Just Miho... by rajib
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Hi There =) !
Thank you for the wonderful wonderful comments and favs and likes on my renders.
Due to lack of time, if you are uploading more than one image a day, I am afraid I will only be able to comment on a one or two of them at most. Had a busy week and well have fallen behind again after catching up last Sunday. Now back to page 22. Hopefully will be able to catch up this coming week.
Hope you all like the render !
Rendered in Daz Studio using the Octane Plugin. No post work done.
My previous render - "Fat Free Snacks - A comparison."
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Enjoy =) !
Description :
The current story will continue from the next render.
This is a file photo of Miho in one of her homes that she has all over the world. She takes to water like a fish so there is a pool in almost all her homes. I caught her in an unguarded moment when she was looking at the antics of two squirrels that always came by when she was around.
If you noticed her blue eyes well, like she can "tell" her hair cells to change color and style, she can do the same to her irises :). There is also a change in Miho's lip color - more pink.
About this render :
Have had a busy busy week so have been away from Renderosity and well also had no time to do the next render for my story. But as always when I am busy I tend to play around with the lighting and shaders in whatever little free time I can mange, to see if I can make them better. I always had this issue with reflections on her eyes and nails. For the eyes, I was using Specular material so ideally speaking i should have been getting reflections on her eyes. I would get it only when the light (sun) was at an angle from the camera but if the light was behind the camera and I was doing a straight on render of Miho's face, I would never get the reflection. Similarly on her nails I was using a glossy material that should have given me a glossy and reflective finish, but once again it looked more matte than glossy unless the light was in an angle to the camera. I am well aware of IOR, Specular, Roughness, etc to know what should get me the reflective surface, but playing with those did not help much unless I turned the settings to extreme. But to me that was not the right way to get the surfaces to be reflective. I think this started with Octane 3.8. They did some material changes and introduced new materials in that version so I guess something changed in the way my existing material shader were working.
So after some RnD and re-looking at the material definition I noticed the "Dispn Coef B" (B parameter of the dispersion model) pin in the Specular and Universal materials nodes of Octane. So for Miho's cornea which was a Specular material, I cranked it up and lo and behold, I had the HDRI environment / scene reflecting on her eyes even with the sun behind the camera. For the nails, I changed her material from Glossy to Universal which had that setting and that too made the nails glossy as you see in this render. For the effect on the cornea and the eye surface I will do another straight on render so that it shows the reflection on Miho's eyes more clearly than in this one. Miho's lips were also changed to the Universal material for the same reason. Now there is more glossiness to her lips too.
I spent some time too working on Miho's hair shader. Her hair being light in color, getting the highlights to be visible was a pain. So again after some work manage to get the slight highlights to appear. The highlights look more prominent if I use a darker color like black or brown for her hair. That color change I might do in any case.
The scene is constructed out of mix and match of props from different sets (listed below in the "Products used" section). The pose took a bit of time specially the fingers over her knee. I did start with a canned pose but then changed the pose to suit my need, I used ZBrush to create a custom morph for a more realistic thigh and calf press. I am lighting this one with a new HDRI set I bought and I love the the light it produces. These HDRI have un-clamped sun so are very bright. In fact I had to reduce its strength (set to 65%) to make sure the scene was not overblown. These were expensive to buy. They are from Hyperfocal Design. Btw. if you ever buy any HDRI from them, do not buy the LDR versions. They are just jpgs and just don't work well and hardly have any light in them. The HDRI and VHDRI versions are in the .exr / .hdr format and provide beautiful light.
The rings that you see in the background bokeh effect is gotten by using a Octane Camera setting called Aperture Edge. Here I set it to its highest value - 3 and that gave me that nice effect. The floor shows how shallow the DOF is.
This took 15 minutes to render.
Products used :
CO Ichigo and Ichigo Hair for Genesis 8 Female(s) @ Daz - Miho's hair
X-Fashion String Bikini for Genesis 8 Female(s) @ Daz
Mediterranean Pool @ Daz
Moroccan Pool Yard @ Daz - Flower Vines and Pool Lounger
Inflatable Pool Toys & Poses for Genesis 3 and 8 @ Daz - Flamingo inflatable
HDRI @ www.hyperfocaldesign.com
Updates to my older renders
As mentioned before as and when I update any of my older renders with the latest version of Miho and her skin shader plus better lighting, I will let you all know so that if you want to you can see the updated version. I am doing them in place instead of posting a new upload.
Uploads updated :
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Enjoy =) !
Comments (65)
AureliusdeMercoeur
Miho is just gorgeous in blue !! Superb render !!
Parme
Nice realistic camera.
Richardphotos
great pose and render
skyvendik
great lighting and human shaders!
Crudelitas
She is so wonderful and cute. Very well done, my dear friend.
iborg64
wonderfully done as always nice use of DOF
bucyjoe
well done
moebiustraveller
Lovely work, rajib :)
DigitalOrigami
Stunningly beautiful. She really looks gorgeous.
JeffersonAF
Excellent.
Kratoonz
Very sweet
nelmi
Love the pose! Great work.
LadyLight
Wonderful render! Pose and lighting are spot on, Great work!
MajinBoo
Outstanding render Miho looks amazing in every render. Your enhancements to her looks and render techniques really pay off.
Flint_Hawk
A great candid moment you have caught her in!
rhol_figament
Excellent pose and light work, you give her your spark for sure...
RodS
Sweet Miho is looking as gorgeous as ever - and she's actually found a sunny day! Wonderful work as always, my friend!
Busy here, too.... Gotta do some catching up myself - probably tomorrow. Looking forward to more of her adventures!
Wolfenshire
You bring such life and warmth to your characters that the stories are rich and inviting. Well done.
jmattatall
Great use of DOF, i love the pose and expression
romangirl
I love her!
OddMuse
Excellent work!
IceDragonArt
Love love love the blue hair! Her eyes are striking as blue, and the pink really suits this look!
Desgar
Electric hair for such an electric personality! :mood_lightning:
tuxedomask
Nice work , sweet character .
ragouc
Superb...
Grey_cat Online Now!
I like your character Miho, and you did a beautiful job lighting this render.
Faemike55
the one thing that is always sure about her is that she is sexy. Cute and Dangerous also apply, situation dependent.
STEVIEUKWONDER
She's a little stunner! I'm going to practise my swimming!
rsand55
Very nice indeed!
captbear
wonderful