"The Mallorn"
Jan. 26th, 2018 08:43 pmThis is from the final chapter of LOTR, which I personally try my best to avoid. I don't know why I have done so many pics from that last chapter. Most likely just because even though it's not my favorite Tolkien, it's still Tolkien. ^^;
Anyway, for whatever reason I couldn't resist doing a scene with Sam's mallorn tree. The difficulty was lighting these models. I must have tried thirty different lighting rigs and never could get it right. I made over fifty renders before I finally settled on this image as the best I could do. Maybe someday I'll come back to it when I've learned enough to improve on it. :)
I tried here to make Sam look young and robust, but Frodo needed to look a bit older and somewhat frail, which I achieved to my satisfaction by giving him a stylish walking stick, smaller feet and thin eyebrows :)
I catch more than a whiff of the old pagan fertility and sacrificial gods in Sam and Frodo... Sam was born in spring and is all about life and fertility, while Frodo was born in fall and is all about sacrifice and loss. They are complementary opposites. I see something like the old Green Man and Corn King hinted at in these two.
The neat gate model is called "Shire Portal" from Daz3D. :)
ETA: Corrected yet another artifact and re-uploaded. :P

Anyway, for whatever reason I couldn't resist doing a scene with Sam's mallorn tree. The difficulty was lighting these models. I must have tried thirty different lighting rigs and never could get it right. I made over fifty renders before I finally settled on this image as the best I could do. Maybe someday I'll come back to it when I've learned enough to improve on it. :)
I tried here to make Sam look young and robust, but Frodo needed to look a bit older and somewhat frail, which I achieved to my satisfaction by giving him a stylish walking stick, smaller feet and thin eyebrows :)
I catch more than a whiff of the old pagan fertility and sacrificial gods in Sam and Frodo... Sam was born in spring and is all about life and fertility, while Frodo was born in fall and is all about sacrifice and loss. They are complementary opposites. I see something like the old Green Man and Corn King hinted at in these two.
The neat gate model is called "Shire Portal" from Daz3D. :)
ETA: Corrected yet another artifact and re-uploaded. :P
