That is, after all, one of the primary duties of an Ice Fairy!
This is the other of the two winter fairy scenes that I struggled with for most of January. With this one, I just could not decide what should be in the background. I started off with Sprite Valley (with some snow mats), and while I love that set, it just wasn’t working for such a wintry scene. So I ended up modeling the “ice pond” myself. But I still couldn’t settle on a background until I tried the Fantasy Ice morph for TD2, which seemed to provide interest without distracting from the subject. I’m still not sure if the winter bushes add anything, but oh well!
What took by far the longest with this one was the dozens upon dozens of test renders I did in an effort to get all the water fx props and the pond water to look right together (without causing the render to stall). Obviously I wasn’t going for realism, and I didn’t even use raytraced reflections or refraction, but for some reason the splash ring around the dragon wouldn’t work with the same shader setup as the falling water, and it took forever to come up with a shader produced an acceptable result. The icy pond water also took a lot of trial and error (and probably should’ve been darker). But at least I learned a few things about water materials in the process!
Rendered in February 2020 in Poser Pro 11 Firefly at 4000 × 2250 pixels.
SCENE CREDITS: TerraDome2 with Fantasy Ice morph from Ultimate Morphs Vol. 2 (with custom snow mat); Bucket from Merlin’s Cooper’s Workshop; Flink’s WaterFX 1& 2 (with custom mats); Flink’s Winter Bushes; rocks and ice pond by me.
CHARACTER CREDITS: Amity figure, hair, wings, and AmiFae outfit by 3DTubeMagic (with custom mats); Faerie Dragon by Ryverthorne (with custom mats).