The Dragon Huntress by Giolon
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I really hope you guys like this image. This one really, really kicked my ass (and my computer's ass). I feared at several points that I had bitten off more than I could chew.
I have spent the greater part of a week working on this, including all of today. Out of all my renders thus far, I'm most proud of this one. This is the first time I realized the final scene would be so complex, that I needed to prototype the scene with simple figures and props. I spent about 4 days doing that, then I spent all of today filling in the detail.
Once that was finally set up, I realized I needed a sky, so after a half an hour of fruitless searching, I fired up Bryce and forced myself to take an hour or so to figure out the program enough to make myself a sky.
Finally, with everything in place, I set the computer to render. After over an hour and a half, Poser shut down the renderer for lack of memory after completing 2/3 the image (used up 1.78GB). Thankfully I was able to save the top 2/3, restart Poser, and initiate rendering of the final 1/3 (which still used 1.67GB of RAM). A little photoshop surgery and you'd never know if I hadn't just told you, lol! Perhaps I shouldn't spill my secrets. ;)
So, here you have Rena, in the role of The Dragon Huntress. I dearly hope you enjoy this image. Those who leave comments will receive a link to the original hi-res render in their inbox.
Thank you for looking and for your comments!
Rena by me (using Niki Nymphling)
Background by me (in Bryce)
Comments (19)
LunaFaye
Excellent. Worth all that hard work!
Mondwin
Fantastic scene!!!!Splendid composition!!bravo!V:DDD
louly
Beautiful scene! I really like the pose of your character, of her clothes and her hair. The light is very good too.
Danceswithroos
Absolutely fantastic. Easy to see where all the time went. Love the composition and all the details. Excellent V
Azr1el
Fantastic image / composition and I really love the colour tones and textues :) V
chimera46
I'm impressed, this is quite the scene. I love how the lighting matches the flame breath, which by the way looks excellent. I'd have to agree with Roos here, fantastic work!
webdancer
Extraordinary! Every second you spent working on this image was so wroth it!
GuabaMan
Very Epic! A powerfull picture.
cujoe_da_man
oh man, I should've waited for this one, that moon came out perfect too. Hope she's a great huntress.
DavidEMartin
Nicely dramatic. Bet she wishes she had a spear or a bow right now, though!
artstrider
Love it! A Night Scene ought to have been extremely dificult with all the lighting involved. Can't see any seams so the doctoring turned out really well. The Flames turned out well also. But your story about running out of memory scares me away from every owning Poser since my computer only has 1GB of memory. 64bit AMD processor but only 1GB memory. Is it really that big a memory hog?!? Keep 'em comin!
PoserHobbit
Excellent scene! The render problems are with the M Dragon, both of it's incarnations! I love the dragon but to use it is courting disaster!
waldmeista
Fantastic scene!
ninja_man
Im speechless, this is a truely amazing piece of work, the hard work was worth it :D
The_Doom
The best render I've seen yet. It dosent hurt that I'm a fan of knights/dragons/other medival stuff. I really like the dragon and the flames. Very good job!
morin3000
Simply wonderful One super Image of work Excellent ***** ((V))
shipmanjonathan
Awsome work!! Love it!! "V"
Gazukull
I feel this too! Action seens are too far and few between on here, I would like to see more of this sort. -G
Thalek
Beautiful work! But it looks like someone is very shortly going to be doing an imitation of a candle . . . [grin]