Respite by AlleyKatArt on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

This render started a few days ago as me wanting to do erotica of Toby, a nude pin up style image. As usual, Toby was loud and shy about appearing nude, as he has been since his creation, despite the fact that I finally made up a matching genital texture for him. He just insists he isn't here to titillate you. We compromised on a bath tub scene, added a few (dozen) candles, some knickknacks in the curio, a mirror, deleted a few props that didn't fit... and now he's taking a relaxing soak in Aster's guest bathroom. Don't worry, the curtains are enchanted against flame.

There were a few issues with this render, namely that my PC either decided to auto-restart in the middle of it, or it crashed again, so my 4000x2600 render that had been going for about 16 hours was left unfinished. I didn't know this, however, because I had a charming migraine headache that left me blind and aphasic for most of the morning despite two doses of my 'fast acting' migraine medication.

Roomie babied me once I started feeling a bit better, and I took a nice afternoon nap. I'm still not fully 'back' but I'm close. I could use a long soak with a glass of wine and a few (dozen) candles, myself.

I went into the DS temp files and salvaged the render, added some filters, despeckled it like mad, then shrunk it until you could barely see the grain but could still enjoy SOME detail.

I'll probably re-render this while I'm sleeping, and fix a few minor things I had to postwork in this shot and little things I didn't really think about, like the full bottle of wine plus a full wine glass.