Silent Night by CorporateArts
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The really dificulty in creating this image was the little army coming up in the far. A 25 knights batailion was imported from poser and killed my nervs by maximizing the filesize and the rendertime even for preview as horrible.
Next strange step was to set up this batailon in real size (to the knight in the front) nearly at the special location like i want. After several tries i got it.
I created one more version of this image with a greater army with more batailions duplicating the one only by postwork, but it doesn't look better cause the big army doesn't look well in this landscape.
Thanks for base model of: Kanone NAPOLEON by James A. Burton's DIGITAL DREAMS
Comments (10)
kenwas
A difficult problem indeed for the scaling of the figures in the army to be correct. The setup and terrains are excellent and you have selected a great pov. Congrats on a fine scene.
pakled
there's a utility around here somewhere, used to be in Freebies, maybe the Marketplace, that would allow you to create crowds..failing that, Bantam 3d had a program called 'scatter', that might do the same thing..one thing to try is the farther the distance, the lower the resolution needed..so if they're far enough away, you could have an army of Dorks, or even Poser 2 characters, which would cut down on the poly count..it's a daunting task..the 'armies of soldiers' pics are few and far between, because they're a @#$%^ to make..;) looks good, keep at it..
lingrif
A great theme and a wonderful image!
tony_br22
gorgeous composition .
criss
Wonderful landscape, bravo!
Djeser
Great scale; very well done
BGHart
A sad theme - but true. Excellent work and a very clear render.
nhirschberger
Excellent work !
FrenchKiss
Georgeous terrain work here!
bigbraader
I like the scene layout and lighting a lot - well done. Another apporach to the "army problem" - a tedious one - would be to render small groups of characters (3-5 in each) with the actual atmosphere settings on a separate layer or a new file, then making alphaplanes of those renders (using the Vue alpha mask) - and being careful to take the perspective issues into consideration. I've done so many times, only with potentially complex trees, rendered with the scene settings, but imported as alhaplanes. I know this requires a lot of patience and planning, but sometimes this can pay off :) Keep up the good stuff.