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  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 1,990
    Masterstroke said:
    Wonderland said:
    Masterstroke said:

    Pure DS render. No postwork except black frame.

    EDIT: It would have looked more cool to add lens flare in photoshop, but no light is pointing directley into the camera, so it doesn't matter. Besides, I feel bad doing postwork . ;-)

    Very cool, but why do you feel bad using postwork? I rarely see a render that wouldn't be enhanced with postwork...

    Haha, yeah just me. I must be a purist, I think. I know postwork is common, but it feels like cheating, when I do it. I try to do most that I can in a render. I sometimes do 3d-postwork on clothes in zbrush, though. So everthing has to be perfect, before I hit the render button. Sometimes I just can't avoid postwork. E.G for color corrections and light effects like lens flare.

    Rendering is cheating too.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,762
    edited March 2017

    The real reason I don't do postwork is because it's like painting sidewalks with mud as far as my ability to get an image out of DAZ Studio that is worth the time for me to start learning how to do postwork too. Ain't there yet; and besides, I'm more interested in just what iRay renders looks good so I have an ideal what will look good in Unity without frame image postprocessing (which is possible with all sorts of filter effects I have such a image from Unity in my gallery).

    Like seeing the post work in this thread do and accasionally check out the galleries.

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  • EurocoinEurocoin Posts: 302
    Masterstroke said:
    Haha, yeah just me. I must be a purist, I think. I know postwork is common, but it feels like cheating, when I do it. I try to do most that I can in a render.

    I feel postwork as cheating too. Partially because I suck at it. Most of the reason though probably comes from photography, when I started to look more into photography and found out that some very stunning photos were actually more telling about person's photoshop skills than photography, I kinda took it almost as a personal insult.

    I have done postwork with both rendered art and my photography, so I'm not without a sin here. I think small touch ups are fine. With rendered art my tolerance is higher, because of its nature, but with photography it's pretty low.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,088

    And let me reiterate, if you have Photoshop? Play with Heal brush. Seriously.

    It takes almost no skill whatsoever, other than 'dab, does that look better? Undo. Try it again... ooo!'

    Any weird glitch or whatever in your image, bad crinkles or transitions between surfaces... dab the Heal Brush (or the droplet to blend)

    Doesn't take a good hand, it just takes a decent eye for 'that looks better'

     

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,088

    For example, this figure is two different figures. Second figure is mostly hidden, collides with the first. The intersection was obvious, a black line around where the second figure stopped. A few dabs of Heal Brush and bam, it looks great.

    Saved me weeks of making a geograft or something crazy, and if I really felt like it I could give him a dozen more arms.

     

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  • EurocoinEurocoin Posts: 302

    I don't have Photoshop, but I've used GIMP's version of the Healing Tool. For me using it falls into "small touch ups" category (if used sparingly) and it's one of the very few things/tools in image editing, I'm actually pretty proficient with (there was a time, when I had a lot of practice with it).

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,844

    I don't think of fixing a graphical error in an image as postwork.  When I think of postwork, at a minimal it is running an image thru a filter or two. Then you have the users that are masters at painting in details and shadows. here is an example of minimal postwork IMO, corrections in PS and then two PS filters. The righthand image is my IRAY image, the left, the postwork version

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  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,088

    Ah, ok. Yeah, I'm sixteen thumbs at hefty postwork

  • BobvanBobvan Posts: 2,653

    Sci fi Bruce Willis  http://fav.me/db3rgb2

  • nohiznguyennohiznguyen Posts: 263
    edited March 2017

    "Little Thief" laugh

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  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165

     A gull flying over Stinson Beach

  • jb16jb16 Posts: 52
    edited March 2017

    ANY POWERGIRL FANS HERE?

    Been a while since I've posted another render, lol. This is probably my first ever night render involving human figures. The hair didn't turn out as great, but everything else seems to have worked.

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  • BobvanBobvan Posts: 2,653

    Nother sci fi render *Nudity*  http://fav.me/db2w3f7

  • MusicplayerMusicplayer Posts: 515
    edited March 2017

    When, during the March Madness sale, I saw the Vintage Piano Room prop, I knew exactly what type of scene I was going to use it for. Now purchased, this was the result.

    I hope the story theme isn't too depressing. It's just a vignette, captured in a picture, of this woman's life.

    https://www.daz3d.com/vintage-piano-room

     

     

     

     

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  • EurocoinEurocoin Posts: 302

    Trying out "On My Own Sleepwear" I got yesterday.

  • nohiznguyennohiznguyen Posts: 263

    Awww, so cute! blush

    jonttex82 said:

    Trying out "On My Own Sleepwear" I got yesterday.

     

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165

    What Karate Girls eat

    Kraken! Better than sushi.

    Karate Girl promo, for a new animation coming, Rendered in iRAY

  • 3CPO3CPO Posts: 164
    Musicplayer said:

    When, during the March Madness sale, I saw the Vintage Piano Room prop, I knew exactly what type of scene I was going to use it for. Now purchased, this was the result.

    I hope the story theme isn't too depressing. It's just a vignette, captured in a picture, of this woman's life.

    https://www.daz3d.com/vintage-piano-room

     

     

     

     

    One of the best renders posted here in a long while. Congratulations!  Love the mood, composition, attention to detail, lighting...

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,137
    Musicplayer said:

    When, during the March Madness sale, I saw the Vintage Piano Room prop, I knew exactly what type of scene I was going to use it for. Now purchased, this was the result.

    I hope the story theme isn't too depressing. It's just a vignette, captured in a picture, of this woman's life.

    https://www.daz3d.com/vintage-piano-room

     

     

     

     

    Love this! The picture itself tells a story...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    edited March 2017
    Masterstroke said:
    Wonderland said:
    Masterstroke said:

    Pure DS render. No postwork except black frame.

    EDIT: It would have looked more cool to add lens flare in photoshop, but no light is pointing directley into the camera, so it doesn't matter. Besides, I feel bad doing postwork . ;-)

    Very cool, but why do you feel bad using postwork? I rarely see a render that wouldn't be enhanced with postwork...

    Haha, yeah just me. I must be a purist, I think. I know postwork is common, but it feels like cheating, when I do it. I try to do most that I can in a render. I sometimes do 3d-postwork on clothes in zbrush, though. So everthing has to be perfect, before I hit the render button. Sometimes I just can't avoid postwork. E.G for color corrections and light effects like lens flare.

    ...on the same bus here.

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,137
    jonttex82 said:
    Masterstroke said:
    Haha, yeah just me. I must be a purist, I think. I know postwork is common, but it feels like cheating, when I do it. I try to do most that I can in a render.

    I feel postwork as cheating too. Partially because I suck at it. Most of the reason though probably comes from photography, when I started to look more into photography and found out that some very stunning photos were actually more telling about person's photoshop skills than photography, I kinda took it almost as a personal insult.

    I have done postwork with both rendered art and my photography, so I'm not without a sin here. I think small touch ups are fine. With rendered art my tolerance is higher, because of its nature, but with photography it's pretty low.

    I often do major postwork, hours and hours, I love it. I like it better than rendering. To me creating a render is just step one, then I want to create art out of it. My final version often looks more like a painting or hand illustrated. It's fun to play with realism to see if you can fool people into thinking it's a photo but I'd rather fool people into thinking it's hand painted..

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    edited March 2017

    ...due to severe osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis, I  no longer have a steady enough hand do digital painting so I need to get as much accomplished in the render pass.

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  • MusicplayerMusicplayer Posts: 515

     

    3CPO said:

    One of the best renders posted here in a long while. Congratulations!  Love the mood, composition, attention to detail, lighting...

    Thank you so much 3CPO for your kind comments. I spent quite a time setting up what I felt was the right overall mood for this render. I'm so glad it turned out as I expected.

    smiley

  • MusicplayerMusicplayer Posts: 515
    Wonderland said:
    Musicplayer said:

     

    Love this! The picture itself tells a story...

    Thank you Wonderland for your kind comment. Very much appreciated.

    smiley

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,762

    The piano player is great! The mood is so good.

     

    And Ivy's stir fry dinner looks very nice too, makes me want to try eating with chop sticks again. laugh

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,088

    Yeah, it's wild, that kraken looks DELICIOUS.

     

    Man. Now I'm hungry.

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165

    Thanks Guys, 

    @Will yeah . it look pretty good to me too..lol

  • DustRiderDustRider Posts: 2,888
    edited March 2017

    Opps ... double post

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  • DustRiderDustRider Posts: 2,888
    edited March 2017
    Musicplayer said:

    When, during the March Madness sale, I saw the Vintage Piano Room prop, I knew exactly what type of scene I was going to use it for. Now purchased, this was the result.

    I hope the story theme isn't too depressing. It's just a vignette, captured in a picture, of this woman's life.

    https://www.daz3d.com/vintage-piano-room

    Outstanding! 

    Post edited by DustRider on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    Musicplayer said:

    When, during the March Madness sale, I saw the Vintage Piano Room prop, I knew exactly what type of scene I was going to use it for. Now purchased, this was the result.

    I hope the story theme isn't too depressing. It's just a vignette, captured in a picture, of this woman's life.

    https://www.daz3d.com/vintage-piano-room

     

     

     

     

    ...lovely.  Need to get that set myself as it would work well for the flashbacks to Leela's youth.

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