close-up of a cute fluffy toon alien coloured green, binary star system with red sun, blue landscape, blue exotic flowers, science fiction

close-up of a cute fluffy toon dog coloured green, binary star system with red sun, blue landscape, blue exotic flowers, science fiction

close-up of a cute fluffy toon alien coloured green, binary star system with red sun, crevasse landscape, science fiction

WendyLuvsCatz said:

I daydream a lot and my fantasies borrow from are plagiarised from many genres 

which is why I never would be able to create a book based on them.

That said it does make mixing and kitbashing stuff inspired by many movies, games, books etc easier 

I could never settle on one fandom 

everytime I read a book, watch a film I just toss another ingredient into my world

I guess others are just more disciplined, linear thinking than me

It is pretty hard to be completely original these days. My son is working on a group assignment for one of his college classes, and I was listening (eavesdropping) when they were talking about the other day. Their Story is a post apopoliptic scenario where the S has HTF and the world has regressed into a stage of medeival feudalism.

I made the mistake of interacting (which they are not comfortable with), and asking if they had heard of the SM Sterling "The Change" series where this same scenario played out across something like 15 or so books. Eight blank stares looking back at me.

It was original to them...

I'm a big fan of Star Wars fan fic these days, since it shows infinitely more imagination and creativity than the drivel being excreted from the official channels.

Seeing as there's a Bridge theme - here is my USS Horizon Bridget (a recoloured BridgeXT2 from VP) and the Crew (missing a Chief Engineer at the moment) from Star Trek Red Directive

Added First shot of the USS Horizon (Interceptor Class)

Some cucufulins started to explore their universe.

The planet they ended up exploring was inspired by an image and prompt by amysparkles.

panoramic view of a dual star system with a giant red sun and a small white star,

blue landscape, blue exotic flowers, science fiction,

${cucufulin=enter a description of a cute animal here}

close-up of a ${cucufulin}, binary star system with red sun, blue landscape, blue exotic flowers, science fiction, bokeh,

This looks amazing!

I experimented with your prompt and found some prompt variations that might go in a similar direction,

panoramic view of a binary star system with a giant red sun and a small white star,

binary star system / dual star system

sometimes limites the visible objects to two

space photo of

sometimes generates shots from very far away.

orbital view of

sometimes generates shots from the outer orbit of a planet

I thought I'd have another little experiment with Daz AI Studio, pushing things to their limits. This time in attempt to make an image with two suns in the sky. Especially with suns of two different stellar types. I've been attempting to create skies like this in Daz Studio too. 

After a lot of trial and error, mostly error, I realized the AI gives better results if I include 'science fiction' in the prompt. 'Red giant' and 'white dwarf' did not give anything Tolkien fantasy related - as I pondered, but did sometimes actually give reasonable results.  

However, the AI does have a tendency to add moons when they were not asked for. I've also noticed on several images that even though the sky clearly has two suns, only the light from one of those suns is cast on the moons. That's probably an oversight on the images used to train the AI though. 

It was a fun and interesting experiment anyway. The AI gave me some quite pretty and surreal landscapes. 

Here's one of my favorites:

Prompt: Giant red sun next to white star, in sky, science fiction landscape

The prompt strictness slider was pushed to maximum and the quality set to best. 

You probably noticed a major fault with the image though: the clouds are behind the larger red moon on the right. But still, I like the scene. 

frank0314 said:

Daz has, for the time being, removed some fan-art product pages while they are under review. Lets not start speculating why.

Not speculating, but sharing my experience:
I have Star Trek related items, in two print-on-demand stores (I'll link below in a shameless plug :P) which have a Fan Art Program in which you can submit items from certain IPs. Those items have to be tagged in a specific way to be approved, and once approved they are sold in the store, you get the saem revenue you would get normally, but they have the "Approved by CBS" stamp at the bottom of the page. 
My wife and I created a lot of minimalistic star trek "portraits", Many were accepted, some were not, and we received DMCA takedown requests, and we were not allowed to re-upload the items. One of the stores (the Redbubble one) still has all the items as they have not been subject to further review, but several of the items in Teepublic have been struck down recently by a DMCA takdown (after having been accepted into the Fan Art program for like 6-7 yerars).
My experience is that Paramount Global/CBS every now and again they do a sweep to see if anything is infringing on their Ips, especially Star Trek (a brand that survives in spite of how Paramount treat their trekkie fans). In this case, I'm not surprised this has happened as it was a possibility from day one, even when Daz announced that they were negotiating to have official "fan art" items a couple of years back.
As you say, now the only thing is to wait and see what happend with those items. 
 

vangelrise said:

Mmmm, ho una domanda a monte però: mettiamo che voglio davvero rendere a pagamento la mia super-fashion graphic novel che Harry Potter spostati. Come faccio a farlo? Cioè, devo postarla su siti tipo Patreon, OF, ecc.? Ci sono altri metodi migliori?

E seconda domanda già che ci siamo: se io vendo una graphic novel con Darth Vader protagonista sto infrangendo il copyright, e okay, non ci piove.

Ma se io uso Darth Vader in una novel che NON è a tema Star Wars, ad esempio perché è un personaggio travestito da Darth Vader, lo sto infrangendo? Oppure, Vader compare in sogno a un personaggio, di nuovo senza che la novel sia ambientata nell'universo Star Wars né c'entri niente con SW, è una citazione. Non uso neanche il nome Darth Vader, per dire. E' infrazione di copyright perché uso l'immagine del personaggio, pur non essendo quel personaggio?

 

Se il personaggio è identico e immediatamente riconoscibile come tale, sì, stai violando il copyright, anche se non usi il nome.

Devi sempre fare in modo che il tuo modello sia "uguale ma diverso", in pratica lo devi modificare abbastanza da somigliare al personaggio che vuoi richiamare ma non del tutto identico e immediatamente identificabile come tale.

vangelrise said:

Imago said:

Un altro paio di consigli: Se vuoi realizzare render commerciali (cioè li vuoi vendere) evita la roba gratis con licenze fumose. Spesso gli autori mettono un semplice "Uso commerciale e personale" che non racconta tutta la storia. Inoltre non usare qualcosa che possa infrangere il copyright.

 

Mmmm, ho una domanda a monte però: mettiamo che voglio davvero rendere a pagamento la mia super-fashion graphic novel che Harry Potter spostati. Come faccio a farlo? Cioè, devo postarla su siti tipo Patreon, OF, ecc.? Ci sono altri metodi migliori?

E seconda domanda già che ci siamo: se io vendo una graphic novel con Darth Vader protagonista sto infrangendo il copyright, e okay, non ci piove.

Ma se io uso Darth Vader in una novel che NON è a tema Star Wars, ad esempio perché è un personaggio travestito da Darth Vader, lo sto infrangendo? Oppure, Vader compare in sogno a un personaggio, di nuovo senza che la novel sia ambientata nell'universo Star Wars né c'entri niente con SW, è una citazione. Non uso neanche il nome Darth Vader, per dire. E' infrazione di copyright perché uso l'immagine del personaggio, pur non essendo quel personaggio?

Di che è una Fan Art Add on.

Imago said:

Un altro paio di consigli: Se vuoi realizzare render commerciali (cioè li vuoi vendere) evita la roba gratis con licenze fumose. Spesso gli autori mettono un semplice "Uso commerciale e personale" che non racconta tutta la storia. Inoltre non usare qualcosa che possa infrangere il copyright.

Mmmm, ho una domanda a monte però: mettiamo che voglio davvero rendere a pagamento la mia super-fashion graphic novel che Harry Potter spostati. Come faccio a farlo? Cioè, devo postarla su siti tipo Patreon, OF, ecc.? Ci sono altri metodi migliori?

E seconda domanda già che ci siamo: se io vendo una graphic novel con Darth Vader protagonista sto infrangendo il copyright, e okay, non ci piove.

Ma se io uso Darth Vader in una novel che NON è a tema Star Wars, ad esempio perché è un personaggio travestito da Darth Vader, lo sto infrangendo? Oppure, Vader compare in sogno a un personaggio, di nuovo senza che la novel sia ambientata nell'universo Star Wars né c'entri niente con SW, è una citazione. Non uso neanche il nome Darth Vader, per dire. E' infrazione di copyright perché uso l'immagine del personaggio, pur non essendo quel personaggio?

I'll chime in because I've created fan art on what I imagined a scene might look like in my head after reading a book as well as a creating a character render from a TV show.

For the books, it's mostly because I read something that the author wrote which brought images to my mind. After reading them, I want to create the images because art is my hobby and I love to express my thoughts in this way. It also gives me ideas for drawing since I'm trying to express the emotions that that author brought out in words to something I can see. Examples of fan art I did in Daz (1), (2), (3). They were inspired by the books and I added the background stories in the gallery. They aren't great (I'm trying to improve!), but they were expressions of what I envisioned in my head of the stories from books I read.

For the second example, I sort of created a celebrity look-a-like with this image. It was inspired by the TV show (Andor) and because there was a week between each episode, I had lots to time to think about the story that was unfolding. This was when Genesis 9 first came out, so I wanted to see what I could create using the dials. My inspiration came from the show and my enjoyment of watching it.

When I first read about the Editorial License, the first thing I thought of was... Wow, I hope they come out with a great Togruta model I can customize! I used to play swtor (an online star wars video game) and had a Togruta character that I would have loved to render, but as I read and researched more about what this license actually was, I kind of lost hope on that idea. =)

I picked up the pro bundle. The tokens and the add-ons made it the most effective option. I like his morph, especially the swole morph. his head is not my favorite, and the skin looks a bit similar to others. But I can work with it. I do like the hair. 

I avoided the Star Wars content. I'm hoping the Marshall outfit is okay to use. It had no editorial licensing yet. 

Bunyip02 said:

Diomede said:

Bunyip - Enjoying your recent updates.  See the Klingon ship.  Do you have any insights on Daz3D's recent 'fanart' limited license products, like some of the cars and the Star Trek themed content?

Hello Diomede

Thanks for the comment about enjoying the updates !!!

Insights on 'fanart' - hmmmm ..... As a general rule I don't buy Editorial Licence items, unless it's a must have for something I am working on. I did buy the Morphs (which are HD) & Skins from the Star Trek content. I prefer that Editorial Content is a freebie, with the resulting commercial use not allowed. While I do the occasional 'fanart' render it is in moderation as I don't do bulk renders with them, and only as non-commercial usage. No money/income is earned in any way from them, and are there to be enjoyed freely by the viewing audience.

Hmmm, looks like the links to the Star Trek themed items now go to an OOOPS page, wonder why ?

From the look of the promo to the new character I see that "Cad Bane" got a "Special" morph, so does it mean we'll get a Star Wars morph pack like we got with Star Trek!?

vangelrise said:

Rieccomi con una domanda, stavolta molto basic.

Se su un prodotto è scritto che è compatibile con DAZ 1.5, funziona anche sul 4.22 attuale, giusto?

Più in generale, una cosa che è scritto essere compatibile con una versione di DAZ vecchia lo è anche con una più nuova? Non vorrei comprare robe che poi non mi funzionano, anche se costano poco.

Si funziona tutto a patto che tu abbia tutti i pacchetti richiesti dal prodotto stesso.
Michael 4/Victoria 4 te li da gratis la DAZ ma ci sono figure vecchie come David, Star, ecc... che devi avere in libreria (quindi acquistare).

Per cui vedi bene cosa richiede.. e vedi se i materiali sono per Iray (Iray è stato aggiunto qualche anno fa.. potresti essere costretto a convertire i materiali)

Worked on a "CGI" version of Clone Trooper for G9, with help of the Toon Hero to get the eyes to work easier!
Happy with how it turned out.

BTW the model were free but from a "adult" 3D model site, but the same author got some very accurate Clone Wars characters as this is made from scratch and not a rip from a game!

Fun thing, I saw a comment awhile ago where someone asked on reddit how Jango Fett would look like in Clone Wars style :D LOL

Diomede said:

Great info, and wonderful animation.  Very dramatic despite the lack of 'action.'  Hope the Fourth was with you!

Thanks! It was! Rosie and I spent the day celebrating with our daughter. I started watching the new series launched on Disney +, which is quite interesting.

Tales of the Empire is done in the Clone Wars style seemingly through the lens of the folks from the Dark Side of the Force.

Happy Star Wars Day!! May the 4th be with you always!!

May the 4th Be With You...

Though in reality you know every day is Star Wars day. Right?

FirstBastion said:

Fo the record, many of these vendors still have storefronts at Rendo,  they are just not exclusive to Renderosity anymore.  Selling at two stores will probably be better than selling at one. 

I guess it's a good idea. Unless there is another FirstBastion, you're the Rendo Rising Star for March and got an interview there. Congratulations.