3 - The odd couple - golem drops kitty by MollyFootman
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Description
The cat girl's efforts to jam her torch into the Iron Giant succeed! With the torch jammed between the giant's head and thorax plates, oil from the torch pours onto the giant's enlivening heart with immediate effect. With a sound like a howl of rage and pain the giant drops it's captive and begins to paw at the torch.
The cat girl dropped to all fours and sprang away from the golem. "That worked!" She shouted to Jorl. "Frankly, I'm surprised!"
Jorl nodded, watching the spectacle of the giant trying to extract the painful torch. "Serprized I am, as well, little one! We'd best ter take our leave. I doubt we've done more than bother it a wee bit."
Molly's art notes: Set up and rendered in Poser 12.0.757 with Superfly Cycles 2 and tweaked in Photoshop for a bit of glow and vignette. The catgirl is A3 using some very old material from DAZ I was reminded of recently by Mazzam. The textures haven't aged well and I messed with them to try to give the impression of fur rather than plastic (the hair was the worst >.<). The Dwarf and the Iron Golem are by Sixus1 and are available at Renderosity. The setting is by Cybertenko, also available at Renderosity. I used the volumetric prop by Afrodite-Ohki to add a slight mist; I find it easier to manipulate and render than Poser's intrinsic atmosphere.
I have at least one more picture of these two in mind if there is interest. I've enjoyed meeting the odd couple and have been imagining a lot about their relationship and how they might come to grave robbing as a profession. =)
Comments (10)
perpetualrevision
Yay, Cat Girl is freed! Love her pose and expression, which convey both "holy crap that worked" and "maybe we should split while we can"! The lighting is amazing, the best of the set so far, I think. It really shows off Jori well. And yes OF COURSE you should do more, if you have more scenes in mind with these two! Have they perhaps ever been successful at stealing shiny stuff, or do other foes thwart them every time? Also, just curious: I'm not familiar with what adding glow does in Photoshop. Do you mean glow around the lights or something else?
MollyFootman
First of all, thanks for the lovely comment. I will do at least one more in this series but I think I'm not done with these characters.
The lighting improvement is due to Jorl moving the torch to his left hand, putting it slightly between him and the camera taking him out of the shadow... the problem with using realistic incidental lighting. >.<
Glow is the little halo around lights and highlights on objects that is an artifact seen in photographs made in extreme lighting conditions. I've sent you bit of information about per sitemail. I use it very sparingly and it is most notable here around the torch light and the blaze in the Iron Golem.
As always, I appreciate hearing from you. I always look forward to your comments and what you share of your own work. =)
Molly
anniemation
I'm so glad she got away! Her expression is perfect! Lighting is excellent too.
MollyFootman
Thank you, Annie! You can see in my above comment to Amy about the vagaries of using incidental real light sources in a scene and how it worked out pretty well in this image. XD
I had a lot of fun with her expression and am pleased it amused you! =)
Molly
skyvendik
great
MollyFootman
Thank you! =)
Molly
jdwtrxk
I'm with perpetualrevision front to back. Definitely finish the set and don't let the two chitty-chat too long. When ya gotta shoot, shoot. Don't talk. Run might be an option also, though I wonder if Widowmaker will intervene and split the goods?
MollyFootman
Heh. The Widowmaker is in a different era and place within the Mollyverse, I think. As for these two? "Feets don't fail me now!"
Thanks for your comment, JD. I always look forward to hearing from you! =)
Molly
rocdan
awesome and magic render , poor kitty
MollyFootman
Heh. Thank you! I think the Kitty's situation is improving and if they beat feet she'll be fine! XD
Molly
RodS
Yeah, this is probably a really good time to make a quick exit! That fellow is not going to be a happy camper once he extracts that torch....
This is great, Molly! - Excellent lighting... Yes, more please!
MollyFootman
I'm sure Jorl agrees it's time to split! XD
Thanks for leaving me a comment to make me smile. I always enjoy hearing from you, my dear.
Molly
Darkglass
The cat's out the bag...time to make quick exit..!!...exceptionally well done lighting.. really brings out all the previously hidden details of both character...first class work molly...your on a roll...!!
MollyFootman
Oooh! Thank you for such lovely encouragement, my dear.
The lighting is better because it's provide solely by incidental light sources within the image and the one source, Jorl's torch, was moved to his left hand which puts it in a better position to light things with respect to the camera. The challenges of using only incidental lighting.... >.<
I have at least one more picture in this series but I think I'll be returning to this odd couple from time to time. XD
Molly
paul_gormley
another excellent scene in this series, Molly, love the lighting and PoV and to be honest, you could easily make this into a delightful children's book. Having 4 grandkids I sometimes despair when it comes to finding a decent book for them, not so bad once they are older as tastes widen, but there are few good books out there with nice illustrations :)
MollyFootman
Wow! That's lovely praise for the image (and series) and a perspective that hadn't occurred to me. I, too, have 4 grandchildren (eldest is 8 yo) and I believe I'll share these with them for feedback. I'll have to be strong, though; they aren't shy about sharing a less than glowing opiinion! XD
Molly
NobbyC
WOW!!! Fantastic image!!! 😃😃😃👍👍👍
MollyFootman
Thank you, dear Norbert! I've really been enjoying this series with characters that are a bit out of my usual range. =)
Molly
UteBigSmile
This is a very nicely done image, which I really like!
MollyFootman
Thank you for a lovely comment, my dear. I'm always glad to hear from you and to enjoy the pictures that you post.
Molly