More Non-photorealisitic Renders (NPR II)

tkdrobert

paulcafuk said:

That’s awesome!! Someday I’ll be that good!

Absolutley

paulcafuk

What did you use to do the colors? Now that I kinda have a handle of the black and white I wanna try to add some color. 

tkdrobert

paulcafuk said:

What did you use to do the colors? Now that I kinda have a handle of the black and white I wanna try to add some color. 

The colors are a combination of IRAY emissives in the sets and a Topaz Studio Filter.  If you want to get good at using IRAY, you have to get skilled at using both IRAY lighting.  You can do some cool stuff with IRAY lighting.  Took me awhile to learn what I know and I;m still learning.  Just learned something new today through experimentation. #Delight lighting is a whole different animal.

paulcafuk

Gotcha! Lighting seems to be the key to most everything! I’ve just been rendering in 3delight so far. I haven’t really dabbled in IRAY. Guess I need to get out of of my comfort zone and start learning this stuff! I appreciate all the tips and pointers!

tkdrobert

Blade Runner.  I tried a new Topaz filter on this one.  Let me know if you think it's too realistic for this thread.

vrba79

Hot new Photoshop recipe for you!

The before(top) is an ordinary, no shaders 3Delight render, with a single distant light source. The x rotation is set to -25. That's it.

The after(bottom) is that same pic, run through my latest recipe! Here's how you do it!

Make two duplicate layers of your image.

Select the top layer. Then go to Filters -> Artistic -> Poster Edges.

Fill the following numbers in the the fields: 0, 0, 6. Apply.

Go to Layer -> Layer Style -> Blending Options. Set the Blend Mode to Overlay. Apply.

Select the middle layer. Then go to Layer -> Layer Style -> Blending Options. Set the Blend Mode to Screen. Apply

Flatten your image. You're done!

 

 

Artini

Since the Collada exporter from Unity and Polygon Adventure Pack was updated, it was a time to give it a go.

I have rendered exported collada scene in Daz Studio iray and processed render in Topaz Studio.

Topaz Clean:

Topaz Simplify:

Topaz Studio only:

philebus

I've just seen that there is a 30% sale on ArtRage5 at the moment.

Artini

philebus said:

I've just seen that there is a 30% sale on ArtRage5 at the moment.

Thanks for the heads up. May be I will upgrade my old version.

 

vrba79

Blew the dust off of PWToon, because I haven't used it since I got the new computer, and decided to make a little something. One of my online friends uses the "Zombies, Run!" app. Its kind of an excercise buddy, that augments your daily run/jog with an interactive zombie apocalypse story. So this is kinda based off the stuff she's posted to me about it.

 

Headwax

vrba79 said:

Blew the dust off of PWToon, because I haven't used it since I got the new computer, and decided to make a little something. One of my online friends uses the "Zombies, Run!" app. Its kind of an excercise buddy, that augments your daily run/jog with an interactive zombie apocalypse story. So this is kinda based off the stuff she's posted to me about it.

 

Could be straight out of hi tech big screen animation

vrba79 said:

 

 

Headwax

Carrara Job, Topaz Impression and Filter Forge , plus Oloneo to brink out the details before those filters were applied

 

 

vrba79

head wax said:

vrba79 said:

Blew the dust off of PWToon, because I haven't used it since I got the new computer, and decided to make a little something. One of my online friends uses the "Zombies, Run!" app. Its kind of an excercise buddy, that augments your daily run/jog with an interactive zombie apocalypse story. So this is kinda based off the stuff she's posted to me about it.

 

Could be straight out of hi tech big screen animation

vrba79 said:

 

 

Thanks. PWToon plays well with G3 apparently!

philebus

I just spotted that Sketchy - Toon Edge and Art Style Shaders for Iray is now in the Fast Grab. Not a studio user myself but there look to be some nice effects for those who are.

vrba79

philebus said:

I just spotted that Sketchy - Toon Edge and Art Style Shaders for Iray is now in the Fast Grab. Not a studio user myself but there look to be some nice effects for those who are.

I couldn't resist it any longer at that price. Picked it up, and an Iray mesh lighting suite. I wasn't sure how a toon shader would work with such light sources, but the results speak for themselves.

Headwax

nice job on the skin vrba79

below: Carrara Job

combo of carrara's native render passes and topaz buz sim and topaz impression

 

 

 

Artini

Nice work, head wax.

 

kenmo

mmitchell_houston said:

I needed a quickie back cover illustration, so I combined two previous (but related) images to create this. I'm hoping the cropping of the under image will make for an interesting effect when printed on the page.

 

Wow...like it!!!!

kenmo

philebus said:

Howdie strangers... I'm finally doing stuff again.

I've tried out a couple of tricks for handling backgrounds/environments. I tend to assemble scenes in grouped objects so that I can switch elements off easily. The idea is that I can render the whole scene, then switch off the environment and render the figures as silhouettes which only takes a couple of seconds but makes a handy tool to quickly select the figures from the scene in Affinity Photo and place them on a new layer. The background layer can then be filtered (this time in Topaz Simplify) and turned black and white and saved out. Ditching the background, I quickly filter and then export the figures along as my tracing image for ArtRage.

So on to ArtRage - the figure only image is used as a tracing image and promoted to a painted layer, below which I import the black and white background, and then I have a layer below that for colouring. Set the background blend to either shadow or tint and then paint the image below, merge the two and attack roughly with a knife (don't have to be too fussy with that as I use a halftone effect for the final book cover which removes some smaller detail). Then I merge the figures down as well and start at them with the knife till I'm happy.

Awesome processing and post work....

kenmo

tkdrobert said:

A liitle Cyberpunk for your Saturday afternoon.

Fantastic results....

Headwax

Artini said:

Nice work, head wax.

 

thank you Artini - I was just looking at some of your vector style (?) renders on the carrara forum yesterday - very inspiring 

 

Worlds_Edge

I haven't played much with genesis 2, but when I decided to try out this little character, well... she just had to be tooned!

Here is the original render before photoshop and topaz filters and fixes

 

Artini

head wax said:

Artini said:

Nice work, head wax.

 

thank you Artini - I was just looking at some of your vector style (?) renders on the carrara forum yesterday - very inspiring 

 

Thanks a lot. I do not use Carrara, so much, because I am not so comfortable with its interface, yet.

Usually, I create a scene in Daz Studio, transfer it to Carrara, adjust it, as needed and render with vector style.

 

mindsong

head wax said:

vrba79 said:

Blew the dust off of PWToon, because I haven't used it since I got the new computer, and decided to make a little something. One of my online friends uses the "Zombies, Run!" app. Its kind of an excercise buddy, that augments your daily run/jog with an interactive zombie apocalypse story. So this is kinda based off the stuff she's posted to me about it.

Could be straight out of hi tech big screen animation

agreed - nice effect, that. Thanks for posting it.

--ms

vrba79

mindsong said:

head wax said:

vrba79 said:

Blew the dust off of PWToon, because I haven't used it since I got the new computer, and decided to make a little something. One of my online friends uses the "Zombies, Run!" app. Its kind of an excercise buddy, that augments your daily run/jog with an interactive zombie apocalypse story. So this is kinda based off the stuff she's posted to me about it.

Could be straight out of hi tech big screen animation

agreed - nice effect, that. Thanks for posting it.

--ms

Thanks! Its actually PWtoon lit with an UE2 with AO turned on.

mindsong

vrba79 said:

mindsong said:

head wax said:

vrba79 said:

Blew the dust off of PWToon, because I haven't used it since I got the new computer, and decided to make a little something. One of my online friends uses the "Zombies, Run!" app. Its kind of an excercise buddy, that augments your daily run/jog with an interactive zombie apocalypse story. So this is kinda based off the stuff she's posted to me about it.

Could be straight out of hi tech big screen animation

agreed - nice effect, that. Thanks for posting it.

--ms

Thanks! Its actually PWtoon lit with an UE2 with AO turned on.

It's a look I really like. Nice choices, and thanks for the detail.

cheers,

--ms

Northern Woodlander

Hey folks, how the Summer?

I made some good money and cash selling physical copies of my first comic book, Journey to Aaru. Its a story set in a grim future, where 2 Egyptian Techies guide a mysterous android to his "afterlife." Its a story of consequences, the pursuit of dreams, artifical intelligence, and most importantly, the human heart. The story is broken down to 13 chapters, mixed with Traditional, digital, and a now miminal use of Daz3d for environments and props. With the funding, feedback, and praises of the comic, I will continue on until the story is finish.

Here are 4 major characters, one more on the way!

 

tkdrobert

tkdrobert

ISS

vrba79

So, backstory on this character, is that she's from a comic I abandoned about five years ago.

The original version of the character was made with Genesis 1 morphs. This verison with Genesis 2. Yet I somehow managed to recreate her look from memory.

Like the "Runner" pic I posted earlier, this is done with PWtoon + a UE light. The background is stock photo that I did a faded blur effect on.