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This image is the result of a challenge between Jakiblue, InfinityRain and myself. We thought it would be fun to challenge one another to try to stretch ourselves a bit. This time around we had to create an image of an adventuring party that had at least five members. In my case, it's an adventuring party of four that is in the midst of acquiring their final member, a very young and somewhat intimidated warrior called Elladan.
I've done images with Elladan before, but this is one that takes place much further back in his past when he was young, naive and completely lacking in any magic skill. He's literally stepped off the boat here, and was immediately latched onto by a gregarious halfing that was eager to have him join her crew for a life of adventure and infinite fame.
She exaggerated just a little.
It's all a bit much for a young elf that has never seen any sort of person besides other elves. A human, a halfling, a dwarf and a half-orc?!! Definitely out of his comfort zone.
I lost track of the number of layers I did for this image. While I was able to run renders with all of the figures at one time, I did a separate render for all of the lighting. I did two different renders for the candles and the fireplace, one LDP2 render for overall lighting, two different front light renders done with basic distance lights. One run was done with a bluish light and the other an pale orange light. I did a blue back light. Then I mashed them all up together in PS at various strengths and layer styles and eventually ended up with what you see here.
The figures I used are rather varied. Elladan is M4, the dwarf is V3, the halfling is V4, the human mage by the fireplace is Stephanie Petite, and the half orc rogue is V4. Including some of the older gen figures helped with the poly count in the scene, and also gave me access to a few clothing items that don't get seen all that much anymore.
I just don't have the ambition to list every clothing item, so if there is something you would like to know about please feel free to PM me. I'm lazy but would never wish to leave someone in the dark.
Comments (21)
shadownet
Excellent
GeneralNutt
Love that title for the image, very funny.
black222
very nice scene, great models n pose Excellent
MissKajunKitty
Love the mood, very happy !! I love the lighting too !! Awesome Work !! :)
Kattey
Very nice image :) I like the expressions a lot and halfling along with half-orc are my favorites on this picture.
Savage_dragon
You did an amazing job. Well worth it! ")
jakiblue
oh my! i LOVE this! Lighting is excellent - and you've captured a brilliant array of expressions on everyone. I keep grinning when i look at the human and imagining her thoughts, while the look on the half-orc's face is killing me! You've blasted the challenge out of the water, girl! I'm still only on my second character - LOL. Fantastic - well done!
ThomasMacCallum
Brilliant, the light the expressions the materials - brilliant!
ragouc
Cool characters. Very good pose and composition/scene.
wliebtposer
awesome rendering great scene
necrophage
awesome fantasy scene - great details and expressions!
OrphanedSoul
A fantastic RPG scene!
CrownPrince
This is an amazingly well put together image!. The lightiing variety of charcters and expressions are atunning! I also noticed that all of the other characters are female..is there some type of subtle (not sexual but enticing) suduction occuring?
Cimaira
Fantastic! Wonderful group of characters and all that work on layers certainly paid off, the lighting is fantastic!
anitalee
Awesome work
elfin12u
But this is sooooo cool!! Awesome work and the scene and characters are perfect!!!! SWEET!!!!!!!!
scifibabe
Wow - impressive amount of work. Wonderful collection of characters. Great posing and nice composition. I like your story about them too. Well done!
Seaview123
This is an impressive looking scene! Great work on the details, and lots to look at! Excellent work.
Mondwin
Looks a fantastic work...bravissima!V:DDD.Hugsxx
MasterOfGrey
That is very very very nice. I am thoroughly impressed. (You seem to do that to me a lot.)
Zolan_of_Torm
Such an awesomely cool composition! I love the expressions!