Sunset Play

Been literally rebuilding the sunset. 

Carrara has a decent built in sky generator, but it is somewhat restrictive in editing individual elements. So I decided to build my own sunset completely from scratch. 

Work in progress

I started building a sun. It is a sphere primitive with a liberal application of glow. However I wanted it to pack a bit more punch than this.

Work in progress

Adding a bit of lens flare I've got it down pretty good.

However the sky was too straight and uniform.

Work in progress

I think this is looking pretty good.

Wondering about the sky colours is the only sticking point.

Notice anything I haven't done right?

Getting back into Palaeo-art...

So as you can tell from this blog I've been kind of quiet as of late. Not that I haven't been (artistically) busy. I've got two board game commissions signed up (one is approaching 80% completion).

However I haven't been doing any palaeo-art in almost 6 months. Which is really weird. I can't think of a time in the past 6 years where I wasn't working on something prehistoric. For some reason or another I've experienced some serious palaeontology apathy/burn out. Perhaps after the solid half decade plus this was to be expect, but it still feels weird to not be doing my "thing".

With the decision by Peter and myself to wrap up the ART Evolved galleries for the time being, I'm forcing myself to do at least one really big bang finale piece for this tradition. I own a ton of my artistic growth to the galleries, and so it is only fitting I see them off with a final tribute.

To that end I wanted to push my new found lighting skills into unfamiliar territory. I want to do a Tyrannosaur silhouetted by a sunset.

Work in progress

Here is my start. I think it is looking promising, but perhaps has room for improvement.

Any suggestions 3D people out there?
I've got a primary yellow light coming from the back. I've got a reddish fill from the left, a orangey brown from the right, and two blues from either side of the camera. The bounce (not that you can see it a moment) is a yellowish brown.

My productivity of late

Just thought I'd post some of my most recent work here. Though do keep up with my dedicated palaeo-art site at www.cdylke.blogspot.com. I post everything there!

Stegosaurus Progress

I've been quite productive in between the hecticness at work lately. All my last few Dinosaur pieces have been models or entire scenes that I started long ago, and only had to do some finishing work on now.

The one true new construction I've been toying with lately is a piece for the Stegosaur gallery.

Work in progress

It is a long ways off, but I'm quite happy with how the environment is building up. I'm not happy with the Stegosaurus base colouration underneath the bright blue. So I will be playing with that a lot more immediately after this post.

Avengers Ripoff #6

My favourite fake teamup by far. Buzzlight Year, Mr. Incredible, Pelvic Thrust Batman, and.... well you can't love them all... Spiderman.

Avengers Ripoff #5

Yet another counterfeit superhero teamup. Ben 10 takes the cake on weird member. Though pelvic thrust Batman tries darn hard to compete.  

Avengers Ripoff #4

 Another counterfeit superhero set. This time we see the movie stars Wolverine, Captain America, Spiderman, and... Gladiator?!?

Transformers Ripoff #62

Chariot King: Transform

Transformer Ripoff #61

Bat-bot

Transformers Ripoff #60

Sorry these aren't the best pictures. I snuck these snaps in a very carefully guarded and hostile (especially to photographers) Chinese department store. I barely managed these given the one clerk who was keeping her eye on me (I got it in while she was helping another customer).

Conversion: Metals Car