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Building my portfolio
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Ooooo!!! I do like this second go much better than the first! Gives a lot more openness and sparkle to the air and the whole environment.
And yes I am one who most definitely uses "texturizer" in Photoshop as the last step on almost all of my own personal work as I want to go for a more painterly look to my work over photorealism. Then calibrated and printed on a digital fine art paper stock like Hahnemuhle Bamboo one can get a very deep and rich effect.
And yes I am one who most definitely uses "texturizer" in Photoshop as the last step on almost all of my own personal work as I want to go for a more painterly look to my work over photorealism. Then calibrated and printed on a digital fine art paper stock like Hahnemuhle Bamboo one can get a very deep and rich effect.
It's been a long time since I've done "just" 2D artwork, but Texturizer used to be my fave filter, both in my old Paint Shop Pro versions 6 and 7, as well as Photoshop versions 5.5, 7 and eventually CS2, especially when I was making tiling textures.
It's been a long time since I've done "just" 2D artwork, but Texturizer used to be my fave filter, both in my old Paint Shop Pro versions 6 and 7, as well as Photoshop versions 5.5, 7 and eventually CS2, especially when I was making tiling textures.
Yes a very handy filter in PS- I use the sandstone setting at various scales, depths and angles depending on the piece and it's size.
VortigensBane
Busy Bee
Loved the ship elsewhere, love it here just as much; just had to find it.
Love the remake too.
I add Fibers 2 as a Pattern Overlay using the Layer Style to my final merged layer.
No one could ever accuse me of going after photorealism :wink:
I add Fibers 2 as a Pattern Overlay using the Layer Style to my final merged layer.
No one could ever accuse me of going after photorealism :wink:
Szark, what can I say, you have eyes of a hawk. Indeed, that's the spot where grain is most visible....if magnified enough. But don't get me wrong. I always appreciate a constructive critique.
That particular image took close to 5 hours to cook on my machine,which I considered enough for the intended purpose. I think it also got amplified along with the size reduction and conversion to jpeg, so I could post it in the forum and gallery. My personal perception is that most of the time, depending of the intended purpose of course, technical perfection is less important than the artistry and emotion conveyed through a particular art medium. This is what moves us in the end.
That particular image took close to 5 hours to cook on my machine,which I considered enough for the intended purpose. I think it also got amplified along with the size reduction and conversion to jpeg, so I could post it in the forum and gallery. My personal perception is that most of the time, depending of the intended purpose of course, technical perfection is less important than the artistry and emotion conveyed through a particular art medium. This is what moves us in the end.
Beautiful image. And I applaud your view on the technical perfection end of things, I wish I could emulate it. This is just a beautiful image, and I can see a lot of technical skill that went into it. It's funny, I didn't notice the graininess, but I noticed some pixelation on the rigging of the ship, probably because I was trying to get rid of some similar edges in a render I was working on and I can't always let go of the aiming for technical perfection aspect of things.
It's also interesting because I think different people will see different things like that depending on what they work on in their own artwork. Had I not just been trying to get something like that out of a render of my own, I don't think I would ever had seen it. Also this isn't so much meant as a critique, just a reflection on what we see in our own work, and how that reflects on what we see in others work.
Yikes! I'd die if all my renders were 10 or more hours! I grumble when it just takes an hour or so.
VortigensBane
Busy Bee
I feel your pain, for it is mine as well. 15 hours seems lightning fast...
Yup, transparencies are the bane of any (and all) 3D renders.
I think the longest render I had with Superfly was about 3 hours, but I cringe every time I read someone rendered an image "overnight" and it wasn't done when they woke up in the morning. ~sheesh~
Most of my renders now are around 30-40 minutes, but then again, I don't have a GPU so leave Branch Path Tracing unchecked, which probably helps.
I think the longest render I had with Superfly was about 3 hours, but I cringe every time I read someone rendered an image "overnight" and it wasn't done when they woke up in the morning. ~sheesh~
Most of my renders now are around 30-40 minutes, but then again, I don't have a GPU so leave Branch Path Tracing unchecked, which probably helps.