Crested Owl by Ken _Gilliland

Poser • Animals • posted on May 07, 2015

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Description

The Crested Owl is found in Central America and northern South America. It inhabits humid evergreen forests and generally roosts by day in thickets, often very low. It can be found from sea level to the cloud forests at 6300 ft. (1950 m) in elevation. It eats mostly large insects like caterpillars or beetles and is strictly nocturnal. This species is suspected to lose 18.8-21.9% of suitable habitat within its distribution over three generations (17 years) based on a model of Amazonian deforestation. It is therefore suspected to decline by

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Comments (7)

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Kinchie

12:12PM | Thu, 07 May 2015

If I ever get to South America again, this superb owl one will be on my bucket list! Ken, Have you experimented with how to optimize rendering of your birds? They are so lovely they need to be shown off to best advantage. Any tips would be most welcome esp. to maybe take advantage of the new IRay rendering. I have trouble rendering birds in Reality for example but would love to get closer to a photoreal-type render. Any pointers?

Ken _Gilliland

1:19PM | Thu, 07 May 2015

I've have mixed views on Reality... in some renders, it adds considerably and in others, there's little difference from a standard render. If I want reality-like lighting effects I go to Vue. There are some rendering issues with the wing feathers (Reality and Vue), some poses make squares on the wing feathers--adding subdivision (especially in Vue) corrects this. I haven't tried the IRay system yet, so I can't give an opinion of that yet. While software can help in the creation of realistic renders, knowledge of basic lighting principles are much more important. With this render, I used my simple 3 light system ("Bird Lights" in my download section). It has a sun light with shadows and AO, the other two lights are simply a fill and back light with no shadows. I use (usually) soft gray colored lights. What adds to this render is using Poser's (under-used imo) Atmosphere settings. I used a light gray color with a beginning setting of 15-25 and back setting of 750-1500 depending on the size of the scene.

Kinchie

4:40AM | Mon, 11 May 2015

Thanks for the lighting info, KenG. Going to give these a try.

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Ken _Gilliland

1:24PM | Thu, 07 May 2015

...I guess I should add, in DAZ Studio, I generally use the omni-freak AO light settings with a point light and Age of Armor's Cameras (like the fog one) to get the Poser-like Atmosphere settings.

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