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here i was trying to come up with something for Phil Brucato's Deliria project,
i think we were looking for something for next book after Deliria, the Aelder Fae....
anyway i was hunting around for some type of ethereal being semi fairy-ish but
with the look of something also alien to human thought.
sadly, the follow up to Deliria, a book about the Aelder Fae,
never came into being because Smoke, Mirror
and Muse couldn't hold it together - infighting is the ruin of so many promising enterprises!
--- fortunately, i am happy with what i've done. as a result of
working with Phil on Deliria, i have some of my favorite pieces because of it!
she's funky and a bit creepy but i also find her quite appealing
somehow. the golden skin she's got could almost be seen as some type of insectoid carapace skin
covering like she's not really mammalian but perhaps highly evolved from bug genetics spliced in
there somewhere in her family tree! this is the Goblin Aelder Fae - Queen of the Mountain Clan ... LOL....
get ready now as there is a plethora of renders here with me exploring this and that - goblins,
fae, creatures and such all related -- but not LOL.
here is the bug Aelder Fae showing off with her fractal fan. :-) she's such a happy girl.
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here we're playing with the concept of creating a russian religious icon type portrait
of one of the Aelder Fae. by the way, if you like this version, i've got it available on
iStock so you can use it in your own work, royalty free.
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i'm obsessive about my fractals, so i figured no harm
in letting everyone see the root of all this compulsive rendering...
all of these images were created from this basic root fractal and variants of it, used as a texture!
yup. this fractal image was 'rendered' in ultrafractal. then, i played with it to make
variations for use with poser and xenodream. it's used as both a decorative element and
texture map over and over and over and over and over.... again LOL
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here i was just playing around with alternate textures / poses and coloring.
there is a whole series of this particular 'model' too :-0
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this image uses the base 'elven' figure as the starting point. then with some funky 3d
texturing with a different fractal to act as the base of the bump map, we got this
very cool effect! i'm all for reusing assets, so you will find bits and pieces of
familiar things scattered all over the place here!
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