Bonaparte's Nightjar by Ken _Gilliland
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
I've been slowly rebuilding/remodeling my bird library to support Iray and SF for my Audubon event. Occasionally, I'll be throwing out a test render that turned out well enough to share, and this is one of those examples...
Bonaparte's Nightjar occurs on Sumatra, Belitung Island and Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia, Brunei, and Sabah and Sarawak (Borneo), Malaysia, where it is locally common, but rarely recorded. Nightjars sleep during the day, pretending to be broken branches on tree limbs and snags.
It is considered "vulnerable" to extinction with it's 15,000-30,000 adult individuals on an ever decreasing population trend. It is a lower elevation specialist and the rates of forest loss in the Sundaic lowlands have been extremely rapid (Kalimantan lost nearly 25% of its evergreen forest during 1985-1997, and Sumatra lost almost 30% of its 1985 cover). The habitat loss has been due to the escalation of logging and land conversion, with deliberate targeting of all remaining stands of valuable timber including those inside protected areas.
Rendered in Iray without posatwork. Models include: DinoRaul's "Trees201206" (with my bark texture) and my Nightjar from Songbird ReMix Frogmouths, Nightjars & Goatsuckers.
