The Reader by Rutra

Vue • Surrealism • posted on Feb 22, 2007

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Hi! Many thanks for the kind comments in previous pictures! * Please, view this one full-size. * I love reading and with this picture I try to portray what reading is for me: - concentration (represented by the lights, focusing on this small "universe" and nothing else), - isolation from everything and everyone (even the floor only exists exclusively to support the reader), - ...and the whole Universe at our range! 99.9% direct render. In postwork I just added 3 or 4 stars in a specific spot, needed because of how I built the scene, which was: - Load atmosphere "outer space" - Put all light from the sunlight, none from ambient - Delete the sun and create a volumetric spot light (shadow intensity 85%) - Put a standard window in front of the light (80% transparency, 20% reflection) - Cover sides and back of the light with black planes, leaving just one place for the light to go: the window - Create some candles and put a standard light (very weak, just power of 5), just to give some ambient light - The character is M3, morphology and expression dialed manually by me. Pose was also made entirely by me. Thanks for watching!

Comments (34)

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corvas

7:18AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

wow fantastic and great lighting fx

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prionbrain

7:20AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

gorgeous!!!

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Sylvia

7:24AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

~Fantastic~ So Beautiful & Magically created... EXCELLENT!! ^5^

jchristenberry

7:26AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Wow, I wonder what he's gonna do when hes done with that book? Go for a walk? LOL! Great work!

Rupert

7:50AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Great idea, truly a book can open up worlds to you.

Kuiski

8:04AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

A very original and great scene, excellent composition and pretty effects. Good!

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Desiderius

8:55AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Superb light!! Great render!! Excellent scene!! BRAVO!

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Schnuck

9:07AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Excellent!!!

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richard57

9:35AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

super boulot

altec101

11:32AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Stunning render! more please.

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thefixer

11:46AM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Amazingly cool image, fantastic thought gone into this!!

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Whatthe

12:55PM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Very well done in concept, imagination, and execution!

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gattone_blu

12:59PM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Splendid idea and realitation. bravo

aquablue

1:24PM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Great concept and excellent render !!!

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efron_241

2:15PM | Thu, 22 February 2007

This is super.. Great use of the light.. special that the person reading is also reflected in the window. More comments in a mail to you (as you mailed me too :)

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carlx

5:20PM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Wow!!! Magic, peaceful surreal scene and view!!! :) Awesome work!!!

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chrispoole

5:21PM | Thu, 22 February 2007

Magical scene, great lighting and wonderful idea.

Traligill

7:26PM | Thu, 22 February 2007

superb work!!!!!

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wrpspeed

7:51AM | Fri, 23 February 2007

great effect.

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Peggy_Walters

10:00PM | Fri, 23 February 2007

Great idea and well carried out - that's how I feel about reading too.

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bigbraader

1:50AM | Sat, 24 February 2007

Excellent picture and idea, well done.

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Kartika

4:56PM | Sat, 24 February 2007

Brilliant lighting

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criss

2:52PM | Sun, 25 February 2007

Splendid artwork! Great idea and execution, love it!

aufgebauer

3:35AM | Mon, 26 February 2007

BOAHHHH !! Thats what I like. Verry nice

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Burpee

9:02AM | Mon, 26 February 2007

Gorgeous effects and lighting!!!!!!! Wowzers!!

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Max_the_Dog

3:04PM | Sun, 04 March 2007

Ecellent.Love the concept.

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sl701

5:02PM | Thu, 15 March 2007

Wow, fantastic pic and an excellent idea!! Instant favourite :D

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bandolin

6:02PM | Mon, 26 March 2007

Critique Group Conceptually speaking this is outstanding. However, my problem is that you're focus is supposed to be on the reader himself, and he is lost in the overly strong volumetric lighting. In this image I believe you will need to cheat in order to bring the viewers focus back to the subject of your art and away from the very bright window and the ensuing volumetric light.

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johnfields

8:31AM | Sat, 31 March 2007

I really like this image - very good job! I think (and this is subjective) that if the main figure had some soft fill light it would make the image really stand out and it would not blow the directional lighting thing you got going- very good composition, another very small thing woulf=d be the tangents on the candle nearest the window - it gets kinda lost - maybe rotate it 180 to the other side of the fig and that could be you fill source! All in al a really nice image tho!

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