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Very strange, in a good way!
I like Varley's image that you are going for. If you can convert tree branches into vertex models as Dart suggested, you could possible position a newly converted branch or two on the non-branch side of the original tree.
I imagine that's an easy thing to do with such a powerful tool. We really have to be careful to not overdo it when converting - lots of leaves, high resolution details, high counts of generations, lots of details on each of those many generations, etc., can quickly starve your computer of the proper resources causing Carrara to just quit to avoid a cataclysm on your computer desk! :)
I don't really like how it turned out. I might try again, but no to this one.
Sorry Shlomi, I missed this earlier. If you need help in figuring out how to post images, please let me know.
Looking good!
Good God, the forum is slow today. Takes 20 seconds to load a page.
Anyway, here we are in 2020. New beginnings. Hopefully, now the 50th Challenge begins in earnest.
All of Daz3d seem sluggish!
Holy Crap, UB! It's Entry Thread time already?!!! Argh!
Hmmm....
As I mentioned on the entry thread, TBA likely means late January. Lots of time, unless you procrastinate. :)
agonizing over the 50 category
is there any point to carrara deformers?
i mean, we can take it to the wrench room, what would a deformer be good for?
Start of an idea for 50.
(nearly) Naked Vicky in a Cake with Frosting
Technique tip - using the terrain modeler for frosted cake. Painted a series of lighter circles in image software. Inner most circle is black. In new Carrara scene, inserted a terrain object and reduced the dimensions to 6 or 7 feet, and increased resolution to 512 by 512. Removed the default terrain generator. Imported my circle map. Set height very low (about 4 feet). Applied an erosion filer. Rain but reduced strength and smoothness less than 1%. Also used wind erosion, again reducing the strength and smoothness (2-3 percent). Result is a layered cake with the surface looking like frosting was spread over it. Details include hole in center and using primitive cylinder for cap. For the terrain shader, used a multichannel mixer. Used NATURAL : ELEVATION in the blender channel to separate the cake from the flat bottom. Can apply an alpha to eliminate flat bottom, or use a shader to make it the ground, table, or tray.
Just a WIP. Not happy with several elements. For example, I used a conforming drips product from the store for the frosting on G2F but it is too stringy for this use - especially on the face. May revisit or make my own.
Vicki with frosting
...after you chick-lick off what you've already put on?
Seriously though... very cool design and pulling it off in the techniques as listed... very cool Dio!!! Very Cool! Now clean that frosting off of her already!!!
Thanks, Dart. Tomato has a big tongue. Better to chick-lick with.
Another placeholder render. I am posting this to the entry thread, but if I decide to fix stuff I'm not satisfied with (see above list), then I will swap it out.
thanks Ub Bunyip et Ted :)
Diomede that's one sexy cake , love the drips, I think I like vanilla bests :)
Dart there's a wonderful sense of movement with that strong diagonal , probably needs your trademark clouds !
Classy Garden Shlomi !
Here's another from me more use of Pilemenon's cutout plug in.
I used it for the statues, the flowers and the grass.
I added the same flowers to the two trees on the right and left - the one on the left I also added the grass ( as leaves - second layer of leaves in the plant room - which I alwayus miss)
The ivy ferns are with fenrics ivy plugin. I didn't like how the brancjh texture looked so I selected the branch with the object pass and filled it with a new bark texture and changed the parameter to0 'overlay'
I modelled the gate and hinges - clever me :)
I rendered an image of grass in another car program and tiled that and used it for the texture of the ground , I also added hair as grass on the ground. Also grass to the walls to soften the artificial stone look.
The texture on the statues is a terrain texture - I used the texture from wiki then added a greenish verssion of that in the terrain shader as the grass layer to try and get a bit of patina - didnt work too well.
There werent enough flowers in the grass so I used my object pass to lecet the red flowers then copy and pasted them in the foreground - see before and after image.
I used the depth pass to add distance haze -
Random fcat - did you know you can model a trunk and then replicate trees on it to simulate branches ??
The post worked image is 4000 pixels wide if you clicken it.
image before post
Here's another showing the use of Caustics - my secret weapon - catagory 3 - I used the caustics to reflect light from the water onto the trees
In post work I changed the texture of the tree bark slightly, added more reflection in the water, used a coverage pass to add out lines to the trees,
used the caustics pass with a screen parameter for a bit of zap - also used the reflection pass the same way
It's another 4000 pixel image if you want to click you can see the butterflies
pencil variation using a coverage pass and tone mapping in Affinity Photo. A little bit of other filter that escapes the name of - been a while....
here's the un postworked image
and here is the caustics pass showing how caustics adds to the lighting
reflection pass
Here's a pictire of one of the mid ground trees - with the flower and grass I made with the cutout plugin - I used the flower and grass in the leaves set 2 part of th e plant modeller - looks kind of tropical
you ccoul use fenric's ivy as well I reckon, also use the tree render with alpha as a splat
flower with grass
whole tree
detail of above
Mr Finnie, anyone tell you you are a real artist
ha ha thanks Wendy, I've been talking myself up for years but can't find any ears :)
Happy Weekend to you - hope you are safe. Interesting times. My brother is at Bateman's Bay...
here's a quickie splat test with replicator on a terrain- three different splats- used two distant lights with soft shadows as splat shadowas are weird
good for distant hills perhaps but slow with the alpha maps
Marvelous work, HW!!!
Love it!!!
time running out?
+1, these are truly beautiful gardens and foliage. Wow. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks for the comments on mine, Andrew.
Misty - in response to prior inquiries, UnifiedBrain has said the deadline is "around the end of the month." Does not sound like soon.
I guess you can have your cake and lick it too. :) Wonderful image.
I have to admit, I like the white cake better. The chocolate is very well done, but somehow I associate a "girl popping out of a cake" scene with a white frosted cake.
Beautiful image and terrific information!
I just started experimenting with hair, and I can now see how it could be incredibly useful for texturing just about everything.
Really liked the ivy ferns. The ferns and grass made those walls look great.
As always, thanks for posting before and after postwork images.
Very fine work.
I think I've finally completed my entry just in time to have to go back to work, lol.
The cattails have leaves made with hair. I modelled the little brown fuzzy tops and grew hair on them.
The red dogwoods are one of my favourite winter plants. It took me forever to get something bush-like out the of the plant room, but I'm actually happy with these.
The staghorn sumacs are from the plant room, with a vertex top. I used Wendy's raspberry tip to replicate little spheres all over the shape. Exported as obj, then decimated the crap out of it because my aged laptop started to whine. I used fake fresnel for the fuzziness.
These are the birches with the procedural texture I mentioned earlier.
The Eastern Hemlock (particularly dramatically weeping ones) are my favourite conifer. Trying to get this tree is struck me that we have control of gravity on the tree and separately on the leaves. We could do much more with separate gravity control for each generation of branches. Would be very cool to play with.
The lone White Pine I was wrestling with is back left.
The background terrain has a replicator for the black spruce (far easier shape to work out).
The deer is Tane for Daz horse 2 and I've used Ron's steam for his breath. The snow is also Ron's. I played with particle snow, but again the laptop whimpered.
Please feel free to skate on the pond :)
kewl. i luv silver birch
Not really worthy of entry, but this is a fun accident that happened along the way.
Zero genius involved here. I was trying out a plane with snow brushes used to create a texture in photoshop. Forgot to save without the black background, lol!
Almost a NPR feel, I think.
Thank you, Mystarra