I've been messing with daz3d a bit, but I'm still a beginner. I've read a bit about getting rid of graininess, and it seems there are two main fixes. One is to add more light, since it mostly happens in darker areas. But you can also render your image in a larger size, then load it up in an image editor, run a blur on the image, then scale it down to your desired size.
I've been messing with daz3d a bit, but I'm still a beginner. I've read a bit about getting rid of graininess, and it seems there are two main fixes. One is to add more light, since it mostly happens in darker areas. But you can also render your image in a larger size, then load it up in an image editor, run a blur on the image, then scale it down to your desired size.
For instance, if you're doing a 1920x1080 image, then render it in 7680x4320 first - that's 4 times the size on each axis. That's going to take a while. Once done, open the image up in an image editor, I use Gimp cos money. Gaussian blur, size 4, scale it down to 1920x1080 and save. Much better looking
Nope, even slower. I've read somewhere that if you render in higher resolution, you can end the rendering earlier. Then do the blurring etc, and it should still be better than rendering in normal size. Haven't tried it though.
A lot of people will tell you to do this, but in general don't do this and end it earlier, the quality will be about the same. If you render at a higher resolution to near completion than down size the quality will be better but if you end it earlier its hard to judge when its actually a good time to end it, can end really badly.
Honestly, just render to 100% completion. You need good hardware either way, its kind of unavoidable. Even at 100% completion you will get grain. To make sure the render looks right before the actual render use spot render tool to check, like just the face or something.
Forgot one more thing... use an expression package that creates realistic expressions. The smile can be hard to nail without it. Oh and good job on first try. You didn't use an hdri and attempted an actual in door render which is a lot harder than just hdri + outdoor.
