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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Pirx33

3:34PM | Tue, 18 November 2008

Beauti and Dangerous! Excellent scene!!!

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callad

5:00PM | Tue, 18 November 2008

Impressive lighting! Sat with me nose to the screen.. flawless!!

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airpower1

5:35PM | Tue, 18 November 2008

Fantastic, the lighting on this is great!

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Cimaira

6:29AM | Wed, 19 November 2008

aww, another beautiful lady, lit to perfection! You are a true master at light, shadows and atmosphere. I, like Shotgung0d will have to go over those postwork tips a thousand times, only unlike Shotgung0d, still wont get it. lol fantastic image, thank you for sharing your beautiful ladies and your knowledge.

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efron_241

6:45AM | Wed, 19 November 2008

no one will take that from her what an amazing ART it is the light the pose and esp. the atmo that makes us WOW

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Homus_Artistic

2:24PM | Wed, 19 November 2008

Amazing render. Great details. thank you so much for the tips on techniques

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maraich

10:41PM | Wed, 19 November 2008

I thought I was going to be able to resist that outfit, but after seeing this I must have it. Curses! Thanks so much for tips on working with the fog. That's really handy. Now I just need to have some time to try it out. Haven't even gotten to try the LDP2 yet and it's killing me. The gel with the spot works magic - really adds to the mood and mystery.

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swjkie100

5:51PM | Thu, 20 November 2008

The shadow play looks really good here! Excellent use of light without losing any detail! Ace job ^_^

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kobaltkween

6:24PM | Thu, 20 November 2008

wow. that's a gorgeous outfit, and i'm impressed with the creator's talent, but this is the first usage of it i've liked. mostly it's used in a very "aren't i sexy" way that falls into the same typical realm the movie did (as opposed to the experimental, over-the-top, disturbing way the animation did). you've managed to make it seem practical instead of provocative, and the woman seems powerful rather than just promiscuous. with the pose, the subtle expression, the lighting that masks the high-heels, you created a work where the woman who actually looks confident and competent enough to be in the kind of sf adventure story this appears to illustrate. this looks like a book cover, with the detailed atmosphere and muted contrasting colors. great composition, light, and colors, so it's incredibly solid all around.

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