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This is a close-up of my previous picture Pyrite. I changed some Poser settings .. most notably I made the reflection maps spherical maps in stead of ray-traced … the main result is that this took about 15 minutes to render, while the ray-traced one took 4 days.

It looks good enough but I must say I think the ray-traced one has a special glow to it that is lacking here. But considering the saving in time … ah well :)

Background image generated with Apophysis.

A tiny little bit of post work done in Photoshop, notably on the eye.

Thanks to Dave for suggestions about this image :)
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*KaanaMoonshadow Aug 23, 2008  Professional Digital Artist
Well, there has to be something the ray-tracing's good for, but I agree - sometimes the time's not worth the effort. 4 days? :faint:

But I really like this close-up - nice work on the eye, and he looks so smug - excellent work. :clap:

May I ask what dragon model you used?
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~mainbearing Aug 24, 2008  Hobbyist Digital Artist
LOL, thanks! If a dragon looks at you like that, be careful :D

I think what I should have done for the original, was to use raytracing only on the reflective floor, and spherical maps everywhere else ... it took the most time to do the dragon itself, probably because of the bump-mapping combined with ray-tracing. The floor went relatively quickly compared to that :D

Anyway, lesson learned, will remember it (hopefully) next time I do something like this :D

It's the Daz Millennium Dragon :)
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~djlampkins Aug 22, 2008
Absolutely stunning work, Honey..... I love it!! :love:
:smooch:
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~mainbearing Aug 22, 2008  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Aawwww, all because of you, dear! :hug:
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