Show Us Your Iray Renders. Part VII
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"Easy, Roach!"
Wow, that looks just like a stuffed animal I had when I was about three years old. So cute!
Die, Robot
The Penthouse
2020-02-12 19:40:31.463 Total Rendering Time: 22 minutes 3.54 seconds
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Awesome render! Good job too in the Henry Cavill resemblance.
Thank you! I was trying to hard to channel Henry Cavill's version and the game version of Geralt...they are quite different, but still do share some of the same similarities. But I wanted both people who watch the show and/or play the games (and quite possibly read the books) to be able to recognize and appreciate this version of Geralt.
This one was about 6 hours to render to 48% at its original resolution, which I shrunk down by 50% to fit in the forums here. Its still another work in progress since I need to mess around with the cutout opacity map image used to go from wet to dry skin. I made the transition area from 255 255 255 to 0 0 0 way too gradual & even. I played around with a combination of low/high glossy settings in conjunction with Top Coat settings and came to the conclusion that Fresnel just makes the skin way too damn dark or different compared to the other non-wet skin surfaces. I used G3F Irelia skin on the character, 2 different eye textures from Angela3D for the irises, and Daphne(for Olympia 8?) textures for the sclera. The main portion of the character is Siobhan for G3F&G8F dialed in at 50% along with 5 other characters dialed in or negatively dialed. I'm surprised it rendered as fast(relatively speaking for a cpu) as it did considering the additional geoshells on the hair, character, and swimsuit. I also have emissives on the irises, lips& nails(hard to see), teeth, hair, and swimsuit among other things.
Another thing I did(and it didn't appear to make much of a difference) was I enabled Bloom Filter, Radius set to 0.015, Threshhold set to 40,000, and Brightness Scale set to 0.35. I didn't like the blurry results using a higher radius, lower threshhold, and/or higher brightness.
Opinion time. Ignoring the transition area from wet to dry, my eyes tell me the overall difference of the wet skin vs. dry skin in this render is at least believable or somewhat realistic. Anyone else agree or disagree? One of the problems I've always had with using Fresnel on the Top Coat for wet skin is, as I mentioned before, it becomes too dark and/or metallic-oily looking. Maybe the wet part could use a little tiny bit of darkening, but then again, I don't want it to look like there's 0.5-1.0 cm of water just sticking to the skin like glycerin or mineral oil.
May 47
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The Watcher
2020-02-14 17:08:13.159 Total Rendering Time: 1 hours 44 minutes 38.13 seconds
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Although we can't see him, this image makes me think of Strider from The Fellowship of the Ring.
(I know, it could be a her, and not be LOTR related at all. And maybe the watcher is the barmaid, keeping an eye on the disreputable character whose smoke we can see at the edge of the image… Sure. Okay. But I still think it's Strider's smoke, and this is the Inn of the Prancing Pony. Before Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin arrive.)
Like the rest of my renders it just evolved from a look in my Runtime and adding things until it took form. You are probably right about LOTR but perhaps Gandalf instead of Strider.
"Lock and Load!"
Quick lighting experiment with Lelu who is rocking the short locks.
Combined the FM Roman Bath with a Y compressed JW Water Ocean, but kept the bump from the original water to get more detail. Then I replaced the fire with Fantasy Braziers, which emit light.
"Visitors" inspired by the singer "Aurora"
Wow the quality of the renders have gone through the roof lately great work everyone !
A bit of kitbashing !
Yes I agree a lot of great renders. including yours :)
Grumpy #Gallery
click for large size 2300 x 2300 its much better view:)
Sir Boaris!
Took a little tweaking of morphs and smoothing to get it just right, and obviously a helmet isn't going to work well unless I make it static (and I wanted to show boaris head anyway).
There's a lot to be said about plane BGs it does show up the boaris head better !
The grass is always a good choose and nice work with the fog to !
It's 2:30 AM and I'm not sure I'll still like this in the morning, but having fun experimenting. Going for a super edgy arty magazine look...
excllent work
Thank you! Lelu seems to be one of my lesser popular characters, at least when it comes to reaction in gallery posting, etc. She's not mainstream pretty, but I love her elegance and brow game and miles of cheekbones, haha. Her features are a challenge to light well, but that's true of a lot of famous women with more cut faces.
Love it! I've been wanting to pick this guy up for a while now.
Love this one Ivy, especially the character
Thank you Midnight_stories & FSMCDesigns
very cute :)