Show Us Your Iray Renders. Part IV
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Part of a comic page I'm working on.
I'm clearly in need of Fit Control. Just need my budget to cooperate. Another month, I think. :/
Yes, I heard about that too. But I wasn't willing to go to the next step up which was double the price. Still I am pretty happy with the card. Installed in two weeks ago and it went in like a dream. Even with an upgrade of the power supply.
No issues so far and is light years faster than my previous entry card. And noticeably faster than the 750Ti I have in my other machine.
Wish I could figure out bloom, when I turn it on I get nothing but major blur... i've tried changing settings but just haven't gotten any good effect with it yet.
Took a bit of work to get shaders set up for fur.... its not as glossy as human hair so made my own.
used Alessandro's cubs and exported hair as fibermesh (yes it taxed my poor computer heavily but i managed). Predatron's dandelions and esha's grass all worked great in Iray too.
Iray still takes a LOT longer to wrk with for me and i end up with a lot of noise even after an all night render, but i'm loving it. I just have to learn it better.
Very nicely done...
I am no expert but I believe that to get bloom to appear, you have to use really strong lights. Almost to the point of blowing out the image in specific locations. The bloom will then manifest all around that blown out area.
If I do a scene with low light, say a night scene, I increase the ISO to 200 which I think has something to do with how the film reacts to light. Most importantly I lower the shutter speed which means it stays open longer letting more light into the camera.
Edit. Forgot to say Nice Render
End of Shift
Time to take the Skyship Avrora back to the Depot.
To get less blur the threshold must be very high, I used 15000 in my Held Them Off render.
Slowly trying to get to grips with iray, and I just figured out that 2D backdrops play quite nice in iray. Good to know for when I can't find a HDR that suits. This is rendered with a 2D backdrop and an HDR scene and a mesh light for lighting. Combined CPU/GPU
It rendered fast to about 30% then loads of iterations with no progress in convergence. Is this usual, that the convergence occurs in a non-linear fashion? Or did my render somehow get stuck?
Yeah, I've been very pleasantly surprised by 2d backdrops. So long as you take pains to have it look vaguely like the lighting and style of the foreground and make sure it's not getting glossy or whatever... bam.
I sometimes put the backdrop's map in the emission channel, to help the illusion, particularly if there are reflective elements in the foreground.
Not a new render, but consider:
http://willbear.deviantart.com/art/Song-to-the-Moon-534561088
Everything behind the sand/water is a flat sheet. It emits, particularly to get the moonlight on the water. Then there's a spot on the singer. The backdrop, just a flat sheet? Looks AMAZING.
So, yeah. I was worried so many of the backdrop scene thingies would just fall apart in Iray... and they totally don't.
V6 Iray test
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Too cute , I think bloom effect will be not really doing here something good , the style of this render is cool the way you made it
well done
Cool render, reminds me of 5th element some way .. I would go for bloom filter here it just ask for the atmosphere
great illustration well done
Title: "Baby Steps"
One of my biggest weaknesses as an artist - and one of my biggest sources of frustration - is finding a workflow I'm comfortable with, and mastering it. I keep switching from one program to the other and back again, and have yet to develop a technique that defines me. Another problem I have is trying to learn too much at once, and then cramming it all into one project. Other artists have told me the same, and I agree. If I'm going to grow and develop my skills, I need to eliminate those flaws. I don't ever want to find myself quitting this wonderful hobby again, over something I could've prevented if I wasn't so hell-bent on striving for perfection. I enjoy the creative process too much.
I cut my teeth on DAZ Studio. It's what I know best, and am most comfortable with. So, I'm going to use 4.8 as a clean slate, and maintain a nice, steady pace to avoid frustration.
First step: Create a sphere and learn how to work with surfaces.
This is every Iray shader preset that comes with DS 4.8.
Full image here.
Row 1: Iray Uber Base / Car Paint - Chameleon / Car Paint - Cranberry / Car Paint - Midnight Blue / Car Paint - Pearl White
Row 2: Car Paint - Red - Large Flakes / Car Paint - Red - Small Flakes / Car Paint - Sunburst / Diamond / Emissive
Row 3: Fabric - Silk - Blue / Fabric - Velvet - Red / Glass - Solid - Clear - Dispersive (rainbow) / Glass - Solid - Clear / Glass - Solid - Frosted - Clear
Row 4: Glass - Solid - Frosted - Light green / Glass - Solid - Light green - Dispersive (rainbow) / Glass - Solid - Lightly Frosted - Light Green / Glass - Solid - Lightly Frosted
Row 5: Glass - Thin - Clear / Jade / Leather / Metal - Aluminum - Brushed / Metal - Aluminum - Polished - Coated
Row 6: Metal - Aluminum - Polished / Metal - Aluminum - Satin - Coated / Metal - Aluminum - Satin / Metal - Cobalt / Metal - Copper
Row 7: Metal - Silver / Metal - Steel - Galvanized / Metal - Titanium / Plastic - Glossy / Plastic - Smooth
Row 8: Rubber - Matte / Rubber - Shiny / Water - Dispersive / Water - Thin / Water
Row 9: Wax
Nyghtfall, that's a nice reference.
Love it. I can picture this as a Fathead poster on a little girl's bedroom wall. Or the front of a greeting card... I think his fur turned out really nice.
As Cath mentioned, it is reminiscent of The Fifth Element. Or grunge it up a bit, make the image darker, and you've got Blade Runner. I find it intriguing and it holds my attention, checking out the various details.
I spent 1.5 hours in conference with another writer a couple nights ago, more than half of that with her "raining on my parade" after showing her the cover for my next book. (Actually, her exact words included a reference to "Cheerios.") Anyway, I reluctantly admitted she was right. As much as I loved what I did for the cover, it didn't have the "look" of a Thriller.
Back to the drawing board.
I tried doing something with a silhouette in the doorway of The Old Warehouse, but couldn't seem to get the effect I wanted, so yesterday I went yet another direction. A very simple scene with G2M wearing Urban Survivors HD minus the vest. I applied the leather Iray shader to the shoes with a darker base color. The ground is a plane primitive with the Asphalt Iray shader applied. Two spotlights: one behind him with strong light to produce the shadow; one to his right with low light, geometry set to disc, to simulate ambient light and soften the transition from the back to front. I also lightened the hoodie texture so it would reflect more light. There is a slightly darker arc on the ground, I assume the second spotlight is blocking the first one somewhat. It gets covered by the text so I didn't bother trying to fix it.
Test renders while tweaking were 2100 x 1200 pixels and rendering to 100% in less than 10 minutes. That's cpu only! I was pleasantly surprised. Once I had all the details figured out, I rendered the final image at 5000 x 3571, having added more at the top and bottom for blending purposes. Also rendered to 100%, it took less than an hour.
This really surprises me with such a dark image and very little lighting. But I'm not complaining!
So here's the final image, (with some extra black cropped out,) plus the original book cover and the new book cover. I love the original cover image, though. I'll just have to repurpose it for my blog. Waste not, want not. :cheese:
That dark one is a winner!
Thanks. :)
As Cath mentioned, it is reminiscent of The Fifth Element. Or grunge it up a bit, make the image darker, and you've got Blade Runner. I find it intriguing and it holds my attention, checking out the various details. Thank you, I am trying to place The Fifth Element, didn't it have Bruce and Mila in it and Johnys Happy Taxi Service.
An updated version using the Bloom Filter.
Filter Radius - 0.35
Filter Threshold - 20,000
Brightness Scale - 0.30
PS I agree, the dark one is awesome.
Candy Gram!
I don't recall the name of the Taxi Service, but it starred Bruce Willis and Mila Jovovich.
Thank you. Guess it just goes to show, less is more. At least for Thiller book covers. lol
An updated version using the Bloom Filter.
Filter Radius - 0.35
Filter Threshold - 20,000
Brightness Scale - 0.30
PS I agree, the dark one is awesome.
Cool pic
Johnny cab was Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Fifth Element was Zorg Taxi Service
The dark one is a winner ! very mysterious marching it so well, you know some people judge the book by it's cover lol
the old one was cool but hey the last is always the best !
It is alive !!! love it
Thank you, I am trying to place The Fifth Element, didn't it have Bruce and Mila in it and Johnys Happy Taxi Service.An updated version using the Bloom Filter.
Filter Radius - 0.35
Filter Threshold - 20,000
Brightness Scale - 0.30
PS I agree, the dark one is awesome.