(RoW Dec. 11 – 17)
I created Sounds of Autumn for my entry to C3D’s “Autumn in Venice” Fall Contest. Although I didn’t place, it still was alot of fun to create. Most artists were doing scenes with gondolas and canals. But, I wanted to try something a little different.
Starting off in Poser, I posed my figure and imported him into Vue. I set him beside the calliope and added the gondolier’s hat. I used an HDRI environment for this scene.
HDRI Environment: “HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image) pictures are created by combining several identical pictures taken at different exposures. HDRI images are usually designed to be mapped on a sphere and used as an environment map.
One of the typical applications of HDRI images when setup as an environment map is to use the lighting information in the picture to illuminate the scene. Each pixel in the HDRI picture is then considered as a source of light and traced into a scene to determine illumination. This is known as Image Based Lighting, and is a technique commonly used by a motion picture industry to ensure that the lighting of a CG (computer graphics) scene matches exactly that of the real world environment (captured as a HDRI image.)” – excerpt from Vue manual
Sounds of Autumn is not a very complicated scene, but the lighting took quite a while to get right. After the 3 hour render, I brightened the image and blurred it slightly in Photoshop. Thanks for looking!
Take a look at the winners of “Autumn in Venice”:
- Fall and Love in Venedik – ghatihan
- Old Venice – Stolta
- Early Morning in Venice – Lily
There is a print available of Sounds of Autumn in my deviantART store here. Enjoy!
I absolutely love that image! So very beautiful.
And of the winners, I like the second one best.
Lovely job!
That is really cool, Brady!!!
I like the third one the least. That place should have been yours, I think. M
Whoa. Brady! Good work on this one! It’s beautiful!! I love this one.
Great work!! It really should have gotten one of those three places.
Cheers!
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