The Watcher by WZRD

Vue • Fantasy • posted on Nov 05, 2006

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Hi folks - here's another trueSpace/Vue composition. A long time ago I had a 12 inch vinyl record by Vangelis and Jon Anderson (from 'Yes) called Olias of Sunhillow. As well as being a good record it had some truly amazing cover art. My memories of that art were the inspiration for this picture. The figure was box-modelled in trueSpace and his cloak was made with a NURBS plane. The symbols on the cloak were made with trueSpace. The domed building on the lowest floating island, the roads and the rope suspension bridges are all models I made in truespace as is the largest floating island. The other buildings are separated components of the Tyrol Castle model available from Cornucopia3d.com and the waterfalls were originally made by Forester (thanks Pam). Everything else is Vue 5 Esprit terrains and vegetation etc. Rendered with GI using an extensively modified version of one of Thomas Kruhns excellent free atmospheres. I hope y'all like it - please leave a comment - good or bad (I can take it!) ATB WZRD

Comments (12)

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densa

9:46AM | Sun, 05 November 2006

great job luv the concept and the elements u used

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Svarg

10:06AM | Sun, 05 November 2006

Wonderful image! Btw, the album is on the web if you look.

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WZRD

10:16AM | Sun, 05 November 2006

Thanks Svarg - silly me for not thinking of that. I'll go take a look now and see how my memories compare with the real thing!

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Nuria

12:16PM | Sun, 05 November 2006

Wonderful !!! Magical !!

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loloroche

1:38PM | Sun, 05 November 2006

very nice! good job!

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GrassHopper1

1:38AM | Mon, 06 November 2006

interesting pov. nice work

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judee3d

2:52AM | Mon, 06 November 2006

I am, as ever, in awe of your talent, Stephen. Awestruck is a good discription of me at this moment. Aside from the incredibly complex and "I have no idea how you did that" background floating islands, I really admire the modeling of the wizard - the windblown effect on the cape and hair is so realistic i can feel it! Excellence!

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BGHart

6:18AM | Mon, 06 November 2006

Very creative work! :)

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sacada

2:37PM | Mon, 06 November 2006

Great composition. Well done.

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pixeltek

1:43AM | Mon, 01 January 2007

Yes. I loved that one too. The art was by Roger Dean, and here are some images: http://www.rogerdean.com/upclose/arches.htm Album cover art here: http://www.abandonart.co.uk/gallery/roger-dean-artist.html

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Doom Dancer

7:08PM | Mon, 29 January 2007

Great image spawned from great music. Jon Anderson is one of my alltime favorite vocalists. He would be proud to have a copy of this. -Rob

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ccbig

12:24AM | Mon, 28 January 2008

Album cover art is a amazing thing that has really gotten lost with CD's. Some of my favorites were from the Molly Hatchet albums and who can forget the Cars "Candy O" album cover! Terrific image!