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Published: 2012-08-30 10:03:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 19705; Favourites: 250; Downloads: 0
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As usual, posed and set up in Daz Studio. Materials tweaking, lighting and rendering in Octane Render.I used a HDRI map for lighting and pathtracing kernel with alpha channel. Postwork in Gimp for resizing and signature and adding the background.
Thanks for viewing and taking time to leave a comment.
Have a great time.
Thanks a lot for comments and faves on my last image, they are very appreciated !
Models used :
Victoria 4.2 (Daz3D)
PD Kumi (PDesign)
Hanyma vengeance (Aery soul)
I'm awfully sorry, but I can't remind where I found this background ... Thanks to the author anyway
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Why has she got a BBC2 aerial on her back?
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Thank you very much, Jason !
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I have to tell you sir that your renders are the standard ...PERIOD! I would be very interested to know how many, what shapes, and placement of your emitters for your setups. If you don't mind, I think I will join you in this work flow!
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Thank you very much for your kind words !!
For Ponctual lighting, I usually use small spheres (25 to 50 cm max). I turn opacity to 0 if they must be 'invisible'. I also sometimes use rather large planes for a soft, uniform lighting.
I also very often use HDRI that I sometimes combine with meshlights.
feel free to ask if you wish further information.
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Thank you. For your planes and and spheres, how many divisions do you use? Is this the same as subdivisions?
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Well, I use the default primitives from daz :
Spheres 12 segments and 24 sides
Plane : 1 division
I don't know what you mean by subdivisions, the divisions are in fact the faces number of the primitives (object)
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Yes, I understand and that is what I meant by subdividing. I believe this function causes the object surface to become smoother, no? Another question for you: Are you using your sphere emitters for rim and back lighting?
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In fact, I don't pay too much attention on the shape of my emitters, because they are made invisible or they are outside the camera field, so you don't see them. I just ensure that their polycount is low.
Sorry, I don't understand what is 'rim lighting'.
I Usually use an HDRI image, with sometimes some 'point lights' (mesh emitters) for adding specularity and relflections or for lighting particular portions of the scene.
On special scenes (caves or very dark rooms) I use only mesh emitters. I usually place one meshlight (a sphere) in front and above the model, another one at the right, another one in front, nearly on the ground, another at the left and a last one behind the model. They are outside the camera view or they are made invisible (by turning opacity to 0) and I play with intensity and color of each light.Β Thats fairly trivial, but it usually works nice for me
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I understand. A Rim light is liken to a back light in that it creates a light wrap on the edges of the object from behind.
Are you creating individual black body emission nodes for your spheres, then linking them to a diffuse node and finally to the .obj node? Or are you just using the obj node?
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Ah, Ok I see, I just use a meshlight just behind the character, hidden by it.
As I tweak each light individually, I just use the .obj node, I create material nodes only when I can share that material between multiple surfaces.
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I see, that makes sense on when to use nodes.
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Wow, she looks bad ass! Β Nice Octane lighting... materials tweaks are so damn tiring. Β But to have is better than not to have right?
Great joy to see your works... can you do a more space hulk corridor to corridor fight scene? Β When you get the chance, would like to see your interpretation.
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I guess I'm going to have to finally unpack that Daz program sitting in compression form in my document folder and put it to use didn't know it was getting this good. Taking nothing away from your incredible artwork...
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Just keep in mind that it wasn't rendered in Daz Studio, but with Octane Render. I couldn't achieve such a result with daz alone ...
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Thanks for the info. I checked out Octane Render, and it looks pretty cool. Just wish it didn't cost so much vs Daz which is free. I have probably $3,000 us dollar or more worth of old 3d programs laying around because I couldn't keep up with paying for all the upgrades from win 95, 98, 2000 etc, new machines and so on. Now I stick with the tradional oil paint brush and adobe photoshop and illustrator to play with. Maybe some time in the near future I can justify the money to get these cool programs...
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Beautiful image ! Beauty , charmed , sensuality and originality ! Good job ![link]
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Thank you very much, I highly appreciate your kind comment.
Though I don't understand why you add the link to my good friend Ariel-X ...
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Great job with matching background lighting and perspective with the render. Nicely done!
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Thank you very much, Louise !
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Thank you very much ! I really appreciate your comment !
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Aaa, another Aery Soul/AlfaSeed fan. Nice render and a convincing scene.
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Thank you very much !
Yes, Aery Soul/AlfaSeed's products are often fantastic !
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I've been remiss in peeking in and all I can say is beautiful
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Thank you very much !
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Thank you very much !
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You are so good at this..incredible textures and lighting. The scene is amazing..is that a photo? Your really gifted at this every works just stands out. Thank you for sharing
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Thank you very much for your kind words, Shelley ! The background is a photo, but the character is pure 3D. Merging the two is always a bit tricky ...
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Well you do it wonderfully. Your model is so life like can't tell the difference. Your always welcome
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awesome work my friend! looks totally real... I had to check the category to be sure it wasn't a photo!
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Thank you very much ! What a nice compliment !
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most welcome, its true, you always seem to get the DoF just right on these and they look so realistic
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