Post Your Renders like it's the year 2020!!!

Bunyip02

Great video Headwax !!!

Bunyip02

DesertDude - nice landscapes & thanks for explaining as you went along.

Magaremoto - very nice skin renders, will have to try doing a few realistic renders on top of my NPR renders.

Vyusur - lovely renders, I have wish-listed your Tanya character !!!!!

Vyusur

Hi, 3Dage. Your icecream is incredibly realistic! Yum.

What about ior, I always use common glass with ior 1. It works fine for me. The main problem for me is to achieve SSS effect with octane shaders. In theory, I know that octane skin material needs to be mixed with glossy and specular shaders. But in practice, I can't achieve a decent result with such a mix.

Vyusur

Magaremoto, your scene's lighting is very soft and nice. How did you achieve such soft shadows?

Vyusur

Bunyip, thank you for wish-listing my Tanya.

magaremoto

Vyusur, I assume you know how to tweak soft shadows of lights via the effect tab (that inherits shadows falloff mostly), so I would add more options, each one acts on raytraced shadows:synergy between sky light, AO/IL and ambient light, gamma correction, lighting quality, use of soft environment light, use of fog and haze, low emitting objects...

the challenge deals with avoiding dull or flat lit surfaces without having hard shadows; in carrara you can tweak that thanks to biased alghoritms, in path tracing sometimes may be a mess to tune it up

 

 

Vyusur

Magaremoto, I use “soft shadows” check box with every single light where available. But, as you said, sometimes all comes to mess and it's hard to repair anything. In the following example, I used something like what I saw on your screenshots. Some surfaces became washed out with light, some areas left too dark, and I couldn't do anything with that.

magaremoto

well it seems that you haven't been using an hdr map or a similar environment lighting source, you may try to put a distance or cloudy fog or even increase the sky light value; since we don't have a specific reference guide for carrara GI, what I would do is render the scene in octane and then make a lighting rig accordingly. By the way, did you see this: https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=66013

back to the point, feel free to email me for any issue related to lighting and texturing within carrara

Vyusur

Wow! I didn't know anything about the octane update! Thank you so much for the link. And thank you very much for the tips. I didn't use the sky light in the render above and didn't use GI as well.

Here are a couple of octane renders. At last, I could achieve translucency effect on ears in octane like iray does.

Headwax

magaremoto said:

thanks head wax, skin needs some adjustments here and there but it's hard for me to get such good results in any other application out of there (even in D/S I can't get rid of a gelatinous effect on nose and chin, unrealistic for the majority of lighting conditions)

about your digital painting, just curious: what is the main size and resolution you've been using most?

pleasure, the larger works are 76.55 by 54.2cm at 300 dpi , Ihave done works 180cm by 90 at 300 dpi  (from memory) 90 cm is the biggest my commercial printer can do (any length though) I'm preently rendering out a large image for another show (cant recall size) but carrara keeps through an error - so I have masked it into top and bottom with a plane and it fixes the error

 

Headwax

Bunyip02 said:

Great video Headwax !!!

thanks :)

 

 

Vyusur said:

Wow! I didn't know anything about the octane update! Thank you so much for the link. And thank you very much for the tips. I didn't use the sky light in the render above and didn't use GI as well.

Here are a couple of octane renders. At last, I could achieve translucency effect on ears in octane like iray does.

 

terrific image Vuysur - getting to that uncanny valley and surpassing it

 

Vyusur

Thank you Andrew, I really appreciate it.

Headwax

Vyusur said:

Thank you Andrew, I really appreciate it.

oh you are one of the best, never forget that 

there's artists and then there's Artists 

 

!

 

 

Vyusur

Mistara

The Napping Beauty 

 

ivan 7 napping in the medieval prison room

Mistara

Vyusur said:

Magaremoto, I use “soft shadows” check box with every single light where available. But, as you said, sometimes all comes to mess and it's hard to repair anything. In the following example, I used something like what I saw on your screenshots. Some surfaces became washed out with light, some areas left too dark, and I couldn't do anything with that.

 

oh the stories i bet that room could tell !

Mistara

3DAGE said:

Vyusur :)  try experimenting with "water" index of refraction, rather than Glass for the eyes/moisture.

also,. add a small amount of bump to the eye surface for close up portraits.

one of the main problems, especially with new users, coming from studio ,. is the expected loading of all the correct maps/values when you load a figure.

most of the time Carrara fails to correctly load all of the images, (bump spec.. etc,) or fails to convert the DS/poser material values to something which works better in Carrara. so it's good practice to check all the maps and values in the shaders after loading.

here's a couple of test renders of darius 6 (done a while ago) in octane and carrarra ,. IMO the Carrara is better. .. the octane shader probably needs more work :)

 

Oh,.. I also made some ice cream .. with sprinkles

 

ice cream avec sprinkles 

Mistara

magaremoto said:

amazing how with carrara you can get the great realism of the ice cream by 3dage and the surrealistic illustrations of head wax; never thought before to use carrara as a tool for artistic painting; head wax, your digital art reminds me something I've seen before, maybe in a music video? I can't remember but the anxiety that evoques is typically surrealistic imho

here another test on translucency and fresnel in sss channel; no postwork

 

lovely,

the middle outfit one of my all time favorites

Bunyip02

Vyusur said:

Bunyip, thank you for wish-listing my Tanya.

Bought !!!!!

Hmmm, now for some renders .....

Vyusur

Bunyip, thank you! Good luck with your renders.

magaremoto

thank you mistara, great and fully working outfit indeed

talking about uncanny valley:

magaremoto

another try on SSS translucency and fresnel, a bit of more contrast in post

magaremoto

w.i.p. test on skin reflectance,translucency and sss, 14 millions of facets, no postwork

 

Mistara

after the war ,  cant tell of it needs the aboo trick.>.<  horizon is rendering a line  was trying to lower horizon

magaremoto

final shot, added Indirect Lighting, enhanced contrast in post

Sci Fi Funk

Michaels Deli and Grocery. Part of my Blue Collar Worker District for a 50s Sci Fi Story.

 

Mistara

rendering sacrament.  converted pieces to props. dragged to carrara tray.  it didnt ask me if i wanted to save internal.

lot of black rendering on the floor.  forgot again where the uwrap setting is.  used a brick procedural fixed the black areas

added translucence to the window

 

uwrap tick, in the wrench room with uvs tab selected.  have to actually have the poly on the mesh selected

in the conservatory with a candlestick  and the Kernal with Ms Scarlet,  oh the scandal

Mistara

Sci Fi Funk on Youtube said:

Michaels Deli and Grocery. Part of my Blue Collar Worker District for a 50s Sci Fi Story.

 

 

cold beer !!  marking deli on my road map. 

 

UnifiedBrain

Magaremoto - your normal excellence.  I hope that i can use your lighting techniques someday.

Sci Fi funk - what a cool model!  And thanks for the live stream experiment.  I haven't watched yet, but I know I will learn a lot.

Misty - a couple of great renders!  Nicely done with that stained glass.

Mistara

TY   UB

 

tried it again with the original floor testure and un 0 uwrap magic

and a few more pieces of the set