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[i]The bright afternoon sun shone brightly against the young oracle's ceremonial dress as she modestly smiled back at all the town's residents, their clamorous fanfare drowning out any words.
Her royal army entourage marched down the main road to the palace, greeting the citizens with pride and joy as renowned heroes.
Colorful rose petals tossed from the higher buildings fluttered along around them all on a gentle breeze, lending it a sweet smell.[/i][/quote]
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Sexcellent.
Truly beautiful.
B-E-A-Utiful!
What do you do to change the lighting that much? Save a scene and open it in SFM to render?
[QUOTE=Daemon White;42761782]B-E-A-Utiful!
What do you do to change the lighting that much? Save a scene and open it in SFM to render?[/QUOTE]
I don't use SFM at any stage; the biggest changes come from the compositing process, where I have each light source set up as a separate layer (meaning I take a screenshot for every light or set of lights) and mask them to clean up any artifacting or broken shadows, and to emulate ambient occlusion.
The next biggest change in lighting happens when I take that fully composite image, set it to soft light, and start playing with Levels or Curves, and then give it a pass with a really high Gaussian Blur.
It makes it sound kinda simple, but it's very time consuming.
Yeah, compositing is a pain in the ass... but so worth it, your screenshots are proof of that.
Very excellent and beautiful ^^
This is a great pose, love the lighting and bloom. Really brings it all alive!
However, to be constructive!! Haha. The composition kind of baffles me, I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be focused on. If I'm to look at the woman on the horse, the man infront petting the dog is blocking her. If I look at the man infront with the sword, he's blocked by a flying rose petal (or whatever those red celebratory objects are)
Other than the composition/arrangement of the scene, it looks quite amazing! The music makes it come alive even further, and like I said, the lighting is just great! Love your work Squiddy :v:
[QUOTE=UTSTriggerhappy;42763455]This is a great pose, love the lighting and bloom. Really brings it all alive!
However, to be constructive!! Haha. The composition kind of baffles me, I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be focused on. If I'm to look at the woman on the horse, the man infront petting the dog is blocking her. If I look at the man infront with the sword, he's blocked by a flying rose petal (or whatever those red celebratory objects are)
Other than the composition/arrangement of the scene, it looks quite amazing! The music makes it come alive even further, and like I said, the lighting is just great! Love your work Squiddy :v:[/QUOTE]
Hehe, thank you. However, the focus isn't meant to be any single character, it's the entire group. Focusing on one character for a wide-ranged scene like this would be a waste.
[QUOTE=Squiddy;42761814]I don't use SFM at any stage; the biggest changes come from the compositing process, where I have each light source set up as a separate layer (meaning I take a screenshot for every light or set of lights) and mask them to clean up any artifacting or broken shadows[/QUOTE]i can confirm that this technique is great, i should have used it more often in my poses i guess
also this pose is a bit sad to me because it makes me think of how great Source could look with the right tweaks
Wonderful stuff as usual Squid!
Your ass has another winner medal.
This is really beautiful. Great job!
Wow. This is fantastic.
I can't be the only one who would pay for those models.
This is quite amazing.
Apart from her screaming white lower part of her dress, this is nice work.
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