Diving with a Friend. by Greywolf Starkiller
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Description
Here's the first of two pics using AGentleMuse's
new character, Jayne. Great character, Jen! I was
initially going to use her as a Shadow Hound, but
decided to move her 500 years in the past, during
the 22nd century, around the time of the
Human/Mer first contact. Jayne van der Bek,
youngest sister of Simon and Cera. Here I have
her diving with a friend. :) I noticed several
little errors after a LOOOOOONG render. Those
caustic lights sure increase the render time!
Some poke through on the fins. The scuba gear
was not made for Aiko, but I sized it for her as
best as I could. Alas, I forgot to check the fins
after I posed her. :( BTW, thanks, Jen, for an
awesome character! Heh. :)
NOTE: Caustic Lights from RDNA and I added a bit
more blue in PSP.
Greywolf
Comments (27)
And what a lovely friend to dive with! Very creative...very cute :-)
Excellent!
Very beautiful image! Love it!
Beautiful work!!!
Great image, I love the blue tones, makes the image very serene. You've got some pokeys going on but I'm sure you've noticed. The only other thing I would question is the expression on the sea dragons face. Is she sure she's diving with a friend. Cuz he's looking like he's taking her to dinner, not as a guest. Guess it's hard to look friendly when you're a monster. BTW I absolutely love the bubbles and the caustics.
I really like this image! I love the underwater style lighting it seems very realistic! The eyeball on the creature does seem too white/pink to me when everything else has that blue-green cast. Perhaps a touch more going on on the sea bed would be good too; like in the background. I think the pose works well and I think the bubbles are excellent. Very realistic and you get the sense of movement from them and the hair (also well posed) quite readily. Wel done!
Love the excellent lighting and your chosen 'tattoo' seems so perfectly right for this beautiful image!! Excellent!!!
very nice work
Wow, not much to suggest on here, all i can see is that there is some weird thing on the wing/fin, looks like some kind of clipping. Great picture, you have really succeeded in making an underwater feel.
Wait til I finish the next one. I got a sudden attack of 'cute', and when that happens, diabetics must avoid the image it causes. :) Kalon, I noticed the pokeys, after the render, unfortunately. :( The hazards of dressing a character in stuff not designed for her. SIGH. I kept the scene file to make corrections as needed. I didn't add much on the sea floor in this first render because, to be frank, I didn't know how RDNA's caustics would work. Now that I know they are AWESOME, and a real steal at 2.50, I'll 'populate' the scene a bit more. :) Keep those crits coming!
This is an awesome picture. The pose, the lighting, the caustics, all very good. The only things I would suggest would be a more blueish/greenish tone on the light (specially the dragon's eye and her skin need it, I think). Another thing is that in full-size view, in some parts, I have the feeling the image could use a bit more anti-aliasing. The eye of the dragon may be a bit too human. The bubbles are great!
Its BAD real BAD so BAD that BAD does not say it how BAD it is .... SO amazingly BAD that it should be high in the BAD art list ... When you look up BAD with google it will show this BAD image.... How BAD can you make a image ... well this BAD i think... Its sooo BAD that i cant think of any thing BAD to say about it... Im BAD aint I ;} 5 stars from me Chris
Great colors, beautiful water FX, nice BG. The face expression in the Dragon is beautiful!!! Really Cool!!!
Hehe, great underwater scene, well done!
that underwater scenery is so perfect that i demand you do a tutorial. well, not demand, more like request. mmmmmmmmm.... ok, beg. seriously, i don't know how you did that beautiful fade to blue and the lighting on the rocks. the only jaring thing is the caustics. they're small, really bright and crisp, as if the two were very close to the surface in really turbulent (but in a strange way, since it's not blurring) and very clear water. if you do another underwater scene, you might want to give the light gel a lower contrast, less crisp and larger celled caustic for this scale. looking through reference images, i'd say that most whale, dolphin and huge fish images don't show any caustics at low depths, and the ones i've seen have had very blurry, overlapping ones. the sea monster's eye is a bit more human than believable in an underwater creature, but that's probably the effect you were going for. your light looks great on her hair, on the sea monster's belly, and just all over. great work.
very nice water depth and technique.
Great work, I love the water effects and lighting!
I quote cobaltdream in full. How you DARE to post such an image and NOT writing a tutorial about underwater lights? ^_^ Sincerely it's a wonderful picture!
My daughter is going to love this image. Excellent.
This is sweet with the lighting!! Gorgeous work!!
likes it..
A very cool Sea-World feel :) I like the awareness in the dragon's expression! The caustic lights did come out very smoothly, but I think they probably ought to be more spread out, if you can control the scale, maybe make them about 4 or 5 times larger to give us the impression we're further away from the surface. Since that effect seems to be a gel (right?) I'd expect that you have those lights set to Raytraced Shadows, which seems to be causing a "dirty" look to the shadows at the female's chest and legs. You may want to soften that with some postwork, or find a way to make the shadow blend a little better at render time. You probably should check to see if Smooth Polygons is selected in ther render preferences; some of the sharp ooints on the dragon are showing big polygon lines, like the chin spike and the large horns at the back of the head. The bubbles coming from the scuba gear would also get some help there - they look pretty good now, good job, but Smooth Polygons ought to make them look quite a bit better! The lighting is overall very good, and color perfect; there's some fairly strong light coming up from below, and I'm wondering where it comes from. I know technically you probably have a spotlight in front of the dragon to light up his face, which is understandable, but - it looks like there is a spotlight in front of his face ;) You might try a very low power Infinite light with shadows dialed way down or disabled completely, to fake some ambient light. A little smoother transition between bright background -> dark foreground would be great as well. Tips of the female's fingers are clipping into the horns a little bit. You did such a good job fitting the scuba gear that I wouldn't have noticed anything out of place, very good fit job there, maybe snug up the knife strap a bit (magnet or something). Neat stuff!
You did a great job with the lighting :)
I was just going to comment on the caustics :) but I great idea for an image
Very cute image, & the lighting looks great. The only negative thing I noticed is her left hand sinking into the dragons horn, but I only noticed that on the larger view.
Pwettys I likes the dragon ^^
very nice