3D-Daz Daz3d Art - Show Us Your DazSkill

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Willibrordus

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This is my new and improved version of one of my previous Arts.
I have re-skinned Ahsoka with my proper skintextures for her instead of that plastic looking orange.
I had to redesign the light setup too since that was originally adapted to that darker orange skintone.
I'm losing a little texture detail on the clothes but overall this update has a more realistic light and an exponentially better skincolour/texture.

Thanks Virtual Merc for the tip to improve the red lightsaber look.

For reference here's the original again.
Ahsoka vs Darth Maul 01c.jpg
 
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Virtual Merc

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This is my new and improved version of one of my previous Arts.
I have re-skinned Ahsoka with my proper skintextures for her instead of that plastic looking orange.
I had to redesign the light setup too since that was originally adapted to that darker orange skintone.
I'm losing a little texture detail on the clothes but overall this update has a more realistic light and an exponentially better skincolour/texture.

For reference here's the original again.
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the trick to lightsabers is the center of the blade is always nearly white, try reducing the saturation on the red blade but keep the red glow, you're pretty much there with ahsoka's blades.
edit: much better now (y)
 
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Willibrordus

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the trick to lightsabers is the center of the blade is always nearly white, try reducing the saturation on the red blade but keep the red glow, you're pretty much there with ahsoka's blades.
Ahsoka's blades are different from Maul's.
Ahsoka's sabers are made up of an almost white core with a Blue translucent emissive sleeve over it.
Mauls is made up of crossing flat planes with emissive properties.
But they don't have enough bloom of themselves in the render and I don't want to mess with bloom settings since that will bloom all the highlights in the entire frame and I don't want that.
The glow effect on the sabers, both blue and red, are fully made in Photoshop.
Maybe I should add another layer with the blade cores lighter?
 

Virtual Merc

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Ahsoka's blades are different from Maul's.
Ahsoka's sabers are made up of an almost white core with a Blue translucent emissive sleeve over it.
Mauls is made up of crossing flat planes with emissive properties.
But they don't have enough bloom of themselves in the render and I don't want to mess with bloom settings since that will bloom all the highlights in the entire frame and I don't want that.
The glow effect on the sabers, both blue and red, are fully made in Photoshop.
Maybe I should add another layer with the blade cores lighter?
If you can change just the core blade in photoshop it should fix it, depends on your PS skill, that would require too much precision for me I suck at PS. next time you render instead of making the emitter red try keeping it white but turning down the temperature to 1000K for red and 12000k for blue.
 
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atheran

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Ahsoka's blades are different from Maul's.
Ahsoka's sabers are made up of an almost white core with a Blue translucent emissive sleeve over it.
Mauls is made up of crossing flat planes with emissive properties.
But they don't have enough bloom of themselves in the render and I don't want to mess with bloom settings since that will bloom all the highlights in the entire frame and I don't want that.
The glow effect on the sabers, both blue and red, are fully made in Photoshop.
Maybe I should add another layer with the blade cores lighter?
Personally I'd make it a proper mesh for the blades with a strong emissive material on it. Never worked on a lightsaber but a couple of renders ago, I did that with the neon circle behind the character. You'll spend some time with trying to figure out the emissive strength, but I think it's more accurate than photoshoping it. You'll get both the white core as well as the falloff that way. The radius of the glow won't probably be enough for your purposes and you'll have to adjust that in post, because daz is weird with the lights, but the blades themselves would look much better.
 

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