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Chromattix — Brumal Bonsai
Published: 2008-08-08 09:00:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 21864; Favourites: 696; Downloads: 0
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The second of my series of seasonal bonsai trees, started in Autumn with Blushing Bonsai . Each one will be submitted at the time it's particular season is at it's peak (for those in Summer right now, remember it's winter where I am) This was delayed a little due to other stuff like my Birthday deviation, a club pack entry, and my 100th deviation, all of which had to be done first. Though I saved a little time because I started it a wile back, and finishe dit recently (thats how I was able to submit it so soon after my last lol)The scene was intended to be similar, but not the same as the other one, the tree is noticably different with it's cascading shape, and the background has changed too. It's not supposed to be the same tree in the same spot, just a similar "idea" over all.
Other seasonal trees:
Spring - Blossoming Bonsai
Summer - Basking Bonsai
Autumn - Blushing Bonsai
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Comments: 158
I can juse imagine a snow fox pawing it's way across that tree and raising it's head up high. Like it's the mightiest of creatures.
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They're pretty animals...but hopefully it knows not to travel too far from the tree 
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Wow, it's so calming and beautiful! I love how you made the snow on the mountains and around the tree!!
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Lol calming may not be the best way to describe a night out in a blizzard 
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Yup, I LOVE the lighting, or rather, lack of it!
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You have some mad 3d skills for sure and you know how trees think. You have created the most beautiful trees from electrons I have seen so far.
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I think I know more about tree's than people...it leads to a very lonely life 
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incredible... the frosted leaves on the tree look as delicate as thin glass and the mountains remind me of a scene from my book... wait, just ignore that lol
and the way you did the snow is so soft that its like fluffy down...
very beautiful
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The leaves in this frozen state probably are as delicate at thin glass 
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I've always wanted to see snow, but you're right - there isn't much of it in Australia... we're the 'lucky' ones who get the heat and humidity... oh well, they don't call us a sunburnt country for nothing ^.^
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This one is 
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Featured in my journal today....
[link]
hope thats ok>
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Amazing! Great choice of angle and subject
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Thanks...but sinc eit dosn't snow here - the only thing I get in Winter for my own bonsai trees is a lot of bare twigs
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Oh wow... Love the eletric white of the tree, so pure and focused making contrast with the more softer background.
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Thankyou very much. The tree just needed to stand out from the background after all, was looking quite dull during creation
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Thanks for commenting, and for the faves too
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i was looking through your gallery and wen i saw this i thought it was amazing! Everyone says that 3D is hard, and i believe them, but, you seem to have a knack for it ^^ cant wait to see more!
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3D is around the same difficulty level as 2D digital art, I wouldn't say it's harder or easier, but it usually takes longer to learn sinc eit "behaves" in a very different way to 2D art. Your'e not just going up and down and side to side like you would in a drawing, but rather have a "virtual world" to build aupon and arrange things wherever you want until your'e happy with it.
the particular program I used here helps making natural scenery and trees easier to to create, but if I want buildings and such in there, that will require the usual 3D method, which can take a while 
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What program do you use?
My parents think all these programs are a waste of money and what not, they say theyre stupid and a waste. But i like the programs(like photoshop, painter, ect.) cuz theyre fun to use. Last year in 7th we got to use phjotoshop for a school project and after that i tried to convince my parents to let me get some new programs for our comp, but i got the usual lecture of how its a waste XD lol. We got to use lots of different comp. programs as part of Media Arts curriculum, in fact the school brought it back for 8th grade! i cant wait to see what we get to do this year!
I think 3D design is cool because of the fact you get to sort of "build" on a surface.
Well, it may take a while, but it sure pays off! I cant wait to see more! ^^
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For my 2D illustrations, which are usually the fantasy-like ones, the space ones, and the fan-art deviations. I use mostly, or fully Photoshop...sometimes a bit of 3D, but thos sort of things can be done with Photoshop alone if you have the skill. the landscapes like this here are done in Vue 6, which is a 3D program that is intended for making realistic landscapes. But I also use Cinema 4D for "general 3D stuff" which is a good "starter" program, but rarely used in the production of professional work.
Your parents are probably just old-fashioned, and think its a waste of money because a "program" is not a physical, tangible thing, and that many older people don't consider it "art" unless it was hand-painted with a brush, so the argument "But I'll use them to make artworks" will probably fail too...If you maybe show them some examples of really good Digital art on DA and tell them that with practise, this is what you could end up doing, it might help persuade them...and if That dosn't work - well Christmas is coming up
You already have more than me though. All I had at age 14 was Paint Shop Pro 6 (which I liked at the time, but it can't do half the stuff that Photoshop can) and my high school didn't teach Media arts AT ALL! so I learned almost everything I know by myself, expect for the Cinema 4D stuff which I owe to my Digital Media teacher
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I used photoshop last eyar and found out u can make lots and lots of different things ^^ The teacher for Media Arts said I was good at using the program, we had to figure out most of the stuff ourselves... I just wish I still had the work I did with Photoshop *sigh*
Not so much "old-fashioned" my parents just think its a waste because my dad says I suck at drawing T_T Nice way to motivate me! ...not rly...He said even if I learned how to use a comp. program it wouldn't do me any good T_T Again, great motivation for practice! XD
For 7th we had Media Arts for 1 term, Arts for 1 term, Music for 1 term, and another media arts for 1 term. The second media arts isn't like w/ photoshop and wat not, its about how to write lab reports. But, i must say, I didn't mind the lab reports because we did lots of fun things in that class! We made hot air balloons(sone went so high they weren't visible, others came right down...one landed on me, and they weren't little or light) XD
Christmas is comming up and my parents said they were gonna get me a lap top w/ some programs on it, but idunno.... XD They said theyd get me one cuz I'm writing a book...my friends said it was a great accomplishment for a 14 yr./ old. ^^ It's like 520 + pages, and theres a volume 2 to it ^^
Srry for the long rant! X__x
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I had to figure most things out myself too. I learned the foundation of my 3D skills from my teacher last year, but by then, the Photoshop stuff we also learned was stuff I already knew and picked up slowly over time (I'm not complaining, it's awesome to say you are self-taught, and I had a huge advantage over the other students 
Over 520 pages is very good! I couldn't even milk out an essay longer than 2 and a half
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XD I hafta agree, to say you're self taught is kinda fun...but its also kinda bragging XD
XD cooking and sewing...we didnt hafta do that. Alle we did was art(we drew pretty pics..one of which is in my gallery right now i think) some with pastels, others painted.You hafta addmit, sewing isn't soooo bad..I sew all the time, I even make clothes and costumes!Already at 14 and I dont need patterns! ^^
Lost motivsation to go to school!? O noes! I listened to my mp3 during classes, i hid an earbud with my hair all day long XD And it worked...until I got my hair cut...
Essays aren't fun. Unless its somethin i wanna write, chances are, yea, i'll get an A, but i wont really care O_o Writing is my passion! XD Drawing too^^
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Creating 3D environments is the most
difficult to me. You seem to have
nearly mastered it. keep up the
great work.
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Eeveryone has different "feilds" they excel in, you'd be the kind who would do general modelling (which is often more importamt, especially if you get involved in a 3D animated movie that needs good characters) Environments like hills and trees are often murder to model from scratch, thats why I use "Vue 6" which allows you to create a scene like this in a matter of hours (it would be even quicker if I had a faster laptop) Since it's specifically made for landscapes rather than general modelling (even then, you can import objects modelled in other programs, and put them in a realistic environment in Vue)
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Hey that reminds me. Have you heard of this tiny
free program called Arbaro? I came across it a
long time ago, lost it, tried to find it more
recently, Google could not find it, but then I
saw someone bring it up in a forum.
Snatch it up. It's a nice little tool to have
handy on the side for various circumstances.
Oh yeah. What is it? It's a great tree generator
and you can export OBJ files to be used in other software.
They are a little more low poly than what Vue might have,
but it's just good to have around, just in case.
Sadly, you would have to make your own textures for it,
but that's part of the process of modeling anyway.
[link]
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Oh sweet! thanks for showing me that, since I won't have my personal comp for about a week (answering this through class computers 
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Werd. What is Vue mainly used for? Is it similar
to Bryce?
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I've never used Bryce, but from the Bryce renders I've seen here, it's safe to say that Vue is WAY better 
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Oh shoot! That's why I remember seeing it. I read Cinefex
regularaly (magazine with lots interviews with people who
do the effects, animations, directing, etc. for movies).
I saw Vue in it a bunch of times. They use it for the
movies too. I defintely am going to look into it some more.
Actually I think I did go to the site once a long time
ago and it was a short visit once I learned of the price.
It look nothing short of amazing though. [sigh] some
day when I make millions...
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Beautiful dude, its a great scene! bthe tree looks like its sad because of the curve, looks limp maybe...it could be sad since its freezing its but off though!
Anyways, love the icicles u added there too, looks great
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Thanks, for this one, I wanted the "cascading bonsai" look like this [link] it's a popular style as it represent the real tree high up on mountains like this, which would be knocked downward by snow, wind and falling rocks...so yeah, I would be pretty sad if I were in that environment too
Glad you liked the icicles, they are small but made a huge difference
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Heheh, yeah the cascading bonzai are pretty ^^
your welcome dude
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