Snowbound

I’ve created this concept before, but I was never satisfied with it before. Seeing as how I am trapped in my home by massive amounts of snow and ice once again, I thought it time to revisit this concept to see if I could do it some justice. Although I didn’t end up doing exactly as I had originally sketched out to do before I opened up Poser, I rather like how this one turned out in the end. The idea of adding an emissive shader to the smartphone to project some light came about because I was watching a marathon of Star Wars movies and TV shows while working on this and, well, lightsabers. Also, my window frame is broken slightly so if I were to put a cup of hot coffee by it as she is, it would steam like that too. Luckily, rendering on my PC puts off a LOT of heat which compensates. Kinda. Now to get to work on the next project before the room cools off again!

I rendered this scene in Poser 12 with Superfly. The clothing is all dynamic cloth, which was a pain in the ass to make work together. After finally getting the two calculations to work correctly, I had to use the morph tools to fix several small poke-throughs between the jeans and sweater. The smartphone has an emissive light shader on the screen to project some light and create a glow in the scene. The scene outside the window isn’t a stock photo; it’s a full 3D scene which I then used depth of field with. The snowflakes out the window and the steam above the coffee mug were added in postwork with special brushes. I also adjusted the coloration and contrast with a Photoshop action and adjustment layers.

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

• D9S Fiona for La Femme by Dream9Studios
• Mariana Hair by Afrodite-Ohki
• Wintertime Clothing by Tipol
• Dynamic Jeans by ShaaraMuse3D
• Modern Room 1 by santuziy78
• Snowy Coniferous Forest by Flink