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* CLOSED* RRRR Chain render contest - round two

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,510
    edited December 1969

    Pull #4
    #1744 Fantasy Instruments
    #86 Castle Keep 2 - Summer Tales
    #2049 High-Tech Trekkers for Genesis

    Lucky Bastard Bonus
    #4133 Zoot Suit for M4

    Chain Item
    #1714 Fair Corsair Outfit Textures

    What a wacky mix ;-)

  • Scott LivingstonScott Livingston Posts: 4,331
    edited December 1969

    Pull #1

    550 Victoria 5 Starter Bundle
    297 Flat Top Hair
    164 The Desk Collection
    843 Dystopia City Blocks 001-010 (Poser)

    Hmm...so many possibilities...

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,510
    edited November 2013

    Tag: Totte#4

    Totte said:

    #1744 Fantasy Instruments
    #86 Castle Keep 2 - Summer Tales
    #2049 High-Tech Trekkers for Genesis

    Lucky Bastard Bonus
    #4133 Zoot Suit for M4

    Chain Item
    #1714 Fair Corsair Outfit Textures

    Also used:
    V6 + LY Mallory + Fair Corsair Outfit + Sporty Braid
    M4 + Jepes FGH + DAZ Music Pack
    Brogan + Streampunk Wilde + gnTears Hair
    FC Ground
    Hunchback + Royal Guardsmam
    Carnival Presents
    Merlin Infinite Garden (wood)
    BWC Skies
    Moonlight driven ground
    Darkest Eve Bundle + Nordic Hair +
    Genesis + Neo + Horror Movie Poses
    Genesis + Dean + DeliveryDriver + Horror Movie Poses
    Genesis + Katana + Mall Girl + Tatiana Hair + Horror Movie Poses
    FT-30+Carnivale

    Neutered Pitbull's impromptu spontaneous jazz is not for the fainthearted

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    LOL Totte. I have heard a few street bands that inspired that sort of audience response. :coolsmirk:

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,510
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    LOL Totte. I have heard a few street bands that inspired that sort of audience response. :coolsmirk:

    So have I ;-)

  • SasjeSasje Posts: 835
    edited December 1969

    Tag:Sasje#03

    RRRR + 1 extra
    - Air Bike
    - The Study
    - Mill dragon (chain)
    - Toon Auto 44
    - KB Lemonade

    For the rest:
    - HLA Book
    - Genesis 2x
    -The Study Expansion Pack
    - Old Man Rex for Genesis Character + clothes
    - Pajamas for Genesis

    Title: “The Storyteller ”

    RRRR_Nov_Story_Teller_verkl.jpg
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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,571
    edited December 1969

    Totte said:
    Tag: Totte#4
    Totte said:

    #1744 Fantasy Instruments
    #86 Castle Keep 2 - Summer Tales
    #2049 High-Tech Trekkers for Genesis

    Lucky Bastard Bonus
    #4133 Zoot Suit for M4

    Chain Item
    #1714 Fair Corsair Outfit Textures

    Also used:
    V6 + LY Mallory + Fair Corsair Outfit + Sporty Braid
    M4 + Jepes FGH + DAZ Music Pack
    Brogan + Streampunk Wilde + gnTears Hair
    FC Ground
    Hunchback + Royal Guardsmam
    Carnival Presents
    Merlin Infinite Garden (wood)
    BWC Skies
    Moonlight driven ground
    Darkest Eve Bundle + Nordic Hair +
    Genesis + Neo + Horror Movie Poses
    Genesis + Dean + DeliveryDriver + Horror Movie Poses
    Genesis + Katana + Mall Girl + Tatiana Hair + Horror Movie Poses
    FT-30+Carnivale

    Neutered Pitbull's impromptu spontaneous jazz is not for the fainthearted

    ..to quote a chapter title from The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach by the honoruable Professor Peter Schickele...

    Such a Horrid Clang!/quote]

    Love the Guardsman with the koto.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,571
    edited December 1969

    Sasje said:
    Tag:Sasje#03

    RRRR + 1 extra
    - Air Bike
    - The Study
    - Mill dragon (chain)
    - Toon Auto 44
    - KB Lemonade

    For the rest:
    - HLA Book
    - Genesis 2x
    -The Study Expansion Pack
    - Old Man Rex for Genesis Character + clothes
    - Pajamas for Genesis

    Title: “The Storyteller ”


    ...that is beautiful.

    Makes me want to call a mulligan on my first pull ad it has been a bear to figure out.

  • SasjeSasje Posts: 835
    edited December 1969

    Thank you Kyoto Kid

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,510
    edited December 1969

    Thanks Kyoto Kid. That is the poor hunchback hiding under the hat ;)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,571
    edited November 2013

    ...so can one call a mulligan? This pull has taken over a week to try and plot out develop a theme for and I still haven't got to setting up the figures yet (oy, and I need a lot to make it look good).

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • luci45luci45 Posts: 2,659
    edited December 1969

    Totte said:
    Luci45 said:
    Six Months Earlier...
    tag:luci45#3

    The story continues -

    Dwarf Prince Moxel is astounded by his father's latest bizarre plan for his future.

    "You will go to America and bring home a beautiful and tall American bride. I want grandchildren and I am tired of this family being so short."

    Outside, hapless aviator Randall Bixley, lost in a snowstorm, looks hungrily in upon the scene, with no inkling that he will soon be drawn into the old king's scheme.

    Biplane
    Celebrations for Baroque Grandeur
    Winter Kingdom Castle Ruins
    Genesis Supersuit (chained)

    Also used:
    GOM Dwarf for Genesis
    PH Fantasy Hair
    PH Classic Hair
    Diner Food 3 and 5
    Magnificence for Baroque Grandeur Dinner Service
    Axel for M5
    Daedalus Sky Mercenary for M3


    ROFL Luci - I see Borat all over in this! Thx goodness you left the mankind out ;)

    OMG, Borat???!!! I do see some similarity but, but.. I was really trying to forget I ever saw that movie. I guess that's what happens. I don't know what you mean about "left the mankind out" and am afraid to ask. (There will be no naked fight scene in this story because of the TOS.)

    I love your latest, the Neutered Pitbull jazz group. I can almost hear them. :roll:

  • luci45luci45 Posts: 2,659
    edited November 2013

    At The Shoe Store
    tag:luci45#4

    Tyrnea-raheal for Royal Elf
    Pumps and Stocking For V4A4G4
    Lionfish
    Fantasy Pack for Supersuit (chain)

    Grateful to the two strangers for rescuing her from her cruel and insulting boyfriend, the lovely Vicki Voorhees agrees to accompany them to her favorite shoestore and allow them to buy her a few pairs of shoes. Prince Moxel, tired of wearing servants clothes, sports a cool outfit and equally cool haircut, while, to Moxel's annoyance, the alleged Prince Randall wears an elf costume.

    Will Prince Moxel bring home a tall bride and elevate the height of future generations in his family line? Will Miss Voorhees be angry when she finds out Randall is a pennyless (and hapless) aviator? Is Prince Moxel even interested in pursuing his father's (bizarre) plan? These and other questions may or may not be answered in the next installment.

    Also used:
    Urban Sprawl
    Moonshines Diner
    Ibrahim
    Alpha Scalp (Rendo)
    Freak 5, M5
    Barbarian Boots
    Morphing Primatives
    Amoie textures for Edwardian Shoes
    Cuban and Diable Shoes
    Mini Bow Hair
    Keira texture
    220 Emotions for Genesis
    Mall Girl outfit and Textures
    Mellow for Effortless Cool
    Cool Hair
    4 Genesis Figures
    Rayne Morphs for Genesis 2 Female
    Olivia texture
    Afro Magic Hair (Rendo)
    Slacking for Casual Jeans oufit
    Pink Ink boots
    Bookshelves
    50s Waitress necklace
    GOM Dwarf
    Axel for M5
    M5 Beard

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 23,155
    edited December 1969

    Luci45 said:
    At The Shoe Store
    tag:luci45#4

    Tyrnea-raheal for Royal Elf
    Pumps and Stocking For V4A4G4
    Lionfish
    Fantasy Pack for Supersuit (chain)

    Grateful to the two strangers for rescuing her from her cruel and insulting boyfriend, the lovely Vicki Voorhees agrees to accompany them to her favorite shoestore and allow them to buy her a few pairs of shoes. Prince Moxel, tired of wearing servants clothes, sports a cool outfit and equally cool haircut, while, to Moxel's annoyance, the alleged Prince Randall wears an elf costume.

    Will Prince Moxel bring home a tall bride and elevate the height of future generations in his family line? Will Miss Voorhees be angry when she finds out Randall is a pennyless (and hapless) aviator? Is Prince Moxel even interested in pursuing his father's (bizarre) plan? These and other questions may or may not be answered in the next installment.

    Also used:
    Urban Sprawl
    Ibrahim
    Alpha Scalp (Rendo)
    Freak 5, M5
    Barbarian Boots
    Morphing Primatives
    Amoie textures for Edwardian Shoes
    Cuban and Diable Shoes
    Mini Bow Hair
    Keira texture
    220 Emotions for Genesis
    Mall Girl outfit and Textures
    Mellow for Effortless Cool
    Cool Hair
    4 Genesis Figures
    Rayne Morphs for Genesis 2 Female
    Olivia texture
    Afro Magic Hair (Rendo)
    Slacking for Casual Jeans oufit
    Pink Ink boots
    Bookshelves
    50s Waitress necklace
    GOM Dwarf
    Axel for M5
    M5 Beard



    WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!!
    You have really outdone yourself, and that is saying a lot. Please tell us how you did it. Fish and text on the shoe boxes, signs on the windows, fantastic lighting and depth of field usage.
  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,510
    edited November 2013

    Luci45 said:
    Totte said:

    ROFL Luci - I see Borat all over in this! Thx goodness you left the mankind out ;)

    OMG, Borat???!!! I do see some similarity but, but.. I was really trying to forget I ever saw that movie. I guess that's what happens. I don't know what you mean about "left the mankind out" and am afraid to ask. (There will be no naked fight scene in this story because of the TOS.)


    I love your latest, the Neutered Pitbull jazz group. I can almost hear them. :roll:

    Thanks, and I do hate autocorrect!!
    I did type Mankini, several times as it was autoscrewedup every time....

    And I agree with barbult, the Shoestore, magnificent work!!!!!

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,510
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...so can one call a mulligan? This pull has taken over a week to try and plot out develop a theme for and I still haven't got to setting up the figures yet (oy, and I need a lot to make it look good).

    Just do as we all do when we pull crap, put something up render, post close your eyes, cross your fingers and hope the next one is better.

    Done that so many times, that's why we all post really lousy ones from time to time.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,571
    edited November 2013

    ...gonna take a couple more days to get characters set up (needed for one of the items in the draw). Believe me this one has more than tested my kitbashing skills. almost two weeks now. while others are on their fourth submission.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,510
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...gonna take a couple more days to get characters set up (needed for one of the items in the draw). Believe me this one has more than tested my kit bashing skills. almost two weeks now. while others are on their fourth submission.

    That is the kind of thing that pays in the end. RRRR has taught me how to make fun renders and how to match impossible items.

  • zawarkalzawarkal Posts: 1,018
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...OK added the new items.

    Pull #1 (this will be interesting)

    162 Aslan Court 2
    435 Fantasy Wrap for Genesis
    480 Garden Collection
    828 Moonlit Moonshine's Diner
    962 Praetorian Autoturret

    Kyoto, some ideas used by others in the past included dioramas, pictures on the wall, newspaper articles and the like
    maybe you could do something like a magazine advertising page set with these items or a travel guide

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,571
    edited December 1969

    ...that wold require scrapping everything I've already done. Just that it feel like it has dragged on longer than it should have. Hope the next draw will be a little easier to develop a theme for.

  • luci45luci45 Posts: 2,659
    edited December 1969

    Thanks, barbult and Totte!

    Since you asked, barbult, I will try to describe my process on In The Shoe Store. Like most of my 3D renders, this one was an extreme learning experience to me and I did a lot of different things to it that I don't remember. But this is the gist of it:

    Starting with the second easiest, the shoe boxes and window. I made the the Lionfish Shoes logo in PS (Photoshop) incorporating a render of the Lionfish and saved it as a PNG so it had a transparent background. I couldn't place it right with the LIE (layered image editor) in DS, so, in PS again, I used the template for the box (McLean's Everyday Morphing Primitives) and put the logos and lables on another layer with a color background and saved it as a texture map for the boxes. Similarly with the windows, I opened the texture map for wall and windows of Moonshines Diner in PS and put logo and other verbiage where I wanted them, then copied the layer, made it grayscale, inverted it and filled in areas with black to make a transparency map for the windows (I had never tried this before.) I saved the layers as .jpgs and applied them to the surfaces in DS.

    The easiest part was actually the DOF, which I faked. I always use layers, so I blurred the background behind the figures a bit using a cutout of the figures to make a selection. (I got the cutout by rendering the figures with the background stuff turned off and saving it as a PNG.) The blurring in the front I did by just making a triangular selection and doing a little blur there. I always feather edges so it isn't noticeable.

    The lighting is a long story. I used a lot of layers with one or two lights on each and composited in PS, tweaking the transparency percentages, usually blending with "Screen", until I was happy with them. UE2 was used, as always, and various distant lights, and AoA's Advanced Ambient Light (out-of-the-box) on the three main figures. There is a bloom effect* on the 3 figures and another slight bloom effect on the whole thing from a Filter Forge filter. I also put a vignette around it to darken the corners a little.

    *The bloom effect is a very cool thing I learned about from bohemian3 when doing an RRRR last year. I use it a lot. Here is a link he gave me that explains it really well. http://www.oferz.com/Tutorials/BloomEffect/BloomEffect.html


    And here is my next pull:
    Songbird ReMix Pose Pack 2
    Neo Station
    Albatross
    Supersuit Fantasy Pack Genesis (Chain) - I'm really having fun this; never used it much before.

  • zawarkalzawarkal Posts: 1,018
    edited December 1969

    here is my pull 4

    cloth sofa sets
    project eyeris
    jump your way

    carry forward: not sure yet, could be creature creator hd morphs, mil horse, beach hair, or ingenious rock shaders - or - could be as many as all four
    let's see how the image goes

  • Ken OBanionKen OBanion Posts: 1,447
    edited December 1969

    I just realized that I forgot to post my latest draw. So....

    Draw #2:
    1586 - Rider Poses for DAZ Horse 2
    1062 - Lirio for V4
    1178 - Maria Hair

    And the carry-over from Round 1:
    Urban Wear for M4 Unimesh Fits

    Hmm, a V3 item (Maria Hair). Eh, I can make it fit!

    This may take a while; I'm heading to Iowa (yeah, I know!) to start a new assignment, so I'm liable to be kind of busy for a bit....

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I'm fighting My Pull's too. It just refuses to match the idea in my mind. The fact I'm fighting like 5 other projects, my health, and my RL all at the same time has something to do with it too, I think.

    Great stuff everybody. Keep it up.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 23,155
    edited November 2013

    Ken OBanion said:
    I just realized that I forgot to post my latest draw. So....

    Draw #2:
    1586 - Rider Poses for DAZ Horse 2
    1062 - Lirio for V4
    1178 - Maria Hair

    And the carry-over from Round 1:
    Urban Wear for M4 Unimesh Fits

    Hmm, a V3 item (Maria Hair). Eh, I can make it fit!

    This may take a while; I'm heading to Iowa (yeah, I know!) to start a new assignment, so I'm liable to be kind of busy for a bit....


    Hey! No disparaging remarks about Iowa, please. I grew up there, in Marion. My sister and brother still live in Iowa. Where are you headed?

    Edit: Look here http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/32454/ if you are headed to Des Moines. (FYI: Des Moines - both esses are silent)

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,571
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    I'm fighting My Pull's too. It just refuses to match the idea in my mind. The fact I'm fighting like 5 other projects, my health, and my RL all at the same time has something to do with it too, I think.

    Great stuff everybody. Keep it up.

    ...same here, ongoing aches & pains, the ongoing fruitless job hunt, the tight budgeting, the concern of what happens after the Yule holidays when my UC extension runs out...
  • barbultbarbult Posts: 23,155
    edited December 1969

    Tag: barbult #2
    Title: Cherry Tree Charity
    After being expelled from the bonsai club, Thomas decided to donate his cherry tree to the Parkside Station beautification committee. But will it fit? It's kind of large.

    School Supplies (ruler measuring tree trunk, pencil behind her ear, pencil case holding unplanted tulips)
    L75 Hillary (skin texture on both females)
    Vandalized Parkside Station
    LB extra item: Super Dress and Leggings
    Carry over: Cherry Trees

    Also used:
    Genesis
    Genesis 2 Female
    HDR Pro Sets Monterey
    Nature Plants ground and grass
    Potting Shed and Tools (Shovel, trowel and wheelbarrow)
    Thomas for M4 and Genesis
    Advanced Ambient Light
    LorRez Rat (because I just got it and wanted to use it)
    Lisa's Botanicals Tulips
    Mall Girl shorts, top and boots
    Chelsea Hair
    Ravens Rest bush
    Growing Up for Genesis
    Casual 1950 for Genesis Male socks
    Mad Doctor shoes
    Town and Country for Genesis shirt
    Genesis 2 Female Starter Essentials Toulouse Hair
    Teahouse Treasures bonsai dish

    RRRR_Vand_Parkside_Station_Cherry_Hillary_School_Supplies_Super_Dress_PS.jpg
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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,571
    edited December 1969

    ...nicely done and nice little story.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 23,155
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...nicely done and nice little story.

    Thanks, KK. These stories take on a life of their own, because you never know what you'll draw next time.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,571
    edited December 1969

    ...well mine may not tell a story as much though it felt like an epic saga to develop.

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