Isenguard by woodhurst

Bryce • Fantasy • posted on Sep 02, 2003

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Hey folks! im extremley excited to post this image, i have been working on it for the past week. Another Lord of the Rings inspired image, but this time i really pulled out my hair trying to make it look perfect. despite a few small bugs here and there, im pretty satisifed with the image. The Orthanc model is not in its full detail here, because its so far away, but i tried to put more detail in the surrounding fortress, especeailly on the ground texture. A few specs: The image is created in bryce, except for the smoke billowing out of the ground, and the trees in the foreground, which were added in Photoshop. The render was made in 1 layer, except for small spheres of smoke which were rendered seperatly to save time on the already 6 hour render. some postwork in photoshop (besides smoke and trees) was lighting and color. This picture is dedicated to J.R.R Tolkien, one of the greatest writers of our time. His works have the ability to dig deep inside of you and pull out the imagination and pure child, Tolkien, his books, and his life have been an incredible influence on my works, and my life. I hope everyone can have someone to look up to like this. Tolkien died today (november 2nd) 30 years ago. thanks and everyone have a nice evening!

Comments (53)

Azzabu

11:10PM | Tue, 02 September 2003

I am amazed by this piece its absolutely amazing good job Jordan>I love the lotr pics :-D

Tina

11:17PM | Tue, 02 September 2003

WOOOW!!! I'm speachless, I'm actually trying to collect my jaw off the floor! It's awesome.

jstsittinghere

11:28PM | Tue, 02 September 2003

WOW!! speechless also here! amazing... vote!!

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DigitalAtrocity

11:34PM | Tue, 02 September 2003

Damn Skippy! This is so Good! I dig the atmosphere and the overall depth. I wanna see more!

amethyss

11:42PM | Tue, 02 September 2003

Totally amazing!! The fires are perfect! A Vote

Tino64

11:48PM | Tue, 02 September 2003

wonderful atmosphere depth and inspiration:) excellent!!

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Claymor

12:04AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

BRILLLLLIANT!!!!!!!

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zopeynn

12:31AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Perfect work.Congratulations...

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BenBischop

12:34AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

PerFect....!! I like the smoke. Great job!!!

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EricofSD

1:12AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Very well done.

terra-man

1:19AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Wow man, just WOOOOW!!! Awesome work, great job on the moke, the environment, everything.. This just rocks my VOTE!

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jasonmit

1:34AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Awesome! The Ents are gonna be mad when they see this.

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Flak

1:53AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

The fire and smoke is brilliant as is the ground and the trees. Fab work.

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danamo

2:07AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Brilliant work!

vasquez

2:17AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

oh my god!! that looks gorgeous! PErfect light and perfect postwork!!! great tribute to the saga

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RodsArt

3:06AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Stunning tribute!

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zfigure7

3:10AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Well, you've certainly outdone yourself. This is as close as it can get. I vote this!

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Gog

3:31AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

A lovely piece of work, excellent smoke and I like the texture on the valley floor. Strange how different people intepret the story differently, my vision of Isenguard is quite different to that portrayed by yourself or as shown in the film, I felt that the bowl of isengard was more natural in mountains, requiring less length of man made wall

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billmiles

4:31AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

as a Tolkien inspired artist for many years I to love all his work, this is a great piece of work and well deserves a vote of excellence bm.

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madame

5:06AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Fabulous work ! I'm a fan of Tolkien too, it's a fantastic tribute you've done here. Excellent +++ my vote !

mloates

6:04AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Excellent work! Everything is very well done.

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Artzy

6:15AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Nice Work!

AnneCHPostma

6:50AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Really nicely done, but in your text you mentioned 2nd of November (probably because of your excitement ?) instead of September ...

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brylaz

6:59AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

That rocks, it's brilliant. The smoke is great...!!!

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sacada

7:29AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Excellent image. Especially like the smoke, ground textures and surrounding landscape. Well done.

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wizardangel1

7:31AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

You've done a Excellent recreation-I was looking for the TreeFolk!The image looks like a screen shot out of the movie!!

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electroglyph

8:32AM | Wed, 03 September 2003

Balance, color, depth, perspective, emotion, this image has it all. So many excellents already I wish there were a better superlative so I didn't have to keep repeating.

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