Beloved Pet by NickJsky

Carrara/RDS • Science Fiction • posted on Jul 03, 2009

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I've worked on this picture for over a year. I started it in April of 2008 as an entry for a contest the theme of which was human/alien interaction and as a small way to honor my wonderful cat who had died recently. But my final entry was inferior to my vision so that even I didn't think I deserved to win an award. After the contest, I struggled with it for months making slow progress. Finally, I had a bit of a breakthrough when I put a reference photo in the background in order to evaluate the quality in the scene. Suddenly all sorts of flaws became obvious and I was able to make faster progress. The models were all constructed in Carrara and Hexagon. Rendered in Carrara in four layers: sky, distant hill, midground and trees, foreground and people. Some touchup done in Corel PhotoPaint.