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Well it seems like i posted things ok so i'll tempt fate by posting one more tonight. (am i just missing the preview post button or is there none?)
Looks great, I think the only way you get a preview button now is when you start a new topic.
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Thats actually HDRI set. I was just seeing what I can do with it. Im slapping nvidia 4G GTX 470 next week to replace the AMD 2G fire pro in the beast.. is it really still "the beast" since the new laptop runs a bit faster..
It still amounts to a photo backdrop at the end of the day and the Daz figures stand out like a sore thumb against them. Even in Hollywood, the best CGI + real is done with CGI creatures with real humans in a CGI environment. Do an entire Daz scene with an environment and it should look a lot better as the elements blend.
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...I thought this one came out pretty well...
The backdrop is a photo of Zagreb. Everything else is a mesh.
What`s that thread here all about? Realistic renders? If you have time, check out my gallery, I do all my renders in 3DeLight and most of the time with just two lights :)
HorseS*h*t I often blend photographic BG with CGI looks fine IMO http://fav.me/d68vimo *nudity* http://fav.me/d68viut perhaps in those cases worked better since the trees are in the BG only and with PS I was able to color match and all that..
So Kid, the lady in the coat and blonde hair with the shopping bag is a mesh too? Garbage can, bottle.. all that? Nice nice work!
...yes, everything, including the streetlights, parabolic mirror at the corner, the signpost by the car, the helicopter, the tree line where the street turns and the trees that can be seen reflected in the window of the shelter. The only photo element I used is the actual city panorama. I even added the graffiti stencil to the shelter texture map.
One of the big tricks (and failures) I often see is matching the light of the photo backdrop. Even the big studios with all their millions to throw at a film project can get it wrong. I have a lot of trouble watching previews for upcoming action films as I can often clearly see the CGI effects maily because the lighting used for them is always slightly off. I agree with Rogerbee, it is easier to suspend disbelief when an entire CGI setting is used with CGI characters (like Pixar does) than mixing RL and CGI together. One of the best examples of this is the CGI Youtube action short titled Ruin.
This scene was indeed an experiment to get as close as I could to seamlessly blending both mesh assets and photo elements together. It took me a long time to perfect, and work with two different render engines (first Reality/Lux then Iray).
I also did a an earlier 3DL version as well (sans the old lady shopper).
Well color me impressed. Nice work.
...thank you. Yes we can do it with our little programme, just takes a bit of effort (and a tonne of test renders).
Kyoto you french?
...I can read some (particularly that which relates to music) but don't ask me to speak it. I think I'd fare better attempting to speak Welsh or Klingon.
Though I do have a particular affinity for the French Romantic and Impressionistic, and Modernist eras in music.
Ethnically, a Mix of Polish, Russian, German, and Croatian.
That works because the CG characters are surrounded by CG elements.
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Again, the environment immediately surrounding them is CG. What I was talking about is a single CG element in a photo environment.
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The title includes '...NOT!'. I think the raison d'etre was that anything goes. I believe the original OP before Jamminwolfie started it as an antidote to all the threads where all the renders were trying to be realistic.
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I had assumed is was because of all the Reality render threads when that plugin came out.
BTW, there is some really nice work by everybody. Work hours have been nuts, so I don't have time to comment on all the posts, but I do try and look at what is done!
For what it is worth, my take on the uncanny valley is that it is almost easier to get something anachronistic or somewhat out of place looking more believable than it is to get something common, such as a human. Especially the stock DAZ figures because of the supermodel proportions.
It's called "FS Mystery Woods Backgrounds" by FrozenStar. I think it came from Renderosity, but I have not been able to track it down. The license does not allow me to distribute it, but Google is your friend. It was a freebie.
The Dinos all look great, but, there is still something ever so slightly off about the chopper. I guess I have more of an eye for picking this out than most might. The trick is to make the lighting on the model match the lighting in the background. Realistic shaders do help too and Iray renders of objects and vehicles do look really good.
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Thanks! Your so right. Google is my friend!
No problem - they were a great freebie - the night time one I like a lot too.
Lighting is what I find challenging. I just wanted to comment on the helicopter image, it looks great. How did you do the dust ? I was wanting to make some mist somehow, this might be something I could try if you have a method.
I'm experimenting with HDR lights and I came up with this. Rendered with Iray, took about 30 minutes,
Thanks for the compliment!
I use Carrara, so the dust is actually a volumetric cloud colored brown. I don't know what Studio or Poser can do for volumetrics...
Rogerbee, could the thing that seems off about the chopper image be the scale? I used a bit of forced perspective to frame the chopper and the image together the way I wanted. It was an editorial "cartoon" that ran in one of our local papers poking fun at the tin-foil-hat-UN-haters in the area upset about county level zoning.
That looks very nice. Especially considering the render time.
Ahh Carrara - I've used it a bit in the past, I need another life time !
Thank you. I was really pleased with it, it's the best render I have done so far I think. The pose and camera angle just fell into place. This HDR lighting is like magic.
And yes, I am finding that HDR lighting seems to be the quicker way to do renders. I had 11 threads going to do it.
Dont worry Rog, I was just messing with you (Wink) mmorph killer stuff I am going to get into iray. Lux has a lot of nice qualities but render times is not one of them. The other advantage is iray draw to preiview results in real time...Im getting GTX970 put in the beast this week so I will have them in both machines. Should Reality 4.1 live up to the hype it will work with nvidia & amd...
Kyoto I was asking cause of the way you spelled programme and tonne...
...that's actually "proper" english (British).
Its also French
...but probably pronounced differently.