Tree Tuesday - Circle of Life
Here is a #treetuesday digital composition I created with some fractals, a 3d rendering and a photo.
Overall the composition turned out quite well for a few hours of work.
The overall concept is around life and death being an endless cycle in a predictable order.
The bonsai tree is from a photo I took at a botanical garden. This one is about 50-70 years old and has a nice symmetrical shape, perfect for art compositions.
The 3d element was an old model of a skull I had in my archive. The scene basically has one light and one camera in it to match the downlighting of the tree photo so it will merge together successfully.
I made a pebble texture to try and match the pebbles in the tree's pot. This is the resulting render.
Here is the textural photo with colors enhanced to bring more life into the final rendering. This image was also used to create the grayscale displacement and bump maps for the final material.
Now that the foreground elements are in place I decided to start adding some colorful background elements to tie everything together. I like using jwildfire fractals to enhance and light leak the composition.
This fractal sort of reminds me of a brain scan. It worked perfectly for overlaying on top of the skull to add some highlights that blend into the tree.
This fractal reminds me of a woven basket a bit. I used it to add some dimension around the edges of the composition in the shadowy areas.
This fractal was used as the top element to bring a grid-like order to the composition.
The tools used were 3ds max, vray, jwildfire, my phone camera and photoshop to tie everything together into the final composition. The most time consuming part was cutting out the tree from its background and of course render time in 3ds max and jwilfire. This is at a pretty high resolution so maybe one day I'll print it out as a poster.
That's all for this #treetuesday thanks for looking :-)
This could be perfect as a poster. The details and the process are so cool ✨ I love the texture if the skull.
I was surprised how well the texture turned out mapped onto the skull, I wasn't expecting it to map very well to the geometry. The only thing I had to adjust was the displacement amount that caused it to look spiky.
Looks very nice
Damn, this is an outstanding piece. I love it!
Thanks for looking :-) It all came together fairly easily.
You are welcome.
Yay! 🤗
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Love it @sketch.and.jam the entire design. 😊
Great to see also how it was created and from what.
Originally I was going to have a tree growing out of a turtle shell but my turtle photo wasn't quite at the right angle for the tree so I ended up rendering the skull instead.
That’s a nice design too. Maybe you can use the turtle shell for something else one day.
Like some buildings on it, a small little village… 😉
Haha that is like the origin story of the Island of Japan. I think they though their island was on the back of a giant turtle at one point way in the past.
Yes, it is. It’s a legend 😊
Your work is truly extraordinary.
Thanks for looking, it all fell together nicely without too many hiccups in the process.
Wow, that's great!
Thanks :-) I wonder how well it would print in nice shiny inkjet paper large format...
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Thanks @mazquel :-)
uuuh okay this is the best thing ive seen today, this is dope, your manipulating skils are off the charts , combining those elements so well that they form a good thing to look at is amazing, ild love that on my shirt anyday, and love the message you passing across, great job
I wonder how well it would print on a shirt, maybe I'll have to do a test print at redbubble. The most time consuming part was cutting out the tree and all those tiny leaf spaces. Thanks for looking :-)