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The Glittering Caves of Aglarond
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I've been working on this picture off and on for several months, and I think I've finally gotten it where it want it. This is my 3D digital artwork, not a photograph. Created in Vue Complete 2014.

Inspired by a passage from The Lord of the Rings, Book III, Chapter 8: "Immeasurable halls, filled with an everlasting music of water that tinkles into pools. Gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hand of Queen Galadriel. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, fluted and twisted into dreamlike form, they spring up from many-colored floors to meet the glistening pendants of the roof; wings, ropes, curtains fine as frozen clouds; spears, banners, pinnacles of suspended palaces! Still lakes mirror them; a glimmering world looks up from dark pools covered with clear glass."

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::tigger3
02/14/15 1:39 PM GMT
I think this is an amazing computer generated image, bravo on all of the hard work on this one. tigs=^..^=
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life and so is my love of photography. sandi ♪ ♫
.stylo
02/19/15 2:02 AM GMT
amazing piece of work! Vue has caught my attention a few times on here before. i wouldnt have a clue as to where to even start with it, let alone make something like this. maybe next winters project. congrats on a most brilliant finish!
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.Tootles
04/21/15 3:56 PM GMT
That's a gorgeous passage and visualization. (Brilliant book too, but I've been a fan forever!)

There's a lot I like in your rendering of it... the slick shine on the rocks, the jazzy reflections, the cool, translucent water, the reflections and the haze.

The best bit is the entire middle section, and I can imagine zooming in. I wish I could take the marquee tool... I'd put it round the haze and pastel rocks near the boat, crop down to the bottom to include the little bay with its reflections, but exclude the roof, the cliffs at both sides, and most of the upper base of the big white stalactite (while keeping those stalactites down from the apex of that central arch).

I'm busy with my scissors here, sheesh! But for me that'd make one eye-catching composition, and could see it on the front cover of a future publication of this novel.

Can we have more? Boromir, maybe? :-) I'd put the poster on my wall.
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