Forum: Bryce

Subject: "Extreme close-up" pic

hutchingsm opened this issue on Mar 11, 2004 · 33 posts

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 5:46 PM

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Thanks for the comments so far on my latest pic. Is anyone interested in how it was done? No postwork at all, except to lighten it up a smidgen. Thanks, Mark

drawbridgep posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 5:53 PM

Yes please. Always like to learn new things.

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Peggy_Walters posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 5:56 PM

Please tell us how you did this! Cool effect.

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diolma posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 5:59 PM

OK. I give in. How was it done? (c'mon -- stop teasing:-)) Cheers, Diolma

gillbrooks posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:10 PM

Many enquiring minds want to know

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hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:12 PM

Turn off everything in the Sky Lab, also disable sun light.

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:13 PM

Here's the sky lab... with everything turned off... how exciting.

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:14 PM

Also, turn off all clouds. Set your sky to be 'Custom sky' and set everything to black.

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:16 PM

Look! Another exciting screen shot.

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:17 PM

Now, set up your scene as you would normally. However, assign everything the same material.

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:18 PM

The bump is just a standard one from the drop-down.

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:21 PM

OK, by now your pic is extremely boring, much like this one above.

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:25 PM

Add a single cylindrical light Put it in the same place as the camera Point it into the scene, same direction as the camera (linking to camera can help) Make it extremely wide and high, but very thin, just like the pic

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:27 PM

And here's the key to everything: Make your cylindrical light an infinite, NEGATIVE light, as shown in the pic. Intensity should be -1.

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:29 PM

That's pretty much it. Changing your ambient colour changes the colour of the picture overall. Throw in some DOF and there you have it. I'm sure I've probably missed something, so let me know :o)

hutchingsm posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 6:30 PM

All done - you can all flame me now if you like :D

Swade posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 9:33 PM

Cool stuff man. Thanks for sharing your how to tutorial.

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ysvry posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 10:54 PM

what are the sizes of the lamp and what renderoptions are on? nice effect

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ysvry posted Thu, 11 March 2004 at 11:28 PM

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my try of your technic i cant get the green as light as you and am wondering if the effect isnt the ambience setting of the material nice effect anyway thx for the tip

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AgentSmith posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 2:03 AM

Great looking effect! Comes off quite realistic. AgentSmith

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hutchingsm posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 2:25 AM

Here's my render options, ysvry - if you want the depth-of-field effect you really need to turn up the rays-per-pixel, which as you probably know reaaaally slows down the render. You don't need "True ambience" or any of the Optics items turned on - it's just how I had it.

hutchingsm posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 2:30 AM

ysrvy - Perhaps you should turn off haze etc... If you'd like to send me your .BR5 I'll try and remember what I did hehe, then I can add it here. Replace the 'head' with just a sphere or something.

hutchingsm posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 2:36 AM

The size of my cylindrical light: X=2136.04, Y=3.99, Z=2136.04

gillbrooks posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 4:11 AM

Thanks - give it a try later :-)

Gill

Peggy_Walters posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 7:49 AM

Thanks! I will try this out this weekend.

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bigbadelf posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 9:56 AM

Thanks for the tutorial. Something to do today. BTW, can anyone tell me what the difference is between full render and preview render? When i'm doing renders while composing the scene i keep preview render on because it lets me see things faster. When i go to render out a final image to disk, i'm not sure that i change that on the interface... i haven't been going into the render options to change things before i render a final to disk, so they're probably rendered as a preview. What's the diff?

Damia posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 4:26 PM

All I know is that the preview I have set has no anti-aliasing and it's set to preview. This makes it a faster render but it doesn't have the smoothness my full renders have. It leaves out the fine details. I'm sure there is more to it than that, but I couldn't tell ya! :) ~Damia~

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hutchingsm posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 4:30 PM

As far as I can tell it guesses around the areas where things look the same - I.e. if a big patch of grey appears it guesses that its gonna be all grey and skips some pixels. Which translates to 'I haven't a clue'.

bigbadelf posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 4:50 PM

LOL

hutchingsm posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 4:53 PM

All I know is, preview rendering sometimes gives you the same 'artifacts' as when you save an image as medium quality JPEG - sort of.

bigbadelf posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 5:08 PM

Thanks. I'll have to watch for that. I haven't noticed it before.

hutchingsm posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 5:14 PM

Either that, or it's my eyes.

ysvry posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 5:36 PM

ic, thx for the reply i dont need dof and my lamp was only 400x2x400 so i guess ill make it even better

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