XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Aug 18, 2008 · 74 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 18 August 2008 at 12:17 AM
This is something that I've been playing around with. Permit me to say that by no means am I a lighting expert (especially not in Carrara) -- but for fun & for testing purposes: I wanted to try the same Poser-generated scene in several different applications, and then compare the results. I also wanted to compare post-worked versions of each render -- with minor post-working. I rendered the scene in three different applications: Poser Pro, Vue 6 Infinite, and Carrara 6 Pro. Through my own lack of expertise with Carrara, I don't think that I've done that program full justice here. I'm fairly comfortable with the others. But there's always much more to learn.
After the Poser Pro plug-in for Lightwave comes out, I'll probably experiment with the same scene some more, and see what I can do with it in Lightwave. Modo, too.
BTW - I haven't seen this type of cross-app comparison for rendering the same scene done before. I'm sure that it has been done by someone(s) -- but I just haven't seen it.
Anyway, here goes -- the scene is set in a shopping mall. The effect that I was attempting to go for here was of a couple meeting each other for lunch in the middle of the day, in a mall with large overhead skylights. I've been in malls like that, with the combination of natural & artificial lighting so bright that you almost need sunglasses inside of the mall. Of necessity, the quality of the images has been cut down to fit posting size requirements.