Amity Helps the Frost Dragon take an Ice Bath by perpetualrevision
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Description
That is, after all, one of the primary duties of an Ice Fairy!
==NOTES==
This is the other of the two winter fairy scenes that I struggled with for most of January. With this one, I just could not decide what should be in the background. I started off with Sprite Valley (with some snow mats), and while I love that set, it just wasn’t working for such a wintry scene. So I ended up modeling the "ice pond" myself. But I still couldn’t settle on a background until I tried the Fantasy Ice morph for TD2, which seemed to provide interest without distracting from the subject. I’m still not sure if the winter bushes add anything, but oh well!
What took by far the longest with this one was the dozens upon dozens of test renders I did in an effort to get all the water fx props and the pond water to look right together (without causing the render to stall). Obviously I wasn’t going for realism, and I didn’t even use raytraced reflections or refraction, but for some reason the splash ring around the dragon wouldn’t work with the same shader setup as the falling water, and it took forever to come up with a shader produced an acceptable result. The icy pond water also took a lot of trial and error (and probably should’ve been darker). But at least I learned a few things about water materials in the process!
Rendered in February 2020 in Poser Pro 11 Firefly at 4000 × 2250 pixels.
==CREDITS==
SCENE CREDITS: TerraDome2 with Fantasy Ice morph from Ultimate Morphs Vol. 2 (w/ custom snow mat); Bucket from Merlin’s Cooper’s Workshop; Flink’s WaterFX 1& 2 (w/ custom mats); Flink’s Winter Bushes; rocks and ice pond by me.
CHARACTER CREDITS: Amity figure, hair, wings, and AmiFae outfit by 3DTubeMagic (w/ custom mats); Faerie Dragon by Ryverthorne (w/ custom mats).
Comments (10)
eekdog
What a charming idea, greatly done fantasy. I myself do mega test renders on certain images.
miwi
Fantastic image, wonderful mystical characters, excellent done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mtdana
What a wonderful scene and so well done - great expressions!!!
misumu
So sweet and charming.
NobbyC
Super image!!!
Paulienchen
ein sehr schöner Render
uncollared
So cute. Great job
artdreamer
Nicely made, I think the creation of the water is very well done! 3***
hornet3d
I can't say I am a massive Faeries fan but this is just delightful.
dragongirl
Frost Dragon - ice bath - what great ideas - and all your work brought us a fine experience of these ideas. 👏😻👏