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Carrara Challenge #28: “Marriage” WIP Thread

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,168

    This might get deleted, but it is offered for its educational value for our buddies across the pond, not for its commercial status.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,551
    TangoAlpha said:

    Been spared that. For a long time I thought a Twinkie was something rude . . . (still never had one)

    Yup... they're rude alright!

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,551
    FifthElement said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    diomede said:

    Thanks.  Click on this to see at higher render settings (caustics for the refleciton).  I think the chocolate is working pretty well.  Still trying to get the peanut butter right.  Might need to replicate a few crumbs.

    I tried one of those for the first time last week (they're not generally available in this country) - yum indeed! smiley

    I been living in USA for more then 20 years and I still do not like peanut butter, lol, Fact: they have the worst commercials on the TV I have ever seen laugh

    Yeah... I've never left this country (US) and I don't watch TV - mostly because of those dreaded freaking stupid commercials! Argh!

    Love Peanut Butter though! That's a US thing?

    I keep a good stock of PB on hand - and recently started putting globs of it on a branch outside for the squirrel, whom just loves the stuff now too! He doesn't even move away when I come out with the jar anymore - so we sit together and enjoy PB! Pals!

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,551
    wgdjohn said:
    diomede said:

    Still trying to get the peanut butter right.  Might need to replicate a few crumbs.

    What is going on with the vertical lines in the peanut butter?  If I were doing this I'd use a lot of Bump... perhaps make a tug here and there to give some parts a very uneven look. I buy plenty of indiviual packed peanut butter cups for the kids each Haloween and end up finishing off what's left over. I usually break them in half instead of biting into them... then eat one half a pb cup at a time. Mmmm... almost that time of year.

    Teeth marks, they look like to me

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    Dart, you should see the world while it's still here: we got . . . stuff! laugh

    @Diomede I'm saying nothing!

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,051
    edited October 2016

    Peanut Butter is great to use on mouse and rat traps.. gets them every time yes

     

     

    actually that has just given me an idea for the challenge devil

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,168
    edited October 2016

    And here is a start on a more traditional project.

    I loaded the skirt twice and then applied a lace texture map to the alpha map of the outer skirt. 

    The G2F is wearing the pincess gown by cute3d.  All the textures had to be redone.  The veil is a vertex object.  The G2M is wearing the Edwardian evening suit for David 3 with shaders redone.  The flowers are by Lisa Botanicals (morphed to fit in boquet holder). 

    The boquet holder is a formula object from "that great French site.".

    a=5;
    p=2*PI*u;
     q=4*v;
     x=a*cos(p)/cosh(q);
     y=a*sin(p)/cosh(q);
     z=a*(q-tanh(q));

    The ring is another formula object.

    d=1+p1;e=1+p2;
     p=2*PI*(u-0.5);
     q=2*PI*(v-0.5);
     x=(d+e*cos(q))*cos(p);
     y=(d+e*cos(q))*sin(p);
     z=e*sin(q);

    The background is a bigradient in the background scene channel and a volumetric cloud wth its color adjusted to a slight tint of yellow placed in the distance.

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,551

    Killer render, diomede!!! Love it!

    TangoAlpha said:

    Dart, you should see the world while it's still here: we got . . . stuff! laugh

    @Diomede I'm saying nothing!

    Where? What stuff? diomede... what's he talking about? surprise

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,051

    This is the time old marriage between mouse and cheese and that trap.. and how to get around it..

    Spent this arvo making a mouse trap, wall with mouse hole and the floor before the NRL Grand Final starts..  as well as decking out the mouse in his gear... that will be it for the next 24 hours,, hic... 

     

     

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987
    diomede said:

    And here is a start on a more traditional project.

    I loaded the skirt twice and then applied a lace texture map to the alpha map of the outer skirt. 

    The G2F is wearing the pincess gown by cute3d.  All the textures had to be redone.  The veil is a vertex object.  The G2M is wearing the Edwardian evening suit for David 3 with shaders redone.  The flowers are by Lisa Botanicals (morphed to fit in boquet holder). 

    The boquet holder is a formula object from "that great French site.".

    a=5;
    p=2*PI*u;
     q=4*v;
     x=a*cos(p)/cosh(q);
     y=a*sin(p)/cosh(q);
     z=a*(q-tanh(q));

    The ring is another formula object.

    d=1+p1;e=1+p2;
     p=2*PI*(u-0.5);
     q=2*PI*(v-0.5);
     x=(d+e*cos(q))*cos(p);
     y=(d+e*cos(q))*sin(p);
     z=e*sin(q);

    The background is a bigradient in the background scene channel and a volumetric cloud wth its color adjusted to a slight tint of yellow placed in the distance.

     

    that's a beautiful render diomede 

    @stezza, I can see your heart is in this design :)

     

  • wgdjohnwgdjohn Posts: 2,634
    edited October 2016

    Thought I'd better get busy... downloaded some swords during fast grab... too busy/lazy to simply model one.  Finally got to work on changing shaders... entirely replaced all texture map shaders with procedurals except for the blade and the handle which I'm modified while leaving the texture maps intact. Blade has reflection added... wanted something different for handle so made quite a few changes.

    Sword at left is with texture maps only while sword on right is what I've modified... could use a bit more tweaking but close enough if I don't get back to it. Now onto modeling something to Marry this to. Hmmmm....

    Oops... forgot to mention that everone is doing Quite Well... Keep those cards and renders coming... me likes!

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,168
    edited October 2016

    Agree, Dart, you should get to the UK and check out the stuff.  Some of it is even theirs.  I spent some college time there (hesitate to say I studied there).

     

    I know there is a pile of rocks - http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/

    .but frankly the saunas are little out of date
    . 
    I don't remember much from the school in Scotland
    that I attended  https://www.scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk/training/training-courses

    but I'm sure people get a lot out of it.

    Dartanbeck said:

    Dart, you should see the world while it's still here: we got . . . stuff! laugh

    TangoAlpha said:

     

    Where? What stuff? diomede... what's he talking about? surprise

     

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,168

    Fantastic idea.  Can't wait to see the mouse super-theif gear. 

    .

    Stezza said:

    This is the time old marriage between mouse and cheese and that trap.. and how to get around it..

    Spent this arvo making a mouse trap, wall with mouse hole and the floor before the NRL Grand Final starts..  as well as decking out the mouse in his gear... that will be it for the next 24 hours,, hic... 

     

     

     

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,168

    Great job on the textures.  Can see the improvement in the blade.

     

    wgdjohn said:

    Thought I'd better get busy... downloaded some swords during fast grab... too busy/lazy to simply model one.  Finally got to work on changing shaders... entirely replaced all texture map shaders with procedurals except for the blade and the handle which I'm modified while leaving the texture maps intact. Blade has reflection added... wanted something different for handle so made quite a few changes.

    Sword at left is with texture maps only while sword on right is what I've modified... could use a bit more tweaking but close enough if I don't get back to it. Now onto modeling something to Marry this to. Hmmmm....

    Oops... forgot to mention that everone is doing Quite Well... Keep those cards and renders coming... me likes!

     

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,551
    diomede said:

    Agree, Dart, you should get to the UK and check out the stuff.  Some of it is even theirs.  I spent some college time there (hesitate to say I studied there).

     

    I know there is a pile of rocks - http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/

    .but frankly the saunas are little out of date
    . 
    I don't remember much from the school in Scotland
    that I attended  https://www.scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk/training/training-courses

    but I'm sure people get a lot out of it.

    Dartanbeck said:

    Dart, you should see the world while it's still here: we got . . . stuff! laugh

    TangoAlpha said:

     

    Where? What stuff? diomede... what's he talking about? surprise

     

    I'd love to! So TangoAlpha's from UK? Yeah... Rosie and I are planning to checking it out some time... when and how are the other things. She really wants to. Me, on the other hand... I like it here - I know the rules (at least two of them anyways) and I can almost always walk home ;)

    But I'd still LOVE to go!

    Other parts of the world, too!

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,551
    edited October 2016
    Stezza said:

    This is the time old marriage between mouse and cheese and that trap.. and how to get around it..

    Spent this arvo making a mouse trap, wall with mouse hole and the floor before the NRL Grand Final starts..  as well as decking out the mouse in his gear... that will be it for the next 24 hours,, hic... 

     

     

    Man! Do the next image up on the ledge... the other mice cranking up the gear - empty and mangled.

    The scientist mouse in the background scratching his head... "Back to the ol' drawing board" LOL

    EDIT:

    Forgot to add - Very cool concept and work, Stezza!

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  • wgdjohnwgdjohn Posts: 2,634
    edited October 2016

    Working on my sword Marriage again... Next step put in in a scene from a well known PA.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    diomede said:

    Agree, Dart, you should get to the UK and check out the stuff.  Some of it is even theirs.  I spent some college time there (hesitate to say I studied there).

     

    I know there is a pile of rocks - http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/

    .but frankly the saunas are little out of date
    . 
    I don't remember much from the school in Scotland
    that I attended  https://www.scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk/training/training-courses

    but I'm sure people get a lot out of it.

    Dartanbeck said:

    Dart, you should see the world while it's still here: we got . . . stuff! laugh

    TangoAlpha said:

     

    Where? What stuff? diomede... what's he talking about? surprise

     

     

    cant get mars bars in the States.  had to order from UK

    cant get true Quark cheese, marzipan, butterscotch cadbury,  true Guiness

    pretty much deprived  lol

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,551

    Mars bars? We have those and even Zagnut in Wisconsin. We even still have Clove gum!

  • wgdjohnwgdjohn Posts: 2,634

    They have Bars on Mars? :)

  • MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496
    wgdjohn said:

    They have Bars on Mars? :)

    As shown in this documentary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/ laugh

  • wgdjohnwgdjohn Posts: 2,634
    edited October 2016

    Using "Environ Kit - Woodlands" by Dartanbeck to place the sword and a few of my modeled stone into.  Now onto adding a few more elements and effects to accent the Sword in the Stone.

    [Edit - 8am - I've already improved the scene further by adding a light to shine only on the Sword and add some light glow to the top of the stone... now off to add some more content to dress up the scene a bit without overwhelming it]

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  • wgdjohnwgdjohn Posts: 2,634

    ?? I have a few things yet to learn. These are things I wanted to try out for added effects. ??

    • Add a glint or starbust to the blade of the sword. Is there something in Carrara or will I need to add it in post?
    • Add a light cone shining down on the sword and stone.
    • I know everything else... :)

    I added a spot light and made adjustments but it could use something else.  I also added bits from Howie Farkes scenes... grass, ferns and some saplings. Looks a bit better than the render I just posted.

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145
    edited October 2016
    Dartanbeck said:

    If I'm reading this correctly, a Huge Congratulations is in order to my dear friend/mentor!

    Congratulations, Phil!!! 

    It's been eighteen years for Rosie and Me - and it's by far the BEST thing I've ever done in my entire life! She's my reason for living as are our children - now grown and living on their own (I adopted them at ages 8 and 12). My life has become so much better with them in it.  

    It's not me - I have been very happily married for over 36 years, it is one of our four sons who is getting married to a lovely girl, so we are all thrilled, but also very busy (with lots of things actually, not just the wedding), hence I'm only just getting a chance to catch up with this thread!  The theme was my idea but my thanks to Chickenman for running it - I know it is in safe hands!

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  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145
    Dartanbeck said:
    diomede said:

     

     

    I'd love to! So TangoAlpha's from UK? Yeah... Rosie and I are planning to checking it out some time... when and how are the other things. She really wants to. Me, on the other hand... I like it here - I know the rules (at least two of them anyways) and I can almost always walk home ;)

    But I'd still LOVE to go!

    Other parts of the world, too!

    Let me know if you and Rosie ever make it to the UK!

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584
    Dartanbeck said:
    diomede said:

    Agree, Dart, you should get to the UK and check out the stuff.  Some of it is even theirs.  I spent some college time there (hesitate to say I studied there).

     

    I know there is a pile of rocks - http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/

    .but frankly the saunas are little out of date
    . 
    I don't remember much from the school in Scotland
    that I attended  https://www.scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk/training/training-courses

    but I'm sure people get a lot out of it.

    Dartanbeck said:

    Dart, you should see the world while it's still here: we got . . . stuff! laugh

    TangoAlpha said:

     

    Where? What stuff? diomede... what's he talking about? surprise

     

    I'd love to! So TangoAlpha's from UK? Yeah... Rosie and I are planning to checking it out some time... when and how are the other things. She really wants to. Me, on the other hand... I like it here - I know the rules (at least two of them anyways) and I can almost always walk home ;)

    But I'd still LOVE to go!

    Other parts of the world, too!

    Yeah, Oxford. Home of the dictionary, & only city to have its own comma! You'll have seen bits of it in movies from Harry Potter to X-Men (it's quite photogenic), and a bunch of TV shows -- Morse, Lewis, Endeavour -- are set here.

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    Ah, the city of dreaming spires - and aspiring dreams! My family (briefly) lived on the Banbury Road in Oxford when I was about 8 years old...

  • MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496
    edited October 2016
    wgdjohn said:

    ?? I have a few things yet to learn. These are things I wanted to try out for added effects. ??

    • Add a glint or starbust to the blade of the sword. Is there something in Carrara or will I need to add it in post?
    • Add a light cone shining down on the sword and stone.
    • I know everything else... :)

    I added a spot light and made adjustments but it could use something else.  I also added bits from Howie Farkes scenes... grass, ferns and some saplings. Looks a bit better than the render I just posted.

    You can add a light glint as a post-effect right inside Carrara:

    1. Insert a light bulb
    2. Set the range very low, the falloff to 100% and the intensity to 1% so that it is not actually lighting anything
    3. On the effects tab for the bulb, click "Edit" under Lens Flare
    4. Select the "glint" preset from the dropdown
    5. Adjust settings to taste from there

    Before and after, with the glint and without, just using the default settings for the glint preset:

    BEFORE - no glintAFTER - with glint

    You can stack multiple effects on one lightbulb or duplicate the bulb and add a different effect to each one to get all kinds of cool combinations.  I usually go the one effect per bulb route just to have more control, because some of the various effects take their color or strength from the light's settings.

     

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,168

    I never knew that.  Thanks, Mark.

  • MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496
    edited October 2016
    diomede said:

    I never knew that.  Thanks, Mark.

    laugh

    I love Carrara's Lens Flare - it is super versatile.  The same effect that creates that glint above also created the light effects around the spotlights in this image:

    ...the glow around the lights in this one:

    ...and the more traditional lens flare effects in these two:

     

    I highly recommend playing around with the presets on the lens flare if you never have before.

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