Category: Artwork

Free Terragen Conference tomorrow!

There’s a FREE TERRALIVE Terragen conference on Saturday 5th of January at 20:00 GMT London (tommorow). So if you are a Terragen 2 user, just use this link to gain entrance into this webinar. The main conference is being held 18th – 20th January – more details on the 3D Art Direct website here.

King Conan

“Many wars and feuds did Conan fight. Honor and fear were heaped upon his name and, in time, he became a king by his own hand … but that is another story.” This was a Kiriban for a friend over on DeviantArt.  He asked for a pic of Conan / a barbarian as his prize….

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Back to Vue for The Last Stand

I’ve spent quite a lot of time playing around in Daz|Studio, Carrara and Poser for my rendering recently, but for this latest piece, I’ve gone back to Vue, which I think is still one of my favourite render engines, particularly for making more arty-looking fantasy pictures. This is a scene from a story I finally…

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My first Daz|Studio Render (that isn’t pants)

Daz|Studio is 3D posing, rendering and animation software that has been available for free for many years.  I’ve never been a fan.  I found Poser first, and have happily paid for upgrades to it since about 2004, and firmly believe it’s well worth the money. I’ve used a lot of different 3D modelling and rendering…

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Conan Obsession…?

After a period of self-imposed austerity measures, I finally got hold of this awesome ‘Altas‘ morph and texture pack from Renderosity.  I’ve been duly making Conans with it ever since.  This one was rendered in Poser Pro 2012. Growing up, I loved Robert E Howard’s tales of Conan, the quintessential barbarian hero, and I read…

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Unexpected Benevolence

Well, after I gave Daz’s Victoria3 a bit of a whirl after a long absence the other night, it seemed only fair to brush the dust off Michael3 and breathe some life back into him too. I’ve used the EZ Skin script on one of the MOTY textures, and also experimented with my own 3-point…

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Interview with 3D Art Direct

I did an interview with 3D Art Direct this month: How to create digital character art with impact. The Podcast is available here.

EZ Skin

I got this free Poser script yesterday, called EZSkin and I absolutely love it! Both the images below use the gorgeous Nosfearatu texture from RDNA. Both were rendered with the same HDRI light and a single specular light. Displacement is turned on in both cases. The original render isn’t bad, but on running the EZ Skin script for the…

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