Show Us Your Iray Renders. Part VII
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@tkdrobert, I feel like I'm looking at a movie still. Really nice.
@Wonderland, Tatum turned out really good. I'm glad you got the hair figured out, 'cause it really adds to the portrait
@XpiderMan, I think you nailed. "Gian" is perfect!
@Szark, That Bittern image looks like something I'd see on PBS! I'm impressed.
@FSMCDesigns, I took one look at your render, and went shopping. Of the images I've seen with the new buck, yours is the one that looks most like what I've seen myself, here in Oregon. (I shoot animals with a Canon, not a Winchester. If I'm lucky.)
Here's my latest Iray render, featuring the Lycan that was lurking in the background of the previous image, (Enemy Of My Enemy.)
Lycan
L'Adair thank you.
Like bones and the red eyes really stand out, perfect and threatening.
Dang that is creepy, good thing i am not about to go to bed, LOL.
Thanks. Even though I am an avid shooter, I don't hunt deer either. They have a LAMH preset coming for it soon, so I am looking forward to that and a new elk model (my fav of the deer family!)
If you have any points at HW, it's cheaper than getting it at Rendo, saved me $2.
Yes. I started buying animals at HW long before they started selling at Rendo. I picked up the dear, and Lisa's new crocus textures. I'm looking forward to the rest of the deer family, including the Elk, though I'm partial to doe and fawns, myself.
Guardian Mecha, mrk II
Warrior, rendered in Iray, with postwork in Photoshop. This was done as a writing exercise, creating the image first and then writing a story of exactly 1000 words about the scene.
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A friend of mine made an offhand remark about making a vaporwave Star Butterfly. She said that she was kidding, but I did it anyway. I busted out the idea in Daz Studio, and then did the cell work in Blender. Contrary to myth, using Notepad++ on a JPG and removing lines is not an effective way to make glitched pictures. Or maybe I just suck.
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I made the clothing and the hair; everything else was kitbashed, as Daz do.
Also, since I love putting a song to my work:
Amazing work! Love the background people and the style. I would position the swordhand closer to the blade or she will lose it when she strikes.
Modern fairies...
I think you're right about the sword. Thanks for the suggestion and feedback.
A Gentle Stream
2019-03-25 06:16:13.731 Total Rendering Time: 8 hours 51 minutes 53.43 seconds
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Simply beautiful @fishtales
Thank you.
I did this last night after getting the Tengu character. Nancy is used as well as Iray Storm.
My first Xia render.
Reminds me of the character in SYFY's Deadly Class
I didn't know the show or comic; but google showed me you are quite right. It's only missing the tatoos.
Continuing on my normal weird theme of juxtaposing supernatural creatures into everyday life, I wanted to better refine my custom version of the G8F Werwulf, largely by making the head more lupine.
It was all going so well until my brain fixed on a stupid concept for a test render...
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Nice image and concept, Matt_Castle, but she is going to make a mess trying to drink from that glass with her muzzle
Well, it does make it more challenging, but it's not quite as messy a process as for dogs, by virtue of being able to pick what they're drinking from up (to be fair, humans aren't too great at drinking from bowls on the floor either) and having a lot more facial control.
That is the kind of thing I'm finding really interesting to explore with this project though - looking at the logical conclusions of a society filled with supernatural creatures does lead to questions like public toilets for centaurs, where dragons go on holiday, and various social etiquettes about the difficulties that non-human body shapes may have.
Lots of questions, Matt: like using cars and public transport? Schools, churches, elevators, military logistics - could a centaur become a sailor? Does he see a doctor or a vet - or both? And how does a female centaur breast feed her baby centaur?
Maybe you can get some clues from watching the Netflix series 'Grimm'? Or just make it up as you go along and hope for the best...
First time posting a render here. I made a Cyborg LECS babe, please critique.
Nice work, I freakin love it! Did you do any postwork on it, or is it just a render? I like the lighting and love the details on the suit.. I am assuming the lines on her face are not artifacts, but part of the cyborg seams, correct.
Thanks, no postworkie just a straight render. Yeah the lines on her face are both morphs and mats.
I love the general composition and lighting, but the three points I'd make are:
1) Aside from it being somewhat gratuitous, the fit isn't actually very realistic unless she's vacuum sealed her clothes around her nipples.
2) Her right hand seems to be clipping through the rifle grip.
3) The image quality is really poor. At first I thought it might have been the forum's tendency to recompress things as WEBP, but even swapping to another browser and forcing it to load the original JPEG shows a lot of artifacts.
Well, a primary challenge for centaurs is that the supernatural society is still being hidden from the wider world. Creatures that can pass for human (or very close) in public can choose to live within normal society, but those that can't are mostly limited to enclaves.
In times gone by, centaurs were one of the most mobile species, almost nomadic in nature, back when a simple glamour would stop the magically-impotent from noticing that they were actually talking to a centaur rather than a man on a horse. However, within the setting's rules of magic, glamours only affect people who are immediately there - it's useless against cameras or recordings, so within the contemporary sci-fi theme I've picked, with smartphones, automatons and a few full-on Artificial Intelligences*, they struggle to travel at all; wanderlust is a common source of depression for modern centaurs.
*This being the main story hook, that an Artificial Intelligence inadvertently discovers a world that most humans cannot see, with both sides of the affair having to come to terms with each other.
Fortunately, when it comes to medical questions, doctors in the paranormal world frequently have the advantages of magic (even if the magic is much more limited than in many settings) or sheer longevity; one can become very experienced over a half millennium lifespan (even if one may need to forget a few outdated techniques along the way!).
Unfortunately, I don't currently have Netflix, but I'm generally quite happy with making it up as I go along!
Yeah, I see the clipping on the hand. How would I improve the image quality? Just render longer? I only rendered it for 15 mins.
How long it takes depends on your hardware - the total iteration count (with some considerations regarding the nature of the scene) is more important than the time when it comes to quality.
JPEG really isn't a great format for this type of thing, particularly in programs that don't give you full control of compression settings. It's best to render to something lossless like PNG and then convert to JPG later (using the highest quality settings you can afford) if you need a smaller file for uploading.
It also depends to some extent on what render settings you use. Personally, I've come to prefer denoising images as a post-processing stage rather than letting Daz handle it, as that way I can control the denoising by masking different areas.