Feel it...Fear it...




Well, to be honest, this is merely a practice piece. No real inspiration, no real story, no real concept - just started with some weird shapes and tried to give them a "raison d'être". My focus was on some subsurf modeling and some UV unwrapping practice (although you won't really notice it, the materials were done pretty quickly afterwards), just wanted to try out certain things and then combined them with my old school techniques.
If you know my work, similarities to [link] (which was released almost exactly one year ago as well!) are quite obvious, I think. The style of the model, the presentation with the simple, black background, the duplicated use of the model, the DOF, the use of colors (if you look at my current desktop, you may see where I got that colorscheme from - or actually, I didn't even know that it would be so similar until it was done, my subconscious tricked me)...this time it's a little bit darker but still, to me these works are more or less the same.

As there's not much to tell this time, let's get over with it. Here the technical details:
Model done in Blender and rendered with Yafray. Rendertime was 7:30:41.60 hours, in total 998,163 vertices and 630,086 faces. The lighting was (obviously) done with a HDRI and a three point lighting rig.
The DOF was done with a zdepth map derived from the image, using some simple Node setup (another practice!), and then a Blur done in Postpro. Also adjusted the colors and applied some nice glow to the lights in PS.

So, please let me know what you think - I can take it.