My Projects in 3D Digital Rendering

Rakuda

.Here's a recent  render I can't believe I forgot to post as it was one that I had a lot of fun doing.

 

 

Rakuda

Bought the King Wash set from Dekogon which can be bought here in the store. Bought it because it is

just such an amazing set with such attention to detail and lighting.

 

Rakuda

Customized a model of a Mazda Protege that I bought. Added a logo because, why not? I'm not reselling

it that way, but it looks so much better in the render with a logo.

 

I am having a heck of a time however getting the light texture settings to be convincing and right.

Rakuda

Setting up some apartment buildings. Initially set up  some textures from photo snaps, but decided to

actually build some windows to render as textures. Then I can use the textures for low-poly buildings and

the windows for the higher poly object versions.

 

 

Richard Haseltine

Don't delete the attachment after using the link to place the image inline, if you do there is nothing to display (you will see the cached image, though, unless you do a hard refresh).

Rakuda

@richardhaseltine Yeah, I think I did delete an attachment by accident. Which post was it?

Update: I saw after doing a hard refresh to clear my cache.

 

Was playing here with SimTenero to randomize a character. He seemed like he belonged in this atmosphere

of the gameroom.

 

 

 

Rakuda

Using the Parkside Loading Bay as a background to play with mixing in some 3D scans.

 

Rakuda

Working on a few poses from a model as reference and I saw some of the poses in my mind with roller skates. So I went with it.

 

Arms folded poses are a challenge of course as they naturally involve a lot of flesh deformation in real life

that is more difficult in simple 3d.

 

Rakuda

Playing albeit roughly with the power of displace maps.

 

 

 

 

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Based on a costume of a model who posed for me yesterday. I created the wings and the ring for the

head. Funny thing is I used a fur texture for the hair wreath and decided to investigate how the fur

worked creating a raised texture.

I used Leather and Fur Iray Shaders

 

That got me looking into displace maps and eventually on to inspire

the previous post with the buildings which used displace maps.

One thing leads to another.

 

 

Rakuda

And lastly a character being worked on who I'm refining the features a bit. Let's call her Flora at this point.

 

Rakuda

Reminds me of the porch of a house I grew up in.

Used:

• SW Cottage Porch
• Child Betsy and Outfit for Genesis 8 Female
• Leon
• Daz House Cat with dForce Hair
• Cloudscape Creator - Bare Sky HDRIs for Iray

 

Rakuda

A rendering of Adam in the garden.

Eve wandering a different part of the garden

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Robot encountering a spider

Using:

• SED10 Cyborg
• Black Widow Spider
• 70s Modern House

 

Here's the environment used in the above image. Pretty cool house.

 

Rakuda

Been a while since I pulled off any 3Delight renders. Here's a go.

The Shadows and Highlights were adjusted a bit in Photoshop.

 

 

Rakuda

Playing around with the new Feel Tha Funk trying to get that 70's vibe.

Also used Expressive Dancer Poses for Genesis 8 Male

 

 

Rakuda

Playing with some birds that I saw on an iron framework at a coffee shop I went to this weekend. I have to cap off

the ends of the tubing as I forgot. Then I need to make some windinig plant vines also around the rusty

wire framework as well.

 

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Some heart shaped glasses made on a whim

 

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Just for grins and as it was cheap, grabbed the Coliseum model. Here are a few gladiators including Underbelly in the arena.

 

 

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Went all-in and bought the Brooke 8.1 and Beverly 8.1 sets

I tried rendering Beverly as a dancer but the skin seemed a bit too smooth and not gritty enough for that

purpose. So, instead the textures from Fatal Stranger worked a bit better. Good proportions for a belly 

dancer and textures that worked also by mixing the sets.

 

 

 

Rakuda

I revisited an old project and had another go this time with Epic Props: Godrays... I think it is at

least an improvement over the last go.

 

 

Rakuda

Here is another render from some costume mashups of a lady photographer. I really like one

I recently bought called "Vagabond" something or other... That had many useful clothing props here.

 

 

Rakuda

Today I downloaded Holm HD, who intrigued me as an expressive character with unique

and compelling features. Something that surprised me is that when I went to morph the character

expressions, the visemes or phonetic shapes were missing. I wonder which version of  Genesis

they disappeared? I have to look... Am I missing something?

https://www.daz3d.com/holm-hd-for-genesis-81-male

Did a few quick renders

 

 

Then I decided to go ahead and get a copy of ComicLife inspired by some of SereneNight's pages.

Never used it before but it seems pretty intuitive. So here is a test page. There was no real dialogue,

just an attempt to use the software. Hope to do more.

 

kenmo

Rakuda said:

@IceDragonArt Yeah, I don't now many of the vendors at all, but that does look like a good hairset. Hair is usually the one hurdle I run into in translating a concept into a realization. I find I often look for pulled back hairstyles without bangs. There are so many hairsets that both have bangs and also make it difficult to isolate the bangs to hide them. I should try the geometry editor to see if I can accomplish this to hide one part or another.

@Wanderer I am pretty much a nob too, but I try to maximize the strategic impact of what little I know. Know what I know and make that an area of expertise to launch from. There is so much I don't know, looking at it from the other angle could be daunting.

Long Hallway Model

 

Here is a miscellaneous hallway with arch model.

There is an image map template file,but it is not textured. The walls, floor and ceiling are in one plane each for easy mapping. But that said, you could easily select those surfaces with the geometry editor, make a surface of them and tile a higher resolution texture than a flat unified map. Options, options.

The texture is all up to whoever uses it. I know it is not much, but I am trying to offer up something everyday to keep me in practice. And sometimes, it is the small props that have impact if properly used.

^__^

3ds, obj, hxn, stl, dxf,dwg, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a great idea...love it.

kenmo

Rakuda said:

Just a street scene. A bit rough on some details, but I was playing with an arrangement.

 

Cool scene...

 

Rakuda

Hey thanks @kenmo.I had to go back and see which scene that was. I think it was the one with the lady

walking past the bench on the street.

 

 

You are taking me way back! :)

Also, that hallway was a cool little project to show it doesn't take much geometry to create a dramatic effect!

 

Rakuda

Another model that was pretty cheap today .. only $6.99 was dForce Empiric for Genesis 8 Males.

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-empiric-for-genesis-8-males

Something definitely worth a recommendation.

 

 

And for alternate textures: https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-the-empiric-covenant

 

Rakuda

Did an image for PC Inspiration thing this month using some wetlands plants.

https://www.daz3d.com/wetlands-low-res-plants-for-vol-2--flowering-plants

 

 

I used some scanned models above, but I think I will do a version using all Daz models since there is a

pretty good  pug dog available in the store.

Here is the version in which I replaced the scans with Daz versions. A little different, but I did still swipe

the scarf from the previous scanned dog.

 

 

Below: Is this the future of our wetlands?

 

 

 

Rakuda

Picked up Jeb as a character. Was looking for a rough gritty character like in the movie No Country for OId Men.

I realized that I am lacking in my male wardrobing, so I bought Casual Outfits for Genesis 8 Males.

 

 

Rakuda

Playing with

1. "dForce Peace & Love for Genesis 8 Female(s)"
2. "Alisha Top for Genesis 3 Female(s)"
3. "Skate Queen for Genesis 8 Female(s)"
4. "Headphones"