Sauron Defeated by hamfast
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Description
This image comes from a scene not in the 3-volume "Lord of the Rings" book by J.R.R. Tolkien, but by his "prequil" book, "The Silmarillion". It depicts how Isildur, heir to the throne of Gondor came to be in possession of the One Ruling Ring of Sauron. A difficult scene to depict, as I wanted to capture the drama of the moment and the tremendous temptation that the One Ring would bring a man - the moment of indecision and the lure of the ring.
DAZ 3D's Michael 3 formed the basis of the character of Isildur and Sauron. The armor of Isildur was based on Xurge3D's "Castle Guard for Mike 3", and Sauron's armor was a heavily morphed and tweaked "Dark Armor for Mike 3" - also from Xurge3D. Blacksmith 3D was used for the custom morphs. Both Isildur and Sauron's helmets were created from scratch by myself using Hexagon 2.1 and UVMapper as was the shards of Narsil. The textures, bumpmaps and "dirt maps" of the figures were also created entirely by myself by hand as well as using some textures from various sources on the Internet.
The figures were posed in Poser 6 and exported to Bryce 6 and then a couple of large scale terrains, and rock objects were carefully placed and lit by about 10 spotlights and radial lights of various strengths and falloffs. The Mount Doom volcano in the background was lit by a single spotlight to give the impression of a volcanic eruption and several 2D images with transparency maps for the volcanic clouds
The final render was took about 50 minutes. No multiple renders needed on this one - for a change!
As in the past the renders were imported into Corel Photopaint 12, retouched and tweaked with a variety of tools and finally saved as the image you see on this page.
Comments (14)
Niha
VEry good lighting! Excellent! THis is one COOL image! Great job!:)
gattone_blu
Splendid
TwoPynts
Such a dramatic scene and one I remember well from the movie & the Sim. Difficult to pull off but you handled it well. Bravo!
leoshades
Quite keen!
dshield
Excellent work. D
Atomic_Anvil
Excellent work sir! Very dramatic depiction.
korstemplar
Lots of work and it paid off well. You have got a real winner here! Absolutely brilliant;o) Michael
Daramski
Outstanding, fantastic render, looks really awesome!
steve100
Magical work here, great setting. 5 stars.
wawadave
nice work!!!
geirla
Great composition!
Riquelme8
AWESOME work man and good to meet other artists who bring mr Tolkien's work alive:) I've been trying to do that myself too... I think you have captured the drama more than perfectly... just look the expression in his face!
Ghostofmacbeth
Very cool image.
supermarioART
Impressive and dramatic scene!!!Spectacular lighting!!