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After a full week of feeling really dumpy, I had a talk with a classmate back in high school and while it did take me another day to break out of it, I am no longer in a funk. So, earlier on Friday, I reworked a commission for Drew and then I set out to render Sarah again. She gave me an idea; a short, tight green dress, fingerless gloves, a gun in her hand, and leaning against a wall with one knee up. And she wanted a pony tail off to the side. She mentioned a black belt but I have nothing suitable and I'm not that great at painting things yet.

I won't get into too much of the post work, other than I have five layers in total and I had an issue with her pony tail cutting into her shoulder. I wanted reflection on the windows and rather than cheating with a reflection map, I went for the real thing and placed a very large plane behind the camera to reflect a picture of the sky with some clouds. There is nothing behind the windows and I left them at 15% opacity with the background rendered in black. It did a pretty good job I think

Her dress has UberSurface applied to give it a special look Lighting is UE2 (as usual) with the maximum raytrace distance set to 800 and the intensity bumped up a bit. This gives us a nice diffuse light, although it would be more suitable for a cloudy day. But as always, I don't aim for 100% accuracy. It is all interpretation. If my eyes like it, that's what I'm gonna render

Well, a little over a week till Christmas. The air conditioning is still on and I haven't put my tree up yet. I feel that the fewer reminders there are of the holiday, the better off I am. I won't go into details but December has always been a tough month for me. Sometimes I try to spread some cheer around to ease my pain, but it just didn't work out this year and I crashed and burned instead. But I feel much better now Perhaps if I make more art it will keep my mind off the holidays

DS3A/UE2/UberSurface/GIMP

Description
After a full week of feeling really dumpy, I had a talk with a classmate back in high school and while it did take me another day to break out of it, I am no longer in a funk. So, earlier on Friday, I reworked a commission for Drew and then I set out to render Sarah again. She gave me an idea; a short, tight green dress, fingerless gloves, a gun in her hand, and leaning against a wall with one knee up. And she wanted a pony tail off to the side. She mentioned a black belt but I have nothing suitable and I'm not that great at painting things yet.

I won't get into too much of the post work, other than I have five layers in total and I had an issue with her pony tail cutting into her shoulder. I wanted reflection on the windows and rather than cheating with a reflection map, I went for the real thing and placed a very large plane behind the camera to reflect a picture of the sky with some clouds. There is nothing behind the windows and I left them at 15% opacity with the background rendered in black. It did a pretty good job I think

Her dress has UberSurface applied to give it a special look Lighting is UE2 (as usual) with the maximum raytrace distance set to 800 and the intensity bumped up a bit. This gives us a nice diffuse light, although it would be more suitable for a cloudy day. But as always, I don't aim for 100% accuracy. It is all interpretation. If my eyes like it, that's what I'm gonna render

Well, a little over a week till Christmas. The air conditioning is still on and I haven't put my tree up yet. I feel that the fewer reminders there are of the holiday, the better off I am. I won't go into details but December has always been a tough month for me. Sometimes I try to spread some cheer around to ease my pain, but it just didn't work out this year and I crashed and burned instead. But I feel much better now Perhaps if I make more art it will keep my mind off the holidays

DS3A/UE2/UberSurface/GIMP