3D-Mobster opened this issue on May 02, 2021 · 227 posts
3D-Mobster posted Mon, 17 May 2021 at 8:58 PM
RobZhena posted at 8:38PM Mon, 17 May 2021 - #4419302
I just went through the sticky thread of Poser 12 renders on the Poser 12 forum, and in my humble opinion, the number of truly outstanding render can be counted on the fingers of one hand, most of them by a single vendor. Ah, Superfly.
Not really sure how you determine the potential of a render engine like that? You can take the best of the best render engine on the market, that doesn't mean that it will just automatically throw out super images one after another. For an image to look interesting or good, it requires so much more than a specific render and there is a good chance that a lot of people capable of making such images, spend a whole lot more time on them and have a completely different background than the average Poser user have, they might also have access to programs that they might not have.
This is from Zbrush, would you call that a good render, that Superfly impossible could do?
My guess, is that you would agree that the model is interesting and looks good. The render it self is absolutely nothing special and could easily be done in Superfly. That doesn't mean that Zbrush render engine is awful and bad.
This is also from Zbrush..
Where a lot of compositing have be done in Photoshop. So I looked up his profile and this is what it says, have removed his name just in case:
My name is *** and I’m a passionate character artist. I have done various tutorials for 3d World, 3D artist, zbrushworkshops.com and have also been working for Pixologic as a beta tester for ZBrush. I’m currently employed as a senior character artist at *** in Stockholm, Sweden where we do game cinematics and other VFX jobs.
My point being that I highly doubt that the average Poser user have a similar background. Get a person like this to render something in Superfly and give it the same treatment that he would do with any of his renders and I bet you that it would look pretty damn good.
The problem most people seem to have when you read posts like these, is that they expect the 3D render to look absolutely amazing and interesting without any post work, when the truth is that they rarely do.