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From the first photo to the final image, it took me half a year. Not continuously working on it but also waiting for inspiration, searching for the right tools, experimenting with different methods.
So now I am really happy to finally got it finished and decided to feature this with a little making of.

 

Lots of different methods and techniques where used for this.
- taking photos of the bark
- stitching them together
- seamless transitions between the parts
- transforming a tree stamp to a horn / teeth
- making normal maps to get relief information for relighting in a 3d application
- photo retouch to get the look

and some techniques I canceled:
- Putting the environment on a 3d sphere with the correct geometry and texture of the face to get exact reflections
- trying to paint the smoke with brush strokes

Now the final step is to print it out. The resolution supports 1,5 x 1 meter or around 60 x 40 inc

Wow, I feel honored. My picture "Benesi Launcher" made it as a DD!



I did this picture some month ago and was surprised by myself, what I have done there.
First I was a little bit disappointed that only a view of my friends will see this.
But now I'm on deviant art - well it took a while but finally I know this is the place where fine art gets valued.

Thanks to
and
c-91
for your support
and to all of you who sent me all these nice comments and congrats

I'm happy about my ranking at the "No Rules Contest" @ Xtreme Fractals
xtremefractals.deviantart.com/…



A big thank you to all of you voting for my Picture
 

Who is gonna be my 1000st visitor???

Yes here it is. D'oh I can't see who it was without a premium membership :/
It was s.o. @ 27.11.2014 at around 14 o'clock CET.
Hm congratulations anyway.

Just finished a new relaunch of my homepage: www.matthiasrohrbach.de
I swiched from the CMS modx now to wordpress, because the usability is just more like that what I was looking for.
Up to now the page is only in German language. Due to the fact, that this is only my private playground.
You will also find some animation videos and other stuff that is not posted here on dA.