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The Nightmare

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This is my entry for the CGSociety's "Dreamscape" contest.

My dreams tend to be characterized by mistiness and blurriness around the edges. Anything on which I'm not focussing my attention starts to grow indistinct. I've tried to capture that feel (if not the exact visual phenomenon) in this image. Although I had intended for this to be a nightmarish, hostile environment in which the dreamer finds himself, I found my palette drifting into the blues, magentas, and whites; perhaps now the feel is one of journeying into the unknown rather than of confronting monsters.

I modelled foreground elements of the landscape and the dreamer's broken sword in Wings 3D 1.2, then detailed and textured these objects in ZBrush 4.0. The dreamer was based on the DAZ Studio 3 "David" character, though he was heavily sculpted and retouched in ZBrush 4.0. Using ZBrush, I gave him ragged clothing, hair, and skin textures. All foreground elements were exported in OBJ format with texture and displacement maps, assembled and lit in Blender 2.49b, exported to RIB format with RIB MOSAIC 0.4, and rendered in Aqsis 1.6. Background elements were rendered with Mandelbulb 3D 1.6.7. I combined all of the elements, painted the volumetric effects, and retouched the colours in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Software used -- open source freeware:
Blender 2.49b
RIB MOSAIC 0.4
Aqsis 1.6
Wings 3D 1.2

Other freeware and shareware:
Mandelbulb 3D 1.6.7
DAZ Studio 3.0

Commercial:
Zbrush 4.0
Photoshop CS3
Image size
3636x2727px 2.13 MB
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