In Her Majesty’s Serenity

Friday, September 9th, 2022

In Her Majesty’s Serenity

The series continues to Gold. I’m very proud of the Bronze, Silver and now Gold theme in my “Majestic” (I just made that up) series. Yet again a lot of things learned in Blender. The complexity of the scenes became more and more intricate. The extra patience did pay off. I enjoy Gold as much as the other two.

7500×5000 – Blender – DAZ Studio – Photoshop – Lightroom

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Mornings Beneath The Infinity Towers

Tuesday, July 19th, 2022


Mornings Beneath The Infinity Towers

“I dreamt of trenches. Hundreds of miles long and miles high. Pulsating with the energy of life and opportunites. Now what I see is something different. Waking up to the horns and sounds of the tower crawlers like they did to the church bells in the olden days.” Unknown Writer – Infinity – 2733

Like many other of my projects I started this one with just fooling around. As usual I started to see something at some point and continued on. There was a vague goal of creating a scifi city sort of thing. I ‘sort of’ succeeded I suppose? Imagine a world covered by a sheet of glass. The reason? I leave to your imagination. The cities with their imposing dimensions hovering above with help of an alien technology.

7000×3784 – Vue – Photoshop – Lightroom

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Golden Hour

Monday, May 23rd, 2022

Golden Hour

I started this one in late September 2020 with the Summer on its way out and Fall coming in. Even though there still were some wonderful sunny and green days left I must have started missing it already. So this scene became greener and greener and soon I found the right lighting and atmosphere for it to come together. It’s also a training piece for texturing and keeping an eye on scale in regards to plants in relation to each other. Especially the road material was a focus. I have had some fun getting it right and it felt good when it was finally right. I also like that it’s again a rather unusual scene for my catalogue. Just a peaceful nature scene. And right now with Summer 2022 marching in… I’m a little proud of this one.

7000×3196 – Vue – DAZ Studio – Photoshop – Lightroom

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In Her Majesty’s Complacency

Wednesday, April 6th, 2022



In Her Majesty’s Complacency

Now it’s officially a series. After “In Her Majesty’s Eyes” (which is in a Bronze kind of color theme) we now have a silver queen too! And yes, we will also go for gold! Yet again I learned a lot about how to work with Blender and optimize certain workflows and ways to render out the material for ideal post work in Photoshop. Not too much else to say here other than she seems to be a little over her head, right? Goal was it to give her more of an “I don’t care” attitude. I think I got that down nicely. The lighting was a tricky one as I planned to keep it as natural as possible. Quite happy with it. Especially in context of the series the piece if a part of.

7500×5000 – Blender – DAZ Studio – Photoshop – Lightroom

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In Her Majesty’s Eyes

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021



In Her Majesty’s Eyes

Quite proud of this one. Originally I wanted to apply my usual workflow to this. Going through Vue for the scene layout and render. I decided to go with Blender though. For a couple of reasons. I need to learn Blender. I needed to understand how the DAZ to Blender bridge works. I wanted to know how rendering in Blender works. In short… I wanted to see how I can work with Blender for a scene like this. Vue is for landscapes and open vistas. And it’s designed for that. It’s not exactly made for scenes like this. Although I really miss a couple of Vue things within Blenders workflow. Aside of that I kept my workflow of rendering out passes and combining them in Photoshop.

The creative process was fun. Even with the constant checking “how do I do this or that in Blender”. I also used my Abstract Objects collection to give it an otherworldly look. The scene underwent quite some changes during its creative process. It took me a long time until I found a good setup that didn’t crush the centerpiece of the scene. The queen. I definitely wanted her to stand out. So I also played around with lighting the scene properly. As well as adding a depth of field effect to lead the viewers attention directly to her. Treating the scene kind of like a photoshooting.

5000×7500 – Blender – DAZ Studio – Photoshop – Lightroom

Part of the BRONZE exhibit by the AURORA Artgroup

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Finished The Job

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020

Finished The Job


In order to come up with a scene for Aurora’s “Blue” topic for its newest release I had some initial trouble finding a good starting point. I started doubting myself since blue is pretty much THE scifi colour to go with and I never had trouble with that colour. But this time was different. I did have a hard time. The best way to overcome a block like that is to keep trying… and so I did. It too me a bit but I managed to find something. Even though the end result could have been a little less scifi generic. However, there are still some catchy elements in here. I would also settle this piece in my “Unknown Huntress” universe. I’m sure this pic could inspire some neat stories.


Created the base scene in Vue with testing Vue’s updated displacement mapping mode. Worked nicely and with RDT textures I managed to create a nice rocky ground with realistic features. From there I added the background structures and used DAZ Studio for the bounty huntress. All combined and rendered in Vue. All render passed were then moved into Photoshop for additional work. Mainly fixes, colours and atmosphere add ons.


7000×3784 – Vue – DAZ Studio – Photoshop – Lightroom


Part of the AURORA: BLUE exhibit


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Com-cept 39

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020



Com-cept 39

This one originally started as a test file for displacement mapping in Vue. Surely could need some tuning here and there but I liked it already. Did some quickie post work and ended up with some moody atmosphere and lighting. Of course I had to add a scifi touch to it as well. Couldn’t resist. :D

2560×1167 – Vue – Photoshop – Lightroom

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Skyhigh II

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020



Skyhigh II

Just for fun piece done with the Kitbash3D Utopia set for #BrightArtDarkTimes. No big story behind it. Just having fun, playing with the models and setting up a neat scene. Thanks to #Kitbash3D for making this set available for free!

6000×4000 – Vue – Photoshop – Lightroom

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Heretic

Thursday, March 19th, 2020



Heretic

Started this one quite a while ago, just to play with VDB clouds in Vue. Support for them was just added back then (late 2018) and I felt the urge to play with it. As things go, parts fell into place and I had a neat little project on my hands. Tried a lot of different things, especially with the flying monument. Or whatever it is. I’m not really sure what it is. All I know is that our lady there seems to be not so happy. Summoning all her powers for (maybe?) an attack. There are many ways to read this scene. Technically it was a pure training piece with a satisfying result. Hope you like it too!

7500×5000 – Vue – Photoshop – Lightroom – The Plant Factory – Cinema 4d – DAZ Studio

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Chill Your Base

Wednesday, December 25th, 2019



Chill Your Base

Last one for 2019, with the right message! Three and a half years I’m having this on my drive now. Waiting. For what? I don’t know. Maybe for that one tick that tells me to let it go. There’s nothing else/more to do on it. That’s what I feel now. I started this project to learn a little more about texturing. UV mapping and all that. Learned a lot, that’s for sure. Composition wise it’s not a bullseye but for every down there’s an up. And that up is the lighting, with which I’m faily happy with. Who wouldn’t want to live there and chill out every once in a while?

8000×3652 – Vue – Photoshop – Lightroom – World Machine – Cinema 4d – DAZ Studio

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