Friend of the Friendless by ShadowWind
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Tina had been homeless for sometime, wondering why her parents left her. She didn't have friends. Most laughed at her because her clothes were kinda shabby, all but Teika. She loved coming here and sitting with him, and he liked it too. It made her feel better, but she had to wonder that even though she was free and he was not, that they were both trapped in fate's grasp.
Thanks for looking and supporting my work as always.
Comments Welcome
VuePro/Poser 4/LW/Painter/Photoshop
The scene was assembled and rendered in Broadcast mode of VuePro, which took 8 hours to render (4-1/2 of which was anti-aliasing which makes no sense to me). It was all created as one scene which was driving me crazy on how to get the water in the back and not in the front. Even though it does have some other program elements in it, I wanted to post it here because I was particularly proud of the effects that I was able to get from the Vue renderer. I hope you don't mind.
Postwork was done on the hair, clothes, and just a touch on the image to correct some post render things I saw that didn't warrant another 8 hours to try it again. :)
Credits:
Image, Concept, Clothes, Hair, Lighting, FX, Pillars by ShadowWind
The Wonderful Orcas once again by MoonRose in FreeStuff
Tina played by MilKids from Daz with Nanni texture from Zrincx
Rest from the Vue Library
Note: I am involved in several new projects both in and outside of 3D, so time has been terribly short. I do wish I could get to all of your works, but I will try very hard to catch them when I can and hope you'll forgive me on the ones that I miss.

Comments (86)
Wow such a great image. Beautiful lighting. The POV of the girl and whale are perfect. Vote!!
Good things are well worth the wait! .... VOTE
What a sweet but sad story. Well done pic :) Excellent lighting & POV.
very good work. I agree good things are worth a vote.
Very sweet and very sad. A feeling sooo close to reality at times. Terrific image Shadow :)
awww, this is your best style IMHO and a top example! the story is touching ma heart.... now shame on you, you petstore owner! Free this beast immediately! Oh, sorry that's you, ShadowWind. Ok, keep it there!
Beautiful!! This is so lovely!!
Nice image, great caustics. And wow, two very cool stories to go with it! :)
OH WOW.. this is one beautiful and wonderful image.. Amazing WORK hon..HUGE HUGS
awe... touching story... & impressive, beautiful work!! don't worry bout catching up, you do what you need to do :]
great great !!! i like to be with her :p
Good concept, composition and detail. Very good image.
Fantastic idea excellently executed.
Beautiful and excellent done!!!
very moving story! beautiful scene!! excellent image v
Excellent job on the textures and lighting,good rendering too.vote.
Like the story , so true, eccelent compo, nice colors and lighting is very impressive. A wonderful example of how many others of all species, have the same fate, Eccelent work. Lina
Wonderful image and effects on the lightning. Excellent work !
Lovely lighting and image. Well done.
I love this iamge very touching and it makes you think I love that....
Excellent setup and lightning. I also like the story behind this image. However I always become kind of sad to see orcas and dolphins in a basin instead of swimming in the open sea. Anyway it's very nice image that you created - well done! :)
I totally agree with TheWingedOne, but, at least the girl and the orca got one another as friends. I don't know why they call them "killer whales" - just because they hunt fish?! bad name for incredibly gentle beings. Beautiful picture, my friend :)
Absolutely beautiful! Such a touching story. I read the story while the image was loading and when the image was done, my heart did a flip. So sad, but also so wonderful. Hugs!
Very touchy indeed - and excellently executed. It is sooo nice to have a story behind an image. Especially a story like that. Very very well done!
Extremely well done! :o) You've really pulled the aquarium effect off very, very well. And, a very good storyline to go with the image.
Picture and your comment are very touching. Idea and caustic are great. Thank you. :)
Your lighting in the aquarium is absolutely stunning in this pic. I think if I had tried to render that water on my comp it would have died on me LOL. Love the textures too. Top stuff mate!
I enjoy this work - It is complete and meaningful - A envoking blend of word and vision - Pure emotion !
Lovely Image and Story,Terrific Work
WOW ... It's soooo beatiful ... Nice scene and great lighting ... These colours are just fantastic ... I love this one my friend !