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  • VyusurVyusur Posts: 2,235
    edited April 2017

    Gargoyles and Chimeras of Notre Dame Cathedral

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,964

    Thank you Tango Alpha, I have deleted the file but I will email your post to myself for future reference - because I am sure it will happen again!

    Appreciate you taking the time to explain that.

     

    cheers 

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,964
    Vyusur said:

    Gargoyles and Chimeras of Notre Dame Cathedral

     

    Classic, you know my wife and I are always saying 'you know, the ugly ones that don't have water coming out of their mouths ' now I know :)

     

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,988
    Bunyip02 said:

    Chimera 2

    OMG!.... I think it's going to eat itself!... cool work yes

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,334
    edited April 2017

    Another Centaur render, but with the first DAZ Centaur

    https://www.daz3d.com/shades-of-atlantis-sagytarios

    https://www.daz3d.com/carraras-mystic-gorge

    Toon! part III filter

     

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,964

    Another nice render Bunyipo2. You are getting a wonderful handle on tjhe Toon1Part 111 engine.

     

    Here's another "Smee' '. Topaz Impression mixed with Topaz Simplify plus Fotosketcher and hand colouring - and a lot of swearing. I had to build the character three times as Carrara kept crashing.

     

     

     

     

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,334
    head wax said:

    Another nice render Bunyipo2. You are getting a wonderful handle on tjhe Toon1Part 111 engine.

     

    Here's another "Smee' '. Topaz Impression mixed with Topaz Simplify plus Fotosketcher and hand colouring - and a lot of swearing. I had to build the character three times as Carrara kept crashing.

     

     

     

     

    Looks great, glad you were able to get it done despite the hiccups.

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,334
    edited April 2017
    Vyusur said:

    Gargoyles and Chimeras of Notre Dame Cathedral

    Lovely Critters.

    And one from me.

    https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-gargoyle-hd

    https://www.daz3d.com/night-wings

    https://www.daz3d.com/freaky-skins

    https://www.daz3d.com/medieval-hall-and-garden

    Filter Forge Oil painting filter.

     

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  • VyusurVyusur Posts: 2,235

    Bunyip02, cool creature! And your last centaur in toon III incarnation has special visual impact.

  • VyusurVyusur Posts: 2,235

    head wax, beautiful illustration despite your love of symmetry

  • UnifiedBrainUnifiedBrain Posts: 3,588

    Excellent Centaurs, HW and Buniyip!

    And HW, your Smee is just perfect.  Well worth the struggles.

    This thread is itself a treasure trove.

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,988
    edited April 2017

    +1

    much awesomeness being posted here...

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,964
    edited April 2017
    Vyusur said:

    Bunyip02, cool creature! And your last centaur in toon III incarnation has special visual impact.

    yes agreed! that Filter forge has some amazing filters :)

     

    @UnifiedBrain et @Vyusur  , thanks! Yes I'm calling it dynamic asymetry :) (read that somewhere)

    @Stezza, beautifully whimsical - looking forward to when you break out that new Blind Sucker R rated  one too!

     

     

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,334
    edited April 2017

    Trying to do a render a day. Todays effort:-

    https://www.daz3d.com/saurolophusdr

     

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,334
    Stezza said:

    +1

    much awesomeness being posted here...

    Stezza, it's always great to see your work.

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,988

    thanks Bunyip... appreciate that 

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,964

    @Bunyip, great effect of dappled light on that suroawhatever it is :) good to do a render a day (or two or three)

    @Stezza, my favourite is the yellow one with the upside down face - reminds me of a scene from The Sword in the Stone' for some reason - the book not the movie

  • wgdjohnwgdjohn Posts: 2,634
    UnifiedBrain said:

    Unreal.  Of course, I will eventuall want to know every secret you used.))

    But right now, @Artini is filling the Art Forum with Carrara images which were made with something called VectorStyle 2 for Carrara.

    It seems to be an older product, but it is the first I've ever heard of it.  It's currently on sale.

    Is this worth getting?  If so, can anyone explain exactly why?

    I believe that VectorStyle 2 for Carrara is a good buy and worth getting... but then what do I kow. :)  I've only experimented in it once and am impressed and want to experiment more.  It renders in Carrara but needs to be exported to one of 4, I think, formats which will need to be converted to .png or whatever.  Give me a big cardboard box and I'll be impressed and busy for hours. :)

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,964

    it looks good  for hard edged objects but maybe not so for organics - saving as an epi (??) works but not the ai (??)

  • wgdjohnwgdjohn Posts: 2,634

    Can't remember what format finally worked... finally saved/exported in all formats until I found one that worked since I use Directory Opus to simply convert to .png so forums/DAZ would accept it.

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,988
    edited April 2017
    head wax said:

    @Stezza, my favourite is the yellow one with the upside down face

    my fav is the green one...  ever since around 1967!

     

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,334

    Continuing the Dinosaur theme, Trex & Dicraeosaurus, Filter Forge-watercolour filter.

     

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,988

    love dino renders.. yes

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,323

    Wow. N.C. Wyeth-ispired renders, monsters, dinosaurs, fairy tales... fantastic!

    So, Head Wax... what's going on? Are you running Carrara 8.5 Beta instead of the latest? 

    Sometimes Carrara (or is it Genesis?) can be finicky about the order in which they (Genesis and its support content) are kept in the instances tray. Unlike Generation 4, I've seen bad things happen if I change the apparent parenting of conformed items and such. Something causing a crash, other times making the conformed item become some imposible shape or something strange.

    So to counter this, I load in Genesis and, for adding clothing or hair or whatever to that Genesis, I select the Genesis line just above Actor, and then double-click from the browser, then repeat for each item thereafter... and then leave them where they end up in the hierarchy. 

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,323

    I recently bought this laptop with a Quad Core cpu - 1.5GHz per core, 4 GB RAM, and it drives me mad to try and work in Carrara on this thing. I still do it sometimes... but it's slow at best.

    My Carrara machine that I built years ago has Eight cores at 3.1GHz per core and 16GB RAM and a decent gragphics card and plenty of power - and it runs Carrara like a dream for me. Folks whom might have an even beefier beast might have even better stories to tell.

    Anyway, if you're getting a new computer for Carrara, please be sure to get at least eight cores (even four, hyperthreaded to eight will do) running at least 3GHz per core, and no less than 8GB RAM, but I would go 16 if you can... and if you like the idea of Iray or other PBR engines, get a high-end nVidia GTX with at least 4 GB (higher is even better, I've heard) GPU RAM.

    I love the Carrara native render engine, so my graphics card is less important to me - except that I like a decent one with a lot of GPU RAM (mine is only 2GB, which was a lot back then) to help with my Assemble room stability, even though I use very low setting for my 3D View. Like, when I have it show textures, I use 512 resolution for that and just shoot a render to see what they really look like. On this little laptop I use Garaud (sp?) instead of textures.

    I still use compression, against all warnings, simply because I need the space savings.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,964
    edited April 2017

    thanks Dart, yes 8.5 beta - is that a no go??

    I'm finding that the file sizes with genesis are ridiculously large - eg 1 genesis character dressed - 1.6 gig.

     

    as far as my next machine

    I am going to buy: manufacturers description =

    Intel i7 7700K CPU Overclock up to 4.6G

    Noctua D15 super Cooler

    ASUS Z270-P Motherboard

    16G DDR4 2133Mhz Kingston

    256G intel M.2 SSD PCI Express +  two times 2TB WD 7200rpm

    ASUs 8G DDR5 Dual GTX1070 PCI Express

    Cooler Master CM693 Case with 750W Power

    DVD RW SATA

    Windows 10 Home 64 bit

    Built in Gigabit Lan USB 3.0 SATA 3.0 SATA Raid.

     

    presently I am running

    Intel i7 3770 CPU standard clock


    Cooler Master super CPU Cooler


    GA Z77-D3H motherboard


    16G DDR3 Kingston 1333Mhz


    120G Corsair SSD Force 3 SATA 3 SSD + 2 times 2TB Seagate SATA 3


    Cooler Master Elite 430 case with 750w Power


    2G Geforce GTX 670 PCI Express


    Lg Blu-ray Burner SATA


    Windows 7 HP 64 bit


    Built in Gigabit lan USB 3.0 SATA 3.0 SATA Raid.....
     

     

    any comments on this setup welcome  :)

     

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,964

    hey @stezza, that's very delicate , I like the treatment on this one.  Have you thought about working for the newspaper unti we all all get blown up at least :)

    @Bunyip that water colour filter looks great - Ive tried it but never got anything looking that good !

    @WGDJohn - be interested to see your Vector style renders :)

  • wgdjohnwgdjohn Posts: 2,634
    head wax said:
    @WGDJohn - be interested to see your Vector style renders :)

    I'm thinking that the object color it chooses could be changed in PSP or Gimp etc... then add some effects there or import back into Carrara as background or even applied to a plane and rendered again... ohhh the possibilities.

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,988
    head wax said:

     

    presently I am running

    Intel i7 3770 CPU standard clock


    Cooler Master super CPU Cooler


    GA Z77-D3H motherboard


    16G DDR3 Kingston 1333Mhz


    120G Corsair SSD Force 3 SATA 3 SSD + 2 times 2TB Seagate SATA 3


    Cooler Master Elite 430 case with 750w Power


    2G Geforce GTX 670 PCI Express


    Lg Blu-ray Burner SATA


    Windows 7 HP 64 bit


    Built in Gigabit lan USB 3.0 SATA 3.0 SATA Raid.....
     

     

    any comments on this setup welcome  :)

     

    My system is nearly same as yours.... 

    Operating System
                Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
            CPU
                Intel Core i7 3770 @ 3.40GHz    35 °C
                Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
            RAM
                16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
            Motherboard
                ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8H77-M LE (LGA1155)    29 °C
            Graphics
                BenQ E2200HD (1920x1080@60Hz)
                2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (Gigabyte)    31 °C
            Storage
                931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00RKKA0 ATA Device (SATA)    28 °C
                1863GB Western Digital WDC WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 ATA Device (SATA)    27 °C
                111GB KINGSTON SV300S37A120G ATA Device (SSD)    23 °C
            Optical Drives
                HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS95 ATA Device
            Audio
                Realtek High Definition Audio

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,037

    get Windows pro so you can increase your RAM if you want to

    I am stuck at 16GB as only have home premium too

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