Sunday 16 September 2007

Candle Holder 2


I decidet to shoot for even more realism with my Candle Holder picture, and changed the colour of the light to something more resembling what you get from a candle. I also cranked the render settings even higher, and added a groundplane of black granite in order to give a little indirect light to the contour of this Vicky's body.

While there is more ambiance of stark terror in the first Candle Holder picture, I like this one even better. Let me know what you think!

Friday 14 September 2007

Candle Holder


Finally! I finally managed to produce a picture with which I am truly happy and pleased!

This is my third ever render using Carrara 6 Pro, and the picture took quite some time setting up. I just love the way the program lets you preview a small test render to see if you're on the right track. That makes it so much easier to get control over the results.

I used only a single light for this picture - the one producing the halo around the candle. I cranked the render settings way high for this one - heavy anti-aliasing, best quality and resolution for shadows and lighting etc - and it paid off! Render took just under two hours on my P4, 2.4 GHz, 1GB ram engine, and 70% of the time was spent just rendering the girl's hair!!!

I'm calling this picture "Candle Holder" - because that was my project name for it. You'll have to think of your own story for now. I've imagined that a young girl has somehow gotten lost in the deep cellars beneath her college dormitory, and that she is surprised by her pervert teacher. Why she is nekkid is another matter. Perhaps she was doing some laundry when a fuse blew and the cellar became pitch black?

Simone - a photoshoot study


Sorry for not updating for a while, folks. I've migrated to a new 3D CGI program, and it has taken me some time to get used to.
This is actually a trial render I did with a plain and unmodified V4 model, Emma-MATs, and the hair I've used for Simone - and it came out looking just like my dear Simone - so I thought I'd share it with you.

Simone is a rather petite model - only 157 cm tall. This "Vicky" however, is a quite tall model at 170+ cm - but you can't really tell, since there are no size references in the picture.

So how does this picture fit in with the storyline? It really doesn't, but since there is a mistake in the picture, which to the attentive viewer lets on that it is a model posed in front of a large canvas of a dramatic landscape (look at how her shadow falls on the mountain in the background...), I thought I'd squeeze it in like this:

"This is the picture that finally convinced the Prince to try and acquire Simone for his harem. Her petite stature and innocent appeal came out fabolously in this botched photograph, where the photographer had over-lit the scene and gotten her shadow to fall on the background canvas. Simone looked barely legal, just the way the Prince wanted his girls, and her near luminescent beauty coupled with her radiance of innocence made him nearly explode with lust to penetrate her and do lewd things to her. He was like that, the Prince."