Kawaii - Akihabara 2008 by theseus88bc
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
I thought, since I'm going back to Japan next month for my hols, I would fart about with piccies from last year... and ended up with this!
This is the DAZ XinXin character posed in front of a photo I took in Akihabara... (spot the maid in behind the orange taxi!)
The shadow was an experiment... which seemed to work for once!
Thanks for looking.
Iain
How I did it...
I imported the Xin Xin model into Bryce. I used a vertical plane and gave it the texture of my photo and added some luminosity, with the image being the actual light. I killed all shadows (receiving and casting).
Xin Xin was placed in front of the plane and rendered, with as close to the same lighting as I could get.
Next I gave the plane and Xin Xin a white texture with maximum luminosity. I added a ground plane and then placed a light in the right place to cast a shadow at the right angle.
Both renders were imported into PhotoShop where the shadow layer was given the magic rubber treatment so that only the shadow was left. This was then given a slight blue hue and lihtened a wee bit to match the taxi's shadow.
I then tweaked the colours and that was that.
Hope that made some sense to somebody ^_^
Comments (14)
awesome ... excellently superimposed!!!
Optimal shadow of the lovely character!
Very good composition.
Very nice work on this image. Good looking character and photo match. Great job.
Fantastic render....!!!!
very nice. I played with PW Catch with DAZ on shadow blending. This one takes the cake! 5+
Everyone always overuses that Daz hair, outfit, and briefcase when making schoolgirls. I'm tired of seeing them...
Buttercup Saivan - well it's the first time I've used it, and I dare say I'll use it again ^_^
Dangeres in a dangeres world.
Nice work
It works
Very effective and great integration!
superb work.really kawaii pic.
Black levels: Her's are very deep, briefcase, skirt, pinafore. The background blacks are elevated. My recommendation would be to ease the difference between those two. Even if you're going for "atmosphere" the background needs darker blacks. And in fairness, her textures aren't really up to the challenge of competing with reality. But its always good to see the attempt.