Glass Kickin'

This took a while.    Hope you like it!


Click the Download button in the upper-right for a detailed 2000 x 1820 version. Rendered in DAZ Studio 4.7, lots and lots of Photoshop (but surprisingly little color correction for once), Ron's brushes, and content from DAZ3D.


Comments always appreciated! Thanks very much for taking a look!



updated: Random info
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* The final image just before flattening had 49 image layers and 16 color correction layers. I probably had closer to 60 layers at one point. It had 31 masks, most of which I did not end up using because I rendered each important element separately (Smacky, both demonesses, the table, candle, book, background, etc were each on their own layer). That is not something I would do again for a complex image, masks would have done the job with less work.

* I almost gave up on this picture when I had to start painting the hair. No 3D hair could give the dynamics I wanted, and I haven't had a lot of success painting hair in the past. Both demonesses have 3D hair as a base, but nearly all of it was painted over in the end. Smacky's afro is still the old Alicia Afro from Runtime DNA, but I have an 'afro brush' that I use on it to fill in the transparent areas and improve the edges.

* The soft skin impact from Smacky's foot was done in a fairly simple way; I rendered the demoness twice, once with a normal torso and once with a large stomach morph applied. I then placed the heavier-morphed render over the Smacky and demoness ones, used a hide-all layer mask, and carefully painted in the heavier areas above, below, and very slightly over Smacky's foot. A little Burn or darker brush to add some shadows and it was done. MUCH easier than attempting to use any sort of 3D deformer.

* The falling book (and the one on the fallen demoness' head) were retextured (something I very rarely do), and there actually are brief but complete one-page stories of Smacky and Lust written on the pages. You can't really read them because the book isn't open wide enough, but they're in there because I was tired of trying to paint hair and wanted something more relaxing and pointless to do. 

* See that one brown diagonal book next to the fallen demoness' hand? That was a test to see if I could extract one book from the book piles in the Mage Tower 3D scene (which I did using the Geometry Brush tool in Studio). My original plan was to hand-place all of the books scattered everywhere as if Smacky punched the demoness into the bookshelves, but that proved to be way too much work (and I think it might have been looked too cluttered).

* A couple of the pieces of flying glass have distortion and reflections (the one on her knee and the large one next to her breast). Those are hand-done and were also just tests that I thought turned out well enough to keep. There was a third, but it didn't look that good. I should probably go back and add a tiny bit of frost to some of those right pieces though, they look a little too clean.

* Way back when this was still in the planning stages, I wanted it to be a scene from Smacky's first battle with demonesses in the royal hall. However, Smacky wears a dress when that takes place, and I don't think I could have gotten a non-dynamic 3D dress to look right while she's doing a kick. Maybe when I'm rich and can afford Marvelous Designer, but skimpy armor Smacky had to stand in for now.