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Here is a piece of Cover Art for a Fantasy Novel now in publication on Audio Tape. The Process of creating it involved 4 separate programs and a LOT of "Stitching". ( see "Animal Stitching" ) - |
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The first step was to create the "window" which would serve as a filter for the downpour of light. To do this, I needed a dragon. Many are available on line... but I truly needed an original as this was going to be a widely distributed image and not just something done for my own amusement. - |
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The Great beast would be the Second incarnation of the less elegant and far more bulky "Homunculus" created in another piece by blending together parts of a Lion, Snake, iguana and Elephant. I did not concern myself with correct color matching in this image, because I knew the final dragon would be "de-saturated" and appear as more of a gray scale. - |
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With the Dragon and Window created and merged in Photoshop, the next step was to "dress" a Poser3 model and insert him into a trueSpace4 scene. With a few dozen positioning tests done for the shadows... The Final scene was Ray Traced using a feature called Volumetric Lighting, which simulates visible beams of light hitting dust particles in the air. - |
