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http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Something I goofed off with today...V3 has gone to the jungle with her "pet"... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif (this is a closer look at a larger scene)
---Maya
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http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Something I goofed off with today...V3 has gone to the jungle with her "pet"... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif (this is a closer look at a larger scene)
---Maya
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...clsup2_174.jpg
Thats pretty cool Maya http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Has childrens book written all over it http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Very cool scene Maya, I like it a lot.
The cyc model is a wonderful thing. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Yet another winner! Can't wait to see the full scene if ths is just part of it.
Turan
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Thanks guys for giving this pic a look (for shame for shame, it's Poser, though, huh? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif -- lol -- I've happily got no shame/reputation to protect then!) http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Gees, I'm glad I gave Poser a try -- would be kicking myself now if I hadn't, or scorned it! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
Yep, this scene may be the start of an illustrated storyline. Would be a fantastic way to publish a beautifully illustrated book. Something like this could also be animated to film projects...
Hey Mike! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Yep, the cyc is pretty cool!
Try warming up youre key light a bit Maya and add some dark brown orange into the fill light.Its always a good idea to add some really dark blue into the shadow color and also adjust the light falloff and make sure the map size is large enough,unless its ray trace shadows http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Thanks for your ideas, but no. I like this lighting just fine! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif I started out with golden tinted lights but chose this instead on purpose. I don't care for the lighting you use in your images most of the time, Stu, no offense...but it just doesn't work. I prefer my own. So thanks, but no thanks. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Just my personal preference! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
---Maya
Dang, I gotta win the lottery so I can quit work and have time to learn how to use Poser and DAZ. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif I'm getting too old to skip sleep, not to mention too feeble minded http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
Excellent image Maya. You, Richard, and Mike are causing me to lose sleep trying to find all these neat tools, using a sloooooowwww dial-up http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Hey Soquili, thanks! Let's start buying those lottery tickets! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif I too am on a sloooowwww dial-up and know what you mean, I have to get most downlds burned to cd and wait on snailmail for the goodies to arrive.
Sorry to cause some lack of sleep -- I'm just nothing but trouble it seems! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Been so darned busy yesterday I totally missed this one.
Wow Maya!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif Gorgeous work. I love the entire scene! OK, which critter is that?? A DAZ critter?? Looks like something out of Dinotopia or something. Noggins bird looks good in the scene, adds a nice element of focus to the piece considering it's size!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif V3 looks good too!!
Soquili, I deal with a 56K dial up connection so I know where your coming from. It's all about making yourself useful around the house while downloading. I used to spend time just staring at the computer waiting, like that's going to make it go any faster!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif If not house work then maybe type out some emails or a text doc or play with Xara X or something. It's doable but you got keep your mind off of how slow it seems to be going with the download process, that and a good download manager works wonders!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
Maya, what were your lighting settings?? I like this very much. In DAZ Studio there are tricks to getting the backgrounds to render correctly but I don't have the time to learn all that right now. Got a new cell phone (my first! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif ) manual to read!! So I guess it's Poser or bust for now! How long did that render take you by the way??
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Hi Richard! You were up pretty late posting it looks like -- I know how moving preparations, etc. can certainly keep one busy around the clock too -- whew! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
I'm happy you like this one. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Ya know I've never seen the Dinotopia stuff, I know there's a book and it has something to do with dinos and people at the same time, but I have never picked up a copy or looked at those images. I don't know if this dino or scene is kinda like Dinotopia (?) but the idea of this little dino maybe along those lines. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Anyway this is the Tawhak and I loved it's features and everything about it--it is very expressive all around the face with eyes adjustable with expressions even, mouth, lips, nostrils, head crest and tongue fully posable too, the rest of the body also easily posable and the dino has elegant proportions and looks very alive. V3 had to be scaled down to 70% to fit properly or scale the dino up, but my scenery was rather vast in scale so I didn't want the characters so big I was stuck with only closeups. You could probably use Aiko with it very easily too if wanted. (I have the Dragon Princess in mind...that would maybe work.)
The lighting settings I'll have to email ya about as they are pretty complex -- let me know when I can email ya at your new place and I'll let ya in on how to do this if you want to. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif There's no way I could describe the settings in text here...but in spite of the complex lighting, the render time was (using the final Production setting and this was rendered with a dpi of 300 and a window image size of 800 x 600 I think it was) about 8 minutes. As I was just making a postable still image for forum use that's all I needed for here. I then made a forum sized one copied as .jpg "save for Web" in PS so the file size could be reduced as much as possible for posting. It showed pretty good detail even at such a small size for a 8 minute render like that, imo, but it can of course be made at much higher resolutions and sizes for printing. The background is a cyclorama so it's fully adjustable for positioning the characters within and you can get all sorts of camera angles in there and put the lighting wherever you like. I've added more vines, more plants could be added too but I didn't want the scene to get too heavy in geometry, (you could use PS for making the jungle even thicker though and have no extra geometry and render times)just looking for a quick image, it was a bit of a story idea I might continue with.
Well, like I said, let me know when I can email ya, and I'll pass along the lighting secrets. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Thanks for looking at this one, Richard, and the comments! Take it easy over there with the moving. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
---Maya
Great scene, Maya!
Love the lovely lady, on the lovely dino. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif This poser art is getting to be really advanced!
Almost makes me want to dig up my copy of Poser 4. Only (almost...) I had to uninstall - it was like crack cocaine (at least the way I imagine it being...) http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif Never truly got in to it, as I never had an "aha!" experience. I could also never make the lighting look good - always too much like plastic. But still couldn't stop fiddling...
It's also more time consuming than people in general think, to make something worthwhile.
I do however enjoy everyone here bouncing ideas around! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif
Great stuff!
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Thanks Risto! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Could be they'll be advising me to post a "Disclaimer" soon -- hey, might as well...
"Warning -- viewing Maya's posts can be hazardous to your health and well being!"
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Don't know how much longer I'll be here, but I've missed ya, didn't know you had an interest in 3D...thanks for the reply. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
Maya,Quote:
Don't know how much longer I'll be here, but I've missed ya, didn't know you had an interest in 3D...thanks for the reply.
Now what's THAT supposed to mean ... you going somewhere little lady http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
I like your little scene ... there is just something "finished" looking about a 3D scene, rather than a single object. I can't imagine how long that takes ... and don't have a clue what 3D artists do for a living ... much less a life http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif I spend WAY too much time messing with the uninspiring 1-1/2D that I do ... just can't imagine.
I realize I am bumping the high end of ancient ... but what is with the armor on this chick? It looks like the model designers went to great lengths to capture realism in everything except the armor "not quite" covering the business end of these models. Am I old fashioned ... or were the Middle Ages a lot more exciting than I thought?
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Ah Ed, you have such a way with words!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gifQuote:
Originally posted by OklaEd:
I realize I am bumping the high end of ancient ... but what is with the armor on this chick? It looks like the model designers went to great lengths to capture realism in everything except the armor "not quite" covering the business end of these models. Am I old fashioned ... or were the Middle Ages a lot more exciting than I thought?
Thanks for all your comments! Thanks also for the chuckles -- yeah, the Middle Ages were apparently a great deal more exciting than the dirty, brutish, and life-shortening era we've been taught of by the public education system it would seem, especially upon reflection of the modellers' creations... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif...an outfit as skimpy as this one would perhaps have to be endowed with magical powers or she's gonna get some scratches for sure! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif But I've got some good ol' frumpy armor I can put her in, too, that really looks like it would do a proper job. The whole Joan of Arc job. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
This was fun though. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
You can ask gidget (James) why they want me gone.
---Maya
James (me, gidgit) does not know of anybody wishing you be gone... personaly, I love your art, and usually find you to be a wonderful spirit with endless passion and energy... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
No I don't think so, where are you going?Quote:
why they want me gone.
I will be really bummed if you bail out.
Maya!Quote:
why they want me gone.
Granted, I'm not a "they" as I'm only one person... but it was only mentioned after my post. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif I sincerely hope I didn't offend you somehow with my post - it was truly not my intention. And I have now read my post 10 times, and I can't see where I could have given the wrong impression. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
Maya, you are a breath of fresh air whenever you post, and there is always have so much postive energy going around.
I second Mike's post!
No no Risto!!!! You have never ever said or done anything I would ever be offended by!!! You have always been one of my very favorite people I have the utmost admiration for!!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
My mistakes are my own. I really appreciate yours and Mike's comments about wishing me to stay, and I'm talking with James. Don't know what'll happen though. But thanks ever so much no matter how it turns out!!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
---Maya
well... I sure hope something good comes of this Maya http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
that James, why I aughta... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gifNo matter what, like you say, "it's all good." http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Thanks James for all your efforts. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
---Maya
Your welcome Maya... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
and yes, through it all it really can be all good...
this community rocks because of it's terrific members, and even though once in a while one or another can experience a off day, in the end we grow stronger together than we ever could individually...
[[[group hug]]]
now get the heck back to creat'n and sharing cool stuff all of you, what the heck yas standing around for hehe http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Thanks, Maya. *relieved*
Don't know who "they" are - but "they" should back the heck off! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/mad.gif
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Hi Risto! (love your avatar!) All is well -- I've been working on some new images, and over at another forum another member sent me some incredible helpful info and links for working with 3D stuff and a book suggestion, so I'm going to study all that to apply to my efforts to improve images more. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Great to see you here!!! Thanks! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
---Maya
Lurking and staying away from 3D for a while. This is addicting stuff that's wreaking havoc to my poor eyesight. But the recent posts are very unsettling. Who would want Maya out??? What's this all about? Gidgit? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif Hi Grafixman! Everything is fine -- some disputes was all, regarding giving crits/suggestions, gidgit (james) stepped in to moderate and edited one of my posts and one of the other person's, but my feeling that my crits/views weren't welcome on that thread I pulled all my posts off that person's thread entirely by my own decision -- gidgit wasn't the one who did that. I just didn't want to cause anymore disharmony there with my "views".
James/gidgit is a wonderful person. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif So that's all over with.
I'm not going anywhere! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Jump in here and join us with the 3D! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif I've been preoccupied today as my copy of Poser6 has finally arrived and I've installed it and have found it is really fantastic with the improvments and far beyond what I even expected! It's like a whole new app and so many wonderful new ways to do better lighting etc. On top of that some extremely kind member on another forum got me in touch with some wonderful tutes on c4d (by Carles Piles) lighting methods and directed me also to a fantastic book all about expert digital lighting and fx --- so I've ordered the book and just have been busy with all that good stuff. Will share more regarding those things soon. Thanks for your reply! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
---Maya
Hi Maya,
Glad it seems better here for ya. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif Your so loved here I think it would be a shame if you, as Mike put it, bailed out!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
Welp, got my house on it's way. What a day. Earned good money doin' hair, went out to dinner and relaxed and here I am at almost 1:00 AM eating chocolate chip cookies and milk and typing up a storm and wading through my un paid bills!!
Did you know that there is a way to recover old kitchen counters that have burns and scrapes?? Well there is and I had my most HIDEOUS bright yellow, stained and burned counter tops redone today in a lovely, nuetral almond color. It's now dry, all the kitchen stuff (dish strainer, microwave, coffee maker and blender) all back on top and I can't believe it's the same ugly counter. I did find out, the hard way, that I have bugs though. The guy had to leave my windows open to air the place out and I came home to about 10 mature mosquitoes and some fisher bugs crawling and flying all over the place. I can't afford to be bitten because of my immune system stuff so I had to hunt and kill and I hate doing that but it's me or them!! Seems good now! I need 5 screens made or my house will be like an oven this summer!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif More money!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
That's about it for updates on my end except for my copy of Poser 6 arrived yesterday afternoon ON TIME!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif No time to install and play but opened the box to read the manual. Nifty glossy fold out card with tips and stuff in living color. Manual is about twice and fat with info as Poser 5's manual and I got a free copy of Shade 3D as well as well as a disk filled with 3D content!! Looking forward to a mintue to get to it. Gotta pay those bills though!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
All the best to you all!!
Glad it's nothing serious, Maya.
I have the highest regards for Gidgit and all the moderators here at TG. It's not an easy job, settling disputes and moderating posts without creating bad feelings to those involved...
I think I'll limit my time in front of the PC. My eyes really need a break.
I don't know how you people manage to play with all those softwares you have. Richard, specially. How do you find the time to use all those stuff http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif? Here I am with my meager softwares and I already feel I'm spreading myself too thin...
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Thanks Grafixman!
I know what you mean,too, with all the apps there are to use = and how to find the time...my time, like everyone's, is pretty limited for doing artwork. With work, housekeeping, husband/family, pets, and other errands to do constantly...but somehow I find a few moments here and there to work with digital apps, but it's not easy. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Thanks Richard, too! I also got my copy of P6 yesterday afternoon and have started experimenting with it -- some great improvements! (I also got the free copy of Shade7 3d modeling app and the Winter Queen extras with P6 http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif) I haven't had any troubles yet in using the P5 Runtime within P6, also love the rendering and new lighting - WOW! Hope to try it all out more thoroughly and post something soon.
Glad you got moved into your new place -- didn't know about the counter resurfacing method, the almond color sounds great! Will email to ya soon with the links to the 3d lighting tut (it's C4D but you can use the method with Poser and other 3D apps)and that really excellent book on the whole topic. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
Thanks again! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
---Maya
Well I drop in here when I can. I am glad that you are not goin anywhere. we love to see your work here. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif
Thanks so much for those kind words, Bruce! How's the 3D and Xara art coming along -- we are hoping to see more of your works here soon too. Especially enjoyed that King Kong work! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Very cool!
---Maya http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif