Fascinating character and creation! A most wondrous environment and splendid realization for this character set! Bravo!

You did very good Amy. Nice set up.

Thanks so much! This background with the clamshell made the idea of it being a bed come easily :-)

Beautiful image !!!!

Great underwater scene. Excellent aquatic background and fun looking character!

Thanks so much for the comment! Merpal is a neat character, and I'm glad I had another chance to use her!

You pilled it off nicely. I need to do underwater scenes, but I feel a little intimidated.

Thanks so much! This scene and the one I posted before it were done using backgrounds, which makes it pretty easy, but there are some nice underwater environments, like 2nd World's Underwater Wonders and Cybertenko's Captain Nemo's Hunting Grounds. Both come with lights that help with caustics, but I have no idea how either might work in Superfly. I love doing underwater scenes with environments and have gathered a lot of plants, seashells, fish, and so on to add to scenes, but setup always takes forever, so I'm really enjoying using these backgrounds for portraits!

Long day of overseeing things in the ocean. Great character. Well done

Indeed! Thanks so much for the comment! Working on this image made me yawn a lot :-)

Ein süßer Render

Wonderful character and scene! Love the light (or postwork?) which beautifully mimics underwater caustics. Well done!

Thanks so much! The look of caustics comes from several sources: the background, Merpal's texture, and the lighting. I didn't add any in postwork, at least not on this image! :-)

The posing and expression of Merpal is great; really cute and ready for a nap. I have messed with underwater and the caustics usually defeat me. This works great and the blending from the diffusely blurred background to the sharper foreground is very effective. Even the danged bubbles look good (bubbles are hard, trust me >.<).

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed viewing. I must return to efforts at submerging some of my characters. Eh. That didn't come out quite right. XD

Molly

Thanks so much for the comments, Molly! I've done a fair number of underwater scenes using full environments, and the lighting is definitely tricky, but I picked up a few things from studying the lighting that came with a couple of sets (including Cybertenko's Captain Nemo's Hunting Grounds and 2nd World's Underwater Wonders). For my purposes, the methods I've tried work pretty well (enough to satisfy me!), but of course they rely on Firefly lighting tricks so probably wouldn't work in Superfly.

It is kinda fun to imagine "submerging" your characters -- and your props! I've bought a bunch of stuff to go in undersea environments, like seashells, plants, fish, etc., but as someone else pointed out, you can put pretty much any prop underwater, which opens up all kinds of possibilities!

You have certainly succeeded in blending the foreground elements with the softness of the background! Very impressive work! This is a fun scene!

Thanks so much! Shortly after I posted this, I realized I had already forgotten how I softened the foreground elements. So I opened up the PSD and was pleased to discover that I'd named the layers according to what I'd done. Phew!

what a pleasant underwater adventure you made for us. now i need to get all those products.

Thanks so much! If you don't already have Merpal, she's a great addition to the Nursoda collection. I'm really enjoying these backgrounds b/c they let me focus on characters, without having to fuss quite so much over all the other details! I can't believe it took me this long to figure out how to render over a background :-)

Well that's a great & very sweet scene, looks fantastic, hope you have a great weekend and I wish you a good start for the new week, take care and stay healthy!

Fantastic work! Great composition and elements!

How cute - a tired mermaid :-)

Thanks! She makes me yawn every time I look at her :-)

very sweet Image,excellent done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I'm getting sleepy just looking at this... Nicely done.

Thanks for the comment! Working on this one kept making me want to yawn :-)

Oh, how wonderful this is!

Thanks so much for the sweet comment! Glad you enjoyed Ms. Merpal :-)

Delightful and very cute composition. Superb render. Exquisite Artwork. I love it!

Thank you so much for the comment!

Delightful image!!

Her face is very impressing! And thank you very much for the links :-), it is good to know how you can generate that amazing water caustics.

I keep coming back to this one because it's so harmonious and yet full of motion: the bubbles (going up and also the fish and Merpal's hair appendages (tentacles?) going to another. The color scheme strikes just the right balance for a lyrical, stylized underwater scene.

(Learning so much about using stylized characters and props from following your work, btw)

Thanks so much for the comment. You made me take a closer look at this one as well! Merpal is such an unusual character. I'm glad I've found a few uses for her. All of Nursoda's characters are such fun to work with!