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Published: 2008-10-17 22:35:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 12117; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 272
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Its not easy for a young fairy to bind a hungry serpent with a magic spell... will her spell really strong enough...?-----------------------------------
My second render ever that i made with DAZ-Studio V1.8. I thought, i had deleted it by accident, but i found it recently again on my backup-harddisk. Must search deeper on my backup-HD (it's a mess on there
), maybe i will find my first render or at least the DAZ-file of it again too. This work is an early predecessor of 'The Beauty and the Beast' .It's sometimes funny for my to rediscover old stuff i had made... but "old" is a little bit exaggerated too: I started with all this 3D-stuff only in Jan. 2008, so it's even not a year old now, but i saw it already as "old stuff"
Technical side:
Made with the DAZ-starter-set (Fairy forest-set and V3, the famous free DAZ python, the Glorietta-pavillon and other freebies from DAZ).
No post-production in this, except the add of my CC-horseshoe-logo. I saw a lot of flaws in it now that can be fast and easily corrected now in PSP X, but my intention was to let it the state, that it had in early 2008, with no overwork and adding of all the post-production-tricks that i learned later.
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I was curious, what makes this render so much different than your other renders in terms of quality? Because the difference is very noticeable!
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It was a very early work. The second serious render i made in DAZ Studio 1.8 in Jan 2008. All material-settings are still on its default-parameters (no bumpmaps, all materals still set to "plastic", and so on) and rendered only with Open GL and 8 passes per light, not raytraced... Not to talk about the stiff pose and a free hovering wand in a not closed hand.. but back then i was the King of the world after i finally found out that this bizarre "lump" of transparent arrows in the viewport are representing the directions of the lights and how i can "switch on" this damn shadows in my first works.
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That's pretty incredible, if it's not too much to ask.... I'd like to see what that particular skin of snake looks like after you add the touches to it today that you use for Sucuriju...
lol I don't know if that makes sense after reading it, do you know what I mean?
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Would look like this i did for the Sucuriju-skin: ancestorsrelic.deviantart.com/β¦
The trouble with the original Burmese Python skin is that i can't simply do a B/W image and use it as a bumpmap because of the black parts that would turn out looking "imprinted".
For Sucuriju i created his skin from skratch in PSP X4 build up of several layers and so i had the black spots as a separated layer from the green ground of the skin and so it was possible to create my bumpmap for it by using only the "ground-layer" without the black spots.Β
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I would still like to see it if it was possible! Just because of the fact that you do such incredible work...
Sucuriju's skin is just brilliant, it's still pretty freakin' awesome that you could pull that off by yourself when people charge upwards of hundreds of dollars to make something like that!
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your renderings are simply amazing. Simply wow. Its really awesome
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Thank you very much... I do my very best 
P.S. Thanks for favoriting too!!
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You are quite welcome. Your CG work is fantastic and I couldn't miss favoriting it ^^
You are very welcome
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If she does tire, that's what the friendly smile on her face is for! "Just kidding, Mr. Giant Serpent! I'll be going now, have your people call my people, we'll do lunch. Lunch? Oops! My Bad!!"
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Thanks! One of my very early works in DAZ-Studio. Hmmm... maybe i shall overwork it? The pose of the fairy looks too stiff, her grip on her want to loose, the snakes head is a little bit too big (as a result of the used wideangle).
Maybe i find my first work somewhere on my backup-HD too. I deleted both by accident on my work-HD and found only the second one on the backup-HD again. The first one was a "monster-picture" too, where a giant dragonfly do hunting the fairy
P.S. Thanks for the fav
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9All i say is you kick my ass at art speaking of which check my new work)
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How long will she hold this snake off with her power or will she eventually tire and the snake would take an advantage on her?
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Thats a test that every young fairy must pass... and if the fairy fail the test, she will not be annoyed with further tests
P.S. Thanks for the fav!
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ich hoffe ma es hat nich geklappt 
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Hmmm... fand nachher nur noch den Zauberstab & das Goldkettchen... muss also doch geklappt haben.... fΓΌr die Schlange
P.S. Thanks fΓΌr den Fav!
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dank mir doch ned immer x3 mach einfach weiter mit der guten arbeit das is dank genug
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hab mich schon gewundert, dass das nicht sucuriju is. es sah nΓ€mlich aus wie ein python ...
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Ja, so sieht der DAZ-Python im Original aus. Sucuriju ist ein massiver "Umbau" vom DAZ-Python. FΓΌr Sucuriju wurden neben der UV-Map bzw. Textur wurden auch massiv die Morphs modifiziert.
(P.S. In 3D bezeichnen die "Morphs" ΓΌbrigens die KΓΆrper/Kopfform und nicht die Farben/Muster... die "Schlangenhaut" ist dann die sog. "UV-Map" oder "Texture")
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aha! jetzt weiΓ ich es ^^
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that snake skin looks too good to be the regular daz skins...or maybe its the lighting. except for her head being a bit out of alignment (to me) it looks great!
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It's really the original DAZ-Python with the original texture. If i remember it right, i used the faster deep shadow-map renderer for this, not raytracing.
I am not sure about the texture, it seems to be photographed from some real snakes... looks like Python Molurus, but a little bit like Python Reticulatus too. Guess, there was a lot of work for the creator to fit it to the 3D-mesh of the python.
There is a albino-version of the python-texture and a Corallus Caninus texture (dont know the english name of the Hundskopfschlinger) for the DAZ-python available too in the set. I already modified the Corallus Caninus texture to a normal green and a blue Chondro too, but did not used it yet.
P.S. Thanks for the fav
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you are welcome and fyi
Hundskopfschlinger = emerald tree boa
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V3 makes some of the yummiest women ^__^ , although I like A3 alot too.
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Yes, beside my newer V4 i still love to work with V3. It use far less memory on my older PC than the V4 (more than two V4 i can't use at once), i have a lot of acessoires for V3 and there is still much more free stuff available for V3 than for V4.
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