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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548
    Szark said:

    just a quickie before bed. Trying to hone Iray mat conversions quickly

    SBRM Birds of Prey Vol 3 - Hawks of the New World

    Tree and background from Fern Lake http://www.daz3d.com/fern-lake

    Light: HDRI Skies of iRadiance - Sunny Sky HDRIs for Iray http://www.daz3d.com/skies-of-iradiance-sunny-sky-hdris-for-iray

    NIK Tools for Post 

    This is amazing.  Looks like a photograph

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    I do apologise Ice Dragon for the late reply. Been indisposed so much the PC has been off for a while until yesterday. Thank you... 

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    evilded777 asked on my Gallery Page http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/147151 "Garibaldi? Really? Yes Garibaldi exported as OBJ at level 4 and boy I am so glad I had 16 GB of Ram to play with. It wasn't easy and took about 20 odd hours to get it looking as it does. Adjust in one opened DS using 3DL to test and then export and import in to a second opened DS in Iray mode, copying surfaces settings ect. And after all that I still had to use the Geometry Editor Tool to remove some stray hairs and postwork to remove the remainder. 

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    added new link to the list on page one Add Figures in Specific Location of Scene

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Playing with Ken's new Lizard products 

    Also used 
    http://www.daz3d.com/the-enchanted-forest
    http://www.daz3d.com/return-to-the-enchanted-forest
    http://www.daz3d.com/fern-lake
    Daz Studio 4.9.2.70 and Iray
    Nik Tools for Detail sharpening only

    I took one of the plants from Return to the Enchanted Forest in Blender and gave it all Volume. I should have add some edge creases to the added Rim when I applied the Blender Solidify Modifier. Why? When I applied Sub-D in DS the rim around the leaf collapsed makng a sharper edge than I would have liked. 

     

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  • XaatXuunXaatXuun Posts: 873

    Nice . . if it wasn't for the dry eye,  I would probably swore that was a photo

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited August 2016

    Thanks. Yeah the eye has a lot of reflectivity on the shader so I am not sure what was happening there.

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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548
    Szark said:

    I do apologise Ice Dragon for the late reply. Been indisposed so much the PC has been off for a while until yesterday. Thank you... 

    No worries!  I do hope you are feeling better!  I do try and remember that people have a life that doesn't always involve extended time on the computer lol. 

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191
    Szark said:

    Playing with Ken's new Lizard products 

    Also used 
    http://www.daz3d.com/the-enchanted-forest
    http://www.daz3d.com/return-to-the-enchanted-forest
    http://www.daz3d.com/fern-lake
    Daz Studio 4.9.2.70 and Iray
    Nik Tools for Detail sharpening only

    I took one of the plants from Return to the Enchanted Forest in Blender and gave it all Volume. I should have add some edge creases to the added Rim when I applied the Blender Solidify Modifier. Why? When I applied Sub-D in DS the rim around the leaf collapsed makng a sharper edge than I would have liked. 

     

    Wow, awesome looking lizard!

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Ice Dragon Art Thanks yeah much better now, body and soul.

     

    XaatXuun found out why the eye looks so flat. Had a big honking tree trunk with the shadow side face the eye in the line of the reflection. As soon as I hid the tree the eye popped. So my surface settings were ok. Anyway I am redoing the whole image as I had some other feedback on Facebook. Thanks being honest, I really appreciate that.

     

    Knittingmommy yep Ken now does Moths and Lizards as well as Birds. 

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,947

    that lizard is awesome and with the DOF, the things you did to that plant and the light this is a wonderful render!

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Thank you Linwelly I do think the next version that is rendering now it better and more realistic in Saturation and Light. But I let others decde that for me. :)

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    I think you do such amazing rendering Szark so real like!!

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Saphirewild thank you

     

    Here is what I got after some excellent honest feedback. Thanks so much to those that did.

     Full rendered size here http://itiseyemeeszark.deviantart.com/art/On-The-Edge-of-Nowhere-627516767 No postwork. All Iray.

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  • Joe CotterJoe Cotter Posts: 3,259

    Wow, beautiful render Szark.

    The previous picture was not bad but the little bit of refinement really brought it together nicely. I would challenge anyone not knowing it was a render to pick it out as such. :)

  • XaatXuunXaatXuun Posts: 873
    Gedd said:

    Wow, beautiful render Szark.

    The previous picture was not bad but the little bit of refinement really brought it together nicely. I would challenge anyone not knowing it was a render to pick it out as such. :)

    Agree,

     awesome render

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    I agree with Gedd.  I'm still new enough that I don't always know what fine details might be off.  I thought the first one was amazing but the second one takes it the extra little bit to the next level.  But I wouldn't have been able to tell you that at this point because I don't always know if you know what I mean.

    You inspired me to go check out the lizards and while I didn't buy any of the lizards I did pick up an awesome African Hawk mini pack while I was checking it out.  Can't wait to use them they are amazingly detailed so thank you!  The lizards are on the wish list for now, until I can come up with some ideas for renders to justify buying them lol.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Thanks Gedd It helps when folks help with open and honest critique which I don't get much of these days in this forum. I suppose it is one of the reasons I don't post much anymore, one if the reasons. :)

    XaatXuun thank you

     

    Ice Dragon don't sweat it I am pretty much the same, critique is a hard one to get right.

     

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,947

    Nice work on the new version, I like the improvements a lot but I really liked the darker background plants and the bighter light on the little lizzard better in the first version. It had more of that tropical light feeling.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Yeah a bit more contrast. I should see what then new one would look like with the old sun position. Maybe one day. LOL

     

     

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  • XaatXuunXaatXuun Posts: 873
    Szark said:

    Yeah a bit more contrast. I should see what then new one would look like with the old sun position. Maybe one day. LOL

     

     

    Render or photo ?

    you didn't say anything, did you do that ?

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191
    Szark said:

    Saphirewild thank you

     

    Here is what I got after some excellent honest feedback. Thanks so much to those that did.

     Full rendered size here http://itiseyemeeszark.deviantart.com/art/On-The-Edge-of-Nowhere-627516767 No postwork. All Iray.

    Now that is a great looking lizard!  Nicely done on the eyes.  I think I'm going to have to go visit Ken's new shop at the Hive.  I haven't been over there recently, but I had most of his birds on my wishlist when he was over at RDNA.  This was the first I had seen of the lizards!

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    XaatXuun said:
    Szark said:

    Yeah a bit more contrast. I should see what then new one would look like with the old sun position. Maybe one day. LOL

     

     

    Render or photo ?

    you didn't say anything, did you do that ?

    LOL I just noticed I had forgotten to add some text. Yes DS Iray and yes I rendered it after some major Blender and Photoshop work on the tree to prepare it for Displacement,

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    Knittingmommy said:
    Szark said:

    Saphirewild thank you

     

    Here is what I got after some excellent honest feedback. Thanks so much to those that did.

     Full rendered size here http://itiseyemeeszark.deviantart.com/art/On-The-Edge-of-Nowhere-627516767 No postwork. All Iray.

    Now that is a great looking lizard!  Nicely done on the eyes.  I think I'm going to have to go visit Ken's new shop at the Hive.  I haven't been over there recently, but I had most of his birds on my wishlist when he was over at RDNA.  This was the first I had seen of the lizards!

    Thaank you. He has Vol 3 of the lizards coming out soon.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited August 2016

    Blum asked me on Facebook how I re-textered Stonemason's Fern Lake Tree branches for the above image and enquired if I used Substance Painter. This was my reply and gives you some idea of the work I do now when I do these attempts at realism. Ok it isn't prefect but it worked, sort of. :)

     

    I collect texture maps from all over the place, all free commercial use. Looking through my library I found a bark texture at 2000 X 3000, no bump map etc. SO I took it into Photoshop, messed about with the Hue and saturation and removed shadows and highlights. That was the base diffuse maps done. I then converted it to Grayscale ready for a Normal Map conversion in Gimp. Then the next process was to increase contrast to the Grayscale Bump/Normal base, applied some gaussian blur and that become a displacement map.

    The next job was to export the tree in to Blender, select the whole branch that the lizard is sitting on. Subdivided the mesh. Save out, Export back in to DS, Apply Sub-d and a Push Modifier to the tree to  counteract the Sub-D shrinkage that can occur. All this work gave me enough mesh to work with so the Displacement would work. The leaf in the foreground is there to hide the errors that come with making maps from a diffuse only map.

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    I was lucky enough to do a few promos for https://www.daz3d.com/new-york-brownstones after that was done I expanded one of the promos in to this 

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  • TabascoJackTabascoJack Posts: 865

    Pete,

      Congratulations on the Portfolio of the Week over at Cornucopia3d!  

     

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Thanks for that Jack I hadn't opened the newsleter until I saw this. 

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    I saw that too congrats!

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Thank you Ice Dragon

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