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do commanders where underpants?
It depends on whether they're 'real men' or not ;)
Highland fight video
Kewl!!! ;)
Playing around with distance fog.
Lovely result!
+1 nice effect :)
*Like*
Yes! Bravo!!!
Thanks everyone!
This was inspired by a painting my sister has up on her wall. I see it every holiday but for some reason I really noticed it for the first time recently and wondered if I could create a similar effect in Carrara. Distance Fog is a scene setting that I always forget is in there but it has more uses than just making it look like you're underwater!
this was a surprise
tuned the camera to face away from the realistic sky 'moon'light , the procedural looks signifigantly different.
towards the moon
away from the moon
done a Chartreuse Micro Bus, all I need now are eleven long haired friends of Jesus..
Catching the bus!!
Awesome Sauce. Boss!
Thanks Dart, hard to find an Hdri that fit the scene.
Good realism in the rendering!
Phil, everything I know about Carrara is due to your training videos. THANKS
I'm going to try playing around with this idea. I think Bryce only exports lower res HDR, but still... I want to try it. It would be really neat if we had the ability to add a spherical backdrop. So to do this I instead insert a sphere, apply the higher-res spherical map (not hdr) to the sphere's glow channel and adjust, and set it to not cast or recieve shadows. That way the lower res hdr can still be used for lighting, while using the higher res for rendering. Then we'd just need the higher res image - something easily done in Carrara
Generate HDR images for Carrara using Bryce
And then, of course, I like to use actual geometry for the near ground surface and nearby obstacles.
Very kind of you to say so - but it is YOU that used it and applied it and created the image!
Driving Home
Nice shaders and render. Is that a shadow catcher on a spherical HDRI?
Spot on Dart, next project is getting to grips with interior lighting.
I cheat with mine. But then again... I also cheat for my outdoor scenes as well. It's so cool seeing these reality based renders. Carrara really does a fine job of them, deosn't it? Quite some time ago, I watched Cripeman's video about Global Illumination, which got me into giving it a try in the same manner... I was amazed! I've been faking it all along!
Wait 'till you get into interior lighting. Are you going for physical situuations, lit from the outside with HDRI, with, perhaps, a light or two on inside as well? Carrara's browser has some fun experiments for that, as are there some nice example projects in this thread, just a few pages back.
Here is my older method of quickly faking it - almost unbelieveably simple lighting enhanced with a volumetric cloud and some post effects
For this one I actually shot five exposures of an interior and merged them into an HDRI (8000 x 4000 spherical renders from Carrara)
The image is a straight render using only the HDRI for lighting, GI (Sun Light in render room) on and Full Indirect Lighting - just as a test
And this is my newer, easier, faster interior lighting method, which replaces the slower volumetric cloud with volumetric for via spot lights
While being a pretty silly image in itself, this one is a test of how I light my interiors to Only light the interior. The characters each already have their own highlights lighting rigs which have also recently changed to match the new faster setup.
It actually works quite well and is super easy to match the character rigs with what's going on in the scene. I do this sort of thing with exteriors too. When I make the exterior scene - I light the exterior scene, and that's it. In doing so I automatically (this is true for my interiors too) get lighting that casts the natural shadows from the characters onto the scene.
Like this one, yes, the environmental lighting is hitting the ship - but is much more subtle than the powerful highlight rig lighting that's making it Pop!
I'm sorry... I know we've seen these already....
I forgot to mention that, although these are from my gallery, they're all mostly just test renders - testing shaders, lighting and effects
Exception being the ship from the cave, which is an effected screen capture of a really cool animation ;)
Hadn't thought of using HDRI for interiors, there is a window to the outside so that is possible, will have to give it a try.
A quick tutorial on volumetric for spots would be nice (hint hint) looks very effective.
Yeah... back just a few pages in this thread, PhilW, FifthElement, magaremoto? some others were using (I thnik) HDRI for the light coming through the window. I guess that's a common flow for PBR (like Octane) users on scenes with daylight windows. I think some of the Interior scene examples in the browser are like that as well.
Much earlier in this thread I have a small write-up on how I use a gel in a spot to drive the fog setting of the light cone effect... hmmm... there. I just ran through the gist of it! LOL
I'm working (nearing completion) on some helpful articles on the ways I've been working in Carrara which I feel are a bit different than what might be considered 'usual', along with others. Stuff keep getting in my way! LOL
Although I've experimented with the Light Cone effect on and off over the years, it was this video, by GKDantas, that really inspired me to dig deeper. Toward the end he uses the volumetric spot light on the afternoon interior scene I was mentioning
Listening to music at home
feel free to amake it an entry in the music to my eyes contest.