Llynara's Loony Bin (WIP Thread)

Knittingmommy

He looks good, @Llynara! I love the soft orange glow. It really sets him and the hair off. I'm really impressed with how the body hair looks. Nice job.

dracorn

Love the lighting and the hair on this one, especially the body hair.  Great red/gold shades on the curls - well done.

Llynara

Thank you! I can't stop staring at Jacob. He's on my desktop, distracting me at the moment, begging for more stories to be written. The poor guy is lonely for a few more books due to his powers, but finally gets to have fun too (and does he!) I just need many more hours in my day to write and render all this stuff, LOL 

dracorn

I do the same - put my new renders on my desktop. I also know what you mean about enough hours in the day. Face it, for us creative types, even if we did nothing BUT create all day, there STILL would not be enough hours in the day.

Noswen

Really like the lighting effect you've got on this one

Stormlyght

Llynara said:

Colorwerks Hair Shaders for Iray

Was playing with Slosh's new Colorwerks hair shaders last night. I have a few characters in my books with reddish-blond hair. Most shaders make it look pink or like a big glob of orange. I wanted to show both the red and gold in the hair. This is even more challenging on my twin energy shifters, Jacob and Jared, who have curly hair and glow due to their powers. Here's Jacob with ColorWerks on the hair and PhilW's Hair Lustre shaders over top of it at a very low translucency. I also put Hair Luster over the body hair (Oh My Body Hair by Redz) and Supernatural Brows to give a golden look over the red. The model here is Darwin's wonderful Iain for Michael 7, one of my favorites. Such an incredibly versatile character. Very few could pull off that hair! 

Now if I can just find a good way in Iray to give people a glowing outline, that would be great. I usually render the character without a background and add in postwork. I didn't  do that here, as I was just playing with the hair. I think it came out good. And those pants! They are Streetwear Jeans for Genesis (made by Stonemason.) They are the best looking textures I've ever seen on jeans, and they were made before Iray came out. That's the default conversion- I did nothing to them except bump up Sub-D a notch.

It's been to long since I visited your thread. You have all kinds of awesome things going on here including him 

Trish

Llynara

Awww, thank you, Trish! I think that's one of my favorite male renders yet. Love our guys, and they need more attention. They tend to get pushed aside for all things girly, which is great, but sometimes, we just need some hunky 3D men hanging about! 

And he's still on my desktop! 

Llynara

Noswen said:

Really like the lighting effect you've got on this one

Thanks, Noswen! That's a combination of DAZ + postwork. On the DAZ side, I used Fabiana's Energy Flow spotlights and utilities for the rendering settings. I also used DA's Real World Lighting. On the postwork side, I use Topaz Star Effects, Glow, and Textures quite a bit. I love those products. The background is actually a sky photo that I stuck in the Environment tab. I got lucky and the sun was right behind his head. I haven't figure out if you can move those around at all. 

Llynara

FYI: The next Black Kat book comes out next week! You can preorder it on Amazon here.

Mollytabby

That is a beautiful cover @Llynara.

IceDragonArt

Woot can't wait to read it!

dracorn

Always loved that cover!

Llynara

Thank you all! I'm very excited to finally have this book done. Now I have to go pound my head on the next one, and its cover! LOL

Llynara

"Rapunzel" (for an FB Fairytale challenge)

The prince waited. He stepped up to the tower. In a voice that sounded as much like the witch as he could, he called out, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair!” In a moment, the same long blond braid came out of the window. 

https://www.storiestogrowby.org/story/early-reader-rapunzel-fairy-tale-story-kids/

Made with...

• The DragonBraid bundle
• DA Real World Lighting
• The Secret Valley (Iray Worlds)
• Kieron Hair for Genesis 3 & 8 Male(s)
• FW Kieron HD for Genesis 8 Male and LI Kieron Whiskers
• Owen 8 Pro Bundle
• Southern Noble Outfit for Genesis 8 Male(s)
• Elliandra for Genesis 3 and 8 Female
• DA Stonework and Masonry Shaders
• SVLL's Fairy Tale Tower
• SV's Reflections Floor
• OOT July Gown
• OOT Iraypair Hair Shaders

Noswen

Really nice cover for the book! And nice use of perspective for Rapunzel

Llynara

Thank you @Noswen! Rapunzel won the contest. That was fun!

And my book is out today on Amazon:

Mod edit.  Aplogies but Commercial link removed

WinterMoon

@Lynara You're an author and an amazing artist? Colour me just a little bit jellus.  I love the picture of your red-haired hunk! (And totally had to get those jeans, even if I've placed myself on shop-stop.)

Griffin Avid

Wow, friggin wow

IceDragonArt

Ya, I am going to save this for when I'm laying by the pool in a couple of weeks.  It deserves a whole afternoon to itself lol.  If you guys haven't read the first one, make sure you get it too, its really really good!

Llynara

TigerAnne said:

@Lynara You're an author and an amazing artist? Colour me just a little bit jellus.  I love the picture of your red-haired hunk! (And totally had to get those jeans, even if I've placed myself on shop-stop.)

Aww, thank you! I got into DAZ specifically to do cover design. I couldn't find the right heroes for books! And I've been addicted to 3D ever since. I do find that it helps me visualize my characters and enhances my writing. Love it! 

I'm glad you love Jacob as much as I do. He's a major character in my Black Kat series, and has a mischievous twin brother (Jacob is the sweeter one.) 

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@GriffinAvid - Glad you like! that's entirely DAZ and Photoshop. All of the techniques I used are documented in my Patreon tutorials. 

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IceDragonArt said:

Ya, I am going to save this for when I'm laying by the pool in a couple of weeks.  It deserves a whole afternoon to itself lol.  If you guys haven't read the first one, make sure you get it too, its really really good!

Oh, thank you IceDragon! I hope you enjoy it and don't melt in that Florida sun! 

 

dracorn

Llynara said:

"Rapunzel" (for an FB Fairytale challenge)

The prince waited. He stepped up to the tower. In a voice that sounded as much like the witch as he could, he called out, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair!” In a moment, the same long blond braid came out of the window. 

https://www.storiestogrowby.org/story/early-reader-rapunzel-fairy-tale-story-kids/

Made with...

• The DragonBraid bundle
• DA Real World Lighting
• The Secret Valley (Iray Worlds)
• Kieron Hair for Genesis 3 & 8 Male(s)
• FW Kieron HD for Genesis 8 Male and LI Kieron Whiskers
• Owen 8 Pro Bundle
• Southern Noble Outfit for Genesis 8 Male(s)
• Elliandra for Genesis 3 and 8 Female
• DA Stonework and Masonry Shaders
• SVLL's Fairy Tale Tower
• SV's Reflections Floor
• OOT July Gown
• OOT Iraypair Hair Shaders

Great angle!  Dragonbraid - thought you used that.  As long as it is, it won't quite reach.

When you think about it, Rapunzel had one freakin' strong neck.  

Daywalker Designs

dracorn said:

Llynara said:

"Rapunzel" (for an FB Fairytale challenge)

The prince waited. He stepped up to the tower. In a voice that sounded as much like the witch as he could, he called out, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair!” In a moment, the same long blond braid came out of the window. 

https://www.storiestogrowby.org/story/early-reader-rapunzel-fairy-tale-story-kids/

Made with...

• The DragonBraid bundle
• DA Real World Lighting
• The Secret Valley (Iray Worlds)
• Kieron Hair for Genesis 3 & 8 Male(s)
• FW Kieron HD for Genesis 8 Male and LI Kieron Whiskers
• Owen 8 Pro Bundle
• Southern Noble Outfit for Genesis 8 Male(s)
• Elliandra for Genesis 3 and 8 Female
• DA Stonework and Masonry Shaders
• SVLL's Fairy Tale Tower
• SV's Reflections Floor
• OOT July Gown
• OOT Iraypair Hair Shaders

Great angle!  Dragonbraid - thought you used that.  As long as it is, it won't quite reach.

When you think about it, Rapunzel had one freakin' strong neck.  

And strong arms; hair that long has got to be heavy...

Llynara

Daywalker Designs said:

dracorn said:

Llynara said:

"Rapunzel" (for an FB Fairytale challenge)

The prince waited. He stepped up to the tower. In a voice that sounded as much like the witch as he could, he called out, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair!” In a moment, the same long blond braid came out of the window. 

https://www.storiestogrowby.org/story/early-reader-rapunzel-fairy-tale-story-kids/

Made with...

• The DragonBraid bundle
• DA Real World Lighting
• The Secret Valley (Iray Worlds)
• Kieron Hair for Genesis 3 & 8 Male(s)
• FW Kieron HD for Genesis 8 Male and LI Kieron Whiskers
• Owen 8 Pro Bundle
• Southern Noble Outfit for Genesis 8 Male(s)
• Elliandra for Genesis 3 and 8 Female
• DA Stonework and Masonry Shaders
• SVLL's Fairy Tale Tower
• SV's Reflections Floor
• OOT July Gown
• OOT Iraypair Hair Shaders

Great angle!  Dragonbraid - thought you used that.  As long as it is, it won't quite reach.

When you think about it, Rapunzel had one freakin' strong neck.  

 

And strong arms; hair that long has got to be heavy...

Ha ha! Definitely! 

Llynara

Easy Light and Render Spectrum Studio

Wow, I can't believe I haven't posted on this thread for a while. It's been a busy couple of months. I became a DAZ PA back in September and my first joint products with DivaMakeup came out last month. Note: My name won't be listed on these until I have my own solo products. Probably next year. This one is almost over!

Our first product together was Easy Light and Render Spectrum Studio. We had a blast making this light and studio set. It's very versatile and is on sale this weekend as part of the PC+ catchup sale. Our commercial thread is here: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/284846/easy-light-and-render-spectrum-studio-released-commercial#latest

Here are a few promos I did for it: 

I used one of the Ready to Render scenes to do a promo for one of Kaleya's outfits this week. Very handy for promo artists or anyone who likes portraits: 

Llynara

Altern8 for Girl 8

I was thrilled when DivaMakeup asked me to do poses for this set. Her Altern8 products are very good and Girl 8's does not disappoint! The makeups, skintones, and face morphs are really fun to play with. This set is also on sale this weekend. You can find the commercial thread here: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/284841/altern8-girl-8-released-commercial#latest

dracorn

Hey that's way cool!  These are very nice poses. Great job.

DarwinsMishap

You two make a great team!  

Llynara

Sneak peek at the next Black Kat cover: 

Llynara

Here are the first three together (click for much more detail): 

Llynara

Tweaked the tagline. I think this one works better for the book: