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Heir To The Gallery Emblems by ~Axiem:iconAxiem:

Categories Digital Art > 3-Dimensional Art > Objects > Basic Shapes

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In my story Heir To The Gallery, there are different types of magi, each of which based around a particular "element". In formal situations, the magi wear emblems of sorts on their garments in order to display what kind of mage they are. So I created the designs for all of the known kinds.

In the upper-left, clockwise from the top, there is Fire, Earth, Water, Air.

In the upper-right, clockwise from the top, there is Light, Plant, Shadow, Life.

In the lower-left, clockwise from the top, there is Metal, Crystal, Ice, Metal.

In the lower-right is Blood.

This was done in POV-Ray, and took a fair amount of work since each emblem had to be done separately. However, the final render took only about 2 minutes, since it's not tremendously complicated overall.

It's a minor part of the story, but I figured I should exercise my aesthetic sense once in a while.

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~10am Mar 4, 2007, 6:30:41 PM
Ummm i'm just wondering where exactly the 3D in this image is?

I think you may have submitted to the wrong gallery...

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~Brightman42 Mar 4, 2007, 6:32:58 PM
This isn't 3-d. Isn't there a 2-D category?

I like the life one and the blood one.

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~Axiem Mar 4, 2007, 7:55:33 PM
The image was rendered in POV-Ray, which is a raytracer engine.

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I have other pictures that are done in POV-Ray, or in a raytracer I wrote for a computer graphics class a while back.
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~Axiem Mar 4, 2007, 7:56:05 PM
It was done in POV-Ray, so it was raytraced. I just turned off all the shadows, because they interfered with the designs.

The wood background is actually the same one I did for pad-on-paper.
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~10am Mar 4, 2007, 10:40:36 PM
Ah yeh that I can understand - however the final product looks more 2d, so one could be mistaken for expecting it to be of 2D creation.

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~Brightman42 Mar 5, 2007, 2:30:46 AM
Um...no. You got rid of the third dimension, thus it is 2-d...oh wait, I can see the edges on a few of the emblems, my bad...it is really, really hard to see though...the perspective apears to be in the center.

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In Soviet Russia, you has the Matrix!
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~Axiem Mar 5, 2007, 10:45:33 AM
*nod* If you look closely at some of the emblems farther from the center, you can tell they have some degree of depth.

I plan on creating more pictures using them that will be more obviously 3D, but in this case, I wanted to get a good view of all of their faces.
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~Axiem Mar 5, 2007, 10:46:53 AM
The camera's at 0,5,0 and is looking at 0,0,0. I have no idea how to do one of the perspective cameras that kills 3Dness, and I really wouldn't want to anyways.

In future things I do with the emblems, their 3Dness should be slightly more obvious.
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~Brightman42 Mar 5, 2007, 5:19:10 PM
Hmm...interesting. Are you going to make the individual shapes raised as well? I think that could be interesting on a few of them.

Also, Happy Birthday!

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In Soviet Russia, you has the Matrix!
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