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I wanted to try out the tiger-raven gryphon with a dark skin base for the hindquarters, to create an all-black gryphon. And I had that cool swooping pose, so I used that with him.
Poser 4; Vue d'Esprit 4; Photoshop 4, Super Blade Pro
Gryphon: by Jelisa of Fignations
of Imaginment
Raven-Eagle map by Lyne available at 3D
ModelWorld
This is just my diving gryphon from "Eirie Battle," with the tiger-raven skin and the base colour of the hindquarters set to some dark reddish-brown hue.
This is the scene from "Eirie Battle." I took out the other gryphons and cimmeras, and put the black gryphon in. I positioned him and the camera in the midst of the scene, and added a quadratic spot fill light to the lower left, shining on the gryphon to keep the black from being too black. It has a subdued brownish colour, and doesn't cast shadows.
Then I opened the animation window and grabbed the camera,
gryphon, and fill light, moved 5 seconds into the future, and dragged them
down and sideways to make them swoop. Then I tried rendering in Ultra
mode with motion blur on (at frame 3). Well, it didn't look so great,
and this isn't it. :/
I rendered in Ultra mode without the animation bit, and
nabbed the z-buffer for blurring. I also made a non-textured quick
render of just the gryphon, to get the alpha mask. Maybe I shouldn't
have used Ultra mode, because I thought the background looked nice and sharp
and cool, and I didn't have the heart to motion blur it to death.
I selected the gryphon with the alpha channel, copied, and pasted to two new layers. The middle layer, I motion blurred for about 47 pixels. I duplicated that layer, and actually moved it back and up, and put it in Overlay mode to strengthen up the blurring. Perhaps too much :/
Then I used the z-buffer (contrasted up a bit) to select the background elements and Gaussian blur the sky and distant mountains, at least. I also gave them a tiny nudge of motion blur.
I also sprayed a bunch of dissolve airbrush on those trees down there, because they had some transparency holes for the tree canopy... that were a bit too big! They looked as if they had a serious attack of giant gypsy moth caterpillars. So I filled those in.
The border is Super Blade Pro. I put the title
on in before using the filter, and then used the new "emboss" feature to
make the letters appear in the gold stuff. The gold stuff is.... I
forget, but I loaded up some tarnished chrome thing and changed the silver
reflection to "rum" (to make gold) and the green tarnish to black. With
a few more adjustments, I had a gold and black frame with engraved text.
I put my signature on in black, and Free Transformed
it around to lay it on the ground.
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