All That Remains by Dream9Studios

Poser • Gothic • posted on Jan 10, 2013

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Description

The love was lost long ago but the heart will always remain. Although this is a brand new artwork, I did create something vaguely similar back in late 2009 featuring a ghost and a "Dear Jane" letter. About the only things similar are the pictures of a lost love, a decrepit room with cobwebs, and a lonely figure lost in time. Overall though, it's brand new. This is a conceptual piece that reflects my currently dark mood with its macabre theme. The inspiration for this struck me, out of the blue, about two or three nights ago then I immediately set about creating it before the idea slipped out of my head. I've got to say though, posing that skeleton was not as easy as posing most other figures and getting all the materials to look like everything was mean to go together when I actually cobbled together many prop sets... all worth it in the end though. The light setup (all traditional lighting) was actually a mess. I had about a dozen lights but only two or three really made any difference in the scene. The photos on the table were also rendered by me in three separate scenes which I then "aged" in Photoshop before adding them as textures for the photo frames. After rendering the main scene, I used a few actions to aged the scene then added some enhancement layers for color and contrast. The most time intensive part, other than figuring out the lighting and spending a lot of time on a spotlight effect I ended up not using, was adding all the cobwebs in a logical manner. Each cobweb is on its own layer so I could control the opacity of each one and each one has a different opacity.

Comments (12)

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ThunderStone

9:29PM | Thu, 10 January 2013

You don't really have a macabre sense of humor. If you did, you would have put a spider on the heart. (A big hairy one at that)... No, jk... This is really great! Actually it's a good concept.

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Dream9Studios

9:32PM | Thu, 10 January 2013

NOTE: The reason there are no spiders... I'm deathly afraid of them! The mere sight of one, even a fake one, gives me the creeps!

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mootech

10:15PM | Thu, 10 January 2013

Awesome work. I love the grainy, aged feel of the scene. The postwork on the cobwebs is well done, I've done the same in PS w/ lightning / static. I'm going to have to try cobwebs now !

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