Song of the Deep by theSea

DAZ|Studio • Sea/Undersea • posted on Jun 21, 2008

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Hello again... I seem to be getting a bit back in the swing after a rather long hiatus. Thanks for stopping in, and for all of your comments and encouragement on recent posts. "Song of the Deep" is a character sketch for another piece. I wanted to do a take on the conventional mermaid theme which looked more like an actual undersea creature and less like Daryl Hannah (not that there is anything *wrong* with Ms Hannah). Nevertheless, it had to hit the marks of the mythology, so she still had to be someone capable of attracting the odd sailor (or maybe scientist?). This is a DAZ|Sudio render with postwork in Photoshop CS3. Lighting is Dreamlight's Advanced Studio Lightset (available from the members club), 'Cool' preset with very little tweaking. I also added a pass with the uber-environment light using the bluish preset for some ambient and occlusion, and finally I rendered out a pass with an uberspot with a caustic gel for that 'bottom of the pool' effect. I rendered a Mood Master pass for depth and used that for the DOF blur in photoshop. Postwork consisted of compositing the varisous lighting and mood master passes (with the MM pass shifted to a blueish color). I took a flattened version of that and did a lens blur to get the DOF. I ran the 'Luce' plugin on a copy of that layer to get a bit of volumetric effect and then blended it with the DOF layer. Final adjustments of contrast, brightness and color rounded things out. Production credits: Aquatica Reef from DAZ (I tried using the volumetric prop from that initially, but the shadows came out funny). V4 - Lilith textures with Lost Realms mertail, & creature morphs from DAZ. Dial spins by yours truely :) Plants - Lisa's botanicals Undersea Set from DAZ and Corals from RDNA. Fishies are from DAZ. As always, your constructive critque and comments are most appreciated.

Comments (30)

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felinx

9:27AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

Superbement bien réalisé, bravo !!

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callad

9:28AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

Beautiful DOF and underwater effect!!! LOVE her tail!!! Wonderful render my friend!!!

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alltheoriginalnames

9:30AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

So beautiful and mystical in its creation, a wonderful fantasy rendetion of a mermaid. Rather than the half barbie doll half fish versions you normaly see. Great artistic vision and concept in revitalizing a wonderful mythical creature

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LinaraTar

9:30AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

wonderful underwater composition! fantastic character pose and render =)

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JCD

9:35AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

Great underwater effect and a wonderful character.

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DarkStormCrow

9:45AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

Excellent work!

hleon

10:01AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

excellent work congratulations!!!! ++++555555

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maxxxmodelz

10:20AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

she looks very cool. Well done.

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kobaltkween

10:38AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

beautiful image, and an interesting take on the mermaid. the bright, evenly lit sea says shallows much more than deep, but that's a minor point.

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ESarge

11:06AM | Sat, 21 June 2008

Beautiful character and effects!!

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scooby37

12:15PM | Sat, 21 June 2008

Very watery, Now this make me fancy a plate of fish and chips :0) oooh I can just smell the salt and vinegar. Great work!!!

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Cimaira

1:33PM | Sat, 21 June 2008

She is stunning! And of course the image is gorgeous, I love the underwater effect you've achieved! It's something I've tried to do in D|S many times and failed miserably, lol. Gorgeous work!

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MarciaGomes

2:31PM | Sat, 21 June 2008

MAGNIFICA CENA AQUATICA,FABULOSA SEREIA.++++++++5

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amirapsp

2:36PM | Sat, 21 June 2008

She's lovely my friend...Hugs

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Naoo

4:47PM | Sat, 21 June 2008

Amazing strange! 5+

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Antonio57

5:38PM | Sat, 21 June 2008

Une bien jolie sirène!!!!Excellent travail!!!!!!!

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jakiblue

6:42PM | Sat, 21 June 2008

definitely a great undersea look! the sort of thing i've been trying but of course come nowhere near that! LOL

dshield

3:11AM | Sun, 22 June 2008

Great picture, Love the 'Howdunnits' you supply. D

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maraich

6:03PM | Sun, 22 June 2008

I've been meaning to try using Caustics with the new lights in D/S. I see they work very well. The DoF is very effective. And you did an excellent job of creating a character that is both alien and still beautiful.

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lorddarkwolf

6:07PM | Sun, 22 June 2008

nicely done

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swjkie100

2:01PM | Mon, 23 June 2008

Excellent character! Great job on the environment -_^

evoluzione33

6:55PM | Sun, 29 June 2008

great picture... she almost seems to be saying, "hey there, gill-friend!"

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nikita_s_cold

1:30AM | Sat, 12 July 2008

Hey, I did an underwater render for my class, a few actually. This so reminds me of it, but yours is a technical coup. I love the way you did textures even under all the volumetric-like atmosphere. Nicely done, sir!

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