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Day at the beach

DAZ|Studio Pin-ups posted on Jun 11, 2017

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This is a DAZ Studio preset scene called "Day at the beach" that I modified to suit my tastes. The original scene is very nice and quite realistic, but I wanted to see if I could improve it or just simply modify it to my liking. I kept the same pose as in the original, just slightly moving her head. Then I widened the format to a widescreen format. I kept the depth of field focus as in the original, but had to adjust it to make sure she was in focus. In the original scene she is wearing a bikini. I let her keep the bottom half but removed the top half to make her topless, in the manner of a semi nude pinup on a topless beach. The bikini top is still in the scene; I just made it invisible in the scene. Then I went on ahead to change other elements in the scene. I changed the sky background to a background I created in Paint Shop Pro and used that as the backdrop. I then eliminated the dome and environment lighting in the scene, so that the scene would be lighted by lights in the scene. I then created a distant light which I would aptly call "Sun" which would serve as the sun, so at to make our bathing beauty appear to be sitting in bright sunlight while posing with her beach volleyball. I naturally had to adjust the lighting to make it bright enough so as to get the right effect. Next then I added two fill lights to dampen harsh shadows that would be created by the bright sun light. These lights I would call "fill" and "camera light" and the camera light would be positioned near the camera so as to illuminate her directly from the front of her pose. The fill light was positioned off a bit to the left of the camera to add light to her. It took me the better part of the evening to figure out how to get the gloss on her body. I turned up the glossiness settings on her skin, but they didn't seem to do anything. I realized later that the problem was that the specular map was what was overriding the gloss settings. But once I realized that I was able to adjust the gloss on her skin to make it appear as if she were oiled up with sunscreen. So I removed the specular map, and fiddled with the gloss and specular settings until I was satisfied. Likewise with the hair. The hair appeared flat with little or no discernable highlights or shine. Real hair has some glossiness, though not nearly as much as sunscreen covered skin so I fiddled with these until I got a pleasing setting. I also adjusted the bump settings on the hair so make the hair appear to have more "strandiness". Again the hair seemed kind of flat and lackluster in the original. And although the image lost some of the softness as in the original, and my revisions makes the scene much harder in appearance, I feel I made the scene my own to make her appear to be sitting on a sunlit beach posing with her volleyball, dressed in only a bikini bottom and sunscreen. This scene was rendered in the wonderful Iray render engine, and it took about 30 minutes on my computer which is a fairly powerful machine. It is an i7 gaming PC with 3.5 Ghz Quad core processor with duo threads per core for a total of 8 virtual cores. I also created a version of this same scene for the standard and native 3Delight render engine which I may post here also for comparison.

Comments (4)


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StuartB

6:15AM | Mon, 12 June 2017

May be her skin texture could be better. She looks more plastic than wet with sunscreen.

Switzart

8:12AM | Mon, 12 June 2017

Thank you for your comment. I have thought about adjusting the bump maps a bit more. And I was even thinking about creating a new more detailed bump map for her skin and maybe lowering the gloss a bit to improve the skin appearance. The texture map that she comes with are large resolution (4096x4096) but apparently do not have much detail. This was one problem I really did not address.

But on the other hand, I have actually seen images of real people with high gloss body oil or sunscreen that actually look almost plastic, but skin details were what made the difference.

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bucyjoe

4:42PM | Mon, 12 June 2017

I'd be happy to rub more lotion on you

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makennedy

6:39PM | Mon, 12 June 2017

Or rub some of it off, nice...

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Cyve

2:35PM | Fri, 15 September 2017

Beautiful character and great pose/expression too !!!


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