3D-Daz Daz3d Art - Show Us Your DazSkill

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Balkazzaar

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Okey how long did these renders take to actually render? With this many characters? Also if you have tips on how to effectively render crowds like this it would be very very welcome! This looks dope!
I think he is using one of the now-crowd packages. Not sure. But one of the possibilities.
 
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DitaVonTease

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Okey how long did these renders take to actually render? With this many characters? Also if you have tips on how to effectively render crowds like this it would be very very welcome! This looks dope!

I think he is using one of the now-crowd packages. Not sure. But one of the possibilities.
Or small groups placed within the scene, with the same lighting, camera angles etc, just no set, then rendered as .png's, then put together in ye olde PhotoShoppe, Gimp, Krita or similar.....
 

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''Granny Succubus'', Base figure OlivyaMay, with Medusa SnakeBall, Cock-O-Rama Proboscis Cock & Tongue. Body Harness Redux, Umbra Shoes, SY's Fantabulous Fog Iray & PixelTizzyFit's Legendary Lights.....And ''Featuring More Morphs than you can shake a stick at''..... ''Granny Succubus''.png
 
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BravoMDB

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Thanks! i'll definitely check that out!
I'm not so sure that he is using a crowd package, I don't recall any of them having Halloween party theme (I could be wrong of course).

Other options available are that you can create your own billboard characters and use them in a scene, I've taken that approach before in the past.

I also noticed in the images shown that there were no shadows being cast, so I suspect that in this instance it is just a case of layering images. Render the background, and then render the characters in multiple passes without a background, and then just layer the images in whatever post editing tool you decide to use. I've used this approach with animations where I wanted to have a lot of characters moving about within an environment; Although I layer those rendered files using Davinci Resolve, but the same approach can be performed in Photoshop or any app that supports layers. If the characters need to cast shadows, then that can be achieved by using an Iray Matte. Or alternatively just add shadows in Photoshop as part of the post process work.
 

atheran

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If the characters need to cast shadows, then that can be achieved by using an Iray Matte. Or alternatively just add shadows in Photoshop as part of the post process work.
Couldn't you catch the shadows on a canvas while rendering the billboards? One by one, then use the same technique to layer them in photoshop or your post editor of choice?
 
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