Winter at the Beach by perpetualrevision
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Ah ha! Now we know why the Winter Ceazun doesn’t join her sisters for afternoon tea: she's at the beach!
Rendered in July 2020 in Poser Pro 11 Firefly at 4400 × 2475 pixels, using direct lighting (an infinite sun and an IBL light*). View full size on my blog.
*BTW, the term IBL light isn’t redundant b/c "image based lighting" is an approach to lighting that can be accomplished either by the newer method of an HDRI on an enviro-sphere and with indirect lighting enabled OR by the older method of a special kind of Poser light that uses an a JPG or HDR image to simulate the effect of the first method (less accurate, but much faster). Both approaches are "image based lighting," but only the latter makes use of an IBL light.
==CREDITS==
SCENE: Paralia Beach (including beach umbrella) by ShaaraMuse3D; Beach chair, table, and drink by PropsClub; Cute Bag by Elleque; Open book by me.
CHARACTER: Fehn figure by Nursoda; skin texture by me; head morphs, hair, and apparel from 4 CeaZuns by PixPax; sunglasses from Ersa Hair by 3Dream.
Comments (15)
daggerwilldo
What a cute lady. The setting and POV really add to the fun. A very nice job.
mazzam
Wonderful details. Love the book! I find that using IBL is not only faster, it provides more artistic control. Because of fast render times you can use trial and error to get an ideal balance between IBL and infinite settings including shadow value. Our goal as artists is to create the illusion of realism in the context of the image at hand. What is realism anyway? What a camera records or what the mind perceives which are usually entirely different!
perpetualrevision
Thanks for the comment! And good point about the benefit of being able to do more test renders! For every scene I end up doing a "final render" of, I've done at least 15-20 test renders (at quarter size) to get various aspects the way I want them, and I'd never have the patience for that if the test renders weren't so fast! "Realism" has never been my goal as an artist but rather a kind of stylized, slightly toony, slightly fantasy, and slightly painterly view of things. So I enjoy making use of the ways that Firefly is NOT "physically accurate," b/c it's "stylistically accurate" for what I have in mind :-)
kelchris3
Lovely!!!
Radar_rad-dude
Mother Westwind is taking some time out to come up with new stories? Beautiful image and fine render! Most delightful viewing!
A_Sunbeam
Nice quiet day out ...
imagemaker
Wonderful !!! it's good to see Winter relaxing and away from the drama that occurred between the sisters earlier
artdreamer
Lovely done! She is really enjoying it. 3***
uncollared
Looks like she is having a wonderful day
PandaB5
Very pretty - I see like me, she's turning blue from the cold :-)
perpetualrevision
Even her lips turned blue! ;-) I do worry about that snowflake on her head piece, though. But I think she must've put some sunscreen on it, as it hasn't started to melt yet! Thanks for the comment :-)
donnena
Sister Winter is doing her best to acclimate to this highly uncomfortable season!! She has to pretend the dunes are snow drifts and pad her chair with ice to properly enjoy the day! Historically, it only takes her 90 days to come to grips with the season!
Super image!
OmniFX
Excellent render and cool looking beach landscape. Looks like a great day at the beach.
perpetualrevision
Thanks for the comment! I was worried that the beach set I used might be a bit too "realistic" in contrast to the stylized looks of Fehn, but I didn't have a more stylized beach available and didn't want to make one. So I'm glad it seems to have worked out OK!
UteBigSmile
Smile, just love it a lot!!!!
misumu
Winter! It is but a fevered dream. What a lovely scene.
jan_scrapper
Very wonderful!!
pixpax
Love the story and how well it is carried out. I sure hope that tiara won´t melt :-)