Along An Alien Riverbank by grafikeer

Vue • Science Fiction • posted on Jul 27, 2013

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Vue8Frontier/Photoscape3,5/Photoshop All items from Cornucopia3D...flamingoes are a poseable model that I made alien-like by changing the overall colour to a mauve.Sky,light and atmo are all custom...volumetric model selected this time,with tweaks to haze,fog,light and shadows.Postwork in Photoshop consisted of a levels adjustment,addition of toes to the feet,signature and resizing. In Photoscape I added a bloom effect. Thanks for taking the time to view,and for any comments!

Comments (13)

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jdstrider

2:35AM | Sat, 27 July 2013

Fantastic use of color, this is amazing and truly alien. I can't figure out if that is a vine or a snake wrapping around that branch. but it looks really cool.

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ysvry

2:37AM | Sat, 27 July 2013

great render.

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efron_241

3:32AM | Sat, 27 July 2013

that riverbank is alien

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Cyve

5:11AM | Sat, 27 July 2013

Marvelous creation !

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wrpspeed

7:32AM | Sat, 27 July 2013

very pretty

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wblack

7:43AM | Sat, 27 July 2013

This is awesomely alien and very cool in the sense of your creativity. It seems you are playing with the parameters of what the human eye and mind might define as plant and what we might identify as animal - the foreground vine/snake seems to have characteristics of both - and the larger "tree" seems to suggest to my eye and mind that it springs from its anchor of roots and perhaps (projecting in my imagination of what the whole might look like) fans outward a web-like construction of reaching, undulating, branch/trunks that perhaps touch down again and again forming secondary root clusters (almost like the Elbow-Root-Tree in Larry Niven's Known Space stories (seen on Ringworld, among other locations that universe)) although your animal/plant takes on (in my mind) the appearance of a concentric outward web-like growth. Now I want to see the entire plant/animal ... does it have a centrally reaching spire? A towering spire (perhaps formed from many secondary sub-spire/trunks and wrapped all around in foliage) from which it launches its seed-pods (perhaps at necessarily at high velocity trajectories to reach far beyond territory covered by its parent)? This image is awesome in the journey it inspires and invites. This is what Science Fiction is about. This is so far beyond the common uninspired fare that so often fills the Renderosity Science Fiction Gallery - the endless parade of "sci-fi chicks with guns" and the constant dribble (day after day after day after day after day after day) of uninspired, unimaginative "characters" posed with vague expressions holding guns of increasingly absurd design (in the complete absence of any attempt at story narrative - one imagines the authors of these saying to themselves, "Gee, shall I use the decrepit decayed apocalyptic background theme today or the far future dystopic background theme today?" being so trapped in inanity that they can imagine no other futures)or the endless regurgitations of cybernetic/human combinations that are notable (in terms of creativity - or the lack there of) only in their seemingly arbitrary manner of sectioning the human body or in their desire to perversely distort the human form. None of that is Science Fiction to me. This is what it is about, what you do here, inspire the mind and eye to envision other worlds, other life, a broad expansive universe. This is what creativity and Science Fiction truly is, the invitation of the mind to journey far. 5+ my friend, (and certainly another favorite) and thanks for the inspired journeys your work invites!

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