The staircase was swallowed by darkness, only stained by the faint, flickering light of candles. Cora was kneeling beside me, unmoving, her eyes lost of the floor.
A feeling of despair suddenly gripped my stomach and an instant later a barefoot emerged from the darkness and landed lightly on the cold stone of the stairs. Slowly her entire figure appeared, wrapped in a dark dress. The pale, unnaturally perfect skin, her cold eyes staring at us. She had arrived. I could bear her sight only for an endless moment before the dread forced my eyes away from hers.
I saw Cora. She wasn’t looking at the floor anymore. Now she was drawn like a magnet towards the Queen. It wasn’t fear I saw in her, but awe.
The Queen noticed it too and the corner of her mouth curled in amusement. For long moments they stared at each other. Then the queen finally spoke.
Blender, Marvelous designer and substance painter… had fun with this! After a series of archiviz project, it was nice to work on a character!
amazing work man i like the detals on these renders,
the candles looks so amazing, the queen desing and her look , are so amazing,the pose you chose actually fits her personalaty as a queen
the story you tell is also amazing, the only thing i didnt understand was
who is the one talking in the story and who is cora , obvuly thy are not the queen right ?
This is top row material but I’m told the detail is too small and far away. Could you render a frame closer to the character (and one that would be well centered when cropped into a square)?
The story is narrated by a person in front of the staircase. Cora is a girl that is kneeled beside the narrator. It was my first attempt to create some short narrative, so maybe I should work more on it. It’s tricky to add the right amount of info in such a short text. Your feedback is super welcome so I can try to improve!
I think that the model is very nice but that the lighting needs work. The ratio of light to dark, so to speak, from her legs to her face, is in my opinion too large. (This ol’ photographer would say that her face is a nice “Zone 6” but her legs and the back of her dress is a too-dark “Zone 2.”) Just my 2¢… Her cape should shadow the staircase without vanishing into it. Just one well-placed, slightly warm-colored fill light below the camera just might do it, because the three-point lighting of her head and torso is generally just fine to my eyes.
We’ll see. Maybe you could try simply cutting off a bit of the top of the frame from the full image so the character gets bigger when displayed on a 16:9 screen. Personally I like your original image but the admin finds the detail too small and hard to see.
Apart from that, I’d say the candles look great but a bit messy for a staircase on which a queen is posing.
Thanks for the feedback… the queen is quite the dark kind of queen, so I imagine her staircase to be part of her “lair” rather than a fancy throne room!
thank you very much for sharing, but don’t you think that the area of breasts should be whiter not darker as you did it isn’t appearing in the final render but i just wondered.
Thank you! I am not sure to be honest and since I knew it was gonna be covered I didn’t think too much about it. Maybe it’s whiter because of tanning? I would expect it to be a place where there are a lot of veins a fat tissue so I assumed it would be a bit more reddish, but as I said, I did not do much research on it
