Autumn Awaits

My very first artwork of 2021 and it is so long overdue! Granted, it’s a redux of an artwork of mine from 2019 but still, it’s a new artwork and my first of 2021! I’ll take what little triumphs I can get at this point. Anyway…

Can you tell I’m more than ready for summer to be over with? I mostly kept the arrangement of the props in this still life the same since the 2019 version with only a few slight alterations here and there. The main reason for this redux was to render it in Superfly instead of Firefly so I had to redo each material on every prop. I also had to create a new light setup. The hardest part was getting the cracked lime green ceramic of the cup and the volumetric apple cider in it to look right. That took the better part of two or three hours for just that damn cup of cider. I am, however, rather proud of myself for adapting a dust shader for adding a light dusting of dust and dirt onto an object for my cinnamon shaders. It added more dimension to my cinnamon props!

Now to get to work on my next artwork of 2021…

As I already mentioned, I rendered this scene completely in Poser 12 Superfly with GPU. The apple cider in the cup is a volumetric prop I created with a volume material and a cylinder prop that I fitted to the teacup using Poser’s morph tools. The falling leaves are supposed to be dynamic props, but I got lazy and just arranged them with posing tools and morph tools instead plus I placed a few extra leaves in postwork. Wow, it’s been so long since I wrote one of these tech notes that I don’t know what else to write here… If you have any questions, leave a comment at the bottom of this page and I’ll answer right away both in the comments section and in this box for all to see.

Most of these items are available from the Renderosity Marketplace (unless otherwise noted):

• ShaaraMuse3D’s Autumn Fruit
• ShaaraMuse3D’s Leaf Tool
• Cinnamon Props from CG Trader
• Books by MortemVetus??