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Having kinda nailed that 'toon' soft shadows look in my last post, I'm kinda ready to move on to more challenging renders.
The soft focus stylised art totally hides a multitude of rendering sins. Not so much when you start using hard shadows though.
Recently I've discovered an amazing source of HDRI's. And have been getting to grips with those. It's highlighted that I REALLY need to get to grips with how skin is rendered. So that's what I shall be doing. You can see below where I've just used an off the shelf skin 'as is', and it's not so good. It's way better than the toon skins, but that was on purpose. I'm going for a render that you couldn't tell it wasn't a photo.
If that is possible, well, let's find out. But I'm loving those HDRI's. Add a few key lights, and rim lights alongside it, and I believe it possible.
The soft focus stylised art totally hides a multitude of rendering sins. Not so much when you start using hard shadows though.
Recently I've discovered an amazing source of HDRI's. And have been getting to grips with those. It's highlighted that I REALLY need to get to grips with how skin is rendered. So that's what I shall be doing. You can see below where I've just used an off the shelf skin 'as is', and it's not so good. It's way better than the toon skins, but that was on purpose. I'm going for a render that you couldn't tell it wasn't a photo.
If that is possible, well, let's find out. But I'm loving those HDRI's. Add a few key lights, and rim lights alongside it, and I believe it possible.
But just in case you was on the fence about HDRI's being the best way to light a subject. Checkout this monster.
All I did was position in the scene, rotate dome, and it just looks like it belongs...
All I did was position in the scene, rotate dome, and it just looks like it belongs...
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Came back to it! Editing the hair in Blender was slow but much easier than slider hell.
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Going to use this as Game menu image for the game I am working on.
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Test Render* for the next chapter** of the game.
Salute!
*The bear's name is Mr. Tibbington. And he approves. Oh yes...he approves!
**Developer's Note: This is not your daughter. In fact, there is no daughter in the game. Just the neighbor's daughter...who live with you...because, you know. Parents...travel and stuff...and leave her home...with you...at your house...all the time...
Salute!
*The bear's name is Mr. Tibbington. And he approves. Oh yes...he approves!
**Developer's Note: This is not your daughter. In fact, there is no daughter in the game. Just the neighbor's daughter...who live with you...because, you know. Parents...travel and stuff...and leave her home...with you...at your house...all the time...
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not a Good day Today with renders only this Today Lisa From Become a Rockstar
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