Ready for Battle by jdstrider
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Description
Trying out some new IRay shaders I picked up during the DS 4.8 launch sale. This render took about 3.5 hours on a i5 with 16 GB of RAM and a GeForce GT 640 GPU - 384 cores with 4 GB of GPU Memory
A little bit of post work to add the smoke and dust, signature and resize for upload. The original image is over 12 MB so compression to 510 KB is bound to have degraded the details. :-(
Credits:
DAZ Dragon 3 - DAZ
G2F - DAZ
Lofn - Dumor3D - DAZ
IG Iray Essentials - Dragon 3 - InaneGlory - DAZ
IG Iray Essentials - V6 & M6 - InaneGlory - DAZ
DS Iray HDR Outdoor Environments - DAZ & Dimension Theory - DAZ
Ridged Plate Armor for DAZ Dragon 3 - DAZ, Bobbie25, Sarsa - DAZ
All of the textures are IRay specific, I had to play with the Bump strength a fair bit to get the Dragon Armor to work.
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for any comments, favs or ratings you care to leave before you go...
Cheers!
Comments (9)
makennedy
Nice image...
giulband
Beautiful work !
bebopdlx
Nice fantasy work, cool battle dragon.
radioham
Love the dragon it looks ready for battle
grafikeer
Very well done,the dragon especially! Like the lighting and overall scene,only crit is the ground seems out-of-focus in relation to the figures,which makes them appear to be floating instead of standing on it...minor crit though!
jdstrider
I was trying to create a dust cloud on the ground from the dragon stepping in behind the girl, it didn't work as well as I had hoped... :-(
Cyve
Marvelous scene and fantastic composition... I love the dragon also !!!
Nonsolum
So much horns the Devil won't fight against. Stunning armor's reflections. I suppose the swords are carbon metal plated or she may have strong arms... Well, I agree that in the darkness of some parts of these times, we need some, ready to fight... Well done my friend !
EdKline
WOW! Very good composition and pose. The detail is awesome! I have one question though, The lighting seems a little bit uniform, making the characters look a little artificial. What if you intensified the shadows and placed the light to one side and slightly behind them? Then add another light opposite and of a faded color and half the shadow intensity of the first? It's a beautiful scene, and it just needs a tweak with the lighting. That's what I have trouble with all the time in my compositions. Ed.
jdstrider
Great suggestions Ed, but this is rendered using a physical render engine, so the only thing I can tweak is the color of the light. The Sun provides the light and shadows, so I can only play with the angle.
Daddywolf
Hi it's me again! I have looked a some of your images and I think if you decrease their size they will be better to look at unless your working for some major movie Co. they don't need to be that big. Try this in postwork first Crop out any thing that is of no useto the image like the border the border including your name you it only increases the size of your image you can put your name in the picture or not at all you will notice a decrease in the dimensions but increase in the Size kB that = Higher Resolution now resize/ re-sample the picture from 100% in decreasing Increments Until you reach your optimal resolution. until next time