The two mysteries by hamfast

Bryce • (none) • posted on Jan 11, 2003

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Description

Gorillas are not hostile, dangerous creatures. They are wild animals - yes - but actually peaceful and shy - unlike the image conjured up by Hollywood, popular fiction writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, and humankind's own natural distrust of all things wild and "untamed". Anyone seeing "Gorillas in the Mist" will see that the human ape is in fact the most dangerous and deadly creature on the face of this planet, and not the shy mountain gorilla. DAZ 3D's two "Mystery Models", Stephanie and the Gorilla LE were posed in Poser 4 inspired by an imaginary scene where a woman encounters a huge ape in the jungle. The more I worked on getting a confrontory scene, the more I found it not to work and a tender moment emerged. Once again the image had its own plans. The Stephanie character was morphed with Extreme Morph 3D. The DAZ 3D Gorilla uses the DAZ standard textures for their Gorilla LE. The figures were exported into Bryce 4.0. The background was created using vertical terrains with transparency mapped textures from an old CD I had from Digarts called Jungle 3D. The foreground leaves were also added in similar fashion. (There is an old, but good tutorial at GardenHose.com that helped me.) There was a single volumetric light to light the overall scene to give a mistly jungle feel. There was also a couple of small radial lights to give a bit of modelling to the foreground figures. After the final render - (a 13 hour ordeal!) a distance matt was rendered in Bryce to be used later in Corel PhotoPaint to give a depth-of-field to isolate the figures from the background.

Comments (9)

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Doublecrash

4:51AM | Sat, 11 January 2003

Not only the image is beautiful, but your explanation is very useful and revealing. Thanx.

SherlockHolmes

9:41AM | Sat, 11 January 2003

This is great, I love the image and as well as your explanation which is very helpful. They almost look the same.

garyandcatherine

10:42AM | Sat, 11 January 2003

An absolutely beautiful image. The shy curiosity of the figures you have created is stunning. This definately gets a vote and an excellent. I can't wait to see more.

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hamfast

12:04PM | Sat, 11 January 2003

An old image, it came out when the Gorilla LE was released by DAZ3D. I still like it, though!

alvinylaya

12:38PM | Sun, 12 January 2003

I absolutely love the render and I give it excellent. I still don't wan't to get anywhere close to a gorilla 8) but I have to agree that humans are more dangerous.

vasquez

9:40AM | Mon, 13 January 2003

THe curiosity in their eyes is the most brillant particular, but also the warm misty light is perfect and gives a intimate mood. Great image and great description. Wellcome back, I missed you masterpieces!

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jwdell

3:00AM | Mon, 27 January 2003

This is what we're all after, to try to bring these models to life, You've really achieved that here, so much emotion...

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hamfast

5:21AM | Mon, 27 January 2003

This image was awarded the 2003 Golden Tori Award for the "Best use of Poser" More information about the GOlden Tori Awards can be fould at http://www.mindscenes.com/goldentori/tori2002 This year's awards page can be found at http://www.mindscenes.com/t3/awards.html

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