I was curious as to weather it is possible to take a actual render from Poser and convert it into the "look" of 35mm film? Is this done by a specific filter or a series of lenghthy procedures using the many tools of Photoshop or is this even possible? This leads me towards animation and I have a basic poser figure walking in one place and if I could convert each frame into that "look" it would be alot cheaper than going to one of those conversion houses.Any info that can be offered would be greatly appreciated.
-Mick

I dont quite understand what you mean by "look" .... can you elaborate ?

Well, you know the difference between a picture taken with a film camera and a CG render made in Poser or Lightwave, they don't look alike in the way the light of a CG render looks almost artificial and a film camera picture looks like
real light like the real world. I hope this doesn't sound confusing.It's kinda hard to describe.
-Mick

hmm Well, you could try the different level adjustments in Photoshop, I dont render straight out of Poser but I think I understand what you are talking about. Try going to Image / Adjust Levels, Curves, Brightness and Contrast etc.... play around with them a little and see what you get. You may also try asking in the Poser Forum about more natural lighting conditions, I think I recently saw where you can buy presets for natural lighting conditions at Daz3D.com. You may also want to try playing around with Photoshops lighting tools.... Filters/Render/Lighting Effects. It sounds like you are producing moving images though and if you dont want to do this frame by frame and have access to Adobe Premiere you can also change things around in there and apply it to the entire movie or to parts of the movie, works a lot like Photoshop in being able to change the hue, contrast etc. Hope that helps some.

okay, here are some things you might try. Run your pictures through the noise/desaturate filter. Photos NEVER have crisp lines the way CG does. The images need to be softened just a bit and despeckle does a pretty decent job. Go to gaussian blur if you need more. Desaturate your colors just a tiny bit. Play with your channels palette, try using different filters and adjustments on the various RGB channels. Working in the RGB channels is what most photographers do to adjust photographs. Play with levels and curves to find out what they do. They're extremely powerful tools. Learn the various colors of different kinds of light. There's very very little pure white light in the world. Sunlight is tinted yellow, moonlight blue, indoor light ranges from orange to red to green for flourescents. Your lights should all be tinted whatever color the scene calls for. Not a heavy tint, just a very pale tint. This also applies with artistic work like paintings. Many artists tint the blank canvas a very light shade of the primary color in the picture. This way the entire picture gives the impression of this color and has a coherency, it hangs together and all the parts appear to be part of the whole. Try compositing several renders as well, so that you can get a depth of field effect. Photographs are rarely sharply focused throughout the entire field.

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Thanks alot guys for your input.I think this is just what I have been looking for. Cheers,Mick

oops. I meant the noise/despeckle filter

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