Hi, My name is Ivan Uličný (shinnok on internet) and I’m pleased, I can introduce you through this article my latest image – The Age of Numeron.
Just for specification, Numeron was kingdom described by Tolkien in his books. So inspiration by Lord of the Rings is quite clear here. I started this project without any sketches. I wanted to let free flow to it. For renderer I chose Mental Ray, which is the renderer of my choice. I downloaded couple of references of Minas Thirith from LOTR film to get more accurate vision about the architecture, which used Peter Jackson in his film.
At the beginning, I started with creation of tower. Next were cliffs, ships, dock and finally additional details like houses, trees, wooden cranes and scaffolds, statues etc. On these pictures you can see, that every object is mapped and textured.
Most of the materials are Raytrace materials. For textures I used Photoshop. I started mostly from photos downloaded from internet, I used texture database webpages.
For water material I used raytrace material too, where I used diffuse and bump map created in Photoshop from photos of water. Reflections, Refractions and depth I made through the use of falloff maps.
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