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Very ethereal and cool. Love how her clothing sort of reflects the horses hide - don't know if that was intentional or I'm just seeing things.
Ya great pin up look, it all works together very well.
Some nice floor plans as well. Interested to see what you do with it all when its finished lol.
Semi-intentional? Glad you like it, though!
Very cool! I'm glad the extra props from the Long Island Mansion are proving to be useful. Are you using the Create a Room set as well for the actual build?
Lots and lots. I'm running into some problems in that not all the walls seem to be exactly the same thickness, which means if I want to use the same set for shots in rooms with adjoining walls, I may have to do some little adjustments. But I'm really enjoying working with the sets. It really scratches an itch. Although I do still need to figure out a good stair solution. (Or, well, always use careful camera angles. I've been pondering how to make a modular stair set and I can definitely see the challenges.)
One trick if you have to scale up your character again, is to group your lights for the character with the character before scaling. If you group them all together and scale the group, the lights will scale with your character and be exactly as you had them when the character was normal sized.
I love both of your before/afters. Such a huge difference. They look great. Did you paint the hair on that dog? Is that a dog? What animal is that? That's an amazing difference. I simply love the postwork on this one. It's hands down my favorite image.
Playing catch up, the floor plans look like an interesting challange, and are really coming along nicely.
Love the point of view and posing on the one with the dog, I also like the way you accentuated the lighting in the postwork and added the hair on the dog, nice touches.
Your cheesy pinup with the horse has a fantastic almost glowing quality and is soooo much better then cleaning!! lol
The dog is a Warbeast that I messed with the scale on, especially on individual parts like head and paws, 'cause I was trying to make a puppy. I love the idea of this girl finding a 'puppy' and adopting it... I guess like Lilo and Stitch, kinda.
I think one of the issues I had in lighting the Future Height scene was that scaling up lights changes their light output? But I can't recall right now. If you say that works, I'll trust you!
I was experimenting with a new glow style for the Nyx and Nightmare pinup. I don't at all recall what it was right now but I think I saved a bunch of carefully named layers. I hope so, anyhow. Wait! I remember. It involved masking and feathering and bright layers.
I just finished another picture and I thought the before/after was nice. I used Topaz Restyle (omg useful) and Topaz Texture Effects primarily. Not quite as creeping grunge as I was hoping to achieve when I did the render, but sometimes you just gotta follow where the picture leads.
Original
Postworked:
I have warbeast and I didn't recognize your critter as being him. Save that because if looks like a pretty good morph!
As for the lights, I do this all of the time. Keep in mind that I only group those lights that I have set up just for the character with the character. Not any of the environmental lighting I might have setup. I haven't had any issues with the lights changing their ouput, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. However, I think if you keep lights just for the character grouped with your character, you won't see too much change. Let me know if you try it out what you find.
That second image with the post looks a little grungier which is a good look for this type of image, I think. Especially since you have stuff on the floor. It looks really good.
I signed up for Shift Art. I have not actually followed any tutorials but I've read some and they're educational!
Before and after! The new rim light rig is SO WORTH IT.
I love shift art. I haven't done any of the tutorials but I have watched a bunch of them and even just watching them, I've learned a ton of new stuff already.
I also like the grungier look for the guy at the desk, it really makes it more interesting.
Such a cute render.
Not a fan of shift art myself, but it's more a personal thing. Lets just say people who charge for things don't like people who also know how to do the same thing but give the knowlage away for free. :D
Aww, that's too bad if they're unfriendly to you, deathbycanon. I tried to find out more about the site before signing up but there wasn't a whole lot out there. I do like all the screencaps of the starting and ending places-- those are always very useful to me.
I'm currently in love with Precious. IN LOVE. Which is a little weird because while I do 'cartoon/anime' styled stuff some I don't really do cutesy animals much-- I mostly make the eyes bigger and do postwork NORMALLY. And yet... and yet... I may have to come up with a reason to start.
Also, school has started for my kindergartener, and suddenly I'm churning out a lot more art even while getting some writing done and homeschooling the elder kid. It's weird. And maybe spammy, I don't know. Mostly spammy on dA though....
Ah, very cute! I love Precious, too.
I didn't know you homeschool! Roughly what grades are you teaching? We're kind of up to the middle school and high school levels. Mine are all teenagers. We haven't really officially started the school year yet. Kind of got sidelined by the hurricane so no classes at the moment, but we go year round so it isn't that big a deal that we haven't started yet. Usually, though, our start date is September 1st.
How long have you been homeschooling?
The elder is in 5th grade now. Not yet homeschooling the kindergartener because he HATES it when I try to teach him things and LOVES group stuff. He firmly believes mommy is for comfort, not teaching. So trad. kindergarten for him. But I've been technically homeschooling the elder since I pulled him out of first grade. He's on the autism spectrum and NOT a good fit for traditional school. Very self-educating though, so for the last few years it's been more 'unschooling' than 'homeschooling'. But in third grade we had to declare something so I enrolled him in the local school district's parent partnership/homeschooling program. So he gets a handful of 'enrichment classes' that meet once a week and give him exposure to other humans (stuff like art, world history, language stuff). This year I've told him we need to buckle down and start really paying attention to a curriculum, so he can get some kind of certificate someday. Mostly that means Khan Academy... I'm trying to get a metric on where his skills are in various subjects. He's really taught himself a lot over the last four years (admittedly with my advice)... he watches TEDtalks for fun.
Are you using a particular curriculum? When did you start?
That dragon is adorable, I'm not a tooney person either and I was tempted to buy him anyway. You did a great job rendering him.
Shift art isn't exactly unfriendly. I was asked by several people to join their facebook group so I tried, but they never approved me, until the people started asking why I wasn't approved, then they let me in. One of the owners and I are on some other groups and that person knows that when I get asked how I did something I share, or send the person to a free video to learn how to do it. I'm pretty sure that was the reason for the VERY long delay in my approval, but I respect that they want to make money so I just don't post anything there. So they have never been outwardly rude to me, but most of what they teach can be learned on you tube and DA for free if you know what your looking for. I think it's great for people just starting out learning photoshop as sometimes just jumping into a video can be a little confusing for people.
I love Khan Academy! Such a great resources there.
We've been homeschooling since day one with my oldest. They've never been to school. My oldest is going to be seventeen this month so I guess it depends on how you count homeschooling. I always knew I was going to homeschool so I started teaching things to my oldest from the beginning. Once we hit about first/second grade we started with curriculums through Sonlight. I liked that it was literature based. I was reading to them a lot anyway. It was fun, but we transitioned into doing things based more on the boys interests as they've gotten older.
We tend to unschool for the most part these days. However, my husband does math and science with the boys now that they have surpassed me. That's kind of his thing. He loves math and science. It's the engineer in him. They are using a series of lectures on DVD for Chemistry and Trigonometry. I still handle the Literature and Arts stuff. The boys learn a lot of stuff on their own. Sometimes, they still amaze me when the things they've learned pop into everyday conversation and I'm like, where on earth did you learn about that? because I know my husband and I hadn't taught them whatever the thing was at the time.
We also use a few online resources like Khan Academy. Florida has this online school that is open to everyone, even homeschoolers through some umbrella schools, that I'm going to have the boys try that out this year. I figured they could take one class that interest them and we'll see how that goes.
I've always given the boys the choice of homeschooling or going to public school. None of them have ever wanted to go to public school. There are times when we are getting on each others' nerves that I threaten to send them to school. I've never followed through on that. It is great that you've given your youngest the choice. It isn't for everyone and you always have the option of homeschooling later if he changes his mind.
I suppose the big thing about a presentation like Shift Art has vs. dA/youtube is that you have to know what you're looking for. Scanning through some written tutorials I saw a section on using the 'Image/Calculations' operation in Photoshop. I'd never even HEARD of it before but it looks SO useful now that I've poked at it some. But then again I've been using Photoshop for less than a year, soooooo....
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I asked my friends on Facebook for an art prompt and was given 'Charybdis' of all things. At first I felt utterly defeated. But I'll show them! That Precious dragon and I will show them good!
Stairs are a problem I've been working on in my head for a long time in regards to Create a Room. It seems like stairs are, more often than not, crafted to fit a specific space, and so it's hard to come up with general stairs that fit into everything else around them. But it is something I am working on. Maybe a whole expansion of just stairs and nothing else.
Ugh. I hate these dry spells, where everything I start ends up going nowhere and even starting anything feels like work instead of fun. For the first half of the month I was on fire (my biggest month on dA) but now.... bleah. Last night I did dozens and dozens (it seemed) of renders of a guy's skin, trying to adjust the NGS settings to make him look as tan as he did by default. Then I played with Dale for a bit, then closed off the whole file and tried to use my new The Void toy for something. I bought it, I should use it, right?
Got a bit of my creativity back. I'm home sick today. Should have taken the kid to his enrichment classes today (graphical storytelling, architecture, word roots, painting) but instead I threw up and ran a low fever so he gets to slack today instead.
Anyhow, here's a couple of the things I've done recently.
Another one I'll... probably? postwork before posting in any galleries. Or perhaps it'll go into my big folder full of 'unprocessed renders' and never see the light of day again.
Wait. Oh darn, it's too big to upload as an unprocessed PNG. Dancer. In Westpark. With godrays. Maybe I'll go edit it if I can stop shivering.
Here, have my very first RRRR entry instead. completely unfunny though.
ok here
Wow, I'm loving this right now! Great work with the lighting and everything!
Oooh, this is very nice! I love how the light makes you really focus on the character! Wonderful work!
Nice renders, I really like the point ov view on the last two.
I have a project this month: I want to work on consistency.... making pictures all look recognizably like each other. The way I can often recognize something by deathbycanon or knittingmommy or shibashake or others. :-) I'm currently TERRIBLE at it. So... after reading some tips I'm going to pick a consistent set of image elements and style elements and incorporate them into most of the stuff I do this month. In fact, I might even use many of the same models just as an experimental limiter.
This is my first picture in the October version of this project.
This one is ultra cool!!!!
Been surfing your thread and catching up, don't feel discouraged with the kitbashing and making a forest or kitbashing in general. Once you wade into that it's amazing how many snags you can hit! Something simple can turn into hours (if you're lucky, it's not days or weeks lol)
Thanks for looking at my thread, Novica!
Consistency Experiment Stage 2. I really need to WRITE DOWN my post process steps or something. Or develop a better eye? Or both? I dunno.
This really is even harder than I imagined. SO many components the same, and yet... differences crop up. I did save some of my process this time, at least.
I think you are on a good way, you renders do have consistency, not on a level of "everything inside one story" but on the way you take camera angles and work with colours pose your personnage expressively. after all its an interesting experiment but limiting yourself too much will kill the joy at some point as well.
I've always thought that about myself as well, that there is nothing in commmon with the different renders I do ( lets leave the lates for my story out of that) But I was told several times now that people knew it was me before looking at the name, so after all there seems to be something about my renders as well that has my writing on it