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JGSTYLE's World of Renders

JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
edited December 1969 in Art Studio

After lurking about and checking out everyone's cool art, I thought I should finally start up my own art thread. Daz Studio has helped me realize a lot of the art I see in my head, but could never get down on paper.

This one is for a story I wrote. I kept seeing this scene in my head as I was writing it, so I took a break from the text, fired up Daz and went to work on this.

I wrote up some of my process in more detail for those who might be interested: http://hype3d.com/the-cold-elf-daz-studio-photoshop/.

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  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    edited December 1969

    jgstyle said:
    After lurking about and checking out everyone's cool art, I thought I should finally start up my own art thread. Daz Studio has helped me realize a lot of the art I see in my head, but could never get down on paper.

    This one is for a story I wrote. I kept seeing this scene in my head as I was writing it, so I took a break from the text, fired up Daz and went to work on this.

    I wrote up some of my process in more detail for those who might be interested: http://hype3d.com/the-cold-elf-daz-studio-photoshop/.

    great job !

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Very Nice work. I like the style.

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Thanks guys! I appreciate the compliments

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Marvel Comics super-hero Nova.

    There's actually a new Nova now, so I'll probably do one of him, too.

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  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    A character of mine from a comic series I'm working on. I might have went a little overboard on the bump mapping on his face. I'll make sure to tone it down next time.

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  • Three WishesThree Wishes Posts: 471
    edited December 1969

    I love the fact that you share your WIPs and your experimental rationales on your 3d site. That's a significant boon to the community.

  • LomrikLomrik Posts: 53
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    Very Nice work. I like the style.

    I agree with Jaderail, great work and cool style.

  • 3dLux3dLux Posts: 1,231
    edited December 1969

    Welcome to the Art Studio, jg :-)

    Jaderail said:
    Very Nice work. I like the style.

    dhtapp said:
    I love the fact that you share your WIPs and your experimental rationales on your 3d site. That's a significant boon to the community.

    What they said! And your comics are very cinematic and well written. Bravo! :)

    Marvel Comics super-hero Nova.

    There's actually a new Nova now, so I'll probably do one of him, too.

    Apologies if you already know this, you might be interested in these comics-orientated threads. The original was split off after 100 pages, as is the practice here. The reboot is coming along nicely if you want to share your Nova and Power Girl :cheese:

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Thanks again everyone! Those kind words are much appreciated!

    dhtapp said:
    I love the fact that you share your WIPs and your experimental rationales on your 3d site. That's a significant boon to the community.

    Yeah, that's what I was going for. Anytime I come up with anything that could help a fellow 3D artist, I'm going to post it up there. Not that I have all the answers or anything, but every little bit might help.

    Apologies if you already know this, you might be interested in these comics-orientated threads. The original was split off after 100 pages, as is the practice here. The reboot is coming along nicely if you want to share your Nova and Power Girl

    I actually did not know about those threads, so thank you for the links. I'm off to peruse and post now! :)

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited December 1969

    I actually really like the bump mapping on the face, on both the portraits. It's your style to have crisp details for those- if you like it, keep it! The overall feel of all your work is dynamic and EXCITING! Kudos! And post more :)
    cathie

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Novica said:
    The overall feel of all your work is dynamic and EXCITING! Kudos! And post more :)
    cathie

    Thanks Novica! That's what I was going for :)

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Here's a sci-fi character of mine named Niva. I have a post about her up on my 3D site that I did earlier this year. The image in this forum post is recently updated. When I looked at the first image, I felt like I didn't push it far enough, so I went back into Photoshop and added some more textures, really hit those levels to add some punch, and juiced up the saturation a bit.

    The reason it looks so off balance is because I'm going to add some text off to the left. The original text I planned to use ended up looking stupid, so I removed it. I'll come up with something later...

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  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Ok second try. Not sure why this forum eats some of my posts...

    Anyway, here's the earlier version of Niva, so you don't have to go all the way to my site to compare it. You can see this version is less vibrant and less developed than the image in the previous post...

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  • EamonEamon Posts: 159
    edited December 1969

    I especially like the Nova one! :)

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Eamon said:
    I especially like the Nova one! :)

    Thanks Eamon! I definitely had a blast doing that one.

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    I posted this one in the Teleblender thread a few months back.

    This is the nameless elf from my "Life-Taker" comic. I decided to do another render of her from Blender.

    I added Blender particle hair but kind of screwed it up. I know how to fix it now, so next time I use it I should be able to make it behave better.

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  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Here's that first elf again in a scene from my ebook "The Cold Elf". This one was rendered in Daz Studio with Photoshop postwork.

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  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    This is the cover to "The Cold Elf" ebook.

    I modeled the title text in Blender and rendered it from there using Cycles.

    From there, I dropped that in place in Photoshop, cropped in really close on the Elf's face, and added my author text in Photoshop.

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  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    I posted this one in this month's PC Inspiration Contest as well, and thought I'd show it here, too.

    “We know who the bad guys are. We know where they are. Now…let’s go save the world.”

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  • 3dLux3dLux Posts: 1,231
    edited December 1969

    jgstyle said:
    I posted this one in the Teleblender thread a few months back.

    This is the nameless elf from my "Life-Taker" comic. I decided to do another render of her from Blender.

    I added Blender particle hair but kind of screwed it up. I know how to fix it now, so next time I use it I should be able to make it behave better.

    I don't know my my subscription to this thread (and others) is borked :vampire:

    Regardless, this is amazing! Bravo! :coolsmile:

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    I've been doing some work with a site called Steampunkgoggles.com, and I used Daz for most of the artwork.

    They wanted a character wearing their logo, so I came up with this one. It's a combined Daz Studio and Blender effort.

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  • gandoza.wiregandoza.wire Posts: 10
    edited December 1969

    Looking very nice sofar! one of my favourite

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    gandoza.wire said:
    Looking very nice sofar! one of my favourite

    Thanks much, Gandoza!

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    This is another piece I did for the steampunkgoggles.com website recently.

    I made up this comic video for them using Daz Studio and iMovie. It's not truly "animated", or I would have placed it in the animation subforum, but I had fun doing it and it came out better than I expected:

    Steampunkgoggles - The Comic Movie

    Besides Daz, I ended up using Illustrator, Photoshop and iMovie to make it.

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  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Superior Spider-Man.

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  • TrishTrish Posts: 2,625
    edited December 1969

    Really nice work...love your style...Trish

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Thanks much Trish!

  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Here's another shot of the main character Jorr from my fantasy ebook The Cold Elf (http://thecoldelf.com/).

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  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Havok of the X-Men.

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  • JOHNGARRETTJOHNGARRETT Posts: 127
    edited December 1969

    Icon from DC Comics. Setup and posed in Daz, rendered it in Blender using the Cycles renderer.

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