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nice find !
ha ha thanks for keeping us 'posted' - wonderful pose the diagonals are very strong
evil wroteth:
thanks for sharing that , be interesting for plants as well - light shining through succuilents for example
ha ha Andy, you need a third element in that cubist work to introduce a bit of jealousy
Gah I just looked at all the amazing work in the last posts!! Bludy wonderful. I'm sorry I haven't been around.
Thanks Headly! Did you see this post where I converted the color image maps to black and white by using a color gradient, and then doing that with every texture in the scene (except the red lingerie)? I was able to render that scene in black and white using Carrara's native renderer with no plugins or postwork.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3680481/#Comment_3680481
-Hey Evil, No! Thanks for that. Great idea!!! cheers from oz :)
@UnifiedBrain, thank you very much! Streams are just a volume cone from spot passing through the jalousie.
we still have all weekend?
my veronica lake vision is turning into a homage to the Metropolis movie
Duplicate post - dont seem to be able to delete it or remove attachments !
anyway adding another WIP image
Is that also for Macs?
Okay, I think I'm going to change one of my entries. Entry 6, What Knife, will be the same subject, but instead of using postwork to achieve the black and white look, I converted all of the color image maps to black and white all in Carrara! I did this by using the color map with a black and white color gradient. I did this with a shader and an image map in the scene. The female model, her hair, the floor, the walls, etc. See the link below.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3680116/#Comment_3680116
I also changed the lights to varying shades of gray. The only thing I didn't change was the lingerie.
Remember, this is straight out of Carrara with absolutely no editing work.
Unfortunately not. VWD works only in Windows, so there's never been any need for a mac version of the bridge.
Gérald Contesse, the developer of VWD tried to team up with a mac developer, but the technical platform he's using doesn't allow him to go very far. But, there is hope. A new version of this same technical platform has been released and is now compatible with Windows 64 bits. One could hope that this return to standard will entice a mac developer to finish the job.
Unfortunately not. VWD works only in Windows, so there's never been any need for a mac version of the bridge.
Gérald Contesse, the developer of VWD tried to team up with a mac developer, but the technical platform he's using doesn't allow him to go very far. But, there is hope. A new version of this same technical platform has been released and is now compatible with Windows 64 bits. One could hope that this return to standard will entice a mac developer to finish the job.
How do I get a link to my WIP 'post' ? I can get the whole thread linked or direct to an image but haven't figured out to get the post itself.I see in the Noir Submissions others have achieved this daunting task
the setup
the black box is a shade, to block the light from the sky.
in it there is spot with a gel you can see on top.
On the left side of the post you want to link to is your name, number of posts, and the time/date. Click on the time/date. A new screen will then open with a new address in the top address bar. Copy and past this address to the place you want it to appear.
Many Many Thanks ! I looked here but missed the small icon top right dah !
or you can hover your mouse over the time stamp right mouse click and 'copy link address'
very nice, looking forward to seeing the finished render!
evil - VWD is worth while buying a pc for ;)
I have an Intel Mac. If I really wanted to, I could get a copy of Windows and use it. But I'm like a bad maid. I don't do windows.
Cops Nab the Infamous "Panty Bandit"
This one started out life as a B&W, and then it went in another direction. :)
The idea was to put a female in a trenchcoat and have her robbing a bank. I didn't plan on all the chrome, but it sure was fun.
It's not exactly realistic because of the lack of DOF and the lighting. I guess it is maybe stylized realism. To get it clean, it took 6 hours to render, a record for me by 4 hours. I tried to add raytraced DOF, but it crashed Carrara twice (not enough memory) and I'm not sure if I will try again.
Main lighting is a Horo HDRI. Products include G2F, Sinful Nights trenchcoat and panty, Ant Farm's The Vault, M3, Real Heros Police uniform, and Diomede's 357 magnum (thanks Diomede!).
Oh yeah, no postwork. Thanks Carrara!
Edit - forgot to add, I used GMIC (a game-changer for me) Colors>Basic adjustments.
what's she got stashed under that coat I wonder!
very nice render... I would of given up after 30 minutes lol
I crossed the HWBig Cat with an apple and got something Evil
Hey Unified - Panty Bandit ' hit me between the eyes " well done = I like this very much =
@shlomi laszlo, I like the perspective on your entries, plus the way you are telling a story with your entries. This is just my opinion given in the spirit of these challenges, in that we all want to grow as artists. I wish that the lighting provided more contrast to the subjects to make them stand out more from the rest of the scene. I'm also not sure if it is the filters/plugin you are using, but the depth of field seems overly strong. Where I really notice this is the reverse angle from the guy's perspective looking out through the doorway at the woman holding the gun. If I hadn't seen the first image in the series and known she was there, I probably would not have noticed her because she is so blurry looking. I don't know what you have for time or inclination, but is there a way to tone that down? With less blur, the subjects would be easier to see.
@UnifiedBrain, fun picture! Great use of reflections. Very nice expression on her face.
@Stezza, the day that Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is the day they make vacuum cleaners.
Thanks Ooseven and EP!
Ordinarily I would totally agree. In fact, the 10 minute version looks almost identical to the 6 hour version. But there was some blotching in the G2F skin, just below the hat brim and on one leg, that probably no one whould have noticed except me. To get rid of the blotching, I had three possible solutions:
1: Move her more forward, closer to the HDRI. This worked, but I liked her present position better.
2. Increase the HDRI levels. This would probably work, but it resulted in the skin map washing out in places. To adjust that, I would need to darken the maps in PSE. Not very hard to do, but...
3. I decided to experiment with maxing out the Lighting quality (best) and accuracy (1 pixel) settings, in part just to see how long a render would take at those settings. It fixed the blotchiness, but adjusting the skin maps in PSE (or simply editing them in PSE) would have been much faster.
A sandwich, maybe?
Have you tried using a saved irradiance map? It can help speed up scenes that use GI. You can render a low res version of your scene with the option to save the Irradiance map, then when you are ready to render your scene disable the Save Irradiance Map option and choose the Use Saved Map option. You can then up your resolution and photon settings. I don't know what your setting were when you were getting the ashing (blotches), but I have gone from fast to good. I've also increased the map accuracy and the number of photons. I haven't had a need to use the best settings yet.
Oh, I almost forgot. You can change your camera view to wherever you would like it without needing a new irradiance map. The only instance you would need a new irradiance map, would be if you were to change the lighting.
edited to add: That a new map would be needed if you changed the location or aim of the lights, or moved, removed, or added an object to the scene. You could even have a pretty quick animated fiy through of the scene so long as the camera was the only animated object in the scene.
i'm very much enjoying the gradient trick for b/w Thanks!!
You are very welcome. I had come across this some time ago, but not with the idea of a black and white render.
Hey EP, thanks for taking the time to explain the Irradiance map trick! I'll definitely try it the next GI render.- unless I'm running 32 buckets by then. :)
Carrara is so deep. Very thankful that experienced guys like you are around to help steer rooks like me into better solutions. It's what makes this forum so great.
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