Fleeing the sand fury by hamfast
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Capturing the essence of an approaching sandstorm was one of the most difficult parts of this entire picture. I had to resort to using a volumetric material in Bryce to get the effect. Again Cynthia Andersonfrom Skywalker's Gallery and the Bryce Forum came to my rescue and provided some assistance with a custom volumetric material of her own. My gratitude and thanks to her!
The clouds were modelled as individual disks in Amorphium, with the volumetric material applied. The figure of Malena was posed with Poser - based on a video grab from a Ridley Scott movie called "Legend" - and then imported into Bryce 4.01. The project was then rendered on a Pentium III 700Mhz PC with 256Mb RAM. The render took an full 14 hours to complete!
Post-rendering was done with my new Corel PhotoPaint 9, fixing the joints, anatomical faults and hair on the figure of Malena. The Alchemy Swirl filter was used on the clouds to clean them up and finally some layered compositing with masks, the "Wind" filter and the Sharpen filter wer used to create the wind-driven sand in the foreground and in the middle distance.
22 January 2001 - BREAKING NEWS: This image was awarded with the prestigious Golden Tori Award for the "Best use of Poser". My grateful thanks to all involved.
Comments (18)
FANTASTIC!!!! Well worth the time and effort!
Your attention to detail and research to create this awesome image is fantastic. Truly a Masterpiece!
WOW This is simply amazing! I only wish it were bigger :)
another great piece HamFast! keep it up! I would buy this as a poster I you ever had this printed! "hint, hint" ;)
This is unbelievable. I can feel the movement surrounding this peice. You have definitely taken the named programs to their greatest potential. This goes down as the best I have seen yet! WOW! :O
This is amazing!! Wonderful feeling of movement!! Got my vote!
Excellent effects and brillint use of color.
AWSOME! i think it is well worth coming to the gallery!
Excellent....
Thanks all. It is an older piece of my work. The entire series (13 images) is available at http://hamfast.bryce-alive.net/annals.html I will putting some of my more up-to-date work on Renderosity tomorrow! Hamfast
Outstanding piece of work. Great job of portraying motion. The pose of the figure is excellent. I like the clothing too. Very well done.
Ah yes, I remember seeing this sometime ago and loved it then. Excellent work Hamfast. ---- Scott.
Bloody Brilliant!!
Gorgeous work.
Wow what a dynamic scene - excellent!!
Wow...this is awesome...i've always had a tough time getting sand and wind effects bt this rocks!!!
Great job, you nailed the sandstorm effect...
Certainly one of the best sandstorm effects that I've seen.