"Land and Sea"

[wallace_trust]

This goes with one of my fanfics, but works very well as a generic fantasy painting.  I broke my mouse working on the waves yesterday and spent an hour this morning finding and installing an old wireless mouse to replace it!  ^^; 




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[baranduin]

Oh wow, that’s wild!

[wallace_trust]

Thank you very much! :)

[shirebound]

Sea Horses, wonderful!

[wallace_trust]

Thank you so much! :)

The sea horse is called a hippocampus. It's said they were invented as a medieval heraldic emblem, but I seem to remember seeing them while perusing Mesopotamian art, so I suspect they're far older than medieval times. :)

[claudia603]

oh my gosh! I love it!

[wallace_trust]

Thank you so much! :) I'm looking forward to trying to make a scene of a mermaid riding on one of these sea horses! :)

[peripety]

Wow, I love the drama of the waves and the sky/lighting, and the wonderful details in the mane, tail, and hooves of the seahorse. Very cool how the horse's mane is standing up as if electrified by the storm. Gorgeous!

[wallace_trust]

Thank you very much! Such kind words you have! :)

It was fun trying to pose the land horse's mane and tail to get a sense of excitement, attraction and surprise all at once.

[lavendertook]

Beautiful! I loved how you fused the deep sea horse markings and dorsal fins flutters as mane with the horse body. And I like the land horse's standing up mane and wary/attracted body posture as a clear WTF is this--WOW WEE!!? Oh, deceptive water--so delicate, but not!

[wallace_trust]

Thank you so much for the compliments! :)

A CG artist's work is never just their own. It's a group creation. Each artist has their own areas where they specialize-- some trend toward modeling, some texturing, some rigging and posing and some in setting up whole scenes. I'm mainly the last type. The sea horse tail geograft and paint job aren't mine at all-- I wish they were! They're an artist's resource from Hivewire3D. I was tempted to modify the paint job to suit myself (I was wanting more of an emerald green) but decided for the sake of speed to stick with the skin which was originally supplied.

The work of at least ten people is represented in this picture. The components I used were:

"Skies of iRadiance" by Dimension3D
"Hivewire Horse"
"Hivewire Sea Horse"
DAZ3D iRay cloud props
DAZ3D Morphing Terrain
"Beach" by Adam Thwaites
Brushes by Ron

Most of my effort in this pic went into the water. I used Adam Thwaite's "Beach" model as a base to start with, but IMHO no CG water is really convincing without a lot of paint work. ^_^

[febobe]

Lovely!

[wallace_trust]

Thank you so much! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Love it!

[wallace_trust]

Thank you very much! :)