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Jaderail - 20 October 2012 08:10 AM

Just dial those down some for less um.. pokie ness.

Thank you so much, Jaderail!  That did the trick

I think I prefer the second hairstyle (Pyrit) more

Will work on tweaking the pose next

Tip: You spin a Bball on the end off your finger not the knuckle.

Jaderail - 20 October 2012 09:50 AM

Tip: You spin a Bball on the end off your finger not the knuckle.

Thank you so much, Jaderail

Adjusted the pose.    Any suggestions how I can add a motion blur to the basketball whether in Daz or in post?

The pose looks much better. I’m not versed very well in DS (I’m still learning alot) so I’m not sure about the motion blur. I know there is DOF but that isn’t what your looking for.

Try this, for some blur. Render your image with the ball in three or four rotated views. In postwork use layers to Blend them together at different strengths then merge all the layers. Select Just the ball when done and add a BLUR filter to just the selected (the ball) area.

Thank you so much Frank and Jaderail

Thanks for the tip, JR; will give it a go.

And while I don’t need the DOF effect for this, how do I do that, F? Would that be a blur filter on the parts of a scene I wanted out of focus?

For a full break down on DOF and lots of good tips read this thread.
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/5084/

Sweet

Thanks, Jaderail

DOF is a absolutely wonderful tool once you learn how to use it. I use it in almost all my renders now.

Frank is so right, even just a light touch of DOF in a render can add so much to it.

I’m pretty sure I will too, Frank and Jad   I love DOF and one of the things that gets up my nose about the camerawork in this country is the absolute lack of DOF and flat lighting

The shoes that came with the basketball uniform looked too cartoony so I bit the bullet and invested in a pair that was more realistic.

I used Jad’s tip with the motion blur filter of PS setting the transparency of the different ball angles at 50%

Thoughts?

Looks good but I would keep the Seams all spinning in one direction at one angle. So it spins in just the up down axis not top to bottom. It would look better that way to me. Think Spinning like a top. And a bit less Blur.

P.S. I Like the shoes.

Thanks Jad, will do

I was hoping to find something that looked more like basketball shoes but nada . Luckily there were Chuck Taylor lookalikes

Here’s the latest tweak; trying to strike a balance between slowing down the motion blur just enough and not overdoing the number of visible seams