Inspired by some postcards I picked up by a Japanese artist, I made these. (The originals were actually sculptures in fibre glass).
This is all “retro Blender” features, no GI/AO or whatnot. And I made their heads in Wings (too easy!). The ground is 5 layers of Blender’s cloud textures. There’s 3 “suns” and one OnlyShadow Spot way up in the ceiling with lots of softness.
DOF with rendering ZBuffer out and using Photoshop’s snazzy new Lens Blur. Scaled to half to remove the aliasing this causes.
My boss thought I was using Brazil, which I took as a compliment.
It’s buffered shadows, so renders in about 20 seconds! (Photoshops DOF actually takes a similar time to the render.) There’s no raytracing here, my computer would just die (it’s an 800Mhz iBook).
JD-multi - you need the “Glow” plugin for the sequence editor. Or just use a paint app, duplicate your base layer, use the curves tool so you just have the highlights you want to glow, gaussian blur that layer, set it to use a “screen” or “add” composite type.
wings is a free modelling software that alot of people use. I occasionally use it, but much less since blender is getting all these cool new tools. It still has a couple of tools that blender doesn’t have such as the ‘bridge’ tool, which connects two opposing faces.
really cute pic