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I LIKE! And I am very far from tired of horse cock stories
Looking forward to checking out the finished comic when you're done!
Looking forward to checking out the finished comic when you're done!
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Not bad tbh.
Wall is too bright and the position of the keylight might need to be closer to the camera (to light just a bit more of her face) but that's about it. Shadows might be too hard too but shadow-hardness is all preference/mood. Nothing inherently wrong with hard shadows.
But like, I don't see anything inherently wrong with the lighting. No goofy shadows, no double-shadows, no retina-searing highlights.
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I'm working on improving my DAZ3D skills by developing a character for possible comics. Her name is "Penny Powers", a smart and funny 19 year old gym rat and martial artist, who loves to dominate her opponents in the ring but enjoys being dominated sexually.Shape and poses are going to be mostly self-made, so the character doesn't look to generic in a comic. It'll be "Penny Powers", not "Eve for Victoria 8 starring as Blah in Bloob, using the collected pose works of Z" etc.
The facial expression in this example here isn't self-made, though, still working on expressions
- Nov 11, 2018
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I am in no way an expert when it comes to daz, but i'll try to help. The lighting is incredibly simple here, with only 1 spotlight aiming directly at her face.
Here i changed nothing about the face. No expressions of any kind, and it looks a bit like she is staring at you, almost wide-eyed. This is relatively unnatural for the real world.(i think)
Here i relaxed her eyes , making the expression a bit tired, but also more natural. Eyes are almost never wide open, unless you are shocked or surprised etc.
Here i just changed the angle a little bit, gave her a slight smile and moved one corner of the mouth up a bit. Her eyes are not relaxed, but both are 5-10% closed, matching the height of the eyebrows. This (i think at least
gives her a bit of a cheeky expression, as if she is slightly amused by whatever you just did or showed her.Play around a bit with the dials on the right of your screen and get the morphs for them. Look them up on the Daz store or on this site in the asset lists.
As for the lighting, or anything you want to learn about Daz.. i suggest watching the WP Guru on Youtube. He has a large number of videos on Daz in which he explains a lot:
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It's very easy, actually, once you go past the "but there are no lights loaded" first instinctive objection.
HDRI, that stands for "High Dynamic Range Image" are images, that load the entire range of lightness, from absolute zero (pitch black) to 100% luminosity (pure white). Unlike regular image formats, HDR goes beyond the industry standards on HSL values, making them not only a great creative way to produce real-like skies, but have them illuminate the scenery, on the exact same way the sky does in real life.
Applied to the "dome", their brightest region (there's almost always at least one very bright area on each HDRI image, for this very purpose) will act like the environmental light source. If it's an outdoors HDRI, that means "sun" or "moon", with the blue sky complimenting that light source for more even lighting overall.
There is one default HDRI image preloaded in DAZ, a very blurry outdoors HDRI, that will illuminate your scene, even with no lights included. Here's a fast example for this.
Wether you'd believe this, or not, there was no single light loaded for this, not even a camera, just rendered a quick, low settings V7, with a base pose, and some fast rendering hair. All light, and the shadows included was made from the default pre-built HDRI dome DAZ came with.
Now, the good news are, there are tons of free HDRI images to find online, or even full lighting sets, that combine HDRI with spot, pin, and omni lights, for DAZ.
One thing to know, if you'd use an HDRI only as a light source, and not as a lightsource AND background, is that you can rotate the dome, and move the light angle around to fit your needs.
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Since the game didn't give us a romance between cal and Merrin I took matters into my own hands to the best of my skill
- Mar 9, 2019
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Almost final version of Tianna. Will hopefully ill find the time to do a few renders with her in the next few weeks.
Feedback and critique is allways welcome.
Feedback and critique is allways welcome.
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Authentic and nice character, has got a lot of charisma and no boring "flawless" pinup bombshell but a real beauty. I like it
Especially the freckles on dark skin are a lovely touch.
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She looks great! Cute as hell!
Probably just my personal preferences speaking here but there's something about her nose though that seems off to me. The tip of it looks a bit flattened, like she's pressing it against a window or something.
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It's simply an authentic nose for someone with African herritage. In various regions in Africa this nose is so normal, they would probably say the same thing you said here about you, in case you have a "normal" western nose ;D
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You're right and I'm fully aware of the heritage part. I didn't mean imply that it should be changed to a western nose. It was more of a subtle detail that caught my attention. She looks great, nose and all.
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you know you can critique something without feeling like you're being racist? Honestly I agree with your first opinion before you back-peddled. Her Nose does look squished and flat. Compare her nose to say, Darcy 8, and yeah, the point looks too flat.
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and sure, not all black people look the same, but there is a difference between having a black nose and looking like you got hit in the face with a frying pan. (ok that was harsh, but the sentiment is the same.)
Edit: More examples of Black noses:
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Wasn't concerned with being perceived as racist at all. Since it wasn't the OP that responded to my comment, I didn't see the point in debating it.
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God! I hope that's the case. kuz there are some people out there that suddenly backpedal at the mere hint of racial push back. They go into full on panic mode and tbh that shit is just sad and honorless. Like you feel so emotionally fragile that you need to pre-apologize so you don't come off as a racist? I say stick to your beliefs. If your standpoint is NOT coming from a place of race, don't feel like you need to go on the defensive. Shit is wack!
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Still tweaking my tonemapping settings, but it is slowly getting there. Here's a non-nude kinda intro image of my "Penny Powers" character at the gym.
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Saw someone in discord recently taking credit for others works, so decided I need to make a watermark. This is just a quick DIY until I learn how to use Photoshop better to make a stylized one.