Two Sides Imaging

Just doing another test of Aiko-4. So far I like her a lot more than Aiko-3, though she still doesn't seem to bend as well as Victoria-4.

I've been somewhat absent lately due to health problems, including a hospital stay. Hopefully I'm on the mend now.

I suppose this would have been "just a little portrait", but I was actually thinking of a title as I did it. Anyway, I'm mostly just limbering up again.

Between the holidays and my recent health problems, it's been a while since I did a complex image. However, now that I'm feeling better, I thought it was time to flex my muscles again.

This was a fun technical challenge, mostly just refamiliarizing myself with the particulars of reflection. Probably the hardest part was fine-tuning the water turbulence so that the eyes reflected clearly.

Then it was just a matter of doing two renders (one blue for the top and one red for the reflection) and compositing them together. I also did my standard postwork style, but I had to restore the original for the backdrop sky and its reflection in the water. Otherwise it lost too much detail.

Somehow it seemed appropriate to show her groping through the darkness.

Yet another boring pin-up...

Fifty... wow. When I started this series, I never thought it would go past a dozen or so, but it's been a lot of fun. While I label them as boring, I'm honestly trying to do something a little special with each one, ranging from that little extra prop detail to the extra water and steam effects here.

Enjoy! Maybe it'll get to 100 someday.

I'm really enjoying this new Aiko-4 figure. She's easy to work with and cute as a button. This is her in two different incarnations.

I'm also pretty pleased with some brushes I got from Obsidian (http://www.brushes.obsidiandawn.com/index.htm). The backdrop sky was painted using a blue-to-grey graident and his cloud brushes. They're lovely and very subtle.

I'm getting ready for AggieCon now. Alas, I didn't have a terribly productive winter, so it looks like my AggieCon lineup will be the same as my ArmadilloCon and FenCon lineups. Still, there will be a few pieces I did last summer that will be making their AggieCon debut. Hope to see you there.

Just fiddling around after work...