14 - The Envoys - Beta is a playful mermaid by MollyFootman
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Description
Beta swam languidly over the edge of the sunken travel disc and waved to her leader, Prime, and the worried security specialist, Alpha. "SEE YOU AFTER I'VE ENJOYED A BIT OF EXPLORATION, DEAR ONES!" She projected into the neural network.
"INDEED, BETA. HAVE A CARE!" Prime responded with a wave.
Deciding not to share her concerns on the neural network Alpha verbailized to Prime, "Why do I have such a bad feeling about this?"
Molly's art notes: A little retro sci fi for a change! Set up and rendered in Poser 12.0.619 using the Superfly Cycles 2 rendering engine and then tweaked a bit in Photoshop (mainly to add a subtle vignette). The ship is Cybertenko's discplane with a few material tweaks (I didn't like the glass in the dome). The discplane's location is in a Lake by 2nd World. The characters are all DAZ generation 3 dollies: V3 improved by Blackhearted's GND 2 morphs and textures, SP improved by Blackhearted's Irina 2 morphs and textures and Aiko 3 improved with some stuff from DAZ. All of the character textures were optimized for Superfly with Snarlygribbly's EZSkin 3 (there is a new version, " 'beta', use with caution" for Poser 12). The uniforms come from an unknown source and are called male comic overlays. There's a lot in the Poser library from more than 15 years ago that my husband got from I don't know where.
If you are interested in viewing the series in order, that's easier at my Deviant Art site. Look here:
https://www.deviantart.com/mollyfootman/art/Envoys-in-orbit-882644549
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Comments (6)
Marvelous image and narrative, well done.
Thank you! I am so glad you are enjoying it enough to leave me a comment.
Molly
lovely scene with nice lighting effects. Caught my ere right away.
Thank you, Mazzam! I really appreciate that. It's particularly nice to hear from someone with an interest in visual storytelling!
Molly
very cool lighting and idea, love that reflection of Beta
Thank you, Paul. The reflection is one of those serendipitous things. I set up the interaction between Beta and her crew mates and when I did a test render there it was. I was careful in fine-tuning the posing and such not to lose it. If you can't be good, be lucky I says! :-)
Molly
A most fabulous awesome Sci-Fi underwater scene, impressive atmosphere and lighting, great feeling of underwater depth, brilliant render. Exquisite outfits and assets, gorgeous composition and not the least, a habitable volume filled with air which feels great as well. Magnificent Masterpiece of Finest Arts. I love it.
I assume you have all the vitamins and skills, you might want to slowly get rid of vitamin Photoshop and see what you can get.
I do use Photoshop to tweak pictures but I am trying to get my renderings to the point where little or no tweaking is really necessary. I hope I am not overdoing it with Photoshop. :-(
I really appreciate your kind words. I worked with this picture for several days and rendering it with all the transparent and translucent surfaces that were reflective as well took many hours even with a pretty powerful graphics card.
Thank you, my dear!
Love,
Molly
Swimming bath of the future - well done! Regards Anne
Heh. Thank you for the nice comment, my dear!
WOW!!! Super image!!! :-)
Thank you, Nobby. I spent a lot of time with it. :-)