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Title: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 05, 2010, 01:19:22 PM
hello there again ^^
still playing with the same tgd...
okay the render is dark and all, but, well, I loved the mood there so I share this one too ;)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5234681691_0f22400796_o.jpg
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Oshyan on December 05, 2010, 01:30:03 PM
Love the colors and lighting in this. Seems like a great scene to get some additional images out of. What about animating it? ;)

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 05, 2010, 01:32:09 PM
would you buy me my own render farm Oshyan ? ;D
seriously, I do think I am going to get some other renders out of this tgd... ^^
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Henry Blewer on December 05, 2010, 01:32:44 PM
My first thought was 'OH!' Downloaded it for a backdrop and study.
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 05, 2010, 01:33:43 PM
hehe lol !
thanks man
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: FrankB on December 05, 2010, 01:36:05 PM
just GREAT!

Thumbs up!
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: cyphyr on December 05, 2010, 01:42:49 PM
First I thought was the background was very well comped in ;D
great mood
:)
Richard
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 05, 2010, 01:47:31 PM
what does "comped in" mean ? :)
do you mean you thought I did 2 renders and copy/paste the sky ?
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: cyphyr on December 05, 2010, 02:02:46 PM
typo* composited and I thought it was a sky photo:)
Richard
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Gannaingh on December 05, 2010, 02:04:25 PM
Very beautiful! It took me only about twent seconds from first seeing the image to setting it as my background  ;D
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 05, 2010, 02:10:03 PM
oh my !
thanks ^^
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: dandelO on December 05, 2010, 02:31:45 PM
Photo-real. Amazing shot, man! 8)
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Onyx on December 05, 2010, 02:45:46 PM
Nicely done... is there a bit of postwork to obtain such darker borders ?

(see here what I mean : http://focusfaction.com/forums/showthread.php/1038-Easy-Vignette-in-Photoshop (http://focusfaction.com/forums/showthread.php/1038-Easy-Vignette-in-Photoshop))
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 05, 2010, 03:03:01 PM
yes there is postwork for the vignette ^^
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: inkydigit on December 05, 2010, 04:11:57 PM
exquisite details and mood...love it!
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: domdib on December 05, 2010, 06:12:37 PM
In terms of the colours, perhaps the finest TG2 render I've ever seen. Just beautiful!
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Onyx on December 06, 2010, 11:19:22 AM
Great render... or postwork (if there is more as vignette e.g for color correction...)

My personal feeling is that postwork (excepted contrast, sharpness) should be always mentioned


Quote from: Seth on December 05, 2010, 03:03:01 PM
yes there is postwork for the vignette ^^
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 06, 2010, 11:52:53 AM
Quote from: Onyx on December 06, 2010, 11:19:22 AM
Great render... or postwork (if there is more as vignette e.g for color correction...)

My personal feeling is that postwork (excepted contrast, sharpness) should be always mentioned




hehe ;)
there is a bit of postwork (contraste and curves).
no colours were changed during the process, nor the exposure.
I am not a TG2 integrist, so when I can add something to the render, I try to do some postwork ^^
And be sure that almost all final renders get some postworks... not all but I might say a lot of them. I mean... if you see the name of the artist, the name of the render of anything written on the render, that means there was postwork hu ?
You might ask RArcher, FrankB or others if they do some pw :)
don't ask T-U though, he is an integrist ;p

Oh ! and I should add that I am not a postwork specialist, I don't understand Photoshop as I understand Terragen ;)
I hope you don't think that the postwork is the quality of that render, because that would means that you over estimate my skills in postwork ^^

NB : I won't mentioned every step I took to do a render. I post my renders in here to get some feedbacks and sometimes advices from people. If someone asks me something, I try to answer honestly. I don't look for "artistic" judgement but for more technical part of comments. Don't get me wrong, I love, as everybody, when people says they like my work ^^ but that is not the point.
So, in the future, if you look at one of my render (www.7thcircle.fr), I usually do just curves editing if necessary and sometimes i add a bit of vignette.
thanks for you comment Onyx ! :)



Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: ra on December 06, 2010, 11:59:30 AM
Great mood and very realistic. 5 points!
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Tangled-Universe on December 06, 2010, 02:24:17 PM
Awesome moody work Franck :D
The dense atmosphere is fantastic!

Ghehe, so I'm an integrist :) Well honestly I mostly also do some postwork, but it's often very minimal indeed. Many renders are virtually straight of the render, except for minor curves/contrast adjustments.

Cheers,
Martin
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 06, 2010, 02:30:35 PM
Quote from: Tangled-Universe on December 06, 2010, 02:24:17 PM

Ghehe, so I'm an integrist :) Well honestly I mostly also do some postwork, but it's often very minimal indeed. Many renders are virtually straight of the render, except for minor curves/contrast adjustments.



Damn !!!
so you're not an integrist !!! you do as much postwork as we do ! ;D
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Tangled-Universe on December 06, 2010, 02:51:05 PM
No, less ;)
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Oshyan on December 06, 2010, 03:19:38 PM
Interesting that you've shown this T-U. I see that the white blown out part of the clouds comes partly from contrast/levels adjustment! In an effort to achieve higher contrast (I assume), you've killed some detail. That's a no-no. ;)

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Tangled-Universe on December 06, 2010, 03:22:32 PM
Quote from: Oshyan on December 06, 2010, 03:19:38 PM
Interesting that you've shown this T-U. I see that the white blown out part of the clouds comes partly from contrast/levels adjustment! In an effort to achieve higher contrast (I assume), you've killed some detail. That's a no-no. ;)

- Oshyan

Ghehe, the effect is notice-able but minimal :) I used pickers to determine accurately the brightest and darkest parts.
The gain was more clarity and contrast in the image with a bit less definition in the brightest cloud.
If you'd like I can send you the .exr ;)
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 06, 2010, 03:42:29 PM
I do prefer the postworked one !
higher contrast is definitely my fav' here... colder look me think.
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Tangled-Universe on December 06, 2010, 03:44:46 PM
Indeed :)
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Planetscape on December 06, 2010, 04:10:41 PM
Ooooh, you really nailed the mood here!

One little nitpick from me; the clouds are a bit
high and look an aweful lot like Terragen 0.9.43  ;D

Other than that, great job!
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Onyx on December 06, 2010, 04:52:57 PM
Thanks for your honesty,

I am not against postworked pictures.. even if I would say I am on TG2 "integrist team" ;-)

I only think that it is better to mention postwork when it becomes a key factor of the picture quality.

Quote from: Seth on December 06, 2010, 11:52:53 AM

hehe ;)
there is a bit of postwork (contraste and curves).
no colours were changed during the process, nor the exposure.
I am not a TG2 integrist, so when I can add something to the render, I try to do some postwork ^^
And be sure that almost all final renders get some postworks... not all but I might say a lot of them. I mean... if you see the name of the artist, the name of the render of anything written on the render, that means there was postwork hu ?
You might ask RArcher, FrankB or others if they do some pw :)
don't ask T-U though, he is an integrist ;p

Oh ! and I should add that I am not a postwork specialist, I don't understand Photoshop as I understand Terragen ;)
I hope you don't think that the postwork is the quality of that render, because that would means that you over estimate my skills in postwork ^^

NB : I won't mentioned every step I took to do a render. I post my renders in here to get some feedbacks and sometimes advices from people. If someone asks me something, I try to answer honestly. I don't look for "artistic" judgement but for more technical part of comments. Don't get me wrong, I love, as everybody, when people says they like my work ^^ but that is not the point.
So, in the future, if you look at one of my render (www.7thcircle.fr), I usually do just curves editing if necessary and sometimes i add a bit of vignette.
thanks for you comment Onyx ! :)




Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 06, 2010, 04:59:07 PM
I understand ^^
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: MacGyver on December 06, 2010, 05:32:17 PM
Honestly, I can't find a part of that image that couldn't be a photo. And I tried, I tried hard. This really is outstanding. Only thing that prevented me from that 20-seconds-to-wallpaper-technique was the resolution, I have full 1080 pixels to fill here  :P
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: FrankB on December 06, 2010, 06:01:19 PM
Quote from: Planetscape on December 06, 2010, 04:10:41 PM
.... the clouds are a bit
high and look an aweful lot like Terragen 0.9.43  ;D

what?... not in the slightest, I must disagree, Sir :)
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 06, 2010, 07:08:54 PM
Quote from: Planetscape on December 06, 2010, 04:10:41 PM


the clouds are a bit
high and look an aweful lot like Terragen 0.9.43  ;D


can you point me to some TG0.9 render with this kind of clouds ?
because I used it only 3 times and... well, the couds were in 2D you know...

Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: rcallicotte on December 08, 2010, 03:27:11 PM
Beautiful.  Being there would be better.  But, otherwise, I have no critiques.
Title: Re: Softy Mood
Post by: Seth on December 08, 2010, 03:35:07 PM
thanks calico ^^