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Thank you for your advice,
I never heard of the rule of odd, leading line or the don't cut limb one, I'm gonna give them a try for my next render !
I never heard of the rule of odd, leading line or the don't cut limb one, I'm gonna give them a try for my next render !
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I didn't mean every shot must be a "full body" composition, a 3/4 shot is fine, I agree. But there're many pictures which seem to show the full body (sometimes you can see the ankles or a part of the foot) but then it cuts off the rest of the foot.
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The rule of "don't cut off limbs" is no longer part in recent photographs. It is more transformed to, "Don't cut through joints"~ish. This baffled me too. I started with some borrowed guides from the local library when I was a kid. And read some newer guides since then, stuff like "always use a low ISO" also vanished, thanks to modern technology. And right now a lot of guides and schools take mobile phones into consideration as well. This craft will always be changing, which I consider a good thing.
But the most important rule will always be unchanged. "If you understand the meaning behind a rule, break it to improve your art."
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Thanks for the update. I know that some rules from about 30+ years ago may be obsolete today, but I still think, if your picture is showing "some" part of the limb, better not cut if off.
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Hey KlodowWW,
why the sad face? Did I pick one of your images? If I picked one of your images as a "bad" example, I didn't mean to offend! I hope you take my little rant about missing limbs just how I meant it, as an advice to make your future work even more beautiful!
Keep doing what you love to do, and please keep posting your images!
why the sad face? Did I pick one of your images? If I picked one of your images as a "bad" example, I didn't mean to offend! I hope you take my little rant about missing limbs just how I meant it, as an advice to make your future work even more beautiful!
Keep doing what you love to do, and please keep posting your images!
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I guess we never grew out of stuff we are used to. xD
The first three examples are also culprits of the "Don't cut through joints" rule. (knuckles, big toe, ankles)
I think we can both agree, that the latter two are showing how it should be done.
Hands and feet, in particular, are things, like the face, that shows us, as humans, expressions and feelings. So I think we can agree, that those two are important and shouldn't be the bodyparts that are cut off when everything else, attached to it, is shown.
As an example, when I shoot a close-up portrait, I hesitate to cut anywhere else than right beneath the armpits but above the breast. (I like a nice neck and shoulder line) Maybe I cut through the forehead but that depends on the model, haircut/-style, purpose of the image etc.
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In my experience. When making a setting I decide on what body part I am focusing on, then I try to pose the camera that gives focus on that body part, and if any other parts are cut off they should be cut in a way that helps the image in a hole. For example. if I am focusing on the waist area and the knees are going to be cut off, I try to position the camera so that it makes the cut off legs look like she is standing really close to the camera.
Bad pose because the breasts and Knees are cut off
Good Pose because the breasts and knees are not being cut off
Thats only how I do things.
Bad pose because the breasts and Knees are cut off
Good Pose because the breasts and knees are not being cut off
Thats only how I do things.
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I only posted about this pic because i saw you doing a lot of things over the weeks before. So i thought you were interested in trying to make it better. I think sometimes it is good to go back to old renders/pics someone did because they can improve it so much more!
Hope you get it some day tho
No problem with big answers. I do it all the time I think 
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Now you piqued my interest. Did you make her yourself? And if yes, how? Is she a G8F/G3F Character or totally original, with own mesh, UV etc.
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How did you make her so cartoony. shes amazing!!!!!!!!!
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Nothing wrong with a little Mother-Daughter Skinship.
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LMAO! The Cat's like "WTF are you doing!? what's my food!!!"
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"Android 4 has escaped, I repeat, android 4 has escaped."
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Yeah, I can feel you.^^ My last post has cut of feet too (and that is a realy bad cut in that picture). Funfact, I didn´t realise my renderframe was to small, I was way to tired, and after 1 hour rendering, I didn´t want to do it again, so I left it as it was. It was just a test and not important. that won´t happen again (at least If I don´t sleep again while doing renders xD)
Edit: Funfact 2 I checked my render (the one I didn´t denoise and edit) and there are no cut of feet, that means I fucked something up while editing what wasnt my intend. guess I should sleep more before doing work. meh.^^
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This is just my personal opinion: in the first picture I'd have cut the picture either at about half her thighs or below her knees, not just above her knees. But keep the guy's hand/fingers in mind -- I think you need to position your camera a little bit down and pointing more upwards. In the second picture the setting of the girl in the front is perfect IMO, but because you can see her mirror image and the feet are missing, I would adjust the camera angle, too (to not cut off her feet). The third picture is perfect.
But: if these are going to be images for a game, and you have i.e. some dialogue boxes at the bottom part of the picture, always check if you're satisfied with what you can see "behind" the text boxes (I know you can hide most textboxes, but I as a player still want to see a nice image even with the corresponding text).
And that's perfect! If I had to choose between your two pictures, I'd go 100% for the second one! You're focusing on the waist/belly, but nothing seems to be off. The first picture has too much legs/knees and some cut off breast as you already mentioned.
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So, finally started up the Ren'py (again) after a long time. I should really install the latest. I tried Tyranobuilder (because I don't need complicated shit), but I'm already used to the way Ren'py works from the limited experiments I've done with it in the past.
I liked Dating My Daughter, Parental Love... those are kind of the inspiration here. Except I gotta pare it all back to keep it as a simple project to get me working in the system.
Two main characters here. This test image is synthetic, again. Background is from a photograph, manipulated multiple ways. I do this to test the skin tone compatibility between my main characters.
Do they look like they exist in the same universe? Sometimes they just don't match up when you're working with materials from different artists. I think I've got the skins working together now. (There were experiments before this image.)
I liked Dating My Daughter, Parental Love... those are kind of the inspiration here. Except I gotta pare it all back to keep it as a simple project to get me working in the system.
Two main characters here. This test image is synthetic, again. Background is from a photograph, manipulated multiple ways. I do this to test the skin tone compatibility between my main characters.
Do they look like they exist in the same universe? Sometimes they just don't match up when you're working with materials from different artists. I think I've got the skins working together now. (There were experiments before this image.)
