Lady Noir by cipher_X
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Description
First off I really want to thank everyone who has been visiting my gallery and posting their comments. It is refreshing to know that there is a forum where people actually take the time to look at others work.
Now to the chase...I started this render a month or so ago for a Daz Studio Forum challenge about dark & light, which I missed because it got so frustrating that I kept wanting to trash the whole idea repeatedly. The shadows were just not working out for me, they were here and there and everywhere that I didn't want them to be. Then I started noticing artifacts caused by the AO. Then once I got all that squared away the window reflections weren't right and I'd be an hour or so into a render of the glass and it would look horrible and needed to be tweaked some more..argggh!
Well I didn't trash the scene file. Because of some of the excellent 3D work I have seen posted here in the past few weeks, I got the insipration to go back to the scene and approach the whole problem a different way. The final image was all that was important and instead of trying to get it all to work in just a couple of render passes I began to break it down, rendering one shadow at a time. There were 15 different shadow passes, 1 glass reflection pass, 2 specular passes, 1 diffuse pass & 2 types of Uberlight passes. All the layers were assembled in PS7 with the only real postwork being layer blends and blurring of the background layer for DOF.
Let me know was it worth it?
Product and object credits:
Rachel Morph & Texture for V4 by Thorne & Sarsa
Chocolate Hair by Valea
V4 Cuore di Moda by AS3Design
Mega City by Sparkyworld
BC Movie Stands "The Office" by The AntFarm
Desert Eagle Pistol by DarkWhisper
Morphing Holster by Hypervox
Comments (19)
royo12
Great render, i like the shadows and the choice of monochrome colors was right! Great!
stick
Excellent, I just love the lighting and shadows.
thekingtut
She was definitely worth it. She's beautiful, and the shadows and light are fantastic.
ollienorthie
sweet
WildDesigns
In a word, YES! Fantastic, a beautiful art piece.
Cimaira
OH my goodness, YES, she was worth it. This is gorgeous! The lighting and reflections in that window are fantastic.
Darkglass
It was worth it....Might fine work!! lovely uses of light & shadow
PapaSkip
Very much so. Excellent image!
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent.
theprojectionist
Terrific
MirageBay
Absolutely worth it! Great render and work:)
Larion
Excellent work!
Teufelseinhorn
Amazing render .. perfect lights!!
arcas
Very cool in all respects - from the quality of the B&W to the great light and reflections.
Nyala
Hot Lady, cool image. Well done.
amirapsp
That is amazingly beautiful.
callad
Definately so! (worth it, that is) Fantastic soft yet clear shadows and the reflection in the window is outstanding!
dbrv6
Done very good with the Noir vibe for the scene! The lighting and reflections definetly helps making it with her position - good choice with using a window with blinds.
BiggDevo
Excellent composition. Exceptional use of light and shadow, as well as color muting/desaturation. Nicely posed and beautiful character. Great Work.