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Description I was thinking of doing the XY year challenge of how my art moved through the years, but I don't fit in 5 or 10 year category because I started 7 years ago, so I did a quick little 7-year retrospect instead First render at the top was made March 2013, last render at the bottom January 2020 numbered as the 330th render (even though there were more that were either short lived or I discarded them along the way). I think my favorite has been the year of 2019 looking back now, at least where I landed with the style and characters and freedom to create
2013 and 2014 are all 3Delight, 2015 onward Iray and Octane, Faith appears several times through generations as she's been my constant since almost the very beginning Β All and more of these is available at valzheimer.info (2015 until today) and archive.valzheimer.info/ (going back to 2013).
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ThePaperTiger [2020-01-15 21:24:43 +0000 UTC]

Nicely done! Such spectacular progress

You've inspired me to create something like this now!

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valzheimer In reply to ThePaperTiger [2020-01-16 03:37:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! You should do it too, it's fun!

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Enchanted-April [2020-01-06 22:01:30 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, it is very interesting to see your way to your own style and the way you was growing up in your skills!

Congratulations to 7 years of continuity and succes!


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valzheimer In reply to Enchanted-April [2020-01-07 01:35:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much dear!

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TheOtherThoreandan [2020-01-06 15:53:35 +0000 UTC]

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valzheimer In reply to TheOtherThoreandan [2020-01-06 18:19:46 +0000 UTC]

So happy to hear that and I'm humbled you got inspired by it!

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ShieldBucklerStudios [2020-01-06 05:01:47 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations! I too think your style really popped in 2019, as I have enjoyed seeing how well you use lighting in your portraits!

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valzheimer In reply to ShieldBucklerStudios [2020-01-06 18:19:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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Becarra [2020-01-04 13:47:51 +0000 UTC]

I've always loved your style, and will continue to do so!

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valzheimer In reply to Becarra [2020-01-04 18:32:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you dear!

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Nikolaj-Alasdair [2020-01-03 22:18:01 +0000 UTC]

Great!
Very impressive development!
I still remember 3Delight very well, but I don't miss it.

I think you found your style very fast, I'd say, you awork isΒ recognisable from 2014 on.

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valzheimer In reply to Nikolaj-Alasdair [2020-01-04 02:34:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I actually liked 3Delight when I got a hang of it, if you can tell first two renders i put there on purpose
because they have no light in them whatsoever lol. I remember posting one of those on DA back in the day and a person commented
like "Interesting lights" I did say "Thanks" but that was when I realized there actually was lights to be used and I was supposed to do
something more to those scenes lol 2015 I sucked for the most part because I was struggling to get good stuff out of IrayΒ 
on a machine that wouldn't follow through completely, but when I bridged that to 2016 nothing much has changed further.
It's definitely more fun these days when I don't have to think how to do something and what else is hidden there

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Nikolaj-Alasdair In reply to valzheimer [2020-01-13 14:49:53 +0000 UTC]

I used 3DElight for a long time, but the light always looked a bit artifiial - as I came from Poser.
Than ther was This Reality Render Tool, aΒ predecessor for iray, and i liked it, although it was not easy to handle.
Than I made a break and came back and there was iray. And I loved it.
Well... I think I shoud make some tieline, too.

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valzheimer In reply to Nikolaj-Alasdair [2020-01-14 17:35:43 +0000 UTC]

You definitely should! It was similar to me, except that I really couldn't get into Reality much,
but instead I embraced Octane for a while. Now it's mostly Iray again though

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Nikolaj-Alasdair In reply to valzheimer [2020-01-14 20:05:43 +0000 UTC]

hehe. I did.

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valzheimer In reply to Nikolaj-Alasdair [2020-01-15 00:44:52 +0000 UTC]

Saw it, loved it

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Linwelly [2020-01-03 21:01:42 +0000 UTC]

Congrats and that is a nice development! Still the characters and style you keep

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valzheimer In reply to Linwelly [2020-01-04 02:29:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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fractal2cry [2020-01-03 20:37:41 +0000 UTC]

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valzheimer In reply to fractal2cry [2020-01-04 02:29:10 +0000 UTC]

Β 

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RobF4 [2020-01-03 20:16:41 +0000 UTC]

Very cool! I love to see the progression of an artist's journey.

That's why I don't clean up my gallery.

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valzheimer In reply to RobF4 [2020-01-04 02:28:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I still keep the oldies online too, although on their separate subdomain

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RobF4 In reply to valzheimer [2020-01-06 13:48:38 +0000 UTC]

Yeah... I checked it out. Very nice!

One of many resolutions... to have more of a presence online.

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valzheimer In reply to RobF4 [2020-01-06 18:19:00 +0000 UTC]

That's a good one to keep! Β 

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Edheldil3D [2020-01-03 19:32:25 +0000 UTC]

Very nice overview and congratulations on the 330th render here on dA.!
But I still miss Pete.

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valzheimer In reply to Edheldil3D [2020-01-03 20:09:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I think we all miss Pete

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