A Kitty and a Mouse by Faemike55

DAZ|Studio • Fantasy • posted on Jul 18, 2009

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Description

Kitty the elf is listening wih some amusement as Itani, the mouse, describes his encounter with the ferocious white cat of the woods. Kitty knows that the white cat is actually Yawanur, Zlata's pet. She also knows that Anur would never hurt anyone from Fae Valley - play with them maybe, but never, ever hurt them. This time I tried to set some lights, not only the presets that come with the cycloramas but putting up a sun shining through the trees. My goal was to createe some shadows on the lady and mouse. As you can see I was not entirely successful and I think I know where I went wrong. It's just a matter of direction and focus. thank you all for the wonderful comments on the image 'Mother and child reunion' We've got some raccoons that like to wander around as well. I'm going to try and get a few shots of them soon! I hope that everyone has a great weekend Thanks again all of you!!!! Mike

Comments (57)

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xansplace

2:16PM | Sat, 18 July 2009

Cool render Mike..!!

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shadownet

3:08PM | Sat, 18 July 2009

Very nice work Mike! Some thoughts on lighting a scene. Set up lights first so you can see to pose stuff. Once you have the scene set turn off all lights but one. Make it a spot light and position it front and to left or right of your main subject. Usually you want it a little higher than the subject but some times you may want it shining up from underneath for certain effects. Set it to light it to light mostly face and bit of torso. For example here I would have it to right of girl pointing at mouse face with enough angle so as to include side of girl and a bit of her torso and most of the mouse. I want this light bright and gray or white so that skin almost whites out when render, I can tone down later. You want a soft shadow since lighting value is intense it may make it seem hard. You can adjust later as needed. Your next light here should be an infinity light or point light since you want global lighting for your scene. Might want to give it a color to compliment prominent scene color so for here I might go with something in blue or purple spectrum to match background waterfall and foreground mushrooms. This light should not be very intense just bright enough to bring out details and set mood. This is your atmosphere light. You do not want shadow on it. You can place it several places in scene depending on what mood you want but I think I would try high front left for starters so that it works as a fill light to illuminates the scene somewhat uniformly. The last light should be another spot and this will be your shadow light. It can have a bit of color but in this case you want to keep it more gray or maybe a dark blue since you are going for a night setting. You what to tint your figures and scene but do not want to over colorize them. Mostly you want this light to cast the correct shadow so you will set it up similar to the first light only with a much larger angles and/or fallout range as you want to get in as much of the scene as possible. So you may have to push if further forward so that as the light cone spreads it lights more things. In Poser there are shadow cameras that let you see how the light shadow will look, not sure in DS but as a rule where the spot points the shadow should go. For me I would bring it a tad toward the center so that it is still to right of image (your left) but not as far right as first light. What I am wanting to do is position it so that it blends with my main (first spot) light source but gives shadow to most if not all of my scene. I want a stronger shadow setting on this one as I do not want it as intensity as I first light, maybe half). I will want to match the shadow softness/hardness appearance from this light to what I decide is right look for shadow from the first. If this is difficult to do than turn shadow off on first light and use only this light for shadow. Sometimes best. I will use the first light as my key, my guide by which I adjust the intensity and shadow of both spotlight until I get it right lighting on my figure (not too much white out or glow or too harsh or soft shadow etc when I render and all three lights blend to illuminate the scene). The second light, being my ambient light should not need to be to changed once I have it set for the mood I want. But the third, second spotlight, I will adjust based on changes I make to the first light since this is the one that drives the lighting of my subject. Once I have a balanced lighting of my subject with the shadowing I want for my scene, and correct ambient lighting, I am ready to do final render. :O)

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