Walk in the Fog

Here is my latest. Render time was a bit under 8 hours, and the photoshop work made it peg the 8 hour mark lol. Biggest pic I ever did, and 100% CGI except the photoshop work like lens flare and fog overlay over the whole scene.



Withering Woods environment, Armor is VAP-Grim with the Expansion, the rock is from a freebie, sorry, can't find the name of the source The Redhead's hair is Kione hair from DAZ that I altered the color on (I wanted a blood red, and I altered the textures for the 'right' color) and her gun is the Minime off Renderosity. The one behind her's gun is the FS2000 off ShareCG

The lights I did in 2 stages. One that DIDN'T work, and one that DID Lol. The one that does covers up the one that dosn't pretty well, so hey The Lights were the reason the render took so long. I added 2 lightbulbs to the scene. Unfortunately, they did not do anything more than make spheres of white light that were really, well, bad looking. But, Plan B! I added Photoshop lens flares to the lights and viola! The general effect I was going for

The mood of the pic is supposed to be 'Ah crap, we're screwed' lol.

[gmd3d]

very nice work .. just the stuff I love to see ..


bty can you not load up here ??

um, no idea lol. How would I do that? (Forgive the noob question, been so busy cramming my brain with cararra info I have barely said hello to my cats lol)

[evil_genius_180]

Or you could just remove this part of the code from Photobucket: ?action=view&current= If you do that, the thumbnail will link directly to the image instead of that stupid page that Photobucket started adding to its thumbnail links a few months ago.

As far as uploading to the site, when you hit the "Reply" button or start a new topic, you get the usual box with the place to type your post. Below that is a button marked "Manage Attachments." If you click that, you'll get a dialog box that you can use to attach images to posts.

The picture looks good. I like the fog. 8 hours isn't bad, I sometimes have some go around 10, depending on how many lights I have in a scene. (I've had as many as close to 500 lights in one scene.)

[gmd3d]

500 lights .. wow

I updated the image, redid the lights so they were exactly what I needed (Only 3 lights in either picture, first one had 2 lightbulbs and 1 'sunlight', second one has 2 spotlights and one 'sunlight') and here is where I get confused. I expected the second render to take another 8 hours. Exact same scene. I still had the scene file, all I did was change the lights. But, rendering the second one, with the 2 spotlights, took 15 mins?! I am so confused lol

Also, I had Lens Flare in Cararra, but I couldn't get that the way I needed (I am still learning it) and so I added lens flare in Photoshop (Which is a pain, the window to position Lens Flare in photoshop is about 1.5 inches by 1.5 inches, no matter what the actual picture size is)

The Image was rendered (Both were) at 1600X1050 at 200 DPI

[gmd3d]

better ... very good ..

[Tenement]

I agree. It has a much scarier mood than the first render.

Cool Cause in the area the chars are in, humans are not even in the top 5 of the food chain, humans are just plain old food..... So I wanted to convey that "Ok, gotta be sneaky or we're just dead' kind of feeling, with that 'imminent danger' feeling too.

[Lee]

one thing that might not help render time but will help file size is your dpi setting... for web posting 96 dpi is recommended. 200 and higher is print quality... as most monitors can't handle anything higher then 96 dpi, so that's become the standard for web usage.

The image looks great, nice and moody.

Impressive.

Perhaps some variety to the thickness of the fog. Also, look at defusing the light source into the fog. Good though...