The Wizard Thomas Edison Invents The Electrical Light Bulb
Awesome lighting and composition. Great hands and face. For some reason, I would like to see the raven on the right shoulder also be looking at the light. But it is already fantastic without making any changes, and I'm sure that changes at this point are a major hassle.
You have completely nailed your own theme. :)
thanks very much! good idea on th er aven - I think I made him look at the viewere as a touch of the self reflexive!
Out of Body Experience second version. I animated the kid and hid everything else then rendered different frames of the animation and combined them in post
- after UB's comments
Headwax - Oh, wow, mesmerizing out of body effect. Hat tip to UB for the suggestion. Amazing execution
Life … being able to feel the wind in your hair, to hold a child in your arms, to smell a flower, to walk on a beach, to be aware of the curve of the Earth, to run our fingernails over a rock older than the beginning of time – all of these things, are Magical in one way or another.
What is magic about an old pine tree?
Glad you asked!
Way up in the mountains on the high timberline
Lives a twisted old tree called the Bristlecone Pine
The wind there is bitter, it cuts like a knife
And it keeps that tree holding on for dear life
But hold on it does, standing its ground
Standing as empires rise and fall down
When Jesus was gathering lambs to his fold
The tree was already a thousand years old
My favorite version of the song:
The Bristlecone Pine lives up to 5000 years, and is the world's oldest (nonclonal) tree. The resin is so dense that even when the tree dies (or parts of it die) it pertifies and lasts for several hundred more years. A Bristlecone only grows in a harsh environment, as it does not compete well with other kinds of plants. There are only two know places where it grows, both in the US.
Carrara processes include:
Plant editor
Terrain editor
Surface replicator (rocks)
Text editor
Ivy generator (Fenric)
Realistic sky
Adjustments to the tree trunk were made in the modeling room. Two distant lights were all that I used. No HDRI or GI. Ambient at 12%.
GMIC filters include Basic Color adjustments, Highlight Bloom, and Rain & Snow.
The antelope skull was an OBJ freebie. The grassy clumps were RDNA if I remember correctly.
No postwork.
UnifiedBrain - I am always amazed at what you achieve without postwork. Thanks for the GMIC filter tips. I just have never gotten the control of those features within Carrara the way you have. Wow.
The Wizard Thomas Edison Invents The Electrical Light Bulb
some wizard robes from daz, retextured and draped with VWD, rendered the background separately, was going to have some witches in the air still may or maybe not
prepost attached
used tone mapping and colour pass to bring back the lost textures, also 'glare' parameter in scene instance in assembly room
pre post
Headwax - but Edison stole credit for it! Ignore that, I am just being an a$s. This is a beautiful interpretation of the magic theme.
mschack - double kudos for the models and the shaders. Excellent modeling. Chosen surface materials help sell the realism of the instrument and butterfly.
stuff used
native content - moon face and lava ball
Nursoda fig Anceata
medieval brick pbr, hdr oblivian, roman tripod
learned today, applying old poser hand poses, carrara asks left or right
Misty - very convincing emission coming from the fireball the way it light the apprenctice face and moon face. Good lighting tevhnique. Pose, especilly head tilt, very natural
Most of the lighting in this is from caustics - light reflected from the central sphere.
you get the blobby effect by reducing the caustic's filter size in the render room
Andrew - now that is the darker theme to balance the other entries of cuteness. Excellent use of caustics. Render times of caustics often make me pause, but worth it.
Thank you Stezza, UnifiedBrain, Headwax, and Misty for the comments on mine. They are each only in a partial state of completeness and I've had to break down my main desk top for a move to Little Rock, Arkansas. Will be trying to finish from my laptop.
I went back to page 3. Sorry if I missed anyone, but I believe I commented on most images in the first two pages.
stuff used
native content - moon face and lava ball
Nursoda fig Anceata
medieval brick pbr, hdr oblivian, roman tripod
learned today, applying old poser hand poses, carrara asks left or right
Misty - very convincing emission coming from the fireball the way it light the apprenctice face and moon face. Good lighting tevhnique. Pose, especilly head tilt, very natural
Thanks. was tryin to get the lava light to warm their faces
Comments
Diomede - love the magic in your cyclopstritch render
UB - that gnarly tree looks fantastic
Headwax - Edison render looks great
mschack - colour of the butterfly really sings in that render
Misty - great render, apprentice looks the part
Thanks for the comments UnifiedBrain and Bunyip02!
I finally read more carefully and realized what you are doing. Very clever, looks like the real deal.
Bunyip, thank you for the nice comment.
My original plan was to finally - finally - do something with Genesis 3 and Philemo's PBR plugin, but I got a rude awakening. :(
Maybe I can do it with David 3 and Stephanie 3 (just to go to the other extreme). Carrara artists are nothing if not flexible.
thanks very much! good idea on th er aven - I think I made him look at the viewere as a touch of the self reflexive!
@Bunyip02, thank you!
classy image, flute looks spick and span, and I love the reference music - very clever !
beaut image, for a wip it looks almost finished!!! the moon is classic!
great to see some modelling and a great render to boot .. awesome
how cute is this... great work Mysty you're going great guns
Five Wizards and the Necromancer's Grimoire
Most of the lighting in this is from caustics - light reflected from the central sphere.
you get the blobby effect by reducing the caustic's filter size in the render room
all these are getting LoRenzo in the dance mood...
Magical Dance Moves using gel lighting and LoRenzo
just in time for saturday night !
Headwax - superb lighting, lovely render !!
Stezza - great seeing Lorenzo busting a move with the best of them !!
thanks :)
I've opened the Entry Thread here :) looking forward to seeing everyone's work in situ!
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/502466/carrara-challenge-58-it-s-a-kind-of-magic-entry-thread
magic dance. magical moves.
HeadWax - Well done again, Andrew. Love how you used post to adjust the shadows on the face especially the cheek.
Headwax - Oh, wow, mesmerizing out of body effect. Hat tip to UB for the suggestion. Amazing execution
Misty - liquidy funkadelicious - clever use of 'geoshell' or copy. Inspirational
Headwax - so cute. looks like a fun day. the expression is priceless.
Stezza - killer klowns from outer space - hilarious concept - would not want to tbe the little green person who encounters
Misty - Predatrons sets are amazing but are often too resource intensive for me. Id say your decisions delivered
UnifiedBrain - I am always amazed at what you achieve without postwork. Thanks for the GMIC filter tips. I just have never gotten the control of those features within Carrara the way you have. Wow.
Headwax - but Edison stole credit for it! Ignore that, I am just being an a$s. This is a beautiful interpretation of the magic theme.
mschack - double kudos for the models and the shaders. Excellent modeling. Chosen surface materials help sell the realism of the instrument and butterfly.
Misty - very convincing emission coming from the fireball the way it light the apprenctice face and moon face. Good lighting tevhnique. Pose, especilly head tilt, very natural
Andrew - now that is the darker theme to balance the other entries of cuteness. Excellent use of caustics. Render times of caustics often make me pause, but worth it.
Setzza - i am always amazed at the little references you include - like the Michael Jackson one glove detail. Lorenzo has the moves!
Thank you Stezza, UnifiedBrain, Headwax, and Misty for the comments on mine. They are each only in a partial state of completeness and I've had to break down my main desk top for a move to Little Rock, Arkansas. Will be trying to finish from my laptop.
I went back to page 3. Sorry if I missed anyone, but I believe I commented on most images in the first two pages.
Thanks. was tryin to get the lava light to warm their faces