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    • stefanqS
      stefanq
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      Michalis, I admire your talent and dedication, but I keep ask myself why you still have that avatar and not one of your amazing "doodles" . ๐Ÿ˜„
      And by the way...if that is a doodle, we all should grow corn.
      Regards,
      Stefan

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      • Rich O BrienR
        Rich O Brien Moderator
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        Mick's avatar was done in Artisan. His favourite sculpting tool ๐Ÿ‘

        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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        • michaliszissiouM
          michaliszissiou
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          Thanks for the kind comments.
          I call them doodles because this is what they are.
          I don't have any particular concept in mind when sitting and sculpting.
          I may do some boolean operations first, then sculpt on it, then translate it to something else.
          As for the avatar, I like it. It's a bit funny. Made by artisan and rendered as a SU raw export.
          I like all the sculpting tools-apps I tested so far. All of them. It's a bit irrelevant to what I prefer to work with.

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          • michaliszissiouM
            michaliszissiou
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            Testing Oli's hdris. A blender/cycles render. 30 secs. 300 passes, 1600x1200 px (before cropping)
            I used a very wide lens for testing possible distortions. Great work from Oli!
            This produced quite out of scale effect, but it's a test.
            There's a trick to use jpgs as hdri lighting. I made a second image 32 bit, lot of contrast. This is is invisible to cycles camera and only lights the scene. Another node for the original jpg background.

            https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24090090/OliHDRtest.jpg

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            • pilouP
              pilou
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              Auguste Rodin ? โ˜€

              http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Rodin-cropped.png/220px-Rodin-cropped.png

              Frenchy Pilou
              Is beautiful that please without concept!
              My Little site :)

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              • michaliszissiouM
                michaliszissiou
                last edited by

                Is this a request?
                It's coming soon. ๐Ÿ˜†

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                • pilouP
                  pilou
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                  @unknownuser said:

                  Is this a request?

                  Not aespecially i had found some resemblance with your last work ๐Ÿ˜„

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                  My Little site :)

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                  • michaliszissiouM
                    michaliszissiou
                    last edited by

                    Rodin is among the artists I always have in mind when working on these quasi sculpts.
                    So, testing hdris as background.
                    My question. What about scale? Is there a rule or something?

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                    • olisheaO
                      olishea
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                      @michaliszissiou said:

                      Testing Oli's hdris. A blender/cycles render. 30 secs. 300 passes, 1600x1200 px (before cropping)
                      I used a very wide lens for testing possible distortions. Great work from Oli!
                      This produced quite out of scale effect, but it's a test.
                      There's a trick to use jpgs as hdri lighting. I made a second image 32 bit, lot of contrast. This is is invisible to cycles camera and only lights the scene. Another node for the original jpg background.

                      https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24090090/OliHDRtest.jpg

                      Hey that's my house! You been sculpting in my muddy garden?!

                      I will send you the hdr in a minute. SOOOO much better than jpeg but what you've done is convincing already. ๐Ÿ‘

                      I can't tell you how bizarre this feels. Someone from another part of the world can sculpt/render in my garden, it's a very strange feeling. ๐Ÿ˜† Almost an invasion!

                      Michalis, do you know a way of converting equirectangular to a perspective? So you can use it as a billboard background? No spherical wrapping.

                      oli

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                      • michaliszissiouM
                        michaliszissiou
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                        Of course it's your house, I knew it. ๐Ÿ˜†
                        Technically speaking, all these are great. But these tools give us the opportunity to start feeling closer to real art.
                        This is where modern art starts. Start feeling what scale means. It's not logic, it's a feel, mostly.
                        Bizarre indeed, Oli.

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                        • olisheaO
                          olishea
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                          Yeah my big boxer dogs made sure we haven't had a lawn for the past 10 years!! You can see their paw prints in the mud. ๐Ÿ˜†

                          Yes scale is a big consideration, normally when it looks right, it's right! I don't even think your render looks out of scale to be honest. Looks like it's been taken near where I placed my tripod. ๐Ÿ‘

                          oli

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                          • Rich O BrienR
                            Rich O Brien Moderator
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                            I thought the place was subject to flooding. Thought there was sandbags at the back of the house.

                            Very nice HDRIs you should sell these bad boys.

                            Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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                            • olisheaO
                              olishea
                              last edited by

                              ROFL no. We are gravelling the paths again and we just stored the gravel bags there! ๐Ÿ˜† We don't get floods, just standing water so we have to pebble then gravel the paths.

                              Rich, this one is just a sample. Wait til you see the real set ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

                              oli

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                              • olisheaO
                                olishea
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                                ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜

                                oli

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                                • olisheaO
                                  olishea
                                  last edited by

                                  Ok here is the 6000x3000 hdr.

                                  Original is 14,000x7,000 ๐Ÿ’š

                                  (only available for 5 downloads then it will be removed...now gone)

                                  oli

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                                  • pilouP
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    I suppose that you can use this HRDI and put your sculpture in another environnement?
                                    (some specious and heretic but surely fun ๐Ÿ˜„

                                    It's the Rodin's Museum at Paris! ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                    rodin.jpg

                                    Frenchy Pilou
                                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                    My Little site :)

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                                    • michaliszissiouM
                                      michaliszissiou
                                      last edited by

                                      @pilou, ๐Ÿ˜„
                                      We gonna need a bronze casting.
                                      It's a 500k faces mesh, it's rather a big file for posting. As a obj file of course which means that you have to build your own shaders etc.
                                      Now you, as well, you're facing the scale issue. How many details are needed now... how deeper to carve...
                                      Anyway, it's not a good sculpt.
                                      A digital sculptor should be able to work exactly into this environment.
                                      We should never forget that sculpture doesn't stop on the outline of a figure. It's rather an abstract composition of lights and shadows, shapes that start inside the mesh and have references to the background. Or the opposite.

                                      Regarding a known issue on architectural visualization.
                                      A building and some nature, trees around. If a good tree generator is in use, providing detailed trees... then the 3d building starts looking fake. Fine details suddenly needed, bevels on sharp edges, very precise texturing, etc etc. Design is the most important, of course, but I'm talking about technical issues, at least.

                                      @pilou, edit:
                                      http://www.3dsaloon.fr/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=2587
                                      Thank you so much! Too kind comments, from orgelf and Kargall as well. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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                                      • michaliszissiouM
                                        michaliszissiou
                                        last edited by

                                        A real hdri is... a real hdri. ๐Ÿ˜†
                                        Crisper light...

                                        https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24090090/OliHDRtest2.jpg

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                                        • pilouP
                                          pilou
                                          last edited by

                                          The new Blender is released! 2.64 ๐Ÿ˜ฎ (scroll and click)

                                          Absolutly astonished! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ
                                          This program is becoming the more poweful of its generation! ๐Ÿ˜Ž
                                          It's like a "black hole" :it catchs all is passing near it! โ˜€
                                          It will be the ultima program on the earth! ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                          From Blender site

                                          http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/thumb/d/d7/Blender2.64_cycles_fisheye.png/400px-Blender2.64_cycles_fisheye.png

                                          Frenchy Pilou
                                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                          My Little site :)

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                                          • majidM
                                            majid
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                                            good news, good news ๐Ÿ‘

                                            My inspiring A, B, Sketches book: https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-

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