Glad you're here - Eric's Thumbs up pretty much says it all.
poster-Shaun Tennant
Glad you're here - Eric's Thumbs up pretty much says it all.
poster-Shaun Tennant
Justin,
Great catch, that is an amazing looking fish - what is it? All those freaky yellow tailspines - perfect for you!
Glad you are back - was starting to wonder where you were!
poster-Shaun Tennant
....hello darkness my old friend...
poster-Shaun Tennant
Lewis - thanks - I really enjoyed seeing some of the insane models he's made (and so many available to download and look at!) Some of the ships vaguely remind me of Rodney Matthews art..
poster-Shaun Tennant
Jeff, that really is awesome, and your clients are spoiled - they have you!
Thanks for the high pass tip - I'ma try that out just to see what I end up with... I think that the materials in this one all look amazing by the way - very convincing render.
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Alexander,
well, I think the head on the 2D body looks pretty wierd, but I think I wouldn't mind checking this program out - sounds kinda cool!
Thanks for the tip.
Shaun Tennant
Eric,
I actually thought the little girl in your avatar is ruth... I don't know caddyshack and didn't get your reference, so I thought you were really deranged..
as in, oops! - I just dropped my baby, Ruth, in the pool. I didn't know what to make of it.. glad that cleared up...!
Shaun Tennant
Tom,
I haven't used PSP, so I can't tell - and I don't expect this to be the answer, but in Corel Draw, you can't open a Tiff you have to "import" it.
That work?
poster-Shaun Tennant
Yessss! I helped someone!!! I'm not just here for stupid crap and punting!
poster-Shaun Tennant
What are your AA settings? I have a pretty bangin' machine, but still I have freezing troubles if my AA is set to 4x -sometimes even at 2X depending on the operation. I just put 'er down to 0 and I'm fine - not as nice, but if I'm outputting then I will set 'er back again.
Was that the issue?
poster-Shaun Tennant
Andy,
I saw this first thing this AM, but had to wait till now to comment. This blew me away, your style(s) just get better and better. This is amazing and I love it.
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Paul,
great description of HDRI! - very succinct. Have you come across any decent sources of HDRI's for rendering purposes. I have found many, but none that end up being useful. Also - to mention your render looks good for a first-time - I love the prism-effect in your background/floor - that is really cool (and holy!):)
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Tom,
that is the most rediculously awesome thing I have seen I think ever.. nicely done. Very Very cool. I might have to petition you to send me a full size image to print and hang.. well done my friend. Well done.
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Ross - better watch out because the last couple of months melamine has been showing up in the food supply. Being a pet owner, you likely took notice of the huge story about a month ago where tonnes of pet food had been recalled, and was killing off dogs (mostly, I understand) and cats. The reason was that the wheat gluten that was supplied from China had melamine in it. This is a little worrysome, as wheat gluten is in many products, and I wonder how long a form of your cups will end up in my food?
<I don't remember hearing that your dog(s?) had any health problems, and I would almost guess that you buy organic for them anyways?>
cheers
(oh and thanks for the response. For some reason, I wasn't thinking that you meant the inside of the glass closest - but yeah, that's caustics as I understand 'em. About the ground, I thought it actually looked quite good, the splotches on the right side looked like K artifacts to me though - but perhaps X was the "culprit" I had a quick question as to what a High Dynamic Range Probe is? I don't really understand how VUE (my renderer of choice) handles HDRI's - I just know it works, but I would generally insert an image for VUE to get the sense of lighting direction and brightness from - I wonder what a "probe" is?
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Ross - yeah bring it on. That looks great. A couple questions for you though - by caustics - do you perhaps mean the reflections, highlights, "radiosity ground burn" or luminosity of the materials? I'm just not too sure, I'm used to "caustics" being used as a term for the refraction of light from the material or perhaps the pushing or projecting those rays through a clear object - or perhaps a noticable distortion (such as you'd get with waves undersea) It does look like some ray collection on the middle cup in the back, and the one in the front inside a little too.
Do you remember how long it took to render this? - if you went longer - in your experience, would the ground clean up a bit? Overall quite a cool effect though - thanks for posting it - nice to have objects to work a bit sometimes..
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to the artist formerly known as Martin who now goes by the symbol Ϋ©
Man- that looks very clean, and I would agree with Chris - the backdrop is great.. I really liked your vehicle - very original and the detail level is plausible. Very nice. I hope to see many more renders with K from you, as it looks like you have this under control!
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That is really a great render. Your metal on the couch was the first thing I looked at. The flooring was the second - both are very convincing. Especially the floor in the kitchen/dining. The glass window is really good too. For the most part, the shadows are very convincing and the walls/brightness is very good. I don't love the outside, but it does work. Really cool especially for Indigo. I tried it a couple of times, but never spent any time really on it. It looked like I would have to do lots of learning to get results. I really like that on a multicore machine, you can set up 2 threads and basically use all or most of the HP of your computer and basically lock it up to other processes.
how long did this render take and what speed of machine are you running?
How do you feel this compares to your work with other programs? (for the record - I really like it)
Did you find the material stuff cumbersome, or was it an initial learning curve, and now you are pretty fast and comfy (Some of the materials are so convincing)
Well, I guess you figured out I'm impressed. Thanks for posting.
Shaun
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Jackson, thanks for your comments- too kind. I agree with the letters, but don't know what to do about them, Maybe a copper or platinum face on the letters? or - do you have any ideas?
I have since changed that horrible walkway to more of a rock/cement look and want to change the lettering before I set up for final images for the website. Any feedback on the letters appreciated though... I really don't know - I guess the other thing I could do is enhance just the letters in PS on a different layer so that they stand out more?
Cheers - I bet we will see each other in here often! Hopefully Fletch is gonna be around too (and not cheating on VUE with that Hussy KERKYTHEA.)
<EDIT - Paul - just saw your post and SNAP you are right - that could be really cool - and I need some interest on my grounds. I wonder how many millions Bruce would charge me to install it on my gallery compound (in make believe 3D space) - Bruce you there - how would you like an installation on my grounds?
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Naw, Naw. Fuzzy lighting is called "this render looked kinda plain - let's try a ps filter"
The filter in question is either the Virtual Photographer from Opticverve free and for PC
http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
or something like softlight from Xero - also free and also screwing macs over again sorry fellas
http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/
Thanks for the comment though - there is lots of room for improvement - I'll say that much, but I am pretty happy with the image too.
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Wow - okay, well I might as well post a render. Many days without posting an attachement, and now I go crazy - 2 within a couple minutes. The story on this one, well I am doing this on the side, it's for my website and that's about all I can tease you with until you see the post one day "New Website up"
Comments - sure - tell me about them, I just wanted to post on the VUE section of the forums. Coen is the man - I haven't even heard of some of these programs he's listed!
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