Makeover: Aranée! by NetWorthy
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I've been playing with a few neat new light sets, and it became painfully obvious that it doesn't matter how good your lighting is if your textures and shaders suck. So I've done my homework and now I'm doing texture/shader makeovers for my recurring characters! Of course, Aranée is my current main character, so she and her wardrobe and gear get the treatment first.
This is a straight render, NO postwork other than the logo! I wanted to hone in on textures and shaders only for this exercise so there are no specialty lights or sets here, just 6 standard Daz spotlights:
- One 75% white spotlight with deep shadow mask, placed high and angling down to simulate the sun;
- Three 20-25% very pale blue spotlights arrayed around the stage, beam coverage angled to 150 degrees, and pointing down from treetop height to simulate reflected sky ambience;
- Two 10% very pale green spotlights, beam coverage angled to 150 degrees, pointing up from ground level to simulate backscatter from the grass.
- questar sets (get them all!) HERE. Wonderful metal shaders, I used them for Aranée's weapons and other metallic gear, clasps etc.
- georgehaze set HERE. several sets at once, including photorealistic metal surfaces (including modern hi-tech metals), and a really great leather / shiny cloth set. I used the leather and shiny cloth for some of Aranée's clothing and gear.
- joelegecko set HERE. A lot of intersting toon and anime stuff, but I REALLY use the heck out of the velvet shaders for clothing. Here, I used a slightly modified velvet shader for her shirt.
- marianne sets HERE. One set has Supershine colors and the other set gives a shiny topcoat for existing mats and textures. I used the topcoat shine shaders for her eyes - the ONLY shader I've found so far that makes realistic-looking eyes in D/S.
- And of course, don't overlook the D/S builtin shader presets found in the STUDIO folder: I applied the D/S shiny metallic shader to her hair prop and voila - hair with realistic looking highlights!
Comments (35)
Gorgeous scene!!!!*****
Beautiful!!
Great makeover! Her skin looks great and I like her top - it has a slight velvety look to it. Looking forward to her continuing adventures!
She has an angel face. Very nice work!
Fantastic scene work my dear friend, superb pose and lighting excellent done...love it.
She is gorgeous! Wonderful scene and fantastic make over!
Nice scene gorgeous character !!
Stunning lighting!
wonderfull composition x
A very cool image
Esplendida, magnifica ambientação e obra, aplausos (5)
She was beautiful before, but now she absolutely GLOWS. Bravo, Larry!
Excellent image. Thanks for the lighting tips. So hard to get lighting consistently right. Your image surface shades are really good. I have georgehaze's fast metal shader; it's awesome. Thanks for the links to the other shaders.
Fantastic composition and lighting.Wonderful work.
Wow, she's absolutely gorgeous. Great work with the shaders and your lighting is beautiful. Wonderful work and good to see an upload from you :)
wonderful scene and she look stunning and your lighting is perfect...great to see you post again..
She's lovely. You can see some nice skin detail and I love the eyes! Nice Work!
Great composition and fantastic character!Bravo!
She looks realy fantastic with her new skin!
Just great!
she looks great Larry, really nice scene
Your character looks excellent here, Larry. Great shaders too.
Wonderful render and composition,Larry. And thanks for all the shader links. Great looking warrior you have created. Very nice shadows in the forest too.+5
Beautiful character and a very impressive makeover. Excellent work!
Great scene. Excellent work!!
Love this scene. her expression is gorgeous, with no post work it is brilliant, the shading and lights are just stunning, nice one my friend 5+
Great work and its good to read of your exploring the shaders and textures - I am in complete agreement with you and why I spend so much time tweaking the material settings in addition. Of course what type of lights you chose to work with can completly change how the texture and materials work. Keep going!
Very beautiful fantasiy scene , i like her pose ready for action!
This is a marvelous piece...Hugs
You did very nice pic! EXT!