Things That Go Bump In the Night by theSea
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Post #100! Thanks for looking in. I had hoped for something a little more elaborate for my centenial posting but lately I'm happy to have had a little time to do some fun stuff.
DAZ Studio 2 render @ around 1 hour. Some post work in Photohsop CS4.
I'm really enjoying Studio's Dynamic clothing. It's especially great for those 'hard to fit' characters with custom body morphs.
This one came about from playing around with the character and clothing -the whole thing fell together in an hour or two with another few hours tweaking some of the surfaces and details.
This is the "Century Nightgown" on "Valeria for V4." Hair is "Wild Hair" which I got from RuntimeDNA sometime back. Setting is from one of DM's freebies.
Lighting is Dreamlight's Basic Studio Lightset with UberSpotlights. This is the 'warm to cool' preset with some tweaking.
pwSurface2 used on all surfaces. The nightgown features translucency, subsurface scattering and a bit of ambient occlusion. Hair has translucency, a bit of rim lighting and anisotropic highlighting.
Figure was posed and morphed and then the nightgown was added. I selected the entire figure and hit the 'memorize figure' option. Then I zeroed out the figure's poses and morphs. I advanced the frame counter to frame thirty and hit 'restore figure' so that the poses and morphs are applied over the thirty frames. I went back to frame zero and ran the cloth simulation over thirty frames. Then I added the wind and ran a single frame drape to settle the outfit and get the blown effect.
Rendered with depth of field in camera.
Postwork included taking a duplicate of the render, running some levels on that to get the brightest spots and then adding a bit of blur. The blurred duplicate layer was applied in screen mode for a softening effect. The background area was painted in photoshop (Ron's 'grunge' brushes) and then I added the title and copyright.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to my artistic journey over the last 99 images with your comments and critique. It is all very much appreciated.
As always constructive criticism is most welcome.
Comments (33)
iambrose
Congrats on the first 100! Love the skin texture and the dress. I may be tempted to have another look at DazStudio - I can never quite get the poser dynamics to do what I expect them to lol!
PhilW
Really wonderful image - character, dress, hair, all brilliant! And congrats on your 100 too!!
necrophage
cool horror render - great pose and lighting!
anitalee
Excellent work!
Daidalos
Congrats on your 100th post. Great vamp image. Regards, Daidalos
twingo
Excellent horror scene, wonderful character, outfit and expression.
Revelation-23
Welcome to three digit land! This looks great! I haven't played around in D|S much lately, and certainly not with dynamic clothing. Still, it's good to see what others are able to get out of it; it's come a long way and version 3 looks quite promising.
dshield
Happy 100 Michael. Like it a lot, nice posing. As always, love the 'HowDunnit' D
reheller
Congratulations! Your 100 is quite masterfully posed and lighted! Your how-to is very interesting and helpful too.
shotgung0d
Looks really good Michael! Neat trick with the blurred layer, will have to try that. Congrats on the Century mark, looking forward to #200 :)
Rainastorm
EXCELLENT Scene, awesome !!
dreamlord08
Congratulations, nice work....
Kyronimos
Fantastic work!
airpower1
Excellent work, very scary!
adiemas
Excellent! Very nice work.
elfin12u
Happy 100th!!! I'm not sure if I should be congratulating you, or feel so lucky that you've been thus prolific. I love the tutorials you give, great help for all of the rest. This is amazing work, and very worthy of being the cap to your reaching this milestone. Incredibly creepy cool!!!
meselfr
this is a truly fantastic render...
Half-Baked
Awesome work with a combination of a great pose and expression with excellent lighting!
infinityrain
Wow!! Fantastic job! I've got the dynamics but have yet to try them out, this render just may be what finally pushes me over the edge to experiment with it.
Raindroptheelf
oh this is very scary, her eyes and her hands. brrrrr Fantastic work!!
ESarge
Great image and lighting!! As always I appreciate the small tuts on how you do things. It helps a lot.
Seaview123
For your 100th image I think you knocked one out of the park and into the cheap seats! This is a fantastic render, and reading about how you did it makes it all the more outstanding an image! Really excellent work, and I'm going to be looking forward to your next 100 images.
Cimaira
Congratulations on #100! She is fantastic, great lighting.
moonbunnie
Spooky lady , wonderful work and atmosphere!
Thetis
awesome spooky image, excellent work. reminds me of a thriller by Wilkie Collins "The Lady In White"(?), not sure about the title, but your image has the same deep athmosphere
callad
Congrats with your 100th! A most wonderful and HQ Gallery you have build here Michael! And this one is no exeception to that! Excellent lighting, pose and expression! Haunting 'look' she has! I wished my nightmares were that beautiful!
Jops_the_2nd
Everything fits here! Awesome work!
cyberknight1133
Excellent!
ontar1
Beautiful and wicked character, love her expression and pose, excellent lighting and detailing, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ragouc
Very good pose and render. Cool character. congratulation for your 100th post.