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It didn't until just now :) Gimp 2.9 does support .exr but lacks 'layered EXR support'. Thanks for the video link. I might have to try Affinity for $50.
From a GIMP 2.9 review:
Well that sucks about GIMP. Figure they would know people will want to use layers with exrs.,,baby steps i guess:/
I noticed Affinity has a 10 day free trial and supports GPU acceleration, so looks like something to try. It sucks having to learn another photo editor, but seems like it will be worth worth the effort. Affinity works a lot like photoshop from what I've read. I think PSE is about $100 with no subscription.
Am also taking a good look at Corel Paintshop Pro.
This inspires me to make something. It is beautiful. Thank you!
Natron is a free compositor that supports exrs.
Fixed the pokethrough, a few minor alterations to poses, very slight increase to crush blacks in tone mapping, changed the dof area a little, and messed with the lighting. I also lowered some of the tile and displacement subd settings on the Terradome zones in the background, which I guess were probably adding considerably to the render time, more than likely without being visibly different.
I'm working on an image for a fantasy book cover. This is the best I've done so far, though it still needs a bit of work. Expression and hair needs to be tweaked, and lighting still isn't right. I also lost the laces on her shirt somehow, and can't figure out how to get them back. I'm reasonably happy with how it's going so far though.
(Not sure how to insert my image into the post, I'm obviously missing something...)
Edited to add the image into the post, thanks shaneseymourstudio
Very cool image! I like the lighting especially.
To insert a pic you first attach it and post as you have then in upper right of your post will be a gear icon you can click on and select edit post.
Right click on your attached image and open in either another window or tab. Click inside the adress bar of that window you opened and select and copy that address.
Go back to the window woth post open for editing and click to place your cursor where you want to place the image. With cursor in place look up where the buttons are for things like text. There is a button, top row I think, to add an image. Click that and you will get a new window. Paste the address you copied into the top field and give it a title second field. Next set pixel size, think max on longest side can only be 1200px.
Click ok and save post.
Thx for all the advices and especially shaneseymourstudio for the tutorial. I hope I get it to work in gimp!!
Momentary I'm unable to do a lot renders. I work nearly 12h per day and this weekend we must do a extra shift.
And I definitely need a nvidia card. Do iray render without one, is like shoveling snow with a spoon. -.-
My first thought for the little dragon's fire was to turn down the emmission a bit. When it is high it can "blow out" the prop.
You have done a very nice job on the posing. Getting interacting characters posed isn't easy. I did notice, however, that the right toes of your guy in blue with the shield is in the rock. It looks like you need to put some more bend in his toes and possibly a bit more bend in this shin.
An excellent resource is DS Creative Magazine. There are some really good tutorials.
There is one for LIE's in Issue 5 on Page 52. http://issuu.com/philatdsc/docs/ds_creative_05
and in Issue 15 on Page 38: http://issuu.com/philatdsc/docs/ds_creative_15
There is a DOF tutorial in Issue 6 on Page 48: http://issuu.com/philatdsc/docs/ds_creative_06
An article/tutorial on Iray Fog and Water in Issue 11 on Page 40: http://issuu.com/philatdsc/docs/ds_creative_11
And you might find the Geometry Editor usefull for the Pool Table's top. Issue 14 on Page 36: http://issuu.com/philatdsc/docs/ds_creative_14
Great start. I am looking forward to seeing who shows up.
This has a strong emotional pull to it. I can feel her pain and disappointment.
I love this. Very whimsical.
Adding SubD to the ornaments could help with those straight edges but be warned. It will add to the render time so I could suggest only apply it to the ornaments that are highly visible.
Awesome! Thanks for the links. I had no idea it existed.
Yes, inspiring and on a CPU.
Great idea to do the ones that are highly visible. I had trouble in the past with sub-div making everything go really sloooooooo...
Everything looks really good. Very nice blacks.Maybe adjust the rim light falling on that dude with the head dress to highlight more of his profile, either move the light or turn his head a tad perhaps. The guy in the rear looks a little bit weightless. If you flex his left toes and lower him a bit, it might give him more weight. Looks like a real interesting scene.
Rendered this new idea this afternoon, but took a nap before I got it posted.
Thanks! I think I've got it now!
The lighting is a combination of IBL and ghostlights. I just got them yesterday, and am enjoying experimenting with them. Very easy to use!
I'm enjoying seeing the development of this one. Her expression is much better in this one, and the dropping pool que is a nice touch. :)
The woman in the bottom right doesn't seem quite right. She seems too close to the other woman to be lower and smaller.
She is actually just in front of the cam which is a little over half the pool table away. I set it up this way for some story where she is trying to regain control of her dragon she is training. I will post another angle to show distance at some point and may tweak the position at some point.
A grainy first draft of "Weihnacht' ist überall"
The more I look at that Deco Christmas Cats entry, the more I like it. The only slight criticism I have is that in the closeups the cats' eyes look slightly too deepset in their eyesockets. Not really noticeable in the main pic though.
I was taking a break from the dwarf battle scene, trying some quick renders of some of the stuff collecting on my hard drive from all the sales and freebies lately, and kind of liked this one. I turned the bloom filter on (I have no idea what the settings do so I just left them at defaults, for now), changed a lot of shaders, and used a light with temperature set to 7000k (which I think makes it slightly blue-ish) to light the main character, and a couple of red tinted lights for the background and rim lights.
After I failed, to do good post work in Gimp, I tried in Daz to make changes.
It was really difficult to erase the harsh lights on the buildings, because I only light the scene with a primitive that I use as sun. (Enviroment intesity from dome is set to. 0.0097)
The buildings are from the www.daz3d.com/airport-island-city-center and have extreme shiny and reflecting surfaces. I tried so many things, to erase the shiny roof from the round tower, but get no succeed. So I dropped him out and replaced him with another building from the set.
After that, I reduced the DoF, Environment map/lighting resolution a little. I also canceled the bloom effect, but still miss him and maybe I tried another render. The rendertime is stil high (15h), but I like this set a much.
And the changes were worth it. This picture really generates some emotional impact.
Here is the next version with everything in place. I lost some of the depth on the floor when I added the spot light on the mouse. I ended up buying Affinity photo to work with .exr files. So I want to render again to .exr with the spot light on the mouse on a seperate layer to see if I could fix the lighting on the mouse in post without messing up the depth of the floor.
This looks incredible complex. I think my computer wouldn't even handle the half of this scene.
This looks incredible complex. I think my computer wouldn't even handle the half of this scene.
You would benift from even a cheap GPU. Maybe you can find one used on fleabay. I recently sold three GPUs for about $100 and built a watercooled workstation just for this. I maxed it out with two GTX 1080 SC2 GPUs, SD drive and 32G. It is great. I can run overclocked to about 125% the rated clock speeds when rendering, so it is blazing fast. Fast enough to render in real-time in the viewport even with that huge scene. I still put everything into groups and turn things off when I'm editing to get the viewport to be even more responsive. I've been rendering at 6000x4000 and downsizing. I get a decent render in about 15 minutes at that massive resolution, but sometime just let it run for hours until it it is almost totally converged.