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Description
A salamander standing on a heart shaped rock.

Modeled and rendered with Blender 2.33

Some technical facts about this image:

- The salamander is in two layers, one textures with a clouds procedural texture, the second with a halo material (this kind of material is more common in particle systems, but worked fine).
- The salamander textured material has a small value on the emissive component to make it illuminate part of the environment.
- All textures are procedural.
- It was rendered using the internal blender raytracer using radiosity.
- Instead of antialiasing, I rendered the image to 3125 x 5000 pixels then scaled it down (I still have the original render, so I am thinking on making it printable).
- I wish I had used a depth of field effect, but it would have involved rendering the image 8 to 16 times.
- The salamander is skinned, so it could be animated without much effort.

Description
A salamander standing on a heart shaped rock.

Modeled and rendered with Blender 2.33

Some technical facts about this image:

- The salamander is in two layers, one textures with a clouds procedural texture, the second with a halo material (this kind of material is more common in particle systems, but worked fine).
- The salamander textured material has a small value on the emissive component to make it illuminate part of the environment.
- All textures are procedural.
- It was rendered using the internal blender raytracer using radiosity.
- Instead of antialiasing, I rendered the image to 3125 x 5000 pixels then scaled it down (I still have the original render, so I am thinking on making it printable).
- I wish I had used a depth of field effect, but it would have involved rendering the image 8 to 16 times.
- The salamander is skinned, so it could be animated without much effort.