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This is based on me, huddling over my little electric heater, trying to get warm in my cold bathroom while getting dressed or after a shower.
Poser 4, Photoshop 4
Long Windblown Fantasy Hair by JeffH
VickyBuster texture by SnowSultan
Michael and the P4NW. Michael has the Female Hair #1 fitted for Victoria, and the P4NW has the long windblown hair, shortened up and morphed a bit. She has her texture map, but I don't have enough memory to render with Michael's map, so he is only using his bumps.
As to why I don't have enough memory, there's SIX lights
in this scene, and four are shadow-casting. Oy! There is a distant
fill light of dark blue-grey colour at intensity 12.5% for the ambient light.
The other non-shadow casting light is a yellow spotlight pointing at
the ground to get that and their feet lit up.
The four shadow casting lights make up the fire light.
For each figure, there is a yellow-orange spotlight pointing up at
their legs, and an orange-red spotlight pointing up higher at them. I
left the shadows at 1.00, because I wanted very high contrast and dark shadows.
The poses are custom made. Michael's is based on the one I made for the P4NW, but then I decided he should lean down on his knee. Don't try to pose the hand on the leg in the hand cameras... due to a Poser glitch, the legs twitch around while you move stuff in the hand camera. It makes it... well, impossible to get the hand on the leg when you don't know where the leg is from move to move! I used the posing camera for that.
I painted the fire in afterwards. It's red, orange, yellow paintbrush squiggles (on their own layer) smudged and wiggled upward. The wood bits are on a lower layer... drawn in dark brown and dark red with the pencil, then burn/dodged on the edges/center... and paintbrushed over the edges to smooth them out a bit. I also airbrushed the figure shadows on in black. There's some hair-fluffing. Some hue/saturation/brightness/contrast adjustments, etc.
The odd thing is, I tried recreating this scene in Vue to put a proper fire in it, with more complex lights and materials... but I couldn't get the lights to look this nice. Go figure.
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