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Carrara Challenge #58 - It's a Kind of Magic - WIP thread.

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 7,728

    Diomede - love the magic in your cyclopstritch render

    UB - that gnarly tree looks fantastic

    Headwax - Edison render looks great

    mschack - colour of the butterfly really sings in that render

    Misty - great render, apprentice looks the part

  • mschackmschack Posts: 337

    Thanks for the comments UnifiedBrain and Bunyip02!

  • UnifiedBrainUnifiedBrain Posts: 3,588

    Diomede said:

     

    This is not a screengrab.  This is a Carrara render of objects made to look like the Carrara interface, the place where the magic happens.

    I finally read more carefully and realized what you are doing.  Very clever, looks like the real deal.

  • UnifiedBrainUnifiedBrain Posts: 3,588

    Bunyip, thank you for the nice comment.

    My original plan was to finally - finally - do something with Genesis 3 and Philemo's PBR plugin, but I got a rude awakening.  :(

    Maybe I can do it with David 3 and Stephanie 3 (just to go to the other extreme).  Carrara artists are nothing if not flexible.

     

     

     

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,924

    UnifiedBrain said:

    Headwax said:

     

    The Wizard Thomas Edison Invents The Electrical Light Bulb

     

     

     

    Awesome lighting and composition.  Great hands and face.  For some reason, I would like to see the raven on the right shoulder also be looking at the light.  But it is already fantastic without making any changes, and I'm sure that changes at this point are a major hassle.

    You have completely nailed your own theme. :)

    thanks very much! good idea on th er aven - I think I made him look at the viewere as a touch of the self reflexive!

    @Bunyip02, thank you!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,924

    mschack said:

    All modelled in Carrara, music by Mozart...

     

    classy image, flute looks spick and span, and I love the reference music - very clever !

     

     

     

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,924

    Mystiara said:

    wip title:  Apprentice practice Fireball spell

     

    stuff used
    native content - moon face and lava ball 
    Nursoda fig Anceata
    medieval brick pbr, hdr oblivian, roman tripod

    learned today, applying old poser hand poses, carrara asks left or right laugh

     

     

     

     

     

     

    beaut image, for a wip it looks almost finished!!! the moon is classic!

     

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,810

    mschack said:

    All modelled in Carrara, music by Mozart...

     

     

    great to see some modelling and a great render to boot .. awesome yes 

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,810

    Mystiara said:

    wip title:  Apprentice practice Fireball spell

     

    stuff used
    native content - moon face and lava ball 
    Nursoda fig Anceata
    medieval brick pbr, hdr oblivian, roman tripod

    learned today, applying old poser hand poses, carrara asks left or right laugh

     

     

    how cute is this... great work Mysty you're going great guns yes 

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,924
    edited June 2021

     

     

    Five Wizards and the Necromancer's Grimoire

     

    Most of the lighting in this is from caustics - light reflected from the central sphere.

    you get the blobby effect by reducing the caustic's filter size in the render room

     

     

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,810
    edited June 2021

    all these are getting LoRenzo in the dance mood...

    Magical Dance Moves using gel lighting and LoRenzo

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,924

    Stezza said:

    all these are getting LoRenzo in the dance mood...

    Magical Dance Moves using gel lighting and LoRenzo

    just in time for saturday night !

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 7,728

    Headwax - superb lighting, lovely render !!

    Stezza - great seeing Lorenzo busting a move with the best of them !!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,924

    Bunyip02 said:

    Headwax - superb lighting, lovely render !!

    Stezza - great seeing Lorenzo busting a move with the best of them !!

     

    thanks :)

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,924

     

    I've opened the Entry Thread here :) looking forward to seeing everyone's work in situ!

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/502466/carrara-challenge-58-it-s-a-kind-of-magic-entry-thread

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    magic dance.  yesmagical moves.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Headwax said:

    The Magic Duckling

    I don't use genesis much because the kid is just under half a gig.... the soft light on yonder background is from a cone effect on a spotlight

    I used the object pass to separate the kid from the background and add some dof

    copied that background part and changed the parameter to 'screen' to get a bring the kid to the front

    filled in the gap between his legs with pseudo clothes because it look weird

    reduced his cheeckbones, his eyelashes and the wierd shadow on his cheekbone in post

     

     

     

     

     

    prepost and scene attached

    HeadWax - Well done again, Andrew.  Love how you used post to adjust the shadows on the face especially the cheek. 

     

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Headwax said:

    Out of Body Experience second version. I animated the kid and hid everything else then rendered different frames of the animation and combined them in post

     

     

     

    - after UB's comments

    Headwax - Oh, wow, mesmerizing out of body effect.  Hat tip to UB for the suggestion.  Amazing execution

     

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Mystiara said:

    wip Rising from Fire's of a new Cosmos

    experimenting with the fire primitive settings and colors
    Modiphier - spherical

    made a geoshell of her face.

    hdri - Asteroids360 Blue Nebula.hdr
    plane pbr - urban decay shaders

    Misty - liquidy funkadelicious - clever use of 'geoshell'  or copy.  Inspirational

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Headwax said:

    a quick play ... would like to get some of the freebies in there from the freebie thread

     

    Headwax - so cute.  looks like a fun day.  the expression is priceless.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Stezza said:

    Have a Break

    This one I rendered out the image then hid the foreground models and rendered again to combine in post in PSE20

    I modelled all but Harpet the clown, the cow and terrain n tree.. also used Darts starry sky.

    Stezza - killer klowns from outer space - hilarious concept - would not want to tbe the little green person who encounters 

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Mystiara said:

    wip part 1, title: Delusions of Grandeur

    render is still baking smiley

    the castle part.  have yet to add the bippity-boppity

    predatron set.

    the lighting was a tough decision  went with2 shape rings,
    1 is set to cast shadows. fromm 300feet in the Z
    1 to surround the castle grounds.

    set all the bump amplitudes to 100%

    dunno why i went so many pixels, delusions of grandeur

    Misty - Predatrons sets are amazing but are often too resource intensive for me.  Id say your decisions delivered 

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    UnifiedBrain said:

    The Magic of Mother Nature

     

     

    Headwax said:

    Life … being able to feel the wind in your hair, to hold a child in your arms, to smell a flower, to walk on a beach, to be aware of the curve of the Earth, to run our fingernails over a rock older than the beginning of  time  –  all of these things, are Magical in one way or another.

     

    What is magic about an old pine tree?

    Glad you asked!

     

    Way up in the mountains on the high timberline
    Lives a twisted old tree called the Bristlecone Pine
    The wind there is bitter, it cuts like a knife
    And it keeps that tree holding on for dear life

    But hold on it does, standing its ground
    Standing as empires rise and fall down
    When Jesus was gathering lambs to his fold
    The tree was already a thousand years old

     

    My favorite version of the song:

     

    The Bristlecone Pine lives up to 5000 years, and is the world's oldest (nonclonal) tree.  The resin is so dense that even when the tree dies (or parts of it die) it pertifies and lasts for several hundred more years.  A Bristlecone only grows in a harsh environment, as it does not compete well with other kinds of plants.  There are only two know places where it grows, both in the US.

    Carrara processes include:

    Plant editor

    Terrain editor

    Surface replicator (rocks)

    Text editor

    Ivy generator (Fenric)

    Realistic sky

    Adjustments to the tree trunk were made in the modeling room.  Two distant lights were all that I used.  No HDRI or GI.  Ambient at 12%.

    GMIC filters include Basic Color adjustments, Highlight Bloom, and Rain & Snow.

    The antelope skull was an OBJ freebie.  The grassy clumps were RDNA if I remember correctly.

    No postwork.

    UnifiedBrain - I am always amazed at what you achieve without postwork.  Thanks for the GMIC filter tips.  I just have never gotten the control of those features within Carrara the way you have.  Wow.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Headwax said:

     

    The Wizard Thomas Edison Invents The Electrical Light Bulb

     

     

     

     

    some wizard robes from daz, retextured and draped with VWD, rendered the background separately, was going to have some witches in the air still may or maybe not

    prepost attached

     

    used tone mapping and colour pass to bring back the lost textures, also 'glare' parameter in scene instance in assembly room

     

     

    pre post

     

    Headwax - but Edison stole credit for it!  Ignore that, I am just being an a$s.  This is a beautiful interpretation of the magic theme.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    mschack said:

    All modelled in Carrara, music by Mozart...

     

    mschack - double kudos for the models and the shaders.  Excellent modeling.  Chosen surface materials help sell the realism of the instrument and butterfly.  

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Mystiara said:

    wip title:  Apprentice practice Fireball spell

     

    stuff used
    native content - moon face and lava ball 
    Nursoda fig Anceata
    medieval brick pbr, hdr oblivian, roman tripod

    learned today, applying old poser hand poses, carrara asks left or right laugh

     

    Misty - very convincing emission coming from the fireball the way it light the apprenctice face and moon face.  Good lighting tevhnique.  Pose, especilly head tilt, very natural

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Headwax said:

     

     

    Five Wizards and the Necromancer's Grimoire

     

    Most of the lighting in this is from caustics - light reflected from the central sphere.

    you get the blobby effect by reducing the caustic's filter size in the render room

     

    Andrew - now that is the darker theme to balance the other entries of cuteness.  Excellent use of caustics.  Render times of caustics often make me pause, but worth it.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083

    Stezza said:

    all these are getting LoRenzo in the dance mood...

    Magical Dance Moves using gel lighting and LoRenzo

    Setzza - i am always amazed at the little references you include - like the Michael Jackson one glove detail.  Lorenzo has the moves!

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,083
    edited June 2021

    Thank you Stezza, UnifiedBrain, Headwax, and Misty for the comments on mine.  They are each only in a partial state of completeness and I've had to break down my main desk top for a move to Little Rock, Arkansas.  Will be trying to finish from my laptop.  

    I went back to page 3.  Sorry if I missed anyone, but I believe I commented on most images in the first two pages.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Diomede said:

    Mystiara said:

    wip title:  Apprentice practice Fireball spell

     

    stuff used
    native content - moon face and lava ball 
    Nursoda fig Anceata
    medieval brick pbr, hdr oblivian, roman tripod

    learned today, applying old poser hand poses, carrara asks left or right laugh

     

    Misty - very convincing emission coming from the fireball the way it light the apprenctice face and moon face.  Good lighting tevhnique.  Pose, especilly head tilt, very natural

    Thanks.  was tryin to get the lava light to warm their facessmiley 

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