Celestial Nightmare By Huussii Watch

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Someone lurkin' beyond reality. Ohshitshit.



Anyway. I wanted to dabble more with environment, as I basically suck with it. I have very little memory archive about how most things work in nature in terms of lighting, shadowing, how to render them, how to place things geographically right and like that..



During this one I actually browsed through many, many different landscape pictures as a reference to get the shadow and lighting working whatsoever. Shading mountains is just.. "WHATAMIGONNADO!?!"



So yeah, for me this was a huge challenge as an open wide landscape scenery with strong lightings. Yet I totally had fun with it.



I'd like to give half of the credit for my favourite album of all time, Silence by Sonata Arctica for inspiring me. I first intended to create a gradient like picture including both night and the day, but cover art of Silence gave an idea me this "shattering the reality" -theme and it did let me to chill with lighting a little bit and gave some nice depth. I think.



Since I got rid of many ideas, this became pretty much the first major environment pic not including ponies (except that last minute adding of Nightmare Moon lurking and shattering the day or sumthin' like that blabla



Proportions are little off, AND I FORGOT TO PUT APPLES IN THOSE TREES

Hmm, and on about tenth glance, my Ponyville actually looks like a pile of rocks.. I intended to cut down on detail but I think I should've rendered many things better. Meh.. Whatev



What a journal again, sorry..



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Published : Aug 20, 2011