NovelAI 1st Birthday Art

This work was created for the 2022 NovelAI Anniversary Contest. Starting with planning I used Nvidia Canvas to draw the thumbnails. This was to get an idea of composition and color for the project. My idea was to have a pen (NovelAI's symbol) in the desert emitting words, as it is a text generation service.

I used a terrain creation program called Gaea for the base. I imported the terrains into Blender positioned the camera and terrain. Created and rendered the nebula and sky text using materials and volumetrics. I separated all 3D elements into layers and exported them into photoshop to composite. Noticing the nebula looked a bit boring I brought in the Nvidia Canvas thumbnails into the background using a screen layer blend.

The final image was tuned in RAWTherappe