Viking Pyre by Tiari

Mixed Medium • Fantasy • posted on Apr 29, 2007

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Description

In days of old, valliant vikings were not buried, but given a pyre on a ship, bunt and sent adrift........ Created using bryce and P6 as well as plenty of paintwork in Photoshop with airbrushes. Some grainyness might be visible in the sky, that came from resizing to make it small enough resolution to be put on rendo. Ship is the Avalon Barge. Flames were created above the ship, in the form of dragon heads on purpose which took some doing. The burning remnants on the water are from breaking ship parts still afire and floating on the waves (the water itself is not on fire)

Comments (30)

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RoseMoxon

7:20PM | Sun, 29 April 2007

its a very well presented pic tiari, congrats

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spm91g

7:22PM | Sun, 29 April 2007

Very excellent scene!!!!

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juca

7:39PM | Sun, 29 April 2007

Perfect job!! Wonderful art!!

Denys234

7:43PM | Sun, 29 April 2007

Awesome effects!

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Heztia

8:29PM | Sun, 29 April 2007

Excellent fire fx's very well done! ;0) Heztia

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Anniebel

9:00PM | Sun, 29 April 2007

Wow, cool idea, no crits from me.

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JillianElf

10:23PM | Sun, 29 April 2007

Beautiful work and a striking image!

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dphoadley

2:20AM | Mon, 30 April 2007

Well Done! Very Well Done Indeed! DO keep it coming! DPH

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Rutra

3:01AM | Mon, 30 April 2007

That is awesome, very well done.

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woodant

3:09AM | Mon, 30 April 2007

Really nice job here. I love the colours of the flame and sky reflecting on the water surface. Nice job.

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SAMS3D

3:41AM | Mon, 30 April 2007

Love how you did the flames on the water. Great job.

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giorgio_2004

8:55AM | Mon, 30 April 2007

Do you hear the sound of applauses? Well, they are mine. Excellent image, best compliments and no critiques at all!

AnAardvark

10:02AM | Mon, 30 April 2007

I like the background and the composition. To me, the fire looks too clean, and too much like a small fire. (It looks a bit like a fire from lighter fluid on a model boat.) I do like the dragon heads, but think that maybe the fire could be a little smokier with sparks.

atilla39

10:39AM | Mon, 30 April 2007

Oh yes excellent work.

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SweetOne

11:16AM | Mon, 30 April 2007

WOW, great image!!

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ArtPearl

1:38PM | Mon, 30 April 2007

Magical image. In my opinion, the stylized flames and lack of smock do not detract , they add to the dream like atmosphere. Wish I could do something like that. (The mountains are completely black - would be nice to see a little bit of texture so it doesnt look like a cutout, but maybe its my screen. )

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shantay

3:31PM | Mon, 30 April 2007

Cool looking image!

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SoCalRoberta

3:55PM | Mon, 30 April 2007

Stunning image. I think a bit of the fire's reflection against the sides of the fjord would show them a bit better. But overall this is a truely great piece of art.

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STEVIEUKWONDER

2:30AM | Tue, 01 May 2007

What an incredible scene here. The lighting is magnificent and compliments the scene superbly. Excellent artwork and a very realistic perspective. Excellent! Steve :o)

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TheAnimaGemini

4:11PM | Wed, 02 May 2007

I love this a lot. The fire effect is fantastic. Not to bright not to dark. Love the light arround the ship too. Excellent work.

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kobaltkween

4:46PM | Wed, 02 May 2007

nice feel to this work. the colors, the flames, and the softness of it are all very melancholy, and a wonderful contrast to the boat. somehow, the water looks a bit stock (like a flaming pear floodfill), so i'd say that something to make it more fitting for the scene and for the body of water (sea, not lake) would have made it stronger. good moody piece.

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drifterlee

12:55AM | Thu, 03 May 2007

Really beautiful. I remember seeing a scene like this in the old movie with Kirk Douglas.

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Acadia

4:07AM | Thu, 03 May 2007

I really like this. Excellent attention to detail and a great atmosphere.

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KarenJ

4:24AM | Thu, 03 May 2007

Lovely composition and good concept. I would like to see the water a little more choppy, although the reflection on the water surface is great.

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pjz99

6:12AM | Sun, 06 May 2007

Overall, great, VERY nice job on the water, I don't mind that it's very smooth. The flames look really nicely shaped - you did a great job painting them, I'm glad you explained that you painted them because I would have assumed you blended them in from a photo - however, they're a bit too big in scale, they seem to be coming from a smaller fire than how the scene shows. I don't know if you'd be willing to revise that, but if you do, you might think about making the flames more fractal-y, if that makes any sense. Higher rez would be really welcome as well, this is a lovely image and I'd like to see more of that fine detail to the water. If this is the rez you painted at, no problem, just might consider enlarging the image in Photoshop. Very cool dramatic image, very foreboding.

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