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At that moment, she turned her head and looked back. I thought I saw a faint smile on her lips but it might just have been my imagination...
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A small practice in composition turned out to be much more. The past three months I have been working on this image on and off, and while it may still be summer yet, I'm much more of an autumnal guy
The initial goal was simply to make a compelling composition (which I only partly succeeded with), but more and more I found it drawn towards other aspects - I wanted to capture that moment when you look back, when you still haven't left yet but you are already gone. That one instance, when you stand on the threshold, ready to step through the gate, and things start and have already started to change. Or maybe, you are the one who is witnessing the scene - maybe you are the one, she looks back to, before she heads on through the gate, the very symbol of threshold. The moment, when your recent history becomes memory. To be cherished or forgotten is entirely up to you...
If that sounds weird to you - well, I was just as surprised to find out that this concept of "Liminality" even has a wikipedia entry. I tried to incorporate that element of "change" into many elements of the image.
Architecturally I went for a wild mix of various styles and elements, trying to evoke a mildly exotic look and just letting my mind wander to place everything by itself. I chose a german title since it seemed more compact to me (it would translate as "At the Griffin's gate").
In the end, I learned a lot by creating this picture, there are many things that I find very hard to do in 3D in here - hair, characters, cloth, the combination of architecture and nature...while not everything is as I wanted it to be, I will continue to work on these things.
As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Let me know what you think and how you would tell the story of that single moment
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Some details on the making of for the CGI nerds (like me):
Modeling done in Blender (using the customized build for Vray), rendering in Vray. Rendertime was around 22 hours at full resolution of 4000x5600. Materials mostly made in Substance Designer, others based on textures from textures.com.
The girl is based on a mesh from MakeHuman. Hair is done multiple particle systems, all of the clothing done using cloth simulation and some sculpting. Ivy generated using the Ivy generator script in Blender. The walls and bricks are all placed using the awesome Random Object Array script and are real geometry - no displacement used anywhere.
Post processing done in Photoshop and the GIMP (film emulation using G'MIC).
The griffon mesh is based on scanned data and available on sketchfab: sketchfab.com/models/24cea165e…
Some of the architectural frescos and ornaments come from dikart.ru/
__________________
A small practice in composition turned out to be much more. The past three months I have been working on this image on and off, and while it may still be summer yet, I'm much more of an autumnal guy
The initial goal was simply to make a compelling composition (which I only partly succeeded with), but more and more I found it drawn towards other aspects - I wanted to capture that moment when you look back, when you still haven't left yet but you are already gone. That one instance, when you stand on the threshold, ready to step through the gate, and things start and have already started to change. Or maybe, you are the one who is witnessing the scene - maybe you are the one, she looks back to, before she heads on through the gate, the very symbol of threshold. The moment, when your recent history becomes memory. To be cherished or forgotten is entirely up to you...
If that sounds weird to you - well, I was just as surprised to find out that this concept of "Liminality" even has a wikipedia entry. I tried to incorporate that element of "change" into many elements of the image.
Architecturally I went for a wild mix of various styles and elements, trying to evoke a mildly exotic look and just letting my mind wander to place everything by itself. I chose a german title since it seemed more compact to me (it would translate as "At the Griffin's gate").
In the end, I learned a lot by creating this picture, there are many things that I find very hard to do in 3D in here - hair, characters, cloth, the combination of architecture and nature...while not everything is as I wanted it to be, I will continue to work on these things.
As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Let me know what you think and how you would tell the story of that single moment
__________________
Some details on the making of for the CGI nerds (like me):
Modeling done in Blender (using the customized build for Vray), rendering in Vray. Rendertime was around 22 hours at full resolution of 4000x5600. Materials mostly made in Substance Designer, others based on textures from textures.com.
The girl is based on a mesh from MakeHuman. Hair is done multiple particle systems, all of the clothing done using cloth simulation and some sculpting. Ivy generated using the Ivy generator script in Blender. The walls and bricks are all placed using the awesome Random Object Array script and are real geometry - no displacement used anywhere.
Post processing done in Photoshop and the GIMP (film emulation using G'MIC).
The griffon mesh is based on scanned data and available on sketchfab: sketchfab.com/models/24cea165e…
Some of the architectural frescos and ornaments come from dikart.ru/
Image size
1429x2000px 3.21 MB
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Up to now I think that I like this picture the most when it comes to your work - the results of your technique itself as well as the thought-process behind this picture! You again paid a lot of attention to detail, especially when it comes to the golden workings of the gate itself and the warm color composition of the trees and leaves (which could also explain why I like this picture so much, because I like autumn as well). I think it is very fitting that you chose autumn for this picture, as it fits the theme of "change" very well: The essence that was fostered in spring and that bloomed in summer dies away and leaves the "gate of time" - but before that, it looks back to us by coloring the leaves in warm colours. So for me the protagonist of this picture looks back to me. But in this case, it is not the end: Something old ends, something new begins, a result of the everlasting change in nature and life itself. To cut things short: Goodbyes can lead to something new (and sometimes to something bigger, in the case of humans carried by the memories). That's what I got out of your picture