New blender sculpting is coming soon.

stefanq

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" .
And by the way...if that is a doodle, we all should grow corn.
Regards,
Stefan

Rich O Brien

Mick's avatar was done in Artisan. His favourite sculpting tool

michaliszissiou

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.

michaliszissiou

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.

pilou

Auguste Rodin ?

michaliszissiou

Is this a request?
It's coming soon.

pilou

@unknownuser said:

Is this a request?

Not aespecially i had found some resemblance with your last work

michaliszissiou

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?

olishea

@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.

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.

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. 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.

michaliszissiou

Of course it's your house, I knew it.
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.

olishea

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.

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.

Rich O Brien

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.

olishea

ROFL no. We are gravelling the paths again and we just stored the gravel bags there! 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

olishea

olishea

Ok here is the 6000x3000 hdr.

Original is 14,000x7,000

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

pilou

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

It's the Rodin's Museum at Paris!

michaliszissiou

@pilou,
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.

michaliszissiou

A real hdri is... a real hdri.
Crisper light...

pilou

The new Blender is released! 2.64 (scroll and click)

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

From Blender site

majid

good news, good news