the Courier by theSea

DAZ|Studio • Science Fiction • posted on Nov 17, 2008

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Hi, thanks for having a look... A bit of idle fun after a long couple of weeks of pulling stuff together for the LDP2 release and the expansion pack. Wow, I just needed to do something light and fun and here she is! DAZ Studio render with postwork in Photoshop. ~2 hours to render mostly the raytraced area lights against the transmapped hair. Production Credits: DAZ's Victoria 4 with Blackhearted GND4 Morphs. Textures are Vanessa from DAZ (they're awesome!). Hair is Posh hair from DAZ with Pendragon's hair shader and a bit of paintover in post. Outfit is the lovely Stormchaser from ConnieKat and the gun is from the Rogue set from DAZ. Level 14 Cargo Bay by Stonemason with a Stonemason crate from DAZ. I think the pose started life as one of the DM pose packs. All materials heavily tweaked as always with extensive use of pwSurface. The briefcase was knocked together in Modo in about 45 minutes. Lighting 1 Uberspot with a gel from the left. Two omArealights. A pass with Mood Master from Dreamlight was also rendered. This was used for the postwork of the volumetric fog and light. Postwork Ron's Fog and Smoke brushes were used to paint the background volumetric smoke and the light beams. There's an easy technique to get the volume fog in Photoshop. Open your main image and open your Mood Master render. Copy the Mood Master image to a new _channel_ in the main image. You can now ditch the MM render. Create a new layer in your main image. Go back to the channels tab and ctrl click on your new MM channel. This will load it as a selection. Go back to the layers tab and hit the button for layer mask. This will create a mask of the MM render and anything you paint in that layer will be masked according to the depth in the image. Then just grab a good fog brush, pick an appropriate color and go to town. The light beams were carefully painted and then masked off with a couple of gradients until they looked right, then copied to the channels tab and yellowish smoke was painted in as with the volumetrics above. Some levels adjustments and a little postwork painting on the hair completed the image. As always thanks for your comments and critiques - they are very much appreciated.

Comments (46)

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anitalee

6:24PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Excellent! Great light

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PhilW

6:28PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Excellently put together - I love the lighting and pose, great textures too! Top work!

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Fidelity2

6:31PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Very well done. I love it. And yes, I give it a 5+.

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Biffowitz

6:34PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Awesome render, the lighting and skin texture add to the realism. Nice work indeed!

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fodder937

7:17PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

You are the master! Great image.

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BadKittehCo

7:30PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Ah, you do have a full size render here. Wow, that's looking so awesome. I just love the lighting. And this is DAZ studio render... WOW! Masterful!!!!

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jaynep12002

7:48PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Incredible! The level of detail is awesome. A true masterpiece.

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ericwestray

7:56PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Excellent! Great lighting and mood.

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raven916

8:02PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Superb work, love the lighting its just outstanding, the texture and lighting really set the mood.

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JCD

8:07PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Truly a superb composition - just wonderful on so many levels.

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722

8:52PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

awesom

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arcas

9:09PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

Oh ja! Sleek, moody, and sexy!

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meselfr

9:14PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

fantastic :)

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Amethst25

9:38PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

I woke my husband when I said Oh WOW out loud. Just for fun huh? I sure enjoyed seeing this one! Thank you for the information on how you created this in Postwork.

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Timesurfer

9:47PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

awsome lighting and pose!

shotgung0d

9:58PM | Mon, 17 November 2008

"Deep bow" Your brilliance shines again. Excellent as expected. Probably going to have to read those layer instructions a few hundred more times though. Cut me some slack, I'm just a pond ;)

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