I did this entry in a little challenge over 2 months at the Danish 3D
community 3dmaxer.dk with the strange and mind boggling theme "Surreal
Reality".


"altruism" has a surrealistic touch to it and a deep message flowing
through it as well. It depicts an in my opinion very important part of
life, reality, in a surrealistic and symbolic way. Ultimately, it's up
to the spectator what he/she feels it is about.

Rendering times ended up being about 7-8 hours for all layers all
together in the native resolution 2868x1200 pixels. There is somewhere
about 40.000 characters in the image, the biggest part rendered on 2D
alpha planes distributed by particle systems. The foremost 40
characters are full 3D and posed by hand.

The image is post-processed and composited in Photoshop. The background
mountains are hand painted here as well, and the sky is an image
retouched and hand painted upon to remove some of the 2D look and add
more volumetric feel to the clouds.

Thanks for viewing my image. More of the same stuff at my website MathiasPedersen.com
//Mathias

With Earth as the leader, the planets of the
Solar System has turned against poor Pluto excluding him from their
group of planets.

This image is build upon recent events in
which Pluto has been degraded to a "dwarf planet". It is now no longer
part of the classic lines of planets. It's strange when you've been
able to memorize the planets ever since you were a kid, and for the
future will have to leave this poor little icy rock out. :(

I liked doing a smaller project for a change.
I had this simple idea, and worked on/off for little about a week on
completing this image. I had great fun stuffing as many little funny
details into the image as I could, and I hope you enjoy this image as
much as I enjoyed making it!

Thanks to all who posted feedback in the wip-threads at 3dmaxer.dk and Blender Artists Forums!

Done for a compositing challenge in the Danish 3D community at 3dmaxer.dk. We had a week to complete, and in the voting, this entry won.

We were given a photo (look further down the page) to use as a plate to put anything we wanted into. My eyes caught the water hose and a cactus that looked human in the background, and from there the idea of a thirsty cactus desperate to get water developed.

I rendered out different passes from Blender, and composited and retouched a bit in Photoshop. Before putting the 3D in, I had retouched the original photo, removing all flowers and giving the whole thing a more worn out appearence to fit the mood better.

This was the original photo that was given to use as plate:

Thanks for viewing my image. More of similar nature at my website MathiasPedersen.com
//Mathias

This piece was done for a contest at the Danish 3D community 3dmaxer.dk with the theme The Silent Killer. I quickly decided that I wanted to do an alternative interpretation of the subject (which sadly meant no cool, dangerous and sneaky ninjas for my part). :)

"the silent killer" focuses on a very silent killer that we all can be very sure will get us someday: Time. It is one of the things in life we can be completely certain of - it will not last forever. The old man in the picture is on the edge of life, reflecting upon his past. Sadly though, not all pass away of natural courses, but most do, and I wanted to show that in this piece.

I worked pretty hard for about a month on this to get it done in time for the deadline. The image is composited, retouched and post-processed upon in Photoshop. Due to the deadline things like subtle hair strands on the old man's head and his sweater had to be painted in afterwards.


Thanks for viewing my image. You can find more work at my website MathiasPedersen.com
//Mathias

Based on the feeling of awe when one looks up
into the big and beautiful night sky full of stars. The mystery and
wonder of life's greatness. The piece is starring a little redhaired
boy in pyjamas, looking fascinated up into the huge sky - at that
moment realizing how small we all are compared to the world around us.

I have done a tutorial in 3 parts covering the process of making "Starry Night" from beginning to end. It can be found at my website: MathiasPedersen.com
//Mathias