The Fountain (draft render) by @whitefantom (Jennifer Pitcock Doneske)
I haven't worked on this in a while, but this is a draft render of a scene I'm currently working on, and it more accurately reflects my current skills in 3D art. It's not finished--I may yet change the atmospherics, the lighting, add new objects, change some texture maps, etc. (I know for certain I'm going to change the ground texture map, which I don't really like as it is, and the hedge texture map, because the hedge texture map isn't hi-res enough to hold up to a hi-res print-quality render).
Credit for various elements:
- Stone female figure is Zygote/Daz3D's Victoria 2
- Stone lion's head comes from the Zygote lion mesh that ships with Poser 4.
Trees are Bryce procedural trees with default Bryce texturing (these will be custom textured in the final render)
Water cascades, stone basin, stone slab, hedges, and iron gate modeled by me in 3D Studio Max.
- All texture maps (ground, hedges, stone basin, stone slab, stone woman, stone lion's head) created by me.
There is absolutely no post-work on this scene (I'm uncomfortable doing significant post-work on 3D images--it feels like "cheating." If I can't get the look I'm going for with 3D meshes and texture/transparency/bump maps, then I'll simply wait till I have more skill or a better computer and can do it purely in 3D :-).
(Spring 2003; modeled in Poser 4, 3D Studio Max, and Bryce 5)
I wish I could think of more to say on this picture, because it's quite lovely. The textures look fine from this view to me, and I particularly like the stones of the fountain. The open gates are a nice touch, and I like the whole scenery here. The background sky is a bit uninteresting, but it's not what draws the eye, anyway. Nice work.