Yearning for the ability to create in a 3dimensional field was a difficult period of trial and error in a bid to locate the software that would speak the volumes she needed to create. BIONeedless to say that many programs were tried and the majority were unsuccessful. Almost at the end of her quest along came Vue d'Esprit.
Never had she felt so much at one with the world as she did with this one application. Her mind was writing the volumes as the render's portrayed the essence of life she experienced.
The turning point came for her in September 2001 when Renderosity held a Vue 4 Contest. Her image entitled "The Pilgrimage" won first prize ~ a copy of the newly released Vue d'Esprit 4. This was the first time she had ever won a CGI contest, and she finally felt worthy of being called an Artist.
From that point on, her world began to change. She met an amazing array of personalities online, some destined to become her mentors, some her peers, and others friends or fellow artists that would become perpetual sources of inspiration, consistently giving her the desire to achieve to higher levels in her personal work.
Having the opportunity to learn from some of the greats in the industry; at first through Renderosity and then through her work and friendship with RuntimeDNA & TeamDNA, she discovered programs like Poser and Photoshop and was able to integrate her beloved Vue to achieve the maximum joy possible in her graphics.
In her current capacity as forum moderator ~ the Creator's Box and 2D 3D Software forums at Animotions and the Vue forum at RuntimeDNA, her personal aim of sharing the knowledge she has acquired is maintaining her ethos that Art is learning as much as possible along life's path ~ be it Canvas or Computer Graphics the result is still the same. Art is 4 Life!
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Thank you to all of the people I have met along the way. I will always be indebted to you for your friendship, your guidance and your artwork!
I look forward to continuing my journey through life ~ learning and sharing through ART.
Comments (25)
fozzibear
That is very well done rosey, you got a winner there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Xena
Wow, this is weird! I like it :)
Curio
I love it! The underwater light effect is very effective, and the distortion too! well done!
neftis
awsome composition!the light and ambiance are perfect.So is the idea of the stairs:) good work B baby
kromekat
Very cool! - what they said!! :D
koncz
Great play with the water and blurred reflections,and the underwater scene is a good idea Beck.:)
MikeJ
Cool! Interesting idea. :)
futuramik
WOOOAH! baby ,I'll have wot u did but 2 please!! great camera angle ,lights ,blah blah!!! excellent!
Kenniston
love the effects in this!!!
Heart'Song
Ooooo - very nice! Like the plot, and like the render.
kingkyle
Bamboo garden... Sitting on the edge of bamboo pool, I can clearly see my reflection. A drop falls from nowhere scatter my image, after a short pause my reflection is back again. Was I really gone or was it only my conscious going trough transformation. I am still there my image too, just the memory of being transformed remains. ...Chinese poem... I like this alot
Varian
Very good surreal effect! :)
WiNC
This is really nice :) Another background image for my desktop - and you know only those I really like get in that gallery :) Great work... :)
gebe
This looks great Rose and the idea is just fabulous. :-) Guitta
bloodsong
lost in the aquarium again... great job, rose :)
Axe555
Great job on this! I like it!
audre
hey this is awesome. nice idea an nicely executed too!
The 4th Party
very cool, great job rose ;)
Sacred Rose
Surface thank you for your comment. However, there was no alpha plane used in this image at all, the entire scene was enclosed in a box and the box was textured in the water material. Hence the reflections from the different elements. In our VChallenges the whole idea is to render without postwork to expand our knowledge and increase our skill. But I do appreciate your comment, and your thoughts on the image :)
Taura Noxx
great one, very nicely done :)
Wizzard
beautiful my love... very surrealistic.. and poignant 8 ) thank you 1447
SurfAce
The Vue d'Esprit road-sign you used is made with a plane and an opacity map. As the black part of the opacity map corresponds to the alpha channel of the diffuse color map,it is called an alpha-plane. Probably because of your backlighting or to your atmosphere, the outer part of the plane on the upper sign is not transparent. So we clearly see a gray rectangle around the sign, wich betrays the presence of the a-plane. If you can't use postwork, then you might have to modelise a "real" road-sign by yourself, by extruding a bezier spline in whatever 3d modeler is available, but that should not be too much of a problem. Otherwise, if you really want to stick to the a-plane technique, you might have to change your lighting, but that would be a pity because it's very good. It might also be possible to find pre-made roadsigns on the web, that are not made with an a-plane but really with a 3d mesh. I hope this will help you to improve this great image. Sincerely.
orpheus2001
Its so fantastic. YOu have made a good job. I also work on a underwater scene but you are perfect.!
Kiernnan
This is a wonderful image. The colors are so peaceful. The perspective throws that peace off just enough to make the whole scene extremely interesting. Great Job!!
RadArt
Awsome idea, looks good ;-)