3D Art FREEBIE CHALLENGE-MARCH 2017- KISS THE BLARNEY STONE-Main Thread
Saphirewild
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KISS THE BLARNEY STONE!!!
It is getting close to St. Paddy's Day so let's let our imagination run wild this month and come up with some fun renders with our Irish women/men/Lepracons/fairies Kissing The Blarney Stone
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What, no entries yet? No inspiration?
OK, then, at the risk of seeming presumptuous, allow me to offer some suggestions, if I may.
Is SciFi your thing? How about
1. Pot of gold at the end of the universe?
2. The United Federation of Irish?
3. St. Patrick's Day on the Red Planet?
4. Doctor O'Who?
5. Irish superheros?
Into Fantasy? How about
1. Lord of the Leprechauns?
2. The Leprechaun of Oz? (Hey, it's the Emerald City!)
3. Vicky in a temple with a shilleliegh?
4. The Lion, the Leprechaun and the Wardrobe?
Or, a few miscellaneous thoughts:
1. A troll, a gremlin and a Leprechaun walk into a bar ...
2. Where all the Irish snakes went
3. Leprechaun employment agency
4. The pot of goldfish at the end of the rainbow
5. Celtic rock concert
C'mon, lets see some renders, folks!
Thanks for the inspirational titles SixDs!!
I know there have to be some ideas for this, St Patty's day is two days away. i've been informed by my 23 year old daughter that its one of the best party nights of the year lol (Cause I was never young and don't know this stuff apparently). And guess who gets to be the designated driver for this party night?
Well I had decided I wasn't going to enter any contests because of the length of time to do any renders on my old CPU bound renderer...but I'll try here to get some entries started...
As far as actually doing a pose of someone kissing the Blarney Stone I think I'll skip that because even with the most beautiful leprechaunette kissing the stone it's just not a good angle to render at...
And here was me hoping someone would actually try it.
Oh, I have some DAZ castles or two that would be OK. Since the Blarney Stone is year round I I will try that after St Patrick's Day for entry number two. I have a Blarney Stone rock I bought visiting presuming Ireland that the leaflet included claimed was mined from the same place the stone was mined to build that castle and the Blarney Stone.
SixDs: Okay, since you're co-sponsoring, I will assume we are allowed to do those ideas. :)
Seriously though, I agree with Nonesuch00: a scene involving the actual Blarney Stone at Castle Blarney is tricky to set up-both finding suitable assets and suitable camera angles. Not impossible, mind, just difficult. I think I found what I need to make it happen though.
Absolutely, Odaa. I won't be entering, so please, if they strike anyone's fancy, have at it!
Well what can I say...I had a St Paddy's render running that should of been 16 hours in when I went to go post it this morning and instead find Windows had patched and updated my computer without even a notice beforehand that it was going to do so....so I'll restart the render & post it with online 6 - 8 hours of rendertime this evening.
Sorry.
I don't think that you are the one that should be apologizing, nonesuch. That's a bummer.
Well reading the contest rules the render I have running now is not allowed anyway because the characters are not kissing or trying to kiss the Blarney Stone. I will post it anyway and will make another render using the same characters and they will be trying to kiss the Blarney Stone as I've an ideal how to correctly 'simulate' that using DAZ products I own already.
Awesome Nonesuch I can not wait to see what you came up with
Here is my try, I started it before Chohole explanation
Mysterious Dryad
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I tried to make dryad again and this time it worked, only that it is a bit Mysterious, I guess a bit evil... I have loaded that backdrop and rest of the picture followed. I figured out that those leaves on dryad are Ivy and I have just cleaned Oaks in my gardens, and ones that I take care of, of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedera_helix#Damage_to_trees. I think it should be done one in a 2 years, and I have seen a very large oak destroyed by Ivy that I cleaned but he didn't survived as I hoped he will.
Anyway Happy St. Patricks day. I hoped I will finish this picture yesterday, but electricity went out so I had to do render again, but at least I have watched part of the parade in Dublin, live on my new Samsung cell phone and it seems it is from 16-19 March.
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Done with Daz Studio 4.9
Items marked with an asterisk require registration.
Not Counting: Victoria 4
Freebies:
1.)* V4 Dryad
2.) Mat-Poses for V4 Dryad by ManFromAbora
3.)* Element Stone Props (DS Version)
4.) Laticis Imagery FREE Object - Crystals 1 to 5
5.) Laticis Imagery FREE - Stone Throne
6.)* Ultimate Shader Pack for DAZ Studio UPDATED_2011 (used for coins)
7.)* Evil Mushrooms
8.)* Render Profiles for DAZ Studio 4.5 (Rendered on Insane)
Paid:
Gregoria Hair
Genesis Supersuit (Shaders used on pot)
Strange Substances Pack 1
All freebies checked, I believe the Mushrooms need a registration so please add an * to that one other than that you are free to move it to the entries
I've thrown out 4 render scenes so far! I think I have one now but all the 'Wishful Thinking Grass' in use is clobbering me computer...I'll wait & see...
Well here is to hoping you do get a render done before the end of the month Nonesuch!!!
Here is my entry. I have a lot of work to do in the next week so I may not get to the render I had planned for the Blarney Stone itself.
Hold on....I need to list the freebies used. They are listed in my gallery but not the actual links to them!
Freebies:
1) Derby Hat
2) Atlas Toon
3) Pot of Gold
4) 4-Leaf Shamrock
5) Rainbow
Paid items:
01) Toon Generations 2 Mega Bundle
02) Genesis 3 Male Head, Expressions, and Body Bundle
03) Dwarf Clothing
04) Runtime DNA Fairy Ring
05) Caleb for M4 & M5
06) Boris Hair for G2M
07) Wishful Thinking (was a freebie at DAZ when I got it on February 22)
08) Mec4D iRay Shaders vol 2
09) Singular Invesions FaceGen Pro 1.9
10) Oh My Brows Bundle
Doh! I've exceeded the paid limit by 5 items so that disqualifies this entry! Oh well.
A question: If I make portions of a render myself are the parts I made considered freebies? I can exceed 5 freebies without penalty correct? Thanks,
yes please do nonesuch00 so we can check on them and then send you to the entries. Nice render I like the rainbow starting out from the pot
Here is a link to my gallery for the disqualified entry. It has links to all the DAZ products except FaceGen (I bought it externally Feb 2016) and Oh My Brows which I bought at Rendo last summer.
Gallery Disqualified Entry
LINKS CHECK OUT PLZ POST TO ENTRIES THREAD
Kissing the Blarney Stone (probably something you shouldn't do by yourself)
* Deco Jewlery https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/deco-jewelry/70015
* Shamrock earrings http://www.sharecg.com/v/12537/poser/Shamrock-Earrings-for-V4
* V4 Stockings https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/v4-a4-g4-stockings/54998
* Pretty 3D Lovely Senses https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/lovely-senses-free-site-registiration-required-/54645 ; but doesn't seem to work now.
* Kicking Cute for Lovely Senses https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/-kicking-cute-for-lovely-senses/55519
* Jadyn V4.2 https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/jadyn-v4-2/74656&ca
* V4 UPside-Down hair http://www.sharecg.com/v/15635/poser/V4-Upside-Down-Hair
Castle purchased in Fantasy Bundle https://www.daz3d.com/castle-creator
V4 free model
V4 Morphs purchased
*Requires site registration.
Very nice!
Everything checked, the pretty 3d lovely senses worked ok when I looked at them.
Please move to entries thread!
Fairies and Clovers
* Deco Jewlery https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/deco-jewelry/70015
* Evil Cupcake dress http://www.evilinnocence.com/shop/cupcake-for-v4.html
* Lucky for you Cupcake dress http://www.sharecg.com/v/33117/Poser/Lucky-You---Textures-for-CupCake-Dress
* V4 Stockings https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/v4-a4-g4-stockings/54998
* Jadyn V4.2 https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/jadyn-v4-2/74656&ca
* Valens hair https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/valens-hair/56911
* Faerie Wings https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/faerie-wings-i-for-all-figures/59783
* 4 Leaf clover http://www.sharecg.com/v/49380/
* Pot of gold http://www.sharecg.com/v/34978/
* mushroom backgrounds https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/spring-magic-background/68118
V4 free model
V4 Morphs purchased
*Requires site registration.
Oh good, we have now 4 entries.
All freebies checked an working, one question though: the Mushroom with the door is in the free backgrounds, and that comes with the trees as well? The promo on Rendo shows only one background, so its hard to say.
So, if yes, please move to the entries thread.
I had the wrong one linked, I now have the correct link for the Mushroom background. Sorry about that.
Oh I just checked too lol. So you are doubley good to go lol.
The Results of Kissing the Blarney Stone
Rendered with 3Delight. Post work done was to add signature.
Freebies:
Environment: mushrooms * fennjas mushrooms by Fennja.
Environment:Grounds * Vikike's Ground 01 by vikike176.
Environment:mushrooms * Fennjas Mushrooms for DAZ Studio 4.8 and up by DollyGirl13.
Environment:Pot of Gold * St. Patrick day by dorkatiGHD.
Environment:Rainbow Morphing Rainbow by mostdigitalcreations. 19th down
Environment:Rocks * Rocks by Yughues aka Nobiax.
Environment:Treeandflowers * Forgetmenot by Poisen.
G2F: Wings * Pixie Wings for V4 by Paul J. Zanca. Character
G2F:Hair Short Hair Evolution by Kozaburo.
G2F:Pose * Beach sport poses by peteg.
G2F:Pose * G2M Conversation poses by peteg.
G2F:Shoes * G2F Oriental Outfit by wilmap.
M4:Character Leprechaun M4 by mmalbert redeyecat.
M4:Character * 182 Morphs for Victoria 4 182 Morphs for Victoria 4 by DieTrying.
M4:Clothing * 18th century suit by Varsel.
M4:Hair * Hero hair by iceboy.
M4:Pipe Smoking Set by MostDigitalCreations. 12th down
M4:Staff * Wizard Staff by Christel.
Shader: Walking Stick * Iray Nobiax Shaders by kaz42.
* - Free Registration Required
M4, Genesis 2 Female, Persian Beauty Outfit and Toulouse Hair are all no counts. The following items are no longer available. Sorry to see runtimedna's freebies located in their forums have been lost.
Cat: Mesky Mesky & Blackie by Ynaelis3D.
Environment:Background backgrounds by Himmel.
G2F:Hat Empress Headdress by Chi Studios.
M4:Character M4 - Curtis by Structure.
M4:Clothing Morphing St Pat Hat by Deerpath.
This is a nice render Seeshell. If you are interested there is a video that will incorporate shadows onto your background and thus make your fairy and shamrocks be more a part of the scene. The video uses DAZ Studio 3 but the steps to make the shadows are the same for Studio 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo2OVy9tf8E and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrWtXnijQ_k