Carrara Challenge #58 - It's a Kind of Magic - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
It's a Kind of Magic - Entry Thread
Please enter up to 4 images in this thread. If you don't want to be included in the voting just say 'No".
You'll still get votes of course, but I won't count them! That way you don't have to worry about having to host the next challenge etc.
Entries close around Saturday 10th July or Sunday 11 th July Daz Utah Time.
Links: WIP thread here
A recap on the theme:
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Magic… we all have our own idea of what the concept of ‘Magic” means.
For some of us it’s as simple as the illusion of pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Or sawing a pretty woman in two.
For others it might be a reference to The Magi (think about the name) who visited Christ in Bethlehem.
For some Christians Magic means Paganism (for example Simon Magus). For some Pagans it represents the life blood of the planet.
For people like Tolkien (and many others) it could be both good and evil.
Whatever your feelings on the idea of Magic there’s no denying that ‘life’, regardless of how much of it we take for granted, is Magic.
Life … being able to feel the wind in your hair, to hold a child in your arms, to smell a flower, to walk on a beach, to be aware of the curve of the Earth, to run our fingernails over a rock older than the beginning of time – all of these things, are Magical in one way or another.
That said, for this Challenge the Concept is “Magic” - in any guise you like.
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Suggested Entry Template (After Diomede et al 2017)
Entry: #
Title:
Artist:
WIP Links:
Additional Notes: Any tips you'd like to share on how you made your image?
Included in voting? Yes is Default :)
501 views before asked in commons
Comments
Entry: #1
Title: Rising from Fire's of a new Cosmos
Artist:Misty
WIP Links
Additional Notes: i did a tutt on how i made the geoshell, in other forum. am i allowed to link?
Entry: #2
Title: Apprentice practice Fireball spell
Artist:Misty
WIP Links
Entry: # 3
Title: Magic Casters
Artist: Bunyip02
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6770541/#Comment_6770541
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6770571/#Comment_6770571
Credits: Michael 4 - https://www.daz3d.com/michael-4-base-male-3d-model
Evilson for M4 - https://www.daz3d.com/evilson-for-m4
Mature Mark Hair - https://www.daz3d.com/mature-mark-hair
Michael 4 Creature Creator Morphs - https://www.daz3d.com/michael-4-creature-creator-morphs
Wild Hearts Wildenlander for M4 - https://www.daz3d.com/wild-hearts-wildenlander-for-m4
Dreamskin M4 - ! Digital Dreams - Patricia Bellows (pbellows)
Jepes ElementZ - https://www.daz3d.com/jepe-s-elementz
DM's Arcum - https://www.daz3d.com/dm-s-arcum
Additional Notes:
Included in voting? Yes
Entry: # 4
Title: Magical Golden Dragon
Artist: Bunyip02
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6770981/#Comment_6770981
Credits: DAZ Dragon 3 - https://www.daz3d.com/daz-dragon-3
DAZ Dragon 3 Textures - https://www.daz3d.com/daz-dragon-3-textures
HFS Space System by DarioFish - Renderosity
Plasma Effects by designfera - Renderosity
Starry Skys - https://www.dartanbeck.com/gallery/downloads/starry-sky-for-carrara
Additional Notes:
Included in voting? Yes
Entry: # 5
Title: Fly like an Eagle
Artist: Bunyip02
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6771141/#Comment_6771141
Credits: Eagle 2.0 - https://www.daz3d.com/eagle-2-0
Noble Pines - https://www.daz3d.com/noble-pines
Additional Notes:
Included in voting? Yes
Entry: # 6
Title: Thorny Devil
Artist: Bunyip02
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6784311/#Comment_6784311
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6786941/#Comment_6786941
Credits: Thorny Devil - 3D-IDI - CGTrader
Songbird ReMix Australia Vol 3 by Ken _Gilliland - Renderosity
Australian Outback - AMLM - https://www.daz3d.com/australian-outback
Additional Notes:
Included in voting? Yes
Entry #7
Title: Best Things Happen When you Are Dancing
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
WIP Links - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6846216/#Comment_6846216
Credits: Inspired by the song from the classic movie
Additional Notes - original models rigged in Carrara and rendered using Carrara's Toon Pro! filter.
Included In Voting? Yes
Entry #8
Title: Crystal Ball Animation
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
WIP Links - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6772441/#Comment_6772441
Credits: Howie Farkes forest scene provided lots of elements for 360 render to put in crystal ball
Additional notes - click to play
Included in Voting? Yes
click
https://youtu.be/vvuuRO1LKDs
or
https://odysee.com/@diomede01:7/diocrystal01mp4:c
Entry #9
Title: Carrara is Magical
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
WIP Links - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6813856/#Comment_6813856
Credits: Carrara
Included in Voting? Yes
Entry #10
Title: Five Wizards and the Necromancer's Grimoire
Artist: headwax
WIP Links -
Credits: Carrara
Included in Voting? Yes
Comments: Most of the lighting is via caustics - the light is refllected by the central sphere. The characters are all K4. I put the boards textures on a bulb to get more texture on the faces.
Entry #11
Title: Galadriel Wields Nenya
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
WIP Links
- terrain editor modeling for landscape and stream - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6812181/#Comment_6812181
- adding birdbath, replicated plants, and hair used as grass - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6829396/#Comment_6829396
- adding figure, ring, lens flare and light glow - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6853781/#Comment_6853781
Credits: Genesis 2 Female, Choko Hair, Back to Work top, and Aave Neinan !skirt
Included in Voting? Yes
Entry: #12
Title: Bush Magic
Artist: Stezza
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6778581/#Comment_6778581
Included in voting? Yes
Entry: #13
Title: Have a Break
Artist: Stezza
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6797561/#Comment_6797561
Included in voting? Yes
Entry: #14
Title: Magical Dance Moves
Artist: Stezza
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6823886/#Comment_6823886
Included in voting? Yes
Entry: #15
Title: Magic in the Lock downed City
Artist: Stezza
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6839436/#Comment_6839436
Included in voting? Yes
Entry: #16
Title: The Magic of Mother Nature
Artist: UnifiedBrain
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6816851/#Comment_6816851
Additional Notes: The Bristlecone Pine lives up to 5000 years, and is the world's oldest (nonclonal) tree. The resin is so dense that even when the tree dies (or parts of it die) it pertifies and lasts for several hundred more years. A Bristlecone only grows in a harsh environment, as it does not compete well with other kinds of plants. There are only two know places where it grows, both in the US.
Carrara processes include Plant editor, Terrain editor, Surface replicator (rocks), Text editor, Ivy generator (Fenric), and Realistic sky.
Adjustments to the tree trunk were made in the modeling room. Two distant lights were all that I used. No HDRI or GI. Ambient at 12%.
GMIC filters include Basic Color adjustments, Highlight Bloom, and Rain & Snow.
The antelope skull was an OBJ freebie. The grassy clumps were RDNA if I remember correctly.
No postwork.
Entry: #17
Title: Carmen summons the Caduceus to save her beloved Harry
Artist: UnifiedBrain
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6843821/#Comment_6843821
Additional Notes: The Caduceus is the magical staff of Hermes, the messenger of Olympian Gods. It is an ancient symbol for healing, characterized by twin snakes and angel wings.
The render style is supposed to be a pulp magazine cover.
Carmen - Victoria 3, using the Firedancer outfit.
Harry - David 3
The other main props are the Giant Fantasy Snake, and Epic Wings for Genesis (no longer in the Daz store)
Carrara process include lens flare, aura, blur, and text. As usual, GMIC was used for color adjustments (and general noise).
No postwork.
Entry: #18
Title: "Elijah's Out of Body Experience"
Artist: headwax
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6791826/#Comment_6791826
Comments: Elijah is K4. I rendered him sitting in the boat, thenb after some kind feedback, hid the boat and ocean and animated him, rendering different images, then transferring them in post.
Great use was made of Affinity Photo's tone mapping. I used Philw's excellent ocean product. Birds and some clouds from Ron's products available here at DAZ.
Entry: #19
Title: "The Wizard Thomas Edison Invents The Electrical Light Bulb"
Artist: headwax
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6817881/#Comment_6817881
Comment: What's more magical than an electrical light bulb? The wizard robes from daz, retextured and draped with VWD,
I rendered the background separately for more control. Crows from daz shop. Used tone mapping and colour pass to bring back the lost textures, also 'glare' parameter in scene instance in assembly room.
There's a light effect on the candle - as you can see.
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#20
Goblin by shlomi laszlo.
Entry: #21
Title: Magic Flute
Artist: mschack
WIP: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6818931/#Comment_6818931
Comment: All modelled and Rendered in Carrara, no post work. I am very happy how the flute turned out, and a lens flare just set the whole thing off!
Entry: #22
Title: Sorc in Training
Artist: Dartanbeck
WIP Links: Begins here: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6872071/#Comment_6872071
Best viewed at higher resolution (click image)
Entry: #23
Title: "The Magic Duckling."
Artist: headwax
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6789451/#Comment_6789451
Comment: I don't use genesis much because the kid is just under half a gig.... the soft light on yonder background is from a cone effect on a spotlight
I used the object pass to separate the kid from the background and add some dof.
Copied that background part and changed the parameter to 'screen' to make the kid 'pop' against the background.
Reduced his cheekbones, his eyelashes and a wierd shadow on his cheekbone in post. Ficed one cuff after kind feedback in post as it was gaping.
Entry: #24
Title: "Catnip While The Wizard Is Napping"
Artist: DesertDude
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6871761/#Comment_6871761
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6874846/#Comment_6874846
Additional Notes: Everything was created natively in Carrara except for a few 2D distribution map stuff and a couple objects made a quick dip into Blender to manipluate their Normals and then returned safely to Carrara.
Entry: #25
Title: "She Blinded Me with Science"
Artist: Misty
WIP Links
Carrara Native Lens flare effect
pbr and hdri plugins
Hein Wizard
Star original figure
desert princess
Voting Begins!
Please vote for your 4 favourite works, each using the following format...
Entry #:
Artist:
Comment:
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NOTES: Voting ends Circa Saturday 24th July
A RECAP ON THE THEME
great works by all.. was hard to pick this time around.
my voting in no particular order except for numerical
Entry: #2
Title: Apprentice practice Fireball spell
Artist:Misty
Entry #11
Title: Galadriel Wields Nenya
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
Entry: #21
Title: Magic Flute
Artist: mschack
Entry: #24
Title: "Catnip While The Wizard Is Napping"
Artist: DesertDude
Entry: #10
Title: Five Wizards and the Necromancer's Grimoire
Artist: Headwax
Entry: #11
Title: Galadriel Wields Nenya
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
Entry: #12
Title: Bush Magic
Artist: Stezza
Entry: #25
Title: "She Blinded Me with Science"
Artist: Misty
Great entries, there are some really breathtaking ones.
Top work making picking of just 4 a hard job once again !!!
Entry #11
Title: Galadriel Wields Nenya
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
Entry: #17
Title: Carmen summons the Caduceus to save her beloved Harry
Artist: UnifiedBrain
Entry: #21
Title: Magic Flute
Artist: mschack
Entry: #24
Title: "Catnip While The Wizard Is Napping"
Artist: DesertDude