44.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/4238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}