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So this is one of my characters I made in Daz recently.
No post-processing.
Do you think I should add backdrop(background?) or not ? Feedback is appreciated.
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No post-processing.
Do you think I should add backdrop(background?) or not ? Feedback is appreciated.
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Her head seems a little small for her body. Otherwise, very nice
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As soon as i saw the desert enviroment i had to do something with it. 
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That was on purpose. The background was grey to balance out colors and intensity. They teach you that in color theory. White washes out color and blacks darken them. Grey is your neutral. I just can't find a good background that works for me that isn't a fully rendered environment.Try using backgrounds(HDRI/Environments). The last couple of your renders had a plain white background.
Otherwise your renders are good.
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Very nice! What asset does that skin texture come from?
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You should really use at least two spotlights so you don't get those hard shadows and the difference between parts of her body lit by the hdri and the shadows it makes isn't so big
Also maybe increase luminosity of the spotlight it might be too weak for that hdri.
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Ye HDRIs are great.. but especially if the light comes from an angle that the model casts shadows on itself you really need additional light sources.. lighting was my biggest struggle when I was starting out with DAZ but getting it right really does a world of difference.
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Looks like OOT Leony hair.
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I'd start with the lighting..
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This helped me a lot from beginning to get the general idea.
I'd say post-work is very important. It just makes a ton of difference and it's not all that complicated. Best is I'd say adobe lightroom and you even have some basic presets there already ready so you just import the pictures and see what result you like the most and then when you are one day not feeling lazy you can play with the settings yourself and make your own presets for each scene.
Without postwork:
with postwork:
Also here's your picture with very simple post-work that takes like 2-3 minutes time . And I don't know if you saved it from daz as jpg or converted after but you should use PNG or TIFF they are way better .
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The Buck Family.
An idea for a novella I want to work on.
An idea for a novella I want to work on.
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If you want simple backgrounds to mess around with you might want to look at environment assets that mirror more of what you see in photo studios. They will have full environments but the nice thing is you can pull out just the items you need. So this gives you a lot more flexibility. Here's a few I've used to give you some ideas:
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(Images #1 & #2) - I use the backdrop from this a lot. Literally just that item. Great for when I'm doing smaller scene setups.2: If you might need larger setups then cycloramas could help. The one in image #3 came from
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and #4 was from
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.3: If you want something with a bit more 'pizazz' then
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could be a fun one to play with (image #5). Some of the example images they have there are a bit "extra". But you can just work with the backdrop and and materials. What's really fun with this one is that you can mess with the horizontal/vertical tiling and offsets of the backdrop surfaces to get different looks.4: Make your own backdrop! I made a 'studio' with just five really large plane primitives and made them gloss black so I had something I could use when I had an idea where I really wanted to mess with light reflectivity (images #6 and #7).
The nice thing about all these items: you don't have to use the default materials! For image #2 I knew I had a color in mind but wanted more texture to the backdrop. So i started messing around with some fabric shaders I had. And this random knit fabric shader gave me that result.
Hopefully this might give you some ideas. The fact that you mentioned color theory spurred me to offer this info up since I do utilize it quite a bit with my work. And simple scene setups seem to help me with that.
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