Dunk Tank
Completed November 2024.
A Christmas gift for RPMRosie, which was turned into a postcard and shipped to her with her shirt. It features our fursonas at the dunk tank in Dragon Shores from Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer (Ripto's Rage! in the USA). I wanted a piece that captured the dynamic that sometimes emerges between us, where Rosie is quite cheeky to my (loving) annoyance, and considered this to be a great representation of it. The dunk tank heavily references the one found in the Reignited Trilogy.
This piece took a whole week to make, but a lot of the progress was made in a single, very long sitting. It contains a wide variety of textures - possibly the most I've worked into a single piece - and I think it brings a lot of visual interest to the scene. In particular I am proud of the textures on the target and soft rock textures in the wall. It took a lot of experimentation to find a glass render that didn't obscure Xav too much.
One thing I tried in this piece was adjusting and reworking lineart after rendering the objects - mostly seen in the wood textures. I found it to add depth to the objects and will definitely be using this technique in the future.