EcVh0's Cinematic Render Resource Kit for Iray
modernvinylphile
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EcVh0's Cinematic Render Resource Kit for Iray has got my attention but I am not sure I completely understand the benefits of using this product over post process in a program like Photoshop? I any one can provide insight and or samples it would be greatly appreciated.
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Postwork is great-- I'm the owner of a lot of Topaz plugins myself-- but sometimes it's more fun and more inspiring to be able to mess around with effects in-Studio, when you can easily adjust camera angles and slight details BEFORE signing off on the all-night render.
Alternately, animators probably don't want to do a lot of postwork.
...or for people like myself who are just plain bad at postwork. for various reasons. For myself it is serious arthritis which makes it extremely difficult to maintain a steady enough hand to do any digital drawing or painting in a 2D progamme. About the only post I do is to add text, certain filter effects or adjust tonemapping.
I'm in the same boat kyoto kid, due to physical issues I'm not so great at post-work, especially anything detailed. So I try to do as much as possible in the render itself. I'm going to pick this up today and give it a whirl. I've done a fair amount of experimenting with the tone mapping and other render settings in Iray, but a one click solution is always worth trying out.
I'm willing to try anything that makes my job easier when it comes to postwork. That said, looking at the item it seems like all the presets seem to be the modern film style of desaturated/slightly washed out look. Hopefully should I buy this I can tweak that, as that's something in modern films that gets on my nerves, cos it's very unnatural looking and distracting.
...when I did photography I preferred using Kodachrome and Ektacrhome because of the nice colour saturation. Older films had that as well, something I miss too. I don't see that same quality in raw digital photos.
Most feature films you see at the cinema today are distributed on digital media and in some cases even downloaded via satellite which requires the "film" be converted to video format wshich to me always has a "cool" (in the term of temperature) look to it. Many cinematic productions are also originally shot in digital format to begin with, dispensing with film altogether. Colour balance and tone mapping adjustment in post process is required to get that "rich"warm look of the old days.
Yeah, me and my friend Jon have made three, soon to be four, indie films, all on video and filmlooked, and on the first he battled with the cameraman when he went to post, because the cameraman had the right software to do color correction and insisted on making all the footage match any footage that was cool and somewhat desaturated looking. Jon wanted the film to be brighter and more real looking, because we were making a horror film that he wanted to have a very "you-are-there" documentary vibe, and firmly believed natural color looked best for that. He finally got his way, but he fought the cameraman for a good couple months over it. The cameras we use now have a programming function to set auto color correction somehow, I use one of his cameras for my modelbuilding show on YT but haven't really messed with most of it's functions. My GF has played with them, but since it's not our camera we don't screw with things too much lest we mess up his settings.