20,000 league under the sea | The Secret Garden - Challenge 2016

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Moved up the final image for convenience


legend: Somewhere, once. Underwater garden, accessible only to the elite immersed in the underwater blackness of the night. Blackness, illuminated by the light of hundreds of fireflies that are trapped in their little universes of this garden.

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Hi all.
Until now all work on the contest image was carried out exclusively in my sketchbook. Because the conditions of competition require to pay the W.I.P. no later than the 9th January - I reveal the card.

It will be a secret underwater garden. In the spirit of Jules Verne.

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more sketches

[nbac]

i do love the concepts!

[Ilya_Cherkasov]

Update my work. Modelling and light/texture test

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+ update. Work to light and composition. Search moods. Detailing

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More tests. DOF and render segments

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RAW render is finished. Now I will make postproduction

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Hi All. This is my final image. My vision for "the Secret garden". Somewhere, once. Underwater garden, accessible only to the elite immersed in the underwater blackness of the night. Blackness, illuminated by the light of hundreds of fireflies that are trapped in their little universes of this garden.

Used soft:
• Paper & colour pencils
• 3ds max design 2015
• Corona 1.5
• DebrisMaker 2
• Z-brush 4R4
• Fusion
• Photoshop
• After Effects

Used models:
• Evermotion Archmodels V.154 (009, 015, 018)
• R&D iGrass V.1 (iPlants-LawnGrass-01_Pack)
• CGAXIS models V.24 Aquariums (only fishes)

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Little update, if you will. Was in a hurry to upload a picture and forgot to attach the signature. And just corrected small things in the picture, I hope it is not critical. Pleasant viewing.

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The picture illustrating the basic steps of postprocessing: