Ken Gilliland's Products In Renders

[mininessie]

amazing renders!

 

[Flint_Hawk]

What a fun render Janet!

 

[Flint_Hawk]

When Peacocks fight it looks like a Flight of Fantasy, but their hostile territorial behavior can become quite vicious, as they have sharp spurs that can inflict severe damage.

Credits:

Peafowl of the World (Indian Peacock) by Ken Gilliland at HiveWire3D

Nature's Wonders Moths of the World Vol. 1 (Garden Tiger Moth) by Ken Gilliland at HiveWire3D

Starweed & Fantastar by Lisa's Botanicals at HiveWire 3D

Rowan Tree by esha at DAZ
Charmed Blossoms by Elle Arden Images - Elle Walby & Kachinadoll - Suzanne Amberson at Renderosity
Enchanted Fairylands by Elle Arden Images - Elle Walby, Kachinadoll - Suzanne Amberson at Renderosity
Mels Fantasy Rocks by Melissa Krauss at Renderosity

Fight of Fantasy

 

[Flint_Hawk]

In all of the wildlife programs that I have seen over the years, I never saw the Congo Peafowl. So discovering these colorful beauties, was quite a surprise!

Credits:

Peafowl of the World (Congo Peafowl) by Ken Gilliland at HiveWire3D

Nature's Wonders Moths of the World Vol. 2 (Puiri Moth) by Ken Gilliland at HiveWire3D

Tropicals II by Lisa's Botanicals at HiveWire 3D
Autumn Excursions by Lisa's Botanicals at HiveWire 3D

Hearts of Africa - Jungle Depths by NapalmArsenal, KageRyu, & Childe of Fyre at HiveWire 3D

Medieval House 2 by Bertrand Perez (Dante78) at Renderosity
Jungle Construction Kit by Stonemason (Stefan Morrell) at DAZ
PhilodendronB DR by Raul Lunia (Dinoraul) at Renderosity

Gems of the Congo

 

[Miss B]

Gorgeous Flint!

 

[Carey]

Seven Days Dead

 

[Carey]

So, I'm working on covers again, and thought I'd give Iray another try. It does start showing a decent image faster in 4.11, but still comes out noisier than I'd prefer. Not sure how long it took since I left it overnight. In 4.10 it would time out after 2 hours.

The finished cover has an analog art filter applied, but the base render is more appropriate to post here.

The Kiwi burrow doesn't come with Iray materials. But I found that it doesn't seem to need them. I did try hitting it with the Iray Uber shader, and didn't care for the result at all, so I brought in a new iteration of it, and just left it with the 3DL materials.

I wanted a rain scene, so I gave it a geoshell, turned off the opacity (still in 3DL) of the burrow and the mound. and then hit what still had the shell visible with an Iray shader for liquid.

The light set used was the Painter's lights set which has since disappeared. I had picked it up when it came out, since I figured that eventually I'd try to do something in Iray. I also used one of Faviana's Theory of Light textures on the environment dome. There was a bit of tweaking of color values in Photoshop, and exporting for web shifted things a little, but it's still pretty close to what I had when I looked at the computer this morning.

Other products used: 3DU's Pixie for G3M, Coffee-Gnorg's giant spider (much reduced) -- I had to go at that with the Geometry editor, since the head is all one matt zone, J Wolf's Iray water props, and one of Flink's spiderwebs. I think the liquid shader was one of Jen's from the PC+, and I think the fur on the spider is from Dimension Theory. The glass shader for the eyes is from someone else, but I didn't make a note of it.

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great work

 

[Carey]

When Peacocks fight it looks like a Flight of Fantasy, but their hostile territorial behavior can become quite vicious, as they have sharp spurs that can inflict severe damage.

Credits:

Peafowl of the World (Indian Peacock) by Ken Gilliland at HiveWire3D

Nature's Wonders Moths of the World Vol. 1 (Garden Tiger Moth) by Ken Gilliland at HiveWire3D

Starweed & Fantastar by Lisa's Botanicals at HiveWire 3D

Rowan Tree by esha at DAZ
Charmed Blossoms by Elle Arden Images - Elle Walby & Kachinadoll - Suzanne Amberson at Renderosity
Enchanted Fairylands by Elle Arden Images - Elle Walby, Kachinadoll - Suzanne Amberson at Renderosity
Mels Fantasy Rocks by Melissa Krauss at Renderosity

Fight of Fantasy
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love the colors

 

[Flint_Hawk]

Thank you for your comments & Likes on my art!

 

[Lyne]

I love Flint_Hawk’s peacock art!!! Spectacular!!! I want the peacock sets SO much, but my health prevents me from getting onto my computer.... darn it!!! I have a long way to go but Ken, I WILL BUY THEM!!!

 

[mininessie]

Feathers tailoring

 

[JOdel]

Now that's fun! Cute idea.

 

[mininessie]

Thanks!

 

[JOdel]

And a beautiful scene as well. Every component works perfectly.

 

[Carey]

Feathers tailoring

When a large bird becomes your mate you become a feather tailor believe me...being a bird parent since age 16 I have made many a beautiful living art piece. You feed them and hope you fill their needs, you spoil them, watch them carefully, help them take care of their new feathers and people wonder why I take the credit for a beautiful bird....lol. My current love is over five foot long beak to tip of tail with over a six foot wing spread....

a grand idea you have here...

 

[mininessie]

Thank you both so much!

 

[mininessie]

 

[Guy Conrad]

The Madagascar Sunset Moth is one of my top favorites.

 

[LisaB]

The Madagascar Sunset Moth is one of my top favorites.

You must be talking about today's newsletter image. I think it came from way back around page 50 of this thread. It sure was a beauty!

 

[JOdel]

I just saw that Nightsong has released another set of bird feeders over on Rendo. Very pretty.