Darwins' Schtuff
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Take care of yourself .
If you feel like getting burned out, then you should definitely take some downtime and re-charge your creative batteries.
Thank you, everyone! The time off was well spent- though I still need to do some cleaning around here. >.> We get to talking and BAM!-it's midnight. lol We always have such interesting conversations.
I don't know if I'll do a female version of Ahmad, that purple/blue/red skin was a PITA with the seam work. lol
But- Ahmad's released! https://www.daz3d.com/ahmad-for-genesis-3-male
Congrats on the new release!
Using a UV swap would allow the skin to be used on a female. Might try that soon just for kicks.
lol-true! Hm. and thank you!
Well, I don't have UV Swapper, so excuse the seams. Maybe after loading the Djinn preset remove the bump and normal maps with one of the males that have similar eyebrows and no scruff/chest hair and it could work. This is my Danica from Rendo wearing Ahmad's base Djinn skin.......nevermind the 5 o'clock shadow bump! lol
I'm working on one with V7. She looks pretty good but is jinxing my computer at the moment. Gotta restart.
This is with the UV Swap product, and everything looks very good. Lighting isn't perfect here, but not bad! Whenever I'm stuck, Painter's Lights seem to be the answer. Not sure I'm wild about the background though.
You could have some fun with LIE makeup on her. Emissive makeup would be totally cool, though she really doesn't need any. This skin is very beautiful on both genders. (Click for a bigger pic, then zoom in.)
ah- I have that at times as well.
SO, this is a really, really rough draft of an idea for a full leg tattoo so far. Nothing final, but the 'feel' of it is what I'm going after. Can't work on it anymore since there's stuff to do, but here it is anyway:
Wow, Llynara-she looks beautiful! Much better than I'd expect, thank you for showing her.
wow, she got really bad posture, lol, but yes that seemed to work just fine, now I'm happy to have the UV swap!
Wow she looks amazing with that skin on her she really looks like a genie!!!
I am so loving the leg tattoo Darwin, totally kewls such details with the cross between black and red, plus great pattern!!!
Thanks! I'm really liking how this is turning out. I've got ideas for her! (As always, click and zoom in for more detail, I like to render stuff big.)
A few more tweaks:
Is it me, or does she look like Natalie Portman with purple skin? Loving it! Ahmad translates over very well. Might have to try him on a monster next. Watch out.
@Linwelly LOL! It's one of CakeOne's V7 Attitude poses. I think they all have bad posture in those, but they do get the message across.
Leg tats look excellent! Nice job.
You can see the make up-it's just difficult. lol Very nice. Yes, the dark skin is a little more difficult to light; just remember, blue based lights will bleed out the highlights on the skin some. I'd like to see that monster!
Thanks! I'll keep plugging away on them and then really re-work ideas. Think I'll finalize the black, however, considering how choppy it is atm.
I like how that wraps around the leg. Very cool!
I have to admit, I'm totally spoiled by your tattoo options. When I'm loading other characters, I'm like, "Where are the tattoos?" They seem naked sometimes because their options are so sparse compared to yours.
Ok I got a question, before I can go public with Ahmad I will need some information about the meanings of his tatoos...
in his human form
The leg, his feet and most of his chest are the classical Henna motives,
the right arm is the Om, mani padme hum,
the back is a henna motive as well but this time from India, and I belive it got some meaning but don't know which
around his neck looks like hebrew writing, probably something from the talmud? Its not the menetekel, that is for sure
the scarring on his left arm I have seen as some ornament before as well but not the context
his hands with the glowing stuff is the usual alchemistical gibberish, no worries there
As for the djinn skin there is some writing on the side of his skin, not sure if that's just fantasy or got a meaning.
I'm not trying to be difficult here but honestly I've seen people running around with chinese style tatoos meaning " this is not chicken" so I really prefer to know about what I sprut around beforehand..
The side torso tattoo is angelic writing-though the exact phrase escapes me since I didn't write it down? It's more fantasy, so it wouldn't really have "real" meaning. The neckline...I have to look for, but if memory serves me right, you're correct. I'll let ya know. The scarring was based off of a protection circle, but in essence it isn't a 'real' glyph, either.
Here's an exerpt about the hamsa (hand) tatoo on his back: This hand is believed to be the hand of God by some communities. The original Hamsa symbol is believed to have originated from Greece and Rome. In as much as some believe that it is the eye of God, others believe that it is an evil eye that used to place a curse on a person how has too much pride.
Wow, Female!Djinn!Ahmad looks remarkably like my mental images of Dejah Thoris.
I have a Scifi!Djinn!Ahmad rendering right now, hopefully it will be done enough to share before I have to leave for Sunday brunch.
Magnificent character, Darwin, thank you again for all your hard work!
Wow! That definitely looks fantastic on her.
Ok, couldn't wait any longer, just downsized it a bit to get rid of some of the fireflies.
Does this mean I can post my pics of Achmad on DA now?
Love the look of that leg tattoo. It looks very 3dimensional on his skin.
I now have to go see if I have the UV swap because that djinn skin looks really good on her. I am in the middle of something right now but am hoping to render Ahmad at some point today.
Take as much time as you need to keep from burning out, burnout isn't worth it.
@Odaa - Ooh, a SciFi Djinn! Very cool! That skin can take Ahmad lots of places!
However, I think he's mad at me at the moment. First, I turned him into a woman, and now a centaur with botched material settings. I was trying to make the coat darker by playing with the settings on the Centaur Shell (before pic is attached). It's way too glossy and plasticky though. I may need to give in and get IDG's new Iray settings for the Horse and Centaur. They look very good.
Oh, I checked and I don't have any monsters for Genesis 3, so I may have to port some in from Genesis or something.
thanks for the infos so far! I managed to crash my DS twice today while trying to fit some genesis stuff in the Djinn. so still working on that scene.
nice works so far, that centaur is great!
Thank you, Llynara, I'm messing with a centaur Ahmad myself right now (human skin though). I'll play with the horse skin seeting and see what I can come up with. If you have the Hides and Breeds addon, you can try plugging the fleabitten gray skin into the main coat surface as a bump map and glossiness map-it might help. You could also try using the leopard appaloosa skin and purpling it up in the diffuse and topcoat areas to match the Djinn's skin. Like his expression and pose in your pic though, and the lighting's very nice.
@Llynara, after messing around a bit, I'm not seeing an easy or even moderately easy work around. Using the convert scalp option in the UHT2 hair shaders helps some, but not enough. If the new presets in the store fix this, they're worth every penny.
I tried too, both on the centaur shell and the male centaur and nothing changed it. I think I'm going to spring for the IDG shaders. Playing shopping cart jenga, then will render and post
The IDG shaders make it much, MUCH better. Now the horse hide actually looks like a horse hide. These are the materials that should have been in the main package. Not sure why they weren't with the others. There's an area that looks slightly different near the waist, but it could be that I forgot to reset something when I was messing with all the various settings. There are a lot of places to do that. I'll start one from scratch next time around and give him some clothes too.
Great job! As for the part you are worried about, I think that may be part of the human geoshell thingie rather than the horse body.
Wrestling with another Ahmad in Space pic, this time with a female of his own kind, called...Lashkara ("Twinkle" in either Hindi or Punjabi, not sure which).