I created this image using Filter Forge. One of the presets is a 3D fractal written to a 2D image file. I was able to use a diffusoin map of the same image to create an alpha channel for it, and trimmed it and saved to PNG. I dud the rest in Xara.
Obviously it's not a Shamrock or anything obvious to celebrate St. Patty's Day this Friday, but...
Oh, wait a sec'.
It's a head of cabbage looking for the corned beef!
It looks like green lichen, so I'm lichen it.
Ouch!
I consider myself pun-ished.
( Photorealistic emoticon)
Full disclosure: I got about half way through creating this, and I'm a novice at zBrush, so I has to ask a much ore accomplished zBrusher (?) to help me over some rough spots.
I used: Cinema 4D. modo, zBrush, a few texture generators, a blurred stock photo for the background (it's of an airplane cockpit, royalty-free, free for all uses IOW) Photoshop, and then Xara.
For as far as I know, I did this as a challenge and for fun. In my wildest dreams, I cannot imagine selling this or using it for anything.
You do the most amazing work, Gare.
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Thank you, Good Sir, Ronald of the Elliptical (but Round) Table!
On odd occasion, a piece that takes an extraordinary amount of work...comes to me quickly. The Baby Groot render went quickly because I fewlt myself directed. Perhaps by a Higher Power, perhaps by Thanos the Destroyer. That was a Guardians joke, purportedly.
There are far simpler visualizations that can take days if not hours, simply because I haven't applied myself totally to the work, and I'm sweating trivial details.
By the way, don't equate work vs. Play with Fun and Not-fun. The comparisons are not the same, although work tends to equal the not-fun part of the 2nd equation.
Me? I try to make work just as fun as play. When it's not, and the work is not for a client, I say sod it.
This is mostly painting over a photo with Painter, and then the text using Xara.
I call it Two cats on a pizza. No charge for extra toppings.
Love'm both.
The wall plaque made me laugh!
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