Barbarian vs SaberTooth

Good action scene, not much need for further comment.

Because its been a while.

It's been a while since I last posted something..

Same render with different after effects applied. Female paladin with her mount looking out at the landscape as its lit by the dawning sun.

A render of my latest Pathfinder character Brother Felix Radex.

Red Sorceress

Here is a fake book cover that I worked up using the Daz/Reality/LuxRender setup. There was only some minor touch ups done apart from adding the words and fake publisher logo.

LuxRender

I just discovered this new open source 3d render called LuxRender. With an inexpensive plug-in for DAZ 3d Studio called Reality I have been able to create some pretty amazing pictures. One of the interesting things about LuxRender is that it never stops rendering. In theory you could let it go on forever and it will keep working to improve the image.

You can save an image at any time while still letting it work on the render. On the down side it can take it a while to produce a smooth image. This image was taken at the 25 hour mark, even thou you could see where it was going at the 15 min mark. There are things I can do to help get the render times down, I am still learning at this point, and the community that created LuxRender is still working to improve things on their end. All in all I am very impressed.

To finish up, here is another image I have just completed.

Captain John

I thought it was about time to update a picture I did for a friend over a decade ago (dang! its been a long time). I hope you like it.

For the Emperor

Because there is nothing better than killing the enemies of humanity in the name of the Emperor.

Oakcrest

A work in progress using Daz3d Studio some of their models and RPG Citymap Generator. Its a medium sized town called Oakcrest set in a fantasy background I'm working on.

Its been a while since I last posted so here is Jaxal in his new Jedi Knight Robe.

Action Jaxal

A couple of action pictures of my jedi character Jaxal Lasan from our Tuesday Night Star Wars Game.

Enjoy

Grunder

Another character portrait for our Sunday Night Game, a Dwarf named Xaver Grunder. As with all the other a work in progress.

Sorceress

Scene done in DAZ3d Studio. It took me a while to get the camera angle right and the shadows to fall were I wanted them. I have done a little post work around the spell effect but still have some more to do.

Perilin

Another in my line of character portraits for our on going D&D game. This one, is of our happy go lucky elven cleric Perilin.

Bothan Jedi 2

Here is my second try at creating a bothan jedi (click to see a bigger view). As you can probably see, I started with one of my previous attempts, where I used Victoria 4 from Daz3d. The last picture was limited by the morphs available with that figure. In this picture I moved the head over to ZBrush 3 made some extensive changes and then re-imported the head back into Daz3d Studio. I just started using ZBrush and its proving to be an intuitive sculpting program but I'm having a harder time dealing with the textures.

My attempt at creating two bothan characters using different base models.

Jaxal Lasan

A render for an upcoming Star Wars game. I'm going to print it out and make a little paper A-frame out of it. So I can set it out during the game, so everyone else will know what my character looks like.

Red Sorceress

One of my toughest renders so far. The glowing spheres of magic around her hands was quite the challenge. Its also still in need of some post work to fix some of the lighting around her neck.

Steel House

This is made up of simple objects that I threw together quickly to show what I steel arch house might look like.

Town Square

I tend to a lot of portrait type and close face shots. This is a longer shot to mix it up a bit.

Last pass

This is an older render that I did. Lighting is fairly simple but reasonably effective. The knight model I used here is what I would change the most. Its to simple and comes off flat and cartoonish.

Overall I think it has a nice sense of story and action. That leaves the view wondering what is coming next.