Ice flow

[chris_x422]

Hi guys,

Been a while since I posted any work.
Had a bit free time to play around this weekend and decided to do something that was a little more abstract than my usual fare.

The colour could be a little out as I'm working on my laptop, and it really needs calibrating.
Had fun doing this, and might continue a bit further yet, as it's been a bit slapped together so far.

Chris

[Lady of the Lake]

That is wild!   I like.

[yossam]

I like also............shame we don't have subsurface scattering. 

[Kadri]

Looks nice Chris!

[TheBadger]

The light is remarkable... Fantastic.

The terrain reminds me of A Nightmare Before Christmas a little, but with an updated feel to it.

[chris_x422]

Cheers guys, glad you like it.

I get the Tim Burton reference now you mention it, though it wasn't intentional at all.

Chris

[masonspappy]

Wow, that's different.  Now I really do wish there was a "like" button here

[inkydigit]

nIcE slapping Chris... great effect!
beautiful results...
Burtonesque indeed!

Jason

[Dune]

Yes, really ingenious, and good that you post again. Keep that up! And now for the big question: did you use a VDisp map, or procedural redirects, vortexes and/or blue stuff?

[EoinArmstrong]

Well we may not have SSS but whatever you've used (transparency?) it looks just as awesome!  Wonderful stuff...

[chris_x422]

Thanks again for the kind comments.

Working in cg every day, it's not very conducive to spending my free time doing more cg, but it's nice to do something that's a little more creative and less directed. I'd love to do more things like this on a regular basis.

It was sculpted and brought into tg as vdisp.
I did try several different techniques in tg to get the type of translucency I was looking for but I just couldn't match what I'd intended for the shot. So in the end I ran a subsurface pass through vray and added the sss pass to the tg layers. I'd normally persevere with a tg render but this was meant to be a fun quick piece so I thought what the hell.

As I suspected, the colour is very different on my work monitor, so I'll probably re-grade it a little when I get a moment.

Chris

[Bjur]

Great mood!

Looks like a perfect BG matte of a kinda "magic ice world" scene of an upcoming CG fairy-tale.

[j meyer]

Really cool!

[mhaze]

Beautiful.

[cyphyr]

Really sweetly done.Love the shapes and the colouring. I must get my head round this vdisp techniques.

Richard