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obieblu — Balinese Prince
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Published: 2019-02-02 14:57:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 6190; Favourites: 100; Downloads: 0
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A few weeks ago, my company went to Bali for our 'annual meeting'. Bali was great, and I fully intend to return, but this time NOT in a Chinese tour group. Haha. My best day was at Blangsinga Waterfall, a tiny day resort in a canyon. I saw a most beautiful boy and snuck a few photos (Twitter ). Between the trip and a brief span in between returning and wrapping up some hellish projects before Spring Festival, I evolved the idea quite a bit from a literal recreation into something a bit more creative. I also decided to make it a little more special as a subtle animation. Some of the surroundings and the actual waterfall are my own mediocre photography from Bali.I've got a few other things to catch up on, but I'll be doing a modern version with a nude at some point in the not too distant future.
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Beautiful scene, Obieblu! What a super handsome prince! By the way, long time no see! Glad to see you back!
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Thank you! He was!
I'm always around. I just didn't have much production time until Spring Festival vaca started.
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Thank you! I was getting frustrated with my own schedule...
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How were you able to create the animation? Create two images with a slightly different water refraction settings?
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Yup, but 3. I also did a little PS filtering to give a more ripply effect.
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a post processing. That thing I have no experience of.
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Water is tricky. Texture and materials. I try to avoid it, but the concept of this piece required it. To do this without Photoshop would have taken a LOT more experimenting and render hours. Water takes forever to render. I'm not a philosophical purist, so I don't feel bad doing something in PS for 20 minutes instead of another 8 hours of render experiments, then 1 or 2 more full renders to capture the water frames. My first thought during concepting was to actually animate the state changes of a water plane, but that would have been an insane amount of render time for such a subtle effect.
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That integration of your photo and the water animation is terrific and very cool! Such a sweet connection between the guy and the elephant.
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Thanks! I took a while on it all.
The elephant's eyes are a little odd, but I didn't know what else to for it having a facial expression. Haha. I think it looks happy enough.
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Super guy and great water effect! I'd sure like to see "all" of him!
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Thanks!
All of him will be on my Twitter at some point.
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What a handsome guy! I love all the little details. The piercings, the sheen on his skin, the gentle movement of the water. Beautiful!
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Thank you very much! The real guy was very inspiring. I wanted to do a really good piece for the trip.
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