Merry Xmess (CLOSED) (CLOSED)

Title; Merry Xmess

Time used: Not Sure, 7 hours maybe.. Multitasking and time flies.

Creation date: 23.12.2022
Purpose: Winter Fantasy Render Contest
Image size: 1669 x 2160 Letter

Several renders and postwork was used in the creation of this image.
In the end i had to choose between several images.
This is the fourth iteration.

Software used:

DAZ Studio 4.21 and GIMP


Explainations

I'm posting 3 images, The main Winter Fantasy Contest image, Texture Shaded image and Lit Wireframe of the scene.
I added the texture shaded image for better clarity of the scene, not because i had to.

The falling "snow" is also rendered in daz studio using a snow prop, but i added the transparent render as a layer, in post-work with Gimp.
That's why the "snow" dosn't show up in the wireframe and texture shaded render.
The background skies is HDRI so it won't show up in the wireframe nor the texture shaded images either.

The "snow" layer is further edited and modified in Gimp before merging.
After merged with the final image, the final image is even further modified in post-work.

The 3 images has also been compressed from Png to Jpg with minimal quality loss.


In this fantasy render the "snow" isn't really "snow", it's santa private stash of "fairy Dust", leaking out through his trusty pouch,
further up the tree he's stuck in, which is off screen. But not really. It's like schrodinger's cat, 
it both is and isn't there. It's all purely hypothetical.


Fairy dust makes things fly, so we are all assuming this stash is for his reindeers, so Santa can get around faster,
in his merry sleigh with his merry gifts.

Now, the real questions i'm left with, when looking at my creation, is 3 folded.

1) Will the girl choose to help Santa down from that "big ol' tree, or will she grab the teddybear and BOLT!

2) Upside down Kiss? Like Mary Jane and Spiderman.

3) Will they both start to levitate? Or is this some other kind of "fairy Dust"?


Thank you for your consideration and attention.

Schrodinger's cat theory analysis of said text:
it both is and isn't there

Explainations - explanations   = I
santa - santas (private stash) = S

So there's a tree there i guess

Further analysis of said text, more specifically, the result of the first analysis.

In my native language "IS" means "ICE".

Ice is water frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 degrees Celsius or 32 F

Ice can also mean other things, but i'm uncertain if i'm allowed to be too specific in this case.

Besides, I really don't want to give Santa a bad or undeserved reputation

* These texts was not rehearsed or planned in any way, they happen organically *

Even Further analysis of said text. I should also start closing these paradoxes

"These texts "was or were" not rehearsed"? In any case the next word for interpretation is "was".

Was = Saw 

Seems like Santa really got wedged in there, between the branches of that big ol' tree.

With some careful sawing of the branches that ensnare Santas legs, a jolly muffled thump is heard in the snow.

A robust and jolly figure rises from the pile of snow. He brush himself off and suddenly bursts out in a jolly laugh.

He gives the teddybear to the helpful girl, and like magic, he is ready to continue his jolly voyage, through time and space.

Paradoxes closed, normality restored.

4) Choose your own adventure

I guess everybody would see or imagine different scenarios, unless told what the scenario is. Then they would have a choice lol. Observation ey, but also interference.

It both is and isn't is a nice meditation teqnique to silence the mind.

Apologies for reopening the paradox

Nice work 
Best of luck with your entry. 
Happy New year.

Thank you for your kind words, I didn't see the reply until now. A single picture can indeed tell many stories, and a little narration can go a long way.

A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation.

The prime paradox in this case was Santa stuck in a tree, even though he is pure magic.

Maybe he wanted to see what the girl would do. Plausible if Santa's elves provided him with an out of date naughty or nice list.

As long as Santa doesn't get stuck in any more trees, we're good


Best of luck with your entry too,
if you have any,
and a Happy New Year.