jack-o-lantern & pumpkin (v2)

[dandelO]

DandelO - this is the black rectangle

WAAA! I think I seen a ghost! Oops, no. It was just the reflection of a fluff! I must fix this screen!

[Zairyn Arsyn]

doing some test renders right now, trying to get TBH's ghost to work, decided to switch back a cloud layer cause positioning the plane was frustrating.
some how the detail setting on the quick render got set to 2, no wonder it was taking longer

[Zairyn Arsyn]

a different version, with glowing mouths and eyes in the darkness
need to fix the one on the left, something is obstructing one of the eyes

C&C welcome

[Henry Blewer]

The ones in the dark of the trees are really creepy looking.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

its difficult placing these floating jackolanterns, i have move the both the jackolantern and the lightsource, then there are trees and limbs blocking the view from the camera. 

[Henry Blewer]

Using your modeling program, move the Center Point of the pumpkin where you want the light source to be. This way the light will be in the center of the pumpkin with copy and paste.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

Yay for RTE.  

this only took 2 hrs., not bad.

i dont think i'm going to work on this very much longer,
i want to get back to modeling, and i have a idea for scene which i want to get started on.

C&C welcome

[Henry Blewer]

This came out very good. I thought you were going to include a ghost? Ah well, next years Halloween render.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

thats what i have been having trouble with, trying to get the ghost to appear correctly, i'm trying to get it to work with a cloud layer, through camera projection,  with a separate camera to project it, and its just not appearing.
when i render it looks like i have a thick fog.

i also overlooked a problem with using ghost photographs for a masks, they don't make very good images that can be used for masking, with as most of them have a non-black background.

[Henry Blewer]

I would use an object, plane. Project the ghost image and the alpha image onto that. The edges of the plane may show... But that could be painted out.

[TheBlackHole]

This might help. Put it in your scene and make it face the camera, then apply the texture using object UV.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i'll try those methods, then concentrate on a final render.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i'm not sure whats going on, its still not working 

i tried both methods, and whenever i render it appears to be invisible
first i made a plane in LW
then i tried TBH's billboard

i also tried rendering without the alpha channel, and with only the default gray color, & still appears to be invisible.
   

[TheBlackHole]

Then I guess Photoshop is your friend.

[freelancah]

You have a nice progress going here. The latest image looks very creepy. I can imagine those head in the back being somehing more than just jackolanterns