Abandoned

[Rich O Brien]

You did a great job with those god rays. For me there direction seems a little off but I can't explain why. Just a feeling.

If you could add dust particles in post it would be really nice! Overall its great. Really gritty. Kinda Walking Dead vibes.

[tuna1957]

Rich, your feeling about the rays being a little off coincides with mine. I think the angle of the rays needed to be a little more horizontal if that makes sense. The light source is through a set of double doors down a short hall to the left. Agree with your comments on “dust particles”, haven’t really figured that out yet

[Rich O Brien]

@unknownuser said:

haven’t really figured that out yet...

We are in the same boat. I'm watching this right now...

[tuna1957]

Found the same video Going to give it a go

[Bryan K]

The second image is the one.

Excellent!

[tuna1957]

Thanks Bryan. Posting up a new image. Got me some dust particles floating around . Slowly wrapping my head around Affinity Photo. Emphasis on the slowly

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[tuna1957]

Finding I can make myself crazy doing this “dust” thing. Another image, reworked the dust…. Need to click on the image to best see what’s happening

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[Rich O Brien]

I found that tutorial kind ropey but the tips for post-processing were helpful. I attemtpted my own using your render to see what rabbit hole I ended up going down...

[Rich O Brien]

If you feed DALL-E AI your render it generates this...

...which is fascinating.

[tuna1957]

Like yours a bit better Rich. Hard to decide how big to make the “dust dots” and just how much coverage. Reworked the light rays in my last two tries. Think I would have been better leaving them as is. I can see this sucking me deep down that rabbit hole.

[tuna1957]

I think I’m going to quit chasing the rabbit now. Added dust to the more dramatic image. Think I’ll stop now

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