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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    Headwax_Carrara said:
    Bunyip02_Carrara said:

    Puma on the prowl.

    a veritable feast ! love the foreground and puma in this one - very effective

     

     

    Thanks

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987
    Softimage_Graphic_Artist said:

    Nice Art renderings I brought Carrara about 2 and a half years ago, I was so happy to have a new program, but for months I struggled with it and then I just gave u due to not much support.

    Thanks if you want any help please ask

     

     

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    pleasure Bunyip02, thanks for keeping the thread breathing ;)

    combo of photodonut and studio and Nik filters for fine tuning plus final tone mapping with affinity photo

     

    image

     

     

     

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    Headwax_Carrara said:

    pleasure Bunyip02, thanks for keeping the thread breathing ;)

    combo of photodonut and studio and Nik filters for fine tuning plus final tone mapping with affinity photo

     

    image

     

     

     

    Looking great !!!

    Happy to keep the thread moving, makes for some incentive to do renders with all that content I have squirelled away.....

  • Softimage_Graphic_ArtistSoftimage_Graphic_Artist Posts: 275

    Thanks  Bunyip02_Carrara I will give it another try.

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    Softimage_Graphic_Artist said:

    Thanks  Bunyip02_Carrara I will give it another try.

    As Headwax said ask for help if you get stuck, happy rendering !!!

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,056

    Herc....

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    Herc....

    Worthy winner !!!

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    edited February 2019

    Beach

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    edited February 2019

    Bird

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    edited February 2019

    Pup

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    Herc....

    Really interesting diversity of styles !!

     

     

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987
    Bunyip02_Carrara said:

    Pup

    Ha ha I am getting a feeling we are having a minimalist agenda here - title wise  :) This is my favourite

     

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,568
    Headwax_Carrara said:
    Bunyip02_Carrara said:

    Puma on the prowl.

    a veritable feast ! love the foreground and puma in this one - very effective

     

     

    ...and the background setting is awesome too! yes

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,568

    Wow, I love these!

     

    I like the bird one too, but it seems a bit too taken away by effects - loses too much detail?

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    Dartanbeck said:

    Wow, I love these!

     

    I like the bird one too, but it seems a bit too taken away by effects - loses too much detail?

    Used a few filters on the Bird image which caused it to blend together, if I redid it would use a different coloured bird.

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975
    edited February 2019
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    Herc....

    Can you share the settings you used for this.... and maybe a verson of it as a normal quickie render?  I have been neglecting the NPR settings recently as I have purchased Dynamic Auto Painter and been having fun with it. Still using multipass, though. That's invaluable.  But I'd like to get back to using the Carrara NPR as DAP's Acrylic setting with Reactor is about as close as I can get to what I want to do with touch up in PS.  indecision  SIlene

     

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,568

    Absolutely Wonderful, Silene!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987
    SileneUK_Carrara said:
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    Herc....

    Can you share the settings you used for this.... and maybe a verson of it as a normal quickie render?  I have been neglecting the NPR settings recently as I have purchased Dynamic Auto Painter and been having fun with it. Still using multipass, though. That's invaluable.  But I'd like to get back to using the Carrara NPR as DAP's Acrylic setting with Reactor is about as close as I can get to what I want to do with touch up in PS.  indecision  SIlene

     

    Wow that.s pretty terrific! I've been using tonemapping in affinity to bring out some texture detail and also liquefy to bend stratify edges to give more hand drawn look 

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975

    Thanks Dart and Andrew... DAP is really cool, but I found the acrylic settings they use as default too vivid and messing with the palette was fiddly, so I sometimes use PS before DAP to dull it down, or wait and use PS to desaturate. For people,  I have better luck first desaturating a normal render, then applying DAP, then readjust if needed to even out facial shade distortions.  For the building... this is a photo I took and finally settled for doing the DAP first, then adjusted various parts of it.  I have to admire DAP's brush detail controls which are miles ahead of my old PS artistic effects.  I am looking for a modern storybook look vs a comicbook type of illustration.

    Any ideas appreciated... I can get so bogged down messing about trying to find some kind of illustration El Dorado... which isn't going to happen in my world, so I think it's best now to ask for advice!

    surprise  Silene

     

  • UnifiedBrainUnifiedBrain Posts: 3,588
    SileneUK_Carrara said:

    Any ideas appreciated... I can get so bogged down messing about trying to find some kind of illustration El Dorado... which isn't going to happen in my world, so I think it's best now to ask for advice!

    surprise  Silene

    Are you kidding?smiley  I think you have found El Dorado, Silene.  I love that particular toon style.  Terrific balance and tone - one of the best renders I've ever seen in this thread!  My first thought was, "How the heck...?", so thanks a bunch for the tips.  I've wanted DAP for a while.  Bunyip is doing great things with it as well.  Maybe when I have more time.

     

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,056
    edited February 2019
    SileneUK_Carrara said:
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    Herc....

    Can you share the settings you used for this.... and maybe a verson of it as a normal quickie render?  I have been neglecting the NPR settings recently as I have purchased Dynamic Auto Painter and been having fun with it. Still using multipass, though. That's invaluable.  But I'd like to get back to using the Carrara NPR as DAP's Acrylic setting with Reactor is about as close as I can get to what I want to do with touch up in PS.  indecision  SIlene

     

    That is pretty cool what you have done there..

    What I do is set up any different elements of my scene and do a PR render out to PSD file with transparency background at nearly the highest render setting and a size around 3000 pixels.. eg. set render to highest at 1 pixel.

    Then I do the same using ToonPro! and cell shading

    Then I'll do the same again but using only the line render in ToonPro!

    Then I load up into PSE and start with blending, smart bluring and overlaying... This is where it comes down to experimenting and personal preferences on how you like it to look.. After a while it kind of develops into your own style.

    After all the compositing and blending I then resize the image down to around 1000 pixels or so which gives it the final look I'm after... that's why you render big postwork it then shrink it.

    Hope this helps out in some way... it takes a while to get the look you want then remembering the steps to get there is the challenge lol

     

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:
    SileneUK_Carrara said:
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    Herc....

    Can you share the settings you used for this.... and maybe a verson of it as a normal quickie render?  I have been neglecting the NPR settings recently as I have purchased Dynamic Auto Painter and been having fun with it. Still using multipass, though. That's invaluable.  But I'd like to get back to using the Carrara NPR as DAP's Acrylic setting with Reactor is about as close as I can get to what I want to do with touch up in PS.  indecision  SIlene

     

    That is pretty cool what you have done there..

    What I do is set up any different elements of my scene and do a PR render out to PSD file with transparency background at nearly the highest render setting and a size around 3000 pixels.. eg. set render to highest at 1 pixel.

    Then I do the same using ToonPro! and cell shading

    Then I'll do the same again but using only the line render in ToonPro!

    Then I load up into PSE and start with blending, smart bluring and overlaying... This is where it comes down to experimenting and personal preferences on how you like it to look.. After a while it kind of develops into your own style.

    After all the compositing and blending I then resize the image down to around 1000 pixels or so which gives it the final look I'm after... that's why you render big postwork it then shrink it.

    Hope this helps out in some way... it takes a while to get the look you want then remembering the steps to get there is the challenge lol

     

    Nice workflow !

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    SileneUK_Carrara said:
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    Herc....

    Can you share the settings you used for this.... and maybe a verson of it as a normal quickie render?  I have been neglecting the NPR settings recently as I have purchased Dynamic Auto Painter and been having fun with it. Still using multipass, though. That's invaluable.  But I'd like to get back to using the Carrara NPR as DAP's Acrylic setting with Reactor is about as close as I can get to what I want to do with touch up in PS.  indecision  SIlene

     

    Hello Silene

    I have been experimenting with different blends of Filter Forge, Topaz Studio, Foto Sketcher, Photo Donut, DAP, GMIC, Toon! part III, ToonPro and I still havn't found El Dorado either !!!

    Although there are a number of combinations that I prefer. What I like and what others would like is a case of personal preferences.

    The style you have got looks great to me, but it depends on if you want a photographic style, painting, hand drawn, or anything as long as it does not look like it was generated in a 3D program.

     

    My workflow is to generate a 2400 pixel render in Carrara, sometimes it will be photographic or a combination of GMIC/Toon! part III/ToonPro. Next I will do 4 or 5 different runs in one of the "modify" programs. When done I will pick the best three then blend them in PaintShopPro. Colour/brightness saturation/desaturation I do last of all.

     

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975

    Thanks, UB!! DAP is probably the most intuitive tool for this I have found yet. Maybe it's the example thumbnails on the different effects that drew me in showing its potential

    Stezza, that really helps as this thread is so extensive that I had trouble going back trying to mine some specifics from it.

    Bunyip,  I like the way I can blend photos (ones I take, or even from Streetview) with my 3D bits.  I am amazed at your combination of tools!  PSP?  I used that waaay before I had PS, but had to switch once I got into Creative Suite 2D grahpics workflow.   Like you, I want an illustrated look, not a 3D render look... I think it will be more appealing to young readers.

    Cheers all for the help!!  heartyes   Silene

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987
    edited February 2019

    Hi Silene, I am busy converting quite a few three d images (a book from 2012)  to more of a hand drawn look .

     

    Do you have an example of a style that you are trying to achieve?

    Having a clear idea of what style you want helps in deciding what treatments to give something.

    When I look at illustrations that are done traditionally I always try and ask myself how they are different to three dee work - 

     

    I'm keeping a clopse eye on this chaps work he is using Photodonut I think https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/308356/children-book-with-painted-daz-renders#latest

     

    Interesting Tutorials 

    interesting tutorial https://photoshoproadmap.com/create-car-illustration-effect-photo-photoshop/

    also a pointillist tutorial https://photoshoproadmap.com/photoshop-create-an-action-to-transform-your-photos-into-beautiful-impressionist-paintings/

    basic pencil sketch totorial https://photoshoproadmap.com/turn-your-photo-into-a-pencil-sketch-in-photoshop/?doing_wp_cron=1549862011.5392210483551025390625

     

     

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:
    SileneUK_Carrara said:
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    Herc....

    Can you share the settings you used for this.... and maybe a verson of it as a normal quickie render?  I have been neglecting the NPR settings recently as I have purchased Dynamic Auto Painter and been having fun with it. Still using multipass, though. That's invaluable.  But I'd like to get back to using the Carrara NPR as DAP's Acrylic setting with Reactor is about as close as I can get to what I want to do with touch up in PS.  indecision  SIlene

     

     

    That is pretty cool what you have done there..

    What I do is set up any different elements of my scene and do a PR render out to PSD file with transparency background at nearly the highest render setting and a size around 3000 pixels.. eg. set render to highest at 1 pixel.

    Then I do the same using ToonPro! and cell shading

    Then I'll do the same again but using only the line render in ToonPro!

    Then I load up into PSE and start with blending, smart bluring and overlaying... This is where it comes down to experimenting and personal preferences on how you like it to look.. After a while it kind of develops into your own style.

    After all the compositing and blending I then resize the image down to around 1000 pixels or so which gives it the final look I'm after... that's why you render big postwork it then shrink it.

    Hope this helps out in some way... it takes a while to get the look you want then remembering the steps to get there is the challenge lol

     

    nice woprk flow thanks for sharing stezza !

     

     

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

     

     guy called Gregor Mendel

    from the current challenge 

     

     

     

     

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    From the current challenge  a White Rhino - heavily retextured the Daz original, added a normal map and played with Photodonut Topaz Filter Forge and affinity Photo on the result

     

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,605
    edited February 2019

    Headwax looking great !!!!

    And one from me - Old Timer

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