The Final Dawn by sparrownightmare
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Description
The rising sun, glowing an angry red; seems to give ominous portent about the future. The ancient world slowly gives it's atmosphere up to the endless and merciless vacuum of space. And as these two lovers watch the sun and look to each other for strength, they prepare themselves for the journey which they will undertake this day. Fleeing their old dying world, they dream about their new life on the only other inhabitable planet in their solar system. They draw omfort from each other, each realizing how much they will miss their homeworld of Mars, and look forward to their new lives on the much warmer and larger world of Terra.
Okay, backdrop done in Terragen. Im kind of happy with how it came out. Characters created and posed in Poser 6. Let me know what you think, I love suggestions to improve these images.
Comments (5)
mwshipping
Nice image. I really like the backdrop and the red sun in morning effect. My biggest complaint of the characters is that the shadows are wrong for the lighting. The lighting suggests they are lit from above instead of the background.
sparrownightmare
Mars has two moons in a fairly tight orbit, I imaged those as the back light source. I needed some or the characters lost all detail to shadow from the angle because I really wanted the dawn look.
Odessey
Really nice background and mixture of software .
Teleo
Fascinating conceptual piece--reminds me of Peter Schilling's song "The Noah Plan"! I think the textures/materials involved make the lighting tricky (viz., the lighter reds on her outfit), yet if plastique, the lighting is ambiguous enough to excuse the distortions. The heavy shadow on his left cheek reinforces the illusion of background lighting from the sun, but if you put a few glints radiating from the sun's refraction on the upper edges of their outstretched arms, this illusion could be intensified. If, on the other hand, you wanted to emphasize Deimos or Phobos as auxiliary lighting, you might want to show a crescent of one of them in the sky near the upper border of the pic, and then show at least one corresponding glint on the people or the water to affirm multiple light sources. Great work--a little postwork, and you'll have another great pic!
sparrownightmare
Her outfit is made from a semi metallic cloth and is highly reflective. I know about the lighting problem. I will try and reduce the ambient light source when I redo it. Right now I am working on another poser/carrara piece which is going to take some time to render. I really need to find a good free lens flare plugin. I may rework it with the sun a bit higher in the sky.