Bodak

Win some, lose some

I saw this spider at the weekend for about 85% off, and it looked like a great idea. Unfortunately, after I left it cooking overnight for more than 7 hours, it was still a fuzzy, pixellated mess. I...

Squish

I can't remember the name of the plugin I used to get the deform effect- I just remember that it was quite fiddly to use and glitched out often. I was quite taken with the close-in effect as well- ...

Archers 2

I don't think it's as obvious as it should have been, but this is a different guard tower with a different pair of defenders. The re-booted sequel I'm on-off working on has more variety in the Ninj...

First casualties

Obviously, the boss and her standard bearer are leading from the rear...

Defenders

There's the defenders- gratuitous arse shot- aiming their bows. I think I wanted a zoom-in on that particularly unpleasant-looking arrow-head.

Charge!

And they're off! I was never satisfied with how relatively empty this scene looked: I wanted an army of samurai girls charging forwards, but the angle I chose made it almost impossible to fill in t...

Mandatory pre-battle speech

Here's the boss, telling her warriors that their sacrifices will be worthwhile and all that guff.

Ninja defenders

The whole idea of the story was that the roles were reversed: The Onna Bushi had discovered where the Ninja lair was, and arrived in force to storm it. Again, I had quite a lot of fun creating a Ge...

The Onna Bushi army

This is from the Cherry Blossom Temple that never was: I had hours of fun creating each individual character here, but my ambition ended up exceeding my technical capabilities, and my choice of sce...

First (only) casualty

This was the last render I did for the abortive Paladins series- But also an early experiment with using d-formers to create an impact effect where the bolt is going in. I use Mesh grabber now, and...

Fairies and Frogs

OK, so hear me out... What about an army of Tinkerbell fairies with bows and double-ended glaives, fighting bipedal frogs with crossbows and bone harpoons?

Files and Folders 2

So I mentioned with the last post that I save scene components like bodies or weapons as a 'scene subset', so I can quickly load them into another render for continuity purposes.

This example...

Files and Folders

Having said I'll be doing tutorials in here, I realise that I haven't really done much of that, so here goes.

Fundamental to my approach to creating large battle scenes is the principl...

T1: Cassie

I'm going see how it works to offer a download link, rather than hosting the images on here. In theory, this link will take you to a dropbox folder with the first Triptych scene.

Let m...

Wood Elven Warriors

For the last year or so (yes, it really takes that long) I've been chipping away at something entirely inspired by old-school Warhammer's Wood Elves (anyone remember the old plastic sprues, where h...

River Crossing

This is from a period of time about (checks notes) 9 years ago (!) when I was still crossing over from 3DL to Iray. I'd started a massive, sprawling urban battle story with these eclectically-clad ...

Hostile Planet

An early experiment with Iray light sources- most of the lighting in this scene comes from the helmet displays, the laser beams and the fires.

This is part of a larger series which will be ma...

Announcement

If you're reading this, then thank you very much for supporting my work!

It's going to take me a bit of time to get used to Patreon- specifically what will and won't be censored. My fi...

Onna Bushi and Ninja characters

Ever since the massive success of my Cherry Blossom Temple set, I've wanted to create a sequel. My first attempt proved ill-fated (you'll see parts of that one in the Dungeon in the coming months) ...

Scene 2

 For all that I've never done much Cowgirl stuff, I do love all that posing around in the sun, waiting to see who'll fire the first bullet.

I can hear that 'The Good, the Bad, and th...