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You don't know what you've got till it's gone . . .
Is it really that long ago? Mind you, the Boeing 747 turned 50 yesterday, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
well I go away for two days and look what happens! an explosion of creativity.
Brilliant idea the narrative is Stezza - in this case words speak as much as pictures - what software are you using ?- the speech bubbles out of the frames add a lot of dynamics
nopt a chance Dart !
brilliant capture of the Australian landscape Bunyip02you are heading towarsd a destinction ;)
I think this concept with its dramatic lighting is shaping up superbly
Hey Silene, no excuses! I think with your interest in Neanderthals etc that the topic fits like a glove on you. Thanks for the reference ;)
Nice, I think the metaphor adds a different level, makes us think because it is alluding to something outside the image (The song.). It's like adding a quote from Shakespeare to the preface of a novel - it adds gravitas or comedy = depending on what you a re quoting of course!
Sorry missed this! No requirement to use any particular part of Carrara - I can see a lot of uses for hair though ;)
Hey Bruce, love lateral thinking - yes anything counts as fare as you can link it to the subject! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with :)
once you start boleeeaning you just can't stop
as well as the 3.5" floppy I thought I'd model a booleaned 5.25" floppy and then I modeled a cassette tape which was also booleaned along with the dreaded tape tangle!
Ah I am so slow, I dint get the extinction reference at first!! Gee you must be as old as me - is thereb an eight track and a tape to tape deck on the list? :)
nice woprk with the tangled tape
I think you may be a year or two older than me.... lol
The booleans operations leaves the mesh messy as shown but does do the job quite good.. The tangled tape was the easiest of the all the modeling.. select polygons with soft selection and move them about.
a year older? maybe ten :)
great use of booleans, very effective
here's a guy called Gregor Mendel
His experiments on plant hybridisation led him to be known as "The Founder of the science of genetics" - one of the threads that lead to the idea of Dextinction - this time via breeding and hybridisation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel
Mendel, didn't he have Pea Plants.
Yes, initially. He later diversified ... but that's a well kept secret the history books cover up. , ! ;)
very cool HW... nice history lesson on the monk.
some more modeling to finalise my image
a USB thumb drive a pencil and a CD
PC Story
History of the floppy disc
History of the cassette tape
History of the CD
History of the pencil
Y;all work fast!
Bunyip, Stezza, Bruce, and Headwax already have great images. Amazing.
No specifics from me yet, but I will continue to share some possible inspirations. Maybe somone else will be interested in following up on these. I went to the local natural history museum and took some pics. Here are a few pics of exhibits from my phone, so dont expect very high quality.
Couldn't resist taking a pic of one of the exhibits related to Australia.
my youngest daughter was woken the other night because of some bumps in the dark outside... when she peered through the window there was at least 50 roos resting sleeping in the front yard!
got no koalas though
I can lend you some possums, a few red bellies, a yellow belly tree snake and a voracious carpet python, - they live in my yard ..... not to mention the occaional land mullet and mangy fox and the visiting echidnas and goannas...
I don't go into the yard - too dangerous :)
Diomede, that's great, wonderful to do a field trip!
Here's a White Rhino - heavily retextured the Daz original, added a normal map and played with Photodonut Topaz Filter Forge and affinity Photo on the result
thanks Stezza, those pencils are very John Brack :)
no thanks.. we have enough possums fighting in the middle of the night !.. snakes keep the giant rats down and the water dragons take care of the wasps and cicadas.
love the rhino image.. top shelf stuff that..
this challenge has already cost me money! after getting one of my old tapes out for guidance I had to go onto eBay and buy a cassette to MP3 convertor... sheesh! I haven't listened to them in over 30 years.. don't even know if they will still work..
great stuff
Tries to rewind CD with pencil. . .
The setup and textures are extraordinary. I look at the largest size and just shake my head in wonder. Most of us have to reduce our renders to hide the imperfections. With yours, the bigger it gets the better it gets. Not that I will be able to follow you, but can you provide a bit of your workflow?
Extraordinary part II. :) Wonderful modeling and clever organization and posing. So much going on, yet it all fits together.
You've both set the bar for this Challenge very high indeed.
The extrinction of american justice system and medical care. The extinction of grunge and rocck n roll.
off you go!! two excitingly abstract concepts deserving to be made concrete by illustration of particular individual events that metaphorically encompass the whole ;)
@UnifiedBrain saideth:
thanks flattery will get you everywhere - here's a quick and dirty which means lots of typos - just ask which needs more explication
do base render - use camera around 110 not base 50
also do coverage diffuse shadows depth etc because you dont know what will come in handy
fix blemishs in ps with clone brush or whatever
use topaz simplify gently -
bring back details with eraser
paste depth pass and use screen parameter - adjust opcaity
use a tone map adjustment as found in affinity photo to add local contrast etc
use custom filter in Photodonut to give those sketchy lines
chnage the tones to brighten it up
change opacity to blend with underlying layers
Nik free filters use detail extractor and then sunlight to bring out more detail and add light
tone map again
bring in shadow pass - hit with graphic pen - in this case made it blue which was good
make this layer parameter darker colour
adjust opacity and erase where necessary
copy all layers and paste
isolate man with object pass as he is main thing - copy and paste him twice - bottom layer screen parameter - top image of man multiply parameter - erase parts of multiply paremeter to show screen parameter layer below - this gives light on his shoulder etc
adjust popacities of these two layers to suit
take image into affinity
use liquify tool in affinity to bend textures so they follow eg garment (I used vwd to drape this garment) - also to bend straight lines as we want a handrwan look
add a neutral grey layer in ps and make parameter overlay then burn in areas or lighten areas i=on this layer
use object pass to isolate those areas we want darker - in this case column on right and lattice fence on left - copy those areas paste and use multiply paremeter and adjust opacity
make watercolour paper in filter forge
copy and paste entire image in a layer above this = adjust parameter so that you can see watercolour paper
paste that imaghe again reduce opacity then erase those parts that you want to more paper textutre to show thorugh
adjust tones and saturation
graduated layer from blue to white on top of all this - make parameter multiply - ideas is to mimick japanese wood blocks where they used Prussian blue at very top to stop eye leaving composition
erase this blue where necessary
make another copy of the man from object pass - paste this - make a leyer below that - add a light stream coming down from sky behind him to make him 'pop' slightly
General idea is to give hand drawn look - one famopus illustrator said "get the hands and face right and they will forgive you the rest"
his hands are a bit abstracted so they need work I think
hope this makes sense :)
Hi UB here is original and a bw version tone mapped in affinity pro to tweak local contrast - the hand drawn looking bits - eg sky - are from photodonut then made more extreme with tone mapping
HW, much appreciated! I lack some of those tools, but it is helpful to see the effort that goes into making such a great render. No magic IRAY button, for sure.
The term that confused me was "tone map adjustment," and similar comments. I did some searches, and now it it clearer.
Is tone mapping in Affinity superior to PSE?
Maybe..
Wish there was a good time-saving texture/shader for DAZ Brain...