

I thought I would do something a little different for the description of this image and write a little bit about the thought process that went behind the making of it.
I’m not really sure where the inspiration for this image came from. The idea for a woman sitting on a throne with her legs crossed popped into my head. Then when trying to decide what to do with her arms; I put her leaning on one and with the other, laying a sword across her lap.
For the lighting: The throne scene has braziers on each side of the throne. I put a point light inside each one below the rim. I wanted the light to mimic that of burning coals, so I gave it a 2700 kelvin temperature. For the fill light I used a nighttime HDR image plugged into the environment tab of the render settings.
The camera: I wanted the eye level of the shot to appear as if below her looking up. I gave the camera a 200mm focal length to help kind of flatten out the image a little bit, so her thigh wouldn’t look drastically larger than her head. To increase the sense of her leaning to the side, I rotated the camera on it’s z-axis slightly. I then added a little depth of field and called it good.
Writing this, it sounds like it all went together pretty quick, but I spent several hours on it.
Total Rendering Time: 8 minutes 37.62 seconds. 99.02% of image converged.
Software used for scene compilation: Daz Studio 4.9.
Rendered with NVIDIA Iray.
No post-work.
Products used in the image:
- Character: Gwennili HD for Victoria 7 by: Kayleyss
- With a combination of: Genesis 3 Female Body Morphs by: Daz Originals
- And: Karen 7 by: Daz Originals
- Her hair: Fantasy Warrior Hair for Genesis 3 Female(s) by: Pretty3D
- Her armor and sword: Alicia Armor Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s) by: Daz Originals & Kool
- The environment: Throne of the Wolfking by: Daz Originals
- HDRI used with two point lights: HDRI – Factory by night – exterior by: Aversis