Cookie L'Artiste by perpetualrevision
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In an old chateau somewhere in the south of France, Cookie the artist practices her calling.
==AMY’S NOTES==
This one is dedicated to kelchris3 for the inspiration to dust off my Cookie content collection and to trumarcar, who has made an absolutely amazing bounty of freebies available for Cookie and other toons on her Treasure Chest and KCTC sites.
After I’d finished this scene, I thought, "Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if the light streaming in was visible in the air?" So I set up volumetric lighting and started a test render at quarter size. Half an hour later, when the render still hadn’t moved past the first few rows, I canceled it, because I consider half an hour to be too long to wait even for a full size render! The DepthCue feature on Poser’s atmosphere renders much more quickly than the Volume feature, so I’ve used that for background fog and similar effects, but it doesn’t work on lighting. I guess I don’t have the patience for volumetric lighting!
Rendered in February 2022 using Firefly in Poser Pro 11 for Mac at 2048 × 1152 pixels. View full size on my blog.
==CREDITS==
SCENE: Room from DM’s Lost Moments; paint boxes from L'Atelier Artist Props by Powerage; easel, paintbrush, and palette included with Cookie Artist outfit; art on the canvas is "Nature Cookie" from KelChris3’s gallery (used with permission and run through Painnt’s art effects).
CHARACTER: Cookie figure and Nell hair by Lady Littlefox; Cookie Artist outfit and accessories by trumacar; beret and pants textures from Vintage Batiks by Atenais.
Comments (12)
kelchris3
Awww turned out beautiful hon :) Yeah I love the look of volumetric lighting but I do not have a computer or patience that will handle it. LOL
perpetualrevision
I looked up some tutorials on how to add the effect of volumetric lighting in Photoshop, and that seems much more doable. It might end up taking nearly as long, but at least I'd be actively doing something and not just listening to my MacBook's fans going at high speed!
Richardphotos
Cookie is very cute and superb composition
perpetualrevision
Thank you so much for the kind comment!
mifdesign
Stunning top-notch, beautiful composition, brilliant awesome render. Exquisite Artwork. I love it!
CoolDimension
This is so lovely and special!
perpetualrevision
Thank you! Cookie is a lot of fun to work with :-)
Paulienchen
ein schöner Render
uncollared
Super cute. Wonderful scene
MollyFootman
I really liked the light coming in from the window. I find Poser atmosphere very difficult and have only recently achieved "God Rays" using Afrodite-Ohki's volumetric atmosphere prop cube in Superfly. I've never managed them except with postwork using Firefly. As for rendering time? Since I usually render at 4000 x 3000 pixels or greater I rarely have rendering times less than an hour and sometimes let it render overnight. >.<
As for the picture itself, as I mentioned above I love the light coming in from the window and visible beams or "God Rays" would have been interesting but hardly are missed as it is currently lit. Cookie is well posed and has a relaxed expression that I like. Putting a colorful picture on her frame is very effective. Makes me more determined than ever to get the hang of cute. =)
Molly
perpetualrevision
The god rays you got in "A time traveler pauses" were absolutely stunning! That's cool that someone made an atmosphere "helper" prop for Superfly. I don't use Superfly for various reasons, and the atmosphere props I've tried for Firefly weren't that great. But I have gotten some good results using the Depth Cue option (rather than Volume) on the Poser atmosphere, using the settings that come with TerraDome2 (or an add-on product) as a starting point. And bonus: Depth Cue has no impact on render time! There's an add-on called AtmosFears that really showed me what's possible with the Depth Cue effect, and I've had good luck with it in renders like these in my gallery (I can't link to them b/c links get stripped out of comments for whatever reason): Sunrise at Marsh Lights House, Swamp House Surprise, and Sky Glider Launch in 3 2 ...
I used to render at 4k and am not sure why I went back to smaller sizes when I started rendering again. My MacBook Pro is top of the line for 2019 (w/ 32gb of RAM) and breezes through Firefly renders at 4k, even with IDL enabled. But holy cow, Superfly is another story, as is volumetric lighting! I wouldn't actually mind waiting a longer time for a final render if I could be sure of the result I was going to get (as I usually am with IDL enabled). But with something like volumetric lighting, where I anticipate needing to do at least a dozen test renders at quarter size to get everything the way I want it, the thought of waiting an hour for each test render is just too much!
Have you ever looked at Vue? I'm often tempted when I see rp53's renders b/c Vue does great atmospheric effects, both outdoors and indoors, and supposedly you can bring a Poser scene right into Vue to render. But I also get pulled the other direction by wanting to stick with Poser to see what I can make it to :-)
robertswww
Wonderful scene of Cookie in her art studio!
Flint_Hawk
Cookie is a very talented artist!
It's a shame that our present computers limit what we are able to do, with the amazing new versions of Poser. Like you I don't have that much patience!
perpetualrevision
Thanks for the comment! I wish I understood what makes volumetric lighting render SO slowly b/c then maybe I could tweak settings or whatever. I did some tests with it years ago and managed to get a nice visible light beam into a dark chamber, and I don't recall the render times being all that crazy long, but I don't remember anything else about what I did. And that was probably in PP2014, not the Poser 11 I use now.
In some ways I think Poser and a lot of the content made for it was ahead of its time in terms of what it could do relative to what ordinary hobbyists' computers could do. I suspect that's why so much V4 stuff still looks so good, b/c now we have the power to render it as it was meant to be!
It may sound kinda silly, but one of the reasons I'm not patient about long renders is that I hate hearing my MacBook work so hard! If I had a "render cow" machine set up in another room, perhaps I wouldn't mind making that one work so hard :-)
mazzam
Nice. I never collected much content for Cookie. Hair texture looks sort of artificial compared to the rest of the scene.
Radar_rad-dude
A fine little artist with some serious talents! Many fine kudos from me!
donnena
I ran out of patience Long ago. I tried to order more, but the Store said it was back-ordered, and I would have to be patient.
Super image, Amy!!
perpetualrevision
The Patience Store always has the shortest lines... b/c no one is willing to wait for it!