Been playing. Poser render, postwork in Photoshop.

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Had a great day with Ricardo and friends Nico and Mariska at the Lowveld Botanical Gardens today. It’s been a cold rainy week and today was just glorious sunshine – of course I look a bit lobsterish at the moment but it was worth it. Lovely weather, beautiful scenery – the waterfall was spectacular! And some really nice people.

Vue render with a tiny bit of Photoshop postwork. It’s been ages since I had the time to even consider working on a pic – finally stole a few minutes today and completed this one.

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Been very busy with cutting work and shop work etc etc. And it’s finally summer – we’ve had 2 days of sunshine in a row! And it’s rather hot. Although they’re predicting SNOW over the Drakensberg this weekend. SNOW, in the midst of summer. Strange.

Just to be funny I created a fan page for Leo Graphic Design on Facebook – I’ll post images of the goodies I cut there – that way I can promote my cutting work without cluttering my personal blog with it. As if this blog can’t do with some clutter!

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I keep forgetting to post my images here when they’re done. This one is a Vue render of some Poser figures postworked with Dogwaffle and Photoshop.

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Been rather busy with cutting work and shop work and a personal life (finally). Things to do and places to go, what a concept.

I wanted to work on this all week and only got time for it today… Modelled the set in Amorphium. Rendered it in layers (background, plants, bird) in Poser. Drew background plants with Project Dogwaffle. Then combined the lot in Photoshop and played a little 🙂

Waterfall from Nanus Waterfall Alpha-planes for Vue (they make great Photoshop brushes!) at [link] and [link]

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This one is a nice mix of programs again. I posed the figure in Poser, imported into Vue where I had to work very hard on textures for the clothing and props. Vue took care of the landscape, plants and sky. I then took the render to Photoshop for retouching and special effects. The bubbles were rendered with Poser, using Poseworks’ Particles3 system, and composited into the image in Photoshop. And finally I used Picasa for a soft glow effect and a soft focus effect. And voila!

I figure she’s a North American elf, or manitou… or something.

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An update of my Still Flyin’ pic – I wanted to extend the island into the water, and the atmosphere wouldn’t cooperate so it became something else entirely. But I think it looks nice anyway,

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Vue render, rather a lot of postwork to smooth out feathers.

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Vue render. Not much to tell – been working and getting sick, the usual.

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Vue render – took a while to get the render settings just right, but I’m quite happy with the end result.

Using the awesome Spitfire model by Anders Lejczak

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