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my first Octane / Carrara demo reel

protovuprotovu Posts: 194
edited August 2016 in Carrara Discussion

Hello Fellow Carrara-niks,

Your advisement is welcome regarding my first full Octane / Carrara Demo Reel, at 
http://www.protovu.com/ . 
I am aware of a few focus issues ( actually sort of like them), and please know that this is all done with the Direct Lighting option of Octane.
I will be getting into Path and PMC going forward, as time allows ( these are more accurate lighting options). 

Particle effects were done with Pycloid, Fountains, and Blender (obj export). I will probably be looking more to Blender for this sort of thing, as Carrara Particle Emitters do not

work with Octane.
Any other ideas on particles? 

Thank you for taking a look, and thank you to Simon and Octane for allowing Carrara to let us get to another level,
Rick

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  • JonstarkJonstark Posts: 2,738

    Protovu, that's tremendous, excellent work

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,532

    Beautiful work! Great job on the animations too!

    Hmmm... why don't Carrara particles work in Octane? That's odd. 

    Have you considered using particles in a compositing tool, like Fusion and/or HitFlim, etc.,?

    \Not sure if those would give you what you need - I haven't tried them yet.

    Wow... beautiful presentation!

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    Superb work, some of the realism is astounding!  Actually I thought that particles did work but only with the objects option, but given you can make objects what you like, it is not too much of a limitation (except perhaps for the metaball option which would be cool). You could always render those in Carrara and overlay.

  • mindsongmindsong Posts: 1,701

    beautiful work, and the rest of your site is first-class. You do Carrara and your 3D artform great justice!

    I aspire to this mastery, and am inspired to make my Carrara software do such things - :)

    bravo!

    --ms

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    Amazing.  Very well done in every way.

  • 3DAGE3DAGE Posts: 3,311

    Superb work Protovu,. really nice animation and texturing,. I especially liked the attention to the syringe and air bubble, nice detail

    the only slight glitch I can see is at 60secs there are some sphere's which are stationary when everything else has a really nice " suspended in fluids" motion

     

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194

    Thank you, Dartanbeck! So very much appreciated. Particles in Octane:  Simon, our keeper of the Octane connection at Otoy, says there is something regarding the API that prevents him from making particles work with Octane. Kind of a drag. 

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194
    mindsong said:

    beautiful work, and the rest of your site is first-class. You do Carrara and your 3D artform great justice!

    I aspire to this mastery, and am inspired to make my Carrara software do such things - :)

    bravo!

    --ms

    You are beyond kind, MS. 

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194
    Jonstark said:

    Protovu, that's tremendous, excellent work

    Thank you! Thank you!...

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194
    3DAGE said:

    Superb work Protovu,. really nice animation and texturing,. I especially liked the attention to the syringe and air bubble, nice detail

    the only slight glitch I can see is at 60secs there are some sphere's which are stationary when everything else has a really nice " suspended in fluids" motion

     

    Thank you! And yes, there are quite a few glitches. This is the hobgoblin of 3D for me........when to stop.  Our attention to detail is so beyond the normal threshold....I did let a few things slide. Just figured it was time to get something out there.

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194
    diomede said:

    Amazing.  Very well done in every way.

    Thank you very much!

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194
    PhilW said:

    Superb work, some of the realism is astounding!  Actually I thought that particles did work but only with the objects option, but given you can make objects what you like, it is not too much of a limitation (except perhaps for the metaball option which would be cool). You could always render those in Carrara and overlay.

    Thank you, Phil! And thank you again for other advisements per Octane.

    I have used metaballs with Octane. They can fake particles somewhat, but now that we have Octane, to me, a robust particle system, one with Blender capabilities would really allow for some terrific experimentation. Like Molecular for Blender......some very cool stuff with that. 

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194
    PhilW said:

    Superb work, some of the realism is astounding!  Actually I thought that particles did work but only with the objects option, but given you can make objects what you like, it is not too much of a limitation (except perhaps for the metaball option which would be cool). You could always render those in Carrara and overlay.

    Thank you, Phil! And thank you again for other advisements per Octane.

    I have used metaballs with Octane. They can fake particles somewhat, but now that we have Octane, to me, a robust particle system, one with Blender capabilities would really allow for some terrific experimentation. Like Molecular for Blender......some very cool stuff with that. 

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194

    Appologies for not responding sooner, my friends. For some reason I was not pinged when you commented.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,190

    Oh wow I finally had enough bandwidth to watch it, my net has been abysmal, this is truely awesome yes

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194

    Thank you, Sad! Very much appreciated.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,532
    edited August 2016
    protovu said:

    Appologies for not responding sooner, my friends. For some reason I was not pinged when you commented.

    No worries!!! :)

    If you want to get pinged for any particular thread (in this version of our ever-changing forum formats), you need to click the little star at the top right of the thread - or the star when you see the thread link in the main Carrara discussion forum.

    If it's yellow, you'll get an e-mail if someone replies, but you generally won't get a whole bunch of them if several people reply fairly close in time - just one.

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  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194
    Dartanbeck said:
    protovu said:

    Appologies for not responding sooner, my friends. For some reason I was not pinged when you commented.

    No worries!!! :)

    If you want to get pinged for any particular thread (in this version of our ever-changing forum formats), you need to click the little star at the top right of the thread - or the star when you see the thread link in the main Carrara discussion forum.

    If it's yellow, you'll get an e-mail if someone replies, but you generally won't get a whole bunch of them if several people reply fairly close in time - just one.

    Yes, and believe it or not I had the star selected. Made a point of doing so, but for some reason my ping, or not ping is intermittent..

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,532
    protovu said:

     

    Yes, and believe it or not I had the star selected. Made a point of doing so, but for some reason my ping, or not ping is intermittent..

    oh... I believe it! I do! LOL

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    I really wish the star would "auto-click" when you post to a thread, been caught out more than once with that.

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975

    It just shows how amazing and professional Carrara can be in the right hands... wow, just WOW!  heart Silene

  • protovuprotovu Posts: 194
    SileneUK said:

    It just shows how amazing and professional Carrara can be in the right hands... wow, just WOW!  heart Silene

    Silene, you have made my day, week, month!  Thank you.

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