Hello #hive @onchainart ! , Weekend is coming and since its summer time nothing better than have some sun fun and sea breeze and have some chillaxing time .
Happy to share one of my favorite artworks I have created called Island, A small cartoony town in the middle of the sea where everyone enjoys nice sun and chill sea breeze all year long .
I wanted to create something unique and stylized, So I build up few cubes with colorful textures for a happy mode
Render Layers
I have used Maya Mentalray physical sun and sky for my lighting, As for the water I have used a normal shader with a wavy bump map for waves effect, As for the color I painted it in photoshop to create color balance between the area around the Island and the far away sea.
For my usual masking and color corrections I used the ID pass for more control
And for the contrast and shadows I have used the AO pass
Magazines Features
I was very happy to see this artwork getting published in magazines and getting featured, Its always a nice feeling when you put it lots of work into something and you see the end results getting so much hype !
- Advanced Photoshop magazine
I got published in Advanced Photoshop Magazine issue 139 and I was honored to be featured on the cover of the magazine, In the magazine i had written down a tutorial and breakdown on that artwork, And how i used Photoshop while creating and editing the final look
- 3D Creative
Island was featured in 3D Creative Magazine issue 105
- INCG Showcase
And all the way from Taiwan I am honored to be published across Asia with INCG Showcase magazine from Taiwan, Got featured in Issue 21
- 3D World Magzine
And I have saved the best for last, One of the biggest and well known magazines in the CGI world is 3D World Magazine, I was very happy to do a small interview with them while getting my work featured there, It was a great honor for me as well because I remember the first time I saw the magazine and I put the idea in my head that I must get featured on this one day, And happy to see the day come :)
Maya | MentalRay | Photoshop
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artstation
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