Fishing with Grandad by pantalone
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John Constable is a jolly good painter, but I don't think he posts on this site. Not these days, anyway. Now I'm no Constable, but a cat can look at a king, innit? I was interested to explore how his paintings, like “Fishing on the Stour” worked so well, so this is just a pastiche, knocked out in Vue with some Poser figures in vaguely period dress. Yes I do know that stovepipe hats were not in fashion at the same time as tricorns, but the men needed hats and I've only got the two (helmets deemed inappropriate).
Vue, of course, aims for photorealism rather than painterly virtuosity. What the exercise has highlighted is that Constable had some rules applied to loads of his paintings, like a big blob of reflected light in the foreground water , high saturation across the whole painting, unlikely highlights and strangely contrasty trees. I'm sure you artistic types knew all this, but nobody ever told me! In fact, to get anywhere near his style with a renderer you'd need to composite an awful lot of renders, and that's not easy in Vue because it doesn't do transparent backgrounds. His were also very busy images, for all their sense of tranquility, and Vue took nearly 40 hours to render this relatively simple shot, so breaking it up would be obligatory. Might try it next time, though.
Too many products to credit individually, but they're all from C3D, Daz or here.
Thanks for your comments on previous posts. One learns, or hopes to!
Comments (14)
drifterlee
This is beautiful!
lonely_wolf
Peaceful scene - great render and work!
jclP
great master piece,excellent
gillbrooks Online Now!
Very nice work indeed :)
Fand
Dude spectacular.
qrud
Nice to see your work.
joaq
Great scene,wonderful render!!!
bigbraader
This is really good. Nice effort with the pastiche approach, I've done so quite a bit myself. 5* - But for the compositing etc. it is certainly possible to make masks etc. An example, understand how: Make an empty scene. Load a couple of trees. Place a terrain in the background. Select all the trees. Go to the render options, and pick "Render only selected objects", make sure that "Hide infinte planes from alpha" is ticked. Render the trees. Save the colour render AND the black-white alpha channel render - you'll notice that the alpha only shows the trees and as white silhouttes. You can do that with all elements in a scene! Maybe you'll have to render several versions, but keep in mind that you can render small areas of a scene only. A little similarly, you can also arrange e.g. the foreground elements and the background etc. on different layers, and then select "Render only visble/active layers" and export the needed renders. The multi-pass rendering is only available in the Infinite and Xtream Vue lines, don't know if that's an option for you. But the method described should work with all versions of Vue.
vintorix
How come it is that some of the best CG works are studies of the great masters? This is truly excellent. BTW are you acquainted with the multipass render feature in Vue? And thank you for the insightsfull comment on my last post it was most appreciated. Edit: Multipass has lots of other functionality such as abilty to adjust light, shadows, specularity,etc all in all over 20 different parameter AFTER rendering. You still need to do some indevidual renders though!
Cosme..D..Churruca
great scene! the mood is perfect.
Boffles
I like it... and thats not like me :) My only gripe is just how much the foreground water looks like its been run through photoshop plasticiser - might have overcooked that a bit. Anyhow, not got time to be too critical - I've got 926 photos to sort through!
hidekun
Very nice
mgtcs
This is a very fine artwork, excellent textures and composition, a feast for the eyes, superlative image without doubt!
SIGMAWORLD
Wunderschöne Szene!