Nan Dai Ji by Allen9
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Description
Sunrise services at Nan Dai Ji (the Great Temple of the South). As the first light of dawn begins to illumine the vast hall, chants repeated here for a thousand years echo again through the morning quiet.
Inspired by the To Dai Ji at Nara.
Bryce 5, Postwork only for signature.
Filesize 73Mb+
Comments (13)
jstsittinghere
amazing scale! fantastic image ! excellent work V
redbeard
Very impressive work. A serene and peaceful image filled with soft light and reverence.
dirk5027
oh man, excellent job
Blog
I like the scene. I think you maybe could have made better usage of the lighting though... especially at the base of the statue.
catlin_mc
Excellent! The scale, the composition, the lighting, are all oustanding. This is a precious work of art. 8)
ysvry
great image
scottl
beautifully done.
ocddoug
Nice! I love the scale, that huge statue looks awesome. Fine lighting as well.
Artzy
Very Nice Work!
madame
Very beautiful scene and atmosphere !
alvinylaya
Beautiful composition! I really love that giant Buddha!
Allen9
In answer to a question: The buddha is a 3ds file that was a freebie online a couple of years ago. I built the pedestal by replicating a single 'petal' shape given to me by Nadab Goksu (who makes great Babylon 5 models in lightwave). The altar furniture, etc. is made of other imported items (tables, candlesticks, etc.) combined with Bryce primitives. The priests & their robes I made in Poser 4. The temple structure itself is composed completely of Bryce primitives, except for the braces at the high crossbeams, which I modeled in Design-Cad. (The trick to making something look big in Bryce is to make it BIG. I use a scale of 1 Bryce unit = 1 inch for scenes involving Poser figures. I kept that scale for this, so that room really is huge - something like 1600 Bryce units high.) In the sky lab, I softened the shadows to about 50, turned off the fog and set both haze settings to "1". Other than the overall ambient light, which is set to a fairly dim yellow (so is the sun, though there are no 'window' openings thru which its light can enter - its contribution to the illumination is completely via the 'shadow' density - 'fine-tuning' the 'ambient'), the only light sources are those in the hanging lanterns and candles, which have the falloff set to "squared" and have an intensity of about 35, and one very soft dim spotlight set very high in the rafters to shine on the face, which was just too dark without it.
Digimon
Unbelievable!!! Fantastic work!!! I would love to have that Buddha!!