"La Parade Monstrueuse"

Monstrous freak show with circus flair as album illustration.

"A vaudeville show, a freak show with circus flair…" – this was the rough idea with which the band Strict Confidence approached illustrator Ingo Römling. Photos of real people were to be used and integrated into a virtual environment. These virtual worlds in particular, with their great amount of detail, were a real challenge to create. "A world full of Ornamentation, decoration, velvet drapes, dusty air, gold, aged wood and corroded metal takes time to create", explains Ingo Römling, who mastered the project by himself. "Part of the textures I painted in Photoshop and for other parts I scanned images. I also used a lot of Shaders directly in CINEMA 4D. Compositing and touch-ups were done in Photoshop", Ingo continues. "CINEMA 4D's multi-layer rendering features sped up workflow dramatically."

"CINEMA 4D's much used CINEMA 4D cloth simulation feature made creating the drapes and tarpaulins easy", continues Ingo. "But CINEMA 4D's great connectivity to other applications also sped up workflow. For example, I created some of the organic models in ZBrush and simply imported them into CINEMA 4D. I used CINEMA 4D's Global Illumination feature for the final renderings."

"In addition to the enthralling work in the 3rd dimension I did on the computer – in my case a Mac – the photo sessions were really exciting as well. Together with wife of the band's lead singer, professional models and stage actors we produced fantastic images that I later integrated into virtual environments."

"I've been experimenting with various 3D applications on the Mac platform for the last 15 years but CINEMA 4D was the first application that was completely convincing. I was always searching for a new software that gave me the option of experimenting freely or creating exact geometric models while offering both realistic renderings as well as artistically abstract results."

"For me, CINEMA 4D is for 3D what Photoshop is for 2D!"

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www.monozelle.de
www.instrictconfidence.com