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Sideshow Bodhisattva was inspired by a fantastic image by "chain & jane". I wanted to add in a little twisted quality with the dwarves and quirky circus props. The main figure is Miki 3 from Smith Micro, wearing a customized version of Esha's Levante, an artist at RuntimeDNA. The dwarves and circus props are also from RDNA artists Sixus1 and LukeA. The helmet is custom morphed and textured to resemble a Balinese head-dress and started out as the Warrior Princess Helmet from Daz.

The image was created for Smith Micro, and rendered in Poser Pro 2010. There is minimal post work, primarily dodging the Ringmaster, Clown and Snack girl to help them emerge from the background.

The image was rendered with a 2.2 gamma, in 24bit/pixel HDRI for full dynamic range (it really, really helps produce additional color depth and contrast), and converted to 8bit in Photoshop, with an exposure gain of +1.0. Each full image render was executed at 4500x6000 pixels so we'd have an image that could be printed as a small poster. The final render took approximately 10 hours on an 8 core i7.

There were four major render passes before arriving at the final. Thank you for the project Smith Micro!

Description
Sideshow Bodhisattva was inspired by a fantastic image by "chain & jane". I wanted to add in a little twisted quality with the dwarves and quirky circus props. The main figure is Miki 3 from Smith Micro, wearing a customized version of Esha's Levante, an artist at RuntimeDNA. The dwarves and circus props are also from RDNA artists Sixus1 and LukeA. The helmet is custom morphed and textured to resemble a Balinese head-dress and started out as the Warrior Princess Helmet from Daz.

The image was created for Smith Micro, and rendered in Poser Pro 2010. There is minimal post work, primarily dodging the Ringmaster, Clown and Snack girl to help them emerge from the background.

The image was rendered with a 2.2 gamma, in 24bit/pixel HDRI for full dynamic range (it really, really helps produce additional color depth and contrast), and converted to 8bit in Photoshop, with an exposure gain of +1.0. Each full image render was executed at 4500x6000 pixels so we'd have an image that could be printed as a small poster. The final render took approximately 10 hours on an 8 core i7.

There were four major render passes before arriving at the final. Thank you for the project Smith Micro!