Fan Art Dreams of Desire - Fan Art

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Xpressive

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Tracy, like a real vampire, does not cast a shadow! That's what means as a base model...
When a background is used where the shadows are not present the character casting them would have looked odd. Hence no shadows. If you want you could do that in Environment section of render settings
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AlexStone

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When a background is used where the shadows are not present the character casting them would have looked odd. Hence no shadows. If you want you could do that in Environment section of render settings
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In my photorealistic renders I am very fond of 'soft' light, which gives almost no harsh shadows. But this 'almost' is the most important element. A very faint but still distinguishable shadow under the character makes the render come alive, otherwise the figure looks like it's cut out of a newspaper article and just pasted onto the background in a wall calendar.

And sometimes you can bring a picture to life in other ways. For example, I like reflections in puddles, they also make parts of the renders relate to each other.

Just a tip, nothing more. By no means a criticism or a grumbling.
 

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In my photorealistic renders I am very fond of 'soft' light, which gives almost no harsh shadows. But this 'almost' is the most important element. A very faint but still distinguishable shadow under the character makes the render come alive, otherwise the figure looks like it's cut out of a newspaper article and just pasted onto the background in a wall calendar.

And sometimes you can bring a picture to life in other ways. For example, I like reflections in puddles, they also make parts of the renders relate to each other.

Just a tip, nothing more. By no means a criticism or a grumbling.
Thanks mate. I agree that shadows make a good impression in reners and I do use shadows in my renders wherever make sense. In this particular case the background I used was a picture which had no shadows, so if I would have used the shadow for Tracy it would looked odd again as there is no shadow casted by other objects in scene.
 
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tomyboy06

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If I remember correctly I used two spot lights. On the left was a bright yellowish 50W 50H and on the right a red 10W 50H.
It was something similar.
 
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