V5 Test by theSea
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Hi. This is an image I put together while doing test renders related to the promo images for a recently released clothing item.
DAZ's Genesis with Victoria 5 dialed in and the 'Bree' textures that come with. The default DAZ Studio materials are pretty good, but I find the specular maps to be quite dark for my purposes. So here is my take. This is Ubersurface1 on the skin etc, and uberHair on the hair.
For the Skin: I changed the specular to two layers of blue, as I usually do and moderated them with the bump map, which is much closer to what I'm accustomed to seeing in a spec map. I used the provided SSS maps but increased the intensity and fiddled with the color. I pulled some red out of the diffuse color channel to compensate for the increased red from the SSS.
I also did some adjustment to the eye surfaces to get the reflection and specular where I wanted them.
The hair is AprilYSH's Jai hair with the uberHair shader applied and the bump and translucency tweaked.
The bikini is the Genesis Bikini, straight out of the tin.
Lighting - one uberEnvironment with the AzureSkies Beach 45 HDR and one distant light for sunlight & shadows. The environment is the White Room from Dreamlight, and there is a skydome with the Azure Skies Beach scene on it outside of the whiteroom for reflection purposes.
This is my first personal piece in DAZ Studio 4. I have to say I hated it at first, but I'm coming to appreciate some of its strengths and am learning to work around some of its quirks. Hopefully some of my major beefs (WTF is up with the wireframe view people?!?!) will be resolved in the soon to be released update.
I'm really liking what Genesis can do.
Please feel free to ask questions via comments or site-mail and I'll answer as best I can.
As always your constructive critique and comments are most appreciated.
Comments (17)
Savage_dragon
Looks good. ")
jakiblue
very nice!! love the lighting (as always!) - she looks like she's at the beach. I too hated DS4, but over the last couple of weeks, I've really come to enjoy it. And same with genesis - hated it, but boy, am I really loving it now. Love this piece.
Tholian
Skin tones really niced up with this treatment. Still not sure I want to mess with DAZ4.
ArtistKimberly
An Outstanding Image,
Darkglass
Fabulous character, first class texture and lighting work!
Drakkendark
Just bought V5. So excited. Great Render!
Niha
WOW!!!!!! SUPER REALISTIC! Beautiful work!
donnah
Perfect...
fallen21
Amazing render!
texboy
looks grand!
kobaltkween
you've gotten absolutely excellent with your materials and light. i love the subtle background. you know, if you hadn't said anything, i'd never have guessed it wasn't V4. in fact, she looks almost like maelwenn's Vanessa at half strength. except for that shoulder, which is much better but still doesn't look realistic to me. every time i look at it, i feel like i should know anatomy better. i can tell there's a significant problem, but i can't see how it should be. still, it's lovely work. i love that light.
Bossie_Boots
Wow This is outstanding !!
Morris
Very nice!
Orinoor
This is wonderful work on your part, the lighting and textures are superb. Still not convinced about the new mesh...going to stick with Poser.
PhilW
This looks terrific - I must try harder with DS but still don't like using it much, big fan of what Genesis is capable of though!
anitalee
Excellent!!
EyeStorm
Beautiful and very realistic image :)