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Published: 2012-07-27 16:44:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 5705; Favourites: 141; Downloads: 111
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..............................A U.S. cavalryman sharpshooter takes aim with his Spencer carbine. He's been tracking his quarry though the night, and now, as dawn breaks on a cloudy day, he has found what he seeks. He sits on the back of his trusty horse atop a grassy hill and targets someone or something in the pine forest below. He the latest addition to my series of American Old West themed art.
Note this scene uses purchased content. The characters were posed in poser then imported into Vue where the rest of the scene was constructed. Final rendering was done in Vue and took about 36 hours on an Intel I5 2.8 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. Post production was also done in GIMP.
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Daniel
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Yes, used particularly by cavalry in the 1860's
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Congrats, this artwork got featured in our Spot On: Action and Suspense!
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Love the posing here and the beautiful umber and sepia tones through the picture. Really gives the impression of a high quality painting (though most of your artwork does!). I think he could be the cover of a great western novel.
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Are his stirrups a bit long or did they all wear them like that? 
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Excellent picture that reminds me these old western movies !
If I were him, I would place my feet on the stirrups to stay on the horse (I'm kidding, I know the difficulty to get a fully correct pose on a horse with Poser 
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Great scene; like the way the cavalryman is silhouetted against the sky!
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Great! Awesome light! Looks like thunder is brewing in the distance
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Really nice work, that must have been difficult to pose just right.
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does the 8GB of ram make it easier to make the scene or render the scene ?
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Yes to both really. 8GB of ram lets me run both poser and vue at the same time during design, or I can have a really complex scene without things slowing down too much in vue. When it comes to rendering, it doesn't help as much as it seems to top out at 4 Gig on the performance monitor, but it does allow me to continue to do other things on the computer (coding, running word, browsing the web, etc) while the render is going.
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cool beans. i'm slapping another 4 in mine,
I got the i7 with nvidia gtx 560, a couple years old now but i want to squeeze another couple out of it.
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Oh wow! You have done such a great job of capturing the realism here! It really brings to mind one of Norman Rockwell's paintings. You have created a very similar warmth and feel with this image! Awesome job Daniel! yay!
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