Sorry for the late comment, Brenda.
I've been using the blue arrows to go through the postings, and only see the top half image when it first appears on my screen if it's in portrait orientation, . In this case this meant seeing the bear only at first. It seems utterly thrilled to be out with snow falling around him. His body language and expression are perfect! Smelling the snow, breathing it in, squinting as he looks up at it falling from the sky. Enraptured by it!
When I scrolled to see the bottom half, my love affair with the image faded several degrees. The idea that the bear is out walking its clipped poodle in the snow is lots of fun - and removes the image from the ranks of more ordinary, conventional Christmas card views of animals.
However, the poodle is far less intriguing than the bear. Also the poodle looks like its walking, whereas the the bear seems to have stopped to enjoy the moment. Perhaps the poodle could have stopped as well, maybe looking back up at the bear. Then you'd have a story that connects the two and the what's going on: Bear reacts to snow, poodle reacts to bear stopping. Or the poodle might be using the pause to shake off the snow. Bear reacts to snow its way, poodle reacts in its way.
The falling snow is really beautiful and I've not seen snow depicted quite so magically. So, the snow is beautiful, original, captivating to viewer and bear alike.
But the rendering technique if the ground plane is less successful. Maybe the dots could just turn to solid white? Footprints? No footprints? Hint of footprints? I'm not sure.
If you want my suggestion, I'd say try the poodle and the ground plane again.
I love the colours, the fading colour behind the white dots, the dots that are faintly coloured on a white background, the bear's bluish outline, the texture on the bear - wow, the bear is actually a violet bear with white scratchy texture applied.
I absolutely love the idea, the bear and the falling snow. Best of the last two I've ever seen!
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I've been using the blue arrows to go through the postings, and only see the top half image when it first appears on my screen if it's in portrait orientation, . In this case this meant seeing the bear only at first. It seems utterly thrilled to be out with snow falling around him. His body language and expression are perfect! Smelling the snow, breathing it in, squinting as he looks up at it falling from the sky. Enraptured by it!
When I scrolled to see the bottom half, my love affair with the image faded several degrees. The idea that the bear is out walking its clipped poodle in the snow is lots of fun - and removes the image from the ranks of more ordinary, conventional Christmas card views of animals.
However, the poodle is far less intriguing than the bear. Also the poodle looks like its walking, whereas the the bear seems to have stopped to enjoy the moment. Perhaps the poodle could have stopped as well, maybe looking back up at the bear. Then you'd have a story that connects the two and the what's going on: Bear reacts to snow, poodle reacts to bear stopping. Or the poodle might be using the pause to shake off the snow. Bear reacts to snow its way, poodle reacts in its way.
The falling snow is really beautiful and I've not seen snow depicted quite so magically. So, the snow is beautiful, original, captivating to viewer and bear alike.
But the rendering technique if the ground plane is less successful. Maybe the dots could just turn to solid white? Footprints? No footprints? Hint of footprints? I'm not sure.
If you want my suggestion, I'd say try the poodle and the ground plane again.
I love the colours, the fading colour behind the white dots, the dots that are faintly coloured on a white background, the bear's bluish outline, the texture on the bear - wow, the bear is actually a violet bear with white scratchy texture applied.
I absolutely love the idea, the bear and the falling snow. Best of the last two I've ever seen!