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Carrara challenge #59 ANNWFN - In honour of Chohole.

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,173

    SileneUK - she is gorgeous!  Very well done incorporating Welsh themed elements.

    Shlomi - the mood is perfect.  I really like how the color choices too.

    Wendy - excellent tribute video.  appreciate the music.

    I am trying to finish up a model.  Depending on interruptions, I will post a WIP today or tomorrow.  

     

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,639

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    not an entry just a video heart

    Nice !!!

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,639
    edited August 2021

    shlomi laszlo said:

    then using it for:

    apollo & daphne chase in arcadia.

    Love the composition !!

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,639

    SileneUK said:

    Gorgeous, hope the eye surgery goes well !!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    Hi link to the entry thread is here Carrara challenge #59 ANNWFN (Heaven) - In honour of Chohole. ENTRY THREAD - Daz 3D Forums

    Apologies for being away. We have had a little fun with Covid (not me or family personally)  and I have been caught up with family matters.  Hopefully all good soon!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989
    edited August 2021

    mschack said:

    Headwax said:

    lovely image -says just the right amount without giving away too much.

    great minds think alike, I was going to drag my fishing kayak into a scene.

    Your thoughts on image making mirror mine - as far as my paintings go.

    I get  dragged up to talk about my work sometimes and I always give the same kind of talk starts of with "Most people think that artists see more (than other people), but a good artist really sees less."

    And 'it's all about suggesting things, involving the audience to help you construct the image - a symbiotic relationship."

    Of course an artist has to be able to see more in the first place in order to see less in the end place. So it's really smoke and mirrors :)

    Here's a detail of a work I was working on before we went into lockdown

     

     

     

     

    Symbiotic relationship, that is a wonderful way of putting it. 

    Your painting is excellent,

    I love impressionistic style, which is all about suggesting rather than telling.

    thanks! I've done a few paintings from digital work. If I can find an image I'll post one. 

    here's the beginning of one long time ago  from here https://andrewfinnie.blogspot.com/2013/04/wild.html

     

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    not an entry just a video heart

     

    that's beaut Wendy, I hope things are travelling well with you. Hugs from up here.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    namtar3d said:

    Thank you all for your comments!

    I'm at work right now, but i will check later the entire thread to read and see all the works. 

    Here more pics of my entry, still deciding the camera angle and some little things like ground texture and dress texture. 

    For the roses and dress petals i use mapped surface replicators.  

    For blowing petals i use a flow force on simulation. 





     

    these are all just superb, you have captured the beauty of the moment. I can't decide which is my favourite one.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    SileneUK said:

    I am trying to find time to get an entry in. School Holidays+August=Grandchildren (almost daily!)   But I just got news that my first cataract op is on 23rd August. Going to the eye hospital, so it's not a quickie job. I don't know if my other eye will be good enough to carry on with this, but here goes.  My husband is Welsh and we've been married for 30 years and I've been to most corners of beautiful Wales.  And Pam was a lovely helpful person that I wish I had known myself. I think she only lived an hour from me. After helping me with my new machine build, I should have made more of an effort since I think we were from the same generation.  sad

    So.....first I have made a woman dressed in traditional Welsh costume (Bedgown & Stovepipe Hat).  The dress is DAZ Victorian Maid for G2F and shoes re-texted, and from Wilmap's Pilgrim costume for G2M, I re-formed the hat into the one that Welsh ladies used to wear. There is a controversial history about that fashion. See link below. I have also put an image showing what makes up most of the costume I was able to reproduce. The shawl is the DAZ Romi for G3F hip scarf retexted with a traditional red Welsh paisley pattern.  Had fun making a bowl into a bonnet for under the hat. I am not very good at creating clothing. Then applied a lace texture with alpha. The daffodils were extracted from Tango Alpha's Country Ford, the Pembrokeshire Corgi (like the Queen has/had) came from CGT.  Basket is DAZ Marrakesh Souk Basket.  For now she and her puppy are just sitting on a bench from Victorian Street Props.  I don't know if Pam had a dog, but I am sure she had a kind face and loved nature.  

    Next will be a few outdoor Welsh landscape scenes of the Brecon Beacons that I hope will reflect some of the real locations that I think Pam would have known, and perhaps visited. I have to pose her manually, as the dress just does not want to follow her arms, but got there in the end. There are lots of variations on traditional dress, and you can read more at the other link below.  I didn't use my trusty Misty G3F as I could not get the Vic Maid dress to behave, so I used G2F. Unlike G3... I cannot get the exact facial expressions that they give, so have to make do with combining a few of G2 facial expressions. I am grateful to Alvin for his Morph Eraser. Saved me a lot of bloat! 

    More to come, but I am going to just kitbash DAZ materials but plan to use Carrara PA as much as possible, totally if I can manage it!

    surprise  Silene

    About the hat:   https://welshhat.wordpress.com/the-welsh-hat/theories-on-the-origin-of-the-welsh-hat/
    About the costume:   https://welshhat.wordpress.com/elements-of-welsh-costumes/

    that's wonderful Silene, terrifically apt, great bit of research.!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989
    edited August 2021

    oh thank sfor the people of style and taste who commente don my wotk too! Translated that is 'commented on my work too'.

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    shlomi laszlo said:

    then using it for:

    apollo & daphne chase in arcadia.

     

    lovely shimmering effect, very heavenly!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    "The Angel of Hope and the Ladder to Heaven."

     

     

     

     

    above is the final below is the first test render

     

     

    Post work with topaz impression and tone mapping in affinity photo

     

    tone mapping really means you can screw up your original exposure

    I also render out a diffuse pass and lay that over the ordinary pass and use screen parameter to bring out some darker areas

     

    Pure tone mapping also attached - usually do it in colour

     

    also attached beauty pass and scene details 

    thanks for looking :)

     

     

     

     

     

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    Diomede said:

    SileneUK - she is gorgeous!  Very well done incorporating Welsh themed elements.

    Shlomi - the mood is perfect.  I really like how the color choices too.

    Wendy - excellent tribute video.  appreciate the music.

    I am trying to finish up a model.  Depending on interruptions, I will post a WIP today or tomorrow.  

     

     

    Looking forward to your wip ., !

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989
    edited August 2021

    "Archangel"

    Relit using a normal map pass.

    Replicated stars on hidden cone shapes

    Lots of light from caustics

    Attached carrara scene and some of the unworked pre post

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,639

    Headwax said:

    Diomede said:

    SileneUK - she is gorgeous!  Very well done incorporating Welsh themed elements.

    Shlomi - the mood is perfect.  I really like how the color choices too.

    Wendy - excellent tribute video.  appreciate the music.

    I am trying to finish up a model.  Depending on interruptions, I will post a WIP today or tomorrow.  

     

     

    Looking forward to your wip ., !

    +1 yes

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,639

    Headwax said:

    "Archangel"

    Love this one !!!

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975

    I love all the surreal and artistic effects everyone is using!!  Buny, Dio, Mschack, Namtar, Stezza...hope I got everyone!  Enjoyed your videal, Wendy! and Vyusur's and Dart's helpful comments on the threads. I read them all!

    Headwax, that cone with particles is amazing! You have given me an idea for such a thing as well. And I can use it for my prehistoric scenes as well... thank you so much for the demo. Much appreciated.  I have so much to do before me operation Monday evening, that I don't know if I can get another WIP done before end of next week. But will try later today. I sould have vision enough to work on it and get in before the 2nd Sept deadline.

    I am using TangoAlpha's Watering Hole which has a great waterfall, but it creates a memory hungry scene and am trying to decimate the waterfall object as it's loads separately in ZBrush as the Carrara decimator seems to just hang. . I think I will have to pose my Welsh girl and do a render pass to place her in that scene.  Luckily I have a no-morph 'dummy' to place around in different positions to test things out with a render. 

    OK, back to the 'drawing board' here. Wish I could send some rain to you Misty!

    yes Silene

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    SileneUK said:

    I love all the surreal and artistic effects everyone is using!!  Buny, Dio, Mschack, Namtar, Stezza...hope I got everyone!  Enjoyed your videal, Wendy! and Vyusur's and Dart's helpful comments on the threads. I read them all!

    Headwax, that cone with particles is amazing! You have given me an idea for such a thing as well. And I can use it for my prehistoric scenes as well... thank you so much for the demo. Much appreciated.  I have so much to do before me operation Monday evening, that I don't know if I can get another WIP done before end of next week. But will try later today. I sould have vision enough to work on it and get in before the 2nd Sept deadline.

    I am using TangoAlpha's Watering Hole which has a great waterfall, but it creates a memory hungry scene and am trying to decimate the waterfall object as it's loads separately in ZBrush as the Carrara decimator seems to just hang. . I think I will have to pose my Welsh girl and do a render pass to place her in that scene.  Luckily I have a no-morph 'dummy' to place around in different positions to test things out with a render. 

    OK, back to the 'drawing board' here. Wish I could send some rain to you Misty!

    yes Silene

     

    thanks for the kind words Silene - you have taste and style :)

    I ended up rendering image with and without the cone of stars just so I had more control in post - they also made shadows on the figure - which was interesting.

    All the best for your operation. I am sure things will go perfectly. The beauty of living in 2021!

    Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

     

    regards from oz :)

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    Bunyip02 said:

    Headwax said:

    "Archangel"

    Love this one !!!

    thank you Mr Bunyip 02 :)

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,173
    edited August 2021

    Overdue WIP.  

    Couldn't work on my project for a while.  My laptop is not responding to the great suggestions, so I was without Carrara while I was on the road.  (unhappy face).

    Now I am back home and am resuming.  This is a red dragon loosely based on a Welsh flag.

    I still have to rig the model and set up my idea for the full scene - no, not just a flag.  

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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,639

    Diomede said:

    Overdue WIP.  

    Couldn't work on my project for a while.  My laptop is not responding to the great suggestions, so I was without Carrara while I was on the road.  (unhappy face).

    Now I am back home and am resuming.  This is a red dragon loosely based on a Welsh flag.

    I still have to rig the model and set up my idea for the full scene - no, not just a flag.  

    Looking great !!!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    Diomede said:

    Overdue WIP.  

    Couldn't work on my project for a while.  My laptop is not responding to the great suggestions, so I was without Carrara while I was on the road.  (unhappy face).

    Now I am back home and am resuming.  This is a red dragon loosely based on a Welsh flag.

    I still have to rig the model and set up my idea for the full scene - no, not just a flag.  

    H0, ho! Nice work, you and Stezza have the modelling crown!

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975

    Dio..love your Welsh Dragon!  heart  Silene

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,173

    Thanks for the kind comments, Bunyip, Headwax and SileneUK.  

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975
    edited August 2021

    OK here is likely my final WIP as my eye is coming along, but gets scratchy. It is amazing the added light that comes in now. Things I thought were off-white before are really white-white. Guess my woodwork does not need repainting after all! laugh

    So I have switched the dog to DAZ's Pudgy The Corgi which seems to have been released not long ago.  The rest is all Carrara. I have incorporated TangoAlpha's Watering Hole, with adjusted falls as the default ones were bogging me down and my video card goes out on me indecision, and covered the podium in the pool with daffodils from his Country Ford field (I really had to mine that scene to pull them out !). Her big stone seat is from Stoney Creek.  I used a basic Carrara sky, a simple light dome rig, and then in post work in PS created a little rainbow at the foot of the falls, levelled the top of the falls, and adjusted the contrast on the image to give it more light than the gama allowed in Carrara. That's it.  I wanted to have another shot of her walking behind the falls as there is room in Tim's Watering Hole and at one of the real falls, but I am struggling a bit with screen time post surgery.  I will say I worried she would not fit with that tall hat!

    I just wanted to enter to remember and think about Pam, and show you some Welsh cultural things and an attempt at imitating a lovely place. Link to the Four Waterfalls is below.

    heart Silene

    Four Waterfalls, Brecon Beacons, Mid-Wales. At 2.30 sec in, she reaches the one I attempted to do here, it's the one you can walk behind! I haven't a clue who Grace is, but she did a good compilation of the falls in a short vid.

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  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975
    edited August 2021

    Ooops... forgot the Carrara screen grab from the Assembly Room! And I did use some Ecomantics background LoRes Carrara Version Flat Plane Trees above the waterfall  blush  Silene

     

     

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989

    @SileneUK

    What a beautiful scene and tribute.

    The Carrara screen grab really holds in own too! And don't you love deconstructing scenes to grab the bits you need - like the daffodils!

    Video terrific too, really adds to the meaning - plus the lady's funny accent ;)

     

    Hope your eyes settle down. Did you have cataracts off ? Sounds like it with the dirty whites you noticed

     

     

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,639

    SileneUK said:

    OK here is likely my final WIP

    heart Silene

    Lovely !!!

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975
    edited August 2021

    Thank you Buny and Headwax!

    HW,  That girls's voice is a very neutral British accent. I tried to find one with a Welsh accent, but no luch getting the waterfall I wanted. Usually it's photographers who post these vids. Speaking of vids. When I looked at Wendy's, it reminded me of Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. She danced like that when on stage and it wasn't her turn to sing!

    I love deconstructing scenes. Using DimentionTheory's Ecomantics is one prop that is very useful if you want decent thickly planted trees on a circular or flat plane, though I am intrigued by the latest post by a Carrarian here about making your own bilboard pngs. PhilW's village is another that did not come with separate components.When I am building a British scene, there are lots of things which are different from generic world props. I had mentioned once that I had to do a reverse render to get a vehicle to be properly UK right hand drive and made a reverse licence/registration plate to do so as well. TangoAlpha and PhilW' products have kept me busy in Carrara!  There are a few vendors on that other site who produce excellent British products as well!

    Also, another huge challenge has been creating a primary school typically found in an English village vs a modern school near bigger towns.  No matter, it is a learning process I enjoy. These props are needed for my illustrated story which I hope to get back to after the other cataract is done.  I have to wait 6 weeks to change any prescription for reading glasses as that is when usually your 'new' eye's IOL (with distance prescription in it)  has seated properly and settled down.  So my computer readers are not quite right and make my right eye tired.  I am using a patch to do this project to close off the 'new' eye so I don't get dry and scratchy even with Genteal Tears (Thanks Dart!).  So I don't think I can make another entry. But I want to so might try before entry closes.

    Should I put this one up now in entries?  I just have to round up the credits.  yes  Silene

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  • UnifiedBrainUnifiedBrain Posts: 3,588
    edited August 2021

    Sorry to have been so absent.  No disrespect to Pam intended.

    Need to catch up.

     

    Very nice Bunyip!

     

    Great modeling and history lesson, thanks Stezza!

     

    Mschack, wonderful abstraction!

     

    Headwax killing it (as usual).

     

    I like this one best, Namtar.  Lovely, the new background made it even better..

     

    A striking and unusual effect, Shlomi!

     

    Wendy, nice tribute video!  Pam would have approved of the textures. smiley

     

     

    HW, this version just struck my eye.  The tone mapping makes it really pop.  You do very interesting backgrounds. :)

     

    Looking great, Silene!  Glad your eyes are improving.

     

    Powerful HW!  Beautiful texturing effect.

     

    Very nice modeling, Diomede!  We both seem to be entering a bit late in the game.

    Hope I got everyone.

     

    Got something almost ready to enter.  Hopefully soon.

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