Just Miho... by rajib
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Hi There =) !
Thank you for the wonderful wonderful comments and favs and likes on my renders.
Due to lack of time, if you are uploading more than one image a day, I am afraid I will only be able to comment on a one or two of them at most. Had a busy week and well have fallen behind again after catching up last Sunday. Now back to page 22. Hopefully will be able to catch up this coming week.
Hope you all like the render !
Rendered in Daz Studio using the Octane Plugin. No post work done.
My previous render - "Fat Free Snacks - A comparison."
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Enjoy =) !
Description :
The current story will continue from the next render.
This is a file photo of Miho in one of her homes that she has all over the world. She takes to water like a fish so there is a pool in almost all her homes. I caught her in an unguarded moment when she was looking at the antics of two squirrels that always came by when she was around.
If you noticed her blue eyes well, like she can "tell" her hair cells to change color and style, she can do the same to her irises :). There is also a change in Miho's lip color - more pink.
About this render :
Have had a busy busy week so have been away from Renderosity and well also had no time to do the next render for my story. But as always when I am busy I tend to play around with the lighting and shaders in whatever little free time I can mange, to see if I can make them better. I always had this issue with reflections on her eyes and nails. For the eyes, I was using Specular material so ideally speaking i should have been getting reflections on her eyes. I would get it only when the light (sun) was at an angle from the camera but if the light was behind the camera and I was doing a straight on render of Miho's face, I would never get the reflection. Similarly on her nails I was using a glossy material that should have given me a glossy and reflective finish, but once again it looked more matte than glossy unless the light was in an angle to the camera. I am well aware of IOR, Specular, Roughness, etc to know what should get me the reflective surface, but playing with those did not help much unless I turned the settings to extreme. But to me that was not the right way to get the surfaces to be reflective. I think this started with Octane 3.8. They did some material changes and introduced new materials in that version so I guess something changed in the way my existing material shader were working.
So after some RnD and re-looking at the material definition I noticed the "Dispn Coef B" (B parameter of the dispersion model) pin in the Specular and Universal materials nodes of Octane. So for Miho's cornea which was a Specular material, I cranked it up and lo and behold, I had the HDRI environment / scene reflecting on her eyes even with the sun behind the camera. For the nails, I changed her material from Glossy to Universal which had that setting and that too made the nails glossy as you see in this render. For the effect on the cornea and the eye surface I will do another straight on render so that it shows the reflection on Miho's eyes more clearly than in this one. Miho's lips were also changed to the Universal material for the same reason. Now there is more glossiness to her lips too.
I spent some time too working on Miho's hair shader. Her hair being light in color, getting the highlights to be visible was a pain. So again after some work manage to get the slight highlights to appear. The highlights look more prominent if I use a darker color like black or brown for her hair. That color change I might do in any case.
The scene is constructed out of mix and match of props from different sets (listed below in the "Products used" section). The pose took a bit of time specially the fingers over her knee. I did start with a canned pose but then changed the pose to suit my need, I used ZBrush to create a custom morph for a more realistic thigh and calf press. I am lighting this one with a new HDRI set I bought and I love the the light it produces. These HDRI have un-clamped sun so are very bright. In fact I had to reduce its strength (set to 65%) to make sure the scene was not overblown. These were expensive to buy. They are from Hyperfocal Design. Btw. if you ever buy any HDRI from them, do not buy the LDR versions. They are just jpgs and just don't work well and hardly have any light in them. The HDRI and VHDRI versions are in the .exr / .hdr format and provide beautiful light.
The rings that you see in the background bokeh effect is gotten by using a Octane Camera setting called Aperture Edge. Here I set it to its highest value - 3 and that gave me that nice effect. The floor shows how shallow the DOF is.
This took 15 minutes to render.
Products used :
CO Ichigo and Ichigo Hair for Genesis 8 Female(s) @ Daz - Miho's hair
X-Fashion String Bikini for Genesis 8 Female(s) @ Daz
Mediterranean Pool @ Daz
Moroccan Pool Yard @ Daz - Flower Vines and Pool Lounger
Inflatable Pool Toys & Poses for Genesis 3 and 8 @ Daz - Flamingo inflatable
HDRI @ www.hyperfocaldesign.com
Updates to my older renders
As mentioned before as and when I update any of my older renders with the latest version of Miho and her skin shader plus better lighting, I will let you all know so that if you want to you can see the updated version. I am doing them in place instead of posting a new upload.
Uploads updated :
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Enjoy =) !
Comments (65)
wscottart
Great image as always. Love the composition and the parallel lines of the leg and chair. Keeps the eyes flowing around in the image really well.
mauk
Excellent!!!!!
OkrimSlava
Beautiful.
ikke.evc
Excellent!
eekdog Online Now!
Oh Miho looking so sweet and sexy,,,, as always my friend. Great job on her series.
tetrasnake
Lovely!
ontar1
Very beautiful!
zaqxsw
Gorgeous as always... That was a lot of work!
Tracesl
excellent
goldie
Nice one...excellent lighting...
makennedy
Sweet character render!
regeer
Very nice, great work on lovely Miho and scene.
MagikUnicorn
Deva3D
Fantastic work and very sexy!
Radar_rad-dude
rbowen
Excellent!
RRun
Great pose.
PhthaloBlue
Beautiful!
Darkglass
Really nice work on this render....lighting is superb, and love her hair, it so suits her face shape and the colour, its almost has that luminos quality to it, great render....!!
GrandmaT
She is gorgeous! All the work you've done has really paid off. This is a wonderful pose.
donnena
Gorgeous image!
Irkisis
Wonderful avatar!
midnight_stories
Excellent render love the DOF !
Diemamker
Excellent work!
dakotajaroo
always as excellent as usual ,superb
Saby55
The lighting in this is awesome!Excellent render and character.👏👍🖐😀
ia-du-lin
Beautiful!
UteBigSmile
She looks simply very pretty!
starship64 Online Now!
Nicely done. She's as beautiful as ever.
anitalee
Beautiful!