Nature's Wonders Sneak Peek Thread

[Szark]

2 different lighting effects - I do like that even better, but I still like the other as well!

Thank you The light is the same just a different sun poisition...but this one is also less saturated which was pointed out in the first one. I must admit this one is more real for the less saturated colours. I do think the sun intensity could have done with increasing a little but I am happy to leave there and call it DONE.

nice work!

Thanks Ken thanks for the fun.

Looks like you have more reflective light into the shadow side of the face. This is an improvement, and the eye looks better as well.

Excellent work Szark!! Impressive attention to details.

And now that I look at them side by side, you've done quite a bit more than what I mentioned. Some very nice tweaking.

Thanks Chris. Yeah the difference in not having enough time and making time to do it better. The eye reflection gave the image title. To get lighter shadows in this image I just took Crush Blacks (Iray Tone Mapping Render Settings) down by .05 and left the Sun/Sky at default with Sun position by the Iray Sun Dial found in the Render Setting Preset Tab.

Posted new "On The Edge" image on fbook page.

Thank you Chris

Excellent rework Szark. I liked the original render, but loving this one even more.

Thank you Miss B

@Szark :


Chris said it!!!!

I spend hours posing, experimenting with lighting... I feel that detail work is so central to creating art that is as good as it can be!

Nice thing baout Iray is settting the sun position whilst having almost instant feedback.

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Volume II is out!


I should also alert everyone that there are updates to the Base Set and Volume I (if you bought them before today 12Aug16).

These updates correct a small issue in the CR2 when using the Gila Monster, some issues in the DAZ Studio version in both sets (regarding the GilaMonster morph) and include the missing skink from Volume I in both versions.

Got them and yet to install and play. I'm thinking Gila in Vue, with making a micromanagement..well shall see if I get the time.

 

[Szark]

If you want to see the eye reflections better you can see the full rendered size here On The Edge of Nowhere or here User Galleries | DAZ 3D Gallery | 3D Models and 3D Software by Daz 3D

I also forgot to mention that this image has no postwork done to it. No sharpening just saved out as PNG and resaved as jpg. Ok I did have the quality settings on really high and took 18 hours to render on CPU only.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

I'm moving to the 'Bluey' next... here's the male Eastern Collared Lizards in a full run... this lizard has the ability to run on it's hind legs like a dinosaur-- Vol. 3 will have a couple run poses included

 

[Rae134]

he's pretty Ken

 

[Miss B]

Oh, he's a colorful beauty Ken.

 

[Lorraine]

A ballerina lizard, too cute!

 

[Szark]

Ministry of Funny walks if you ask me

Black Necked Agama Vol 2 Again in DS/Iray

 

[sandman_max]

Any chance we'll get an iguana?

 

[Miss B]

Black Necked Agama Vol 2 Again in DS/Iray

Hot damn, that's another great render. Loving the DoF on this one.

 

[Miss B]

Any chance we'll get an iguana?

Oh, I would like that too.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Any chance we'll get an iguana?

Sorry,... probably not for a while... after the third volume of lizards I'm currently working on, I have one more Nature's Wonders set planned (a small desert environment similar to my Kiwi Burrow) and then back to bird projects for the rest of the year.

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Great render, Szark!

 

[Miss B]

OK, I'll wait. A bit impatiently perhaps, but I'll wait.

 

[Szark]

Hot damn, that's another great render. Loving the DoF on this one.

Thank you Miss B

Great render, Szark!

Thanks Ken. I am blaming you for not getting nay work done.

 

[Szark]

Chris I just noticed the newsletter (thanks for that) and the above image was titled btw. I called it "Man that is a long way up"

 

[Alisa]

Beautiful, Szark!

 

[Szark]

Thanks...my wife would disagree..oh you mean the image.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

More from Volume III wip... the Common Skink... btw .... hes's really, really small... measures a little over 2 inches in length (51.72 mm)

 

[Lorraine]

They are so tiny they fit in the toe of your seaboots! Fortunately I felt him wriggle before I crushed him and he lived to find another boot another day

 

[Ken Gilliland]

btw... I will be including the "tight circled" pose (shown in the image above) in the next set too

 

[Miss B]

Kewl Ken. He looks adorable.