The realm of King Croc

Started by Hannes, February 20, 2020, 04:11:23 AM

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dorianvan

Nice work! Not sure whether his appearance or breath knocked her out. It does look a bit too dark on my screen to see detail, so I brightened it up some and altered color slightly. Is this too bright on your screen? Here's a few suggestions if you want: 1. add water ripples around his legs 2. add some crocs in the water waiting for some breakfast (may need to back camera a bit) 3. have some drool hanging from his belly too 4. where did he get her? maybe put a lanyard hanging down from her neck from where he escaped ;)
-Dorian

Tangled-Universe

Thank you Hannes for showing the test render.
Indeed, the subsurface scattering sweetness seems quite specific to the lighting angle, which makes sense in a way.
Since you used the same settings for the main render it seems that either the lighting needs to be changed -like what Kadri suggested- or the subsurface scattering settings needs tweaking specific for this scene.

Dune


Hannes

Thanks a lot, guys. I'm not at home for the weekend, so it'll take some time until I get back to my computer.

Hannes

OK, here is the (hopefully) final version.

I reposed the girl again. I refined the mesh as well, since there were some bad polygons.
I changed the tint of the skirt and added some ripples around the feet.

I rendered the whole image with slightly better settings (I increased AA from 9 to 12), which had the effect, that the drool strands are less visible, since these are very thin meshes.
Within TG I used the default contrast and gamma settings, which were a bit different in previous versions. Additionally I made the image a tad brighter in postwork.

There's still a bit of grain in the image. I used Max paths per sample of 64 (Architecture), and in the robust adaptive sampler I used a first sampling level of 1/16 and a pixel noise threshold of 0.02.
Rendertime for 3.5k was 19 hours and fifty minutes.

Dune


bobbystahr

Much improved, more drama...well done!
something borrowed,
something Blue.
Ring out the Old.
Bring in the New
Bobby Stahr, Paracosmologist

DocCharly65


Hannes


dorianvan

Nice! One frame down. Can't wait to see the final animation  ;)
-Dorian

Hannes



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