"Down Time"

Started by dduane, July 07, 2016, 08:50:00 PM

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dduane

Just for the amusement of those of you here who've helped me with images before: here's something new.

The hubby and I have started using Instagram to publicize the ebooks coming out of our online shop at Ebooks Direct (http://ebooksdirect.co). This is the art for a summer reading promotion we're trying out this year.

The girl in the foreground is one of the protagonists of the Young Wizards series. She was done in Daz Studio, and then dropped into Dune's lovely Beach v.3 (http://store.nwdastore.com/complete-projects-tgd/dunes-beach-v3), with a couple of extra planets added in.

I hope you like it! -- DD
Diane Duane | The Owl Springs Partnership | Co. Wicklow, Ireland
SF and fantasy fiction from the author via Amazon or https://ebooks.direct

masonspappy

Nice! DAZ can be persnickety when combined with Terragen. 

Dune

Very nice, and thanks for mentioning my beach. One tiny thing; the girls belly is floating. The book must be very exciting  ;) I like it that the e-book is hanging in mid air though. SF-like.

dduane

Quote from: masonspappy on July 07, 2016, 09:24:48 PM
Nice! DAZ can be persnickety when combined with Terragen.

Too true. It's not that the Iray rendering engine is all that difficult to work with, but getting it to render materials the way you want them and then to make sure those settings migrate correctly with the exported object can be a bit of a challenge. And then after that, getting the image positioned, getting the light right, all the rest of it... (resigned look) It's a learning curve. But WTF, sometimes it works. :) -- DD
Diane Duane | The Owl Springs Partnership | Co. Wicklow, Ireland
SF and fantasy fiction from the author via Amazon or https://ebooks.direct

dduane

Quote from: Dune on July 08, 2016, 02:35:51 AM
Very nice, and thanks for mentioning my beach.

You're very welcome! I had the older version and was really chuffed (while looking for something else here) to find there was a new one. Such beautiful work!  :)

QuoteOne tiny thing; the girls belly is floating. The book must be very exciting  ;) I like it that the e-book is hanging in mid air though. SF-like.

Entirely true.  :o  I was at the end of a long day of tweak-it-and-render-it, oops-not-quite-right, tweak-it-and-render-it-again...  and finally I just stuck it up there without realizing it needed one last tweak. (Actually I have to go back to Daz and make the change there: got so obsessive about what the character's right hand was doing that I lost sight of the hovering midriff.)

Though... she could be hovering; she's a wizard, after all... ;)  But yeah, the SF-ish look is intentional. Magic in the Young Wizards universe is strongly grounded in science... (or maybe the other way around...) and wizardry doesn't stop at atmosphere: it's a galactic-and-bigger phenomenon. So the books are SF. When they aren't fantasy.  ;D -- DD
Diane Duane | The Owl Springs Partnership | Co. Wicklow, Ireland
SF and fantasy fiction from the author via Amazon or https://ebooks.direct

DocCharly65


dduane

Thank you! So she is. Saved the world a few times, saved a significant portion of the Local Group once, nearly eaten once by the world's biggest and oldest shark, instrumental in finding out where the Martians went, on first-name basis with a couple of other planets, has survived having aliens spend summer vacation in her basement, and -- possibly most significant of all -- is one of the very few beings to have words with the Transcendent Pig more than once.

...And yeah, I suppose that bathing suit doesn't look too bad on her either. :). --DD
Diane Duane | The Owl Springs Partnership | Co. Wicklow, Ireland
SF and fantasy fiction from the author via Amazon or https://ebooks.direct