patrick_j_clarke

Jeez, I HAVE been away for a long time! Thanks Mike! I'm glad I just left the image as is. I can't wait to find some time to play with v11 and play with some new features. Darn work gets in the way.... - pjc

Sorry for the long delay, I keep forgetting about this forum.... Thanks for the comments, I appreciate them. For some reason when I get this image to the web, it really darkens the image, gotta figure out why....it's not that dark for real.... what about blurring out the moon a bit? Does it detract too much from the focal point? - pjc

The comic is called Dark Days, it's a sequel to the immensely popular 30 days of night by Steve Niles. I hope he likes it enough to put it in the book as a pin-up or cover. We'll see! I really had to turn off the "make it photoreal" switch in my head since I was going to ink the piece, so it has more of a comic feel. Rendered in 10.5. All geometry, flocking system with 65 bats with a flying action hooked up. 10 hours at 2200 X 3300 on my dual P4 2.8 Xeon (only using one Proc of course). Rendered multipass, 49 passes. Then rendered pure b&w outline toon render. Took into Photoshop and inked with toon render as base. Textures are my wife for the woman and my ugly mug for the vampires. Don't know if it's quite "finished" as in I might do some more Photoshop work in the inks, etc, but the AM rendering is pretty solid. - pjc