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Published: 2015-01-19 20:42:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 6431; Favourites: 206; Downloads: 0
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Prints: daniel-eskridge.artistwebsites…Somewhere in the American west, a bison trudges runs over a snow covered hilltop late in the afternoon on a winter day. This is an unusual buffalo in that the top half of his body is not covered in the usual dark brown fur that the animal typically has. Rather he has a half coat of snow white hair. As he charges over the hill, he kicks of a spray of the snow. Meanwhile puffy white clouds in the sky catch the warm rays of the late day sun.
To make this artwork, I started by building the hilltop scene in using Vue from E-on Software. Next, I used Daz Studio to pose the bison figure and the plug-in LookAtMyHair to give it fur -- both Daz Studio and LookAtMy hair are available from Daz3D ( introvertartist.com/daz ). I imported the ape into my Vue scene and had the computer render the image. Finally, I edited the image in GIMP (an open source alternative to Photoshop) to touch up mistakes, enhance colors, etc.
Resources:
Daz (where to get characters, clothes, hair, and fur tools): www.IntrovertArtist.com/Daz
Renderosity (where to get characters, clothes, hair): www.IntrovertArtist.com/Render
Vue (for building the scene and rendering): www.IntrovertArtist.com/Vue
GIMP (an open source alternative to Photoshop): www.IntrovertArtist.com/Gimp
Thanks for looking!
Daniel Eskridge
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Comments: 46
You certainly have captured the powerfulness and ferocity of the bison! Very well done!
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Great looking scene, with the awesome looking Bizon, what a gorgious animal it is!!
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You're definitely brilliant artist and
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Wow, great work on the Bison's fur.
Also the dynamic is captured well.
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Beautiful image, using your softwae tools o he lmit, I suspect.
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Thanks! Actually, though it was pretty harsh loading all that fur in vue, the render only took around 12 hours, which for the size I render at, was really quite reasonable.
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wow ! we can feel the power of the beast ! bravo !
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A fantastic job on the scene as well as the buffalo. The movement and hair on him is well done.
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Beautiful piece of art. Great looking model and on top of that the fur looks amazing. Great tone of colors too. This could be use as a poster.
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