Contributions from Richard mostly, and Tracy only rarely . Albert unfortunately, is no longer with us to type his thoughts - however as most of them were unprintable, it's probably better that he can't type them.
BIO
Richard's a Mechanical Engineer specialising in Stress Analysis. Due to the poor state of Finite Element Modellers he's spent a fair bit of time writing translators to enable packages like Poser, Studio, Truspace etc to act as modellers for mechanical products. Why not use CAD.. Because the file formats are too complex! Tracy is a Library assistant in Europe's largest learning resource centre (University library & computer department to most!). We used to have a character cat called Albert. He features in a picture or two.
Richard occasionally makes a few freebies which he distributes with the aide of Renderosity, mostly as a way of saying 'Thank you' for the help he's been given over the years by other members of the community. Though, making these items does also act as an outlet for a need to create that is occasionally stifled by the paperwork associated with his job.
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Comments (5)
Palaemon
Beautiful work.
PhthaloBlue
Wonderful!
richardandtracy
Thank you for your comments. The pose took possibly 15 minutes to set up using one of BBarbs' freebie poses available here on Renderosity as a starting point, and I did it before loading the background model. Then the final tweaks took an incredibly long time to do for what little movements there were - getting on for an hour. The ground didn't really show up when texture shaded, so the figure's final movements had to be adjusted using the iRay screen shading, which took 2 minutes to react to every movement of the figure even when only the lowest level of detail was visible. Then the render took 1hr 50 using my GTX 1060 gpu. That background scene is unbelievably heavy on the system. With 1 figure it took 5.9Gb of the gpu vRAM, so it just fitted in vRAM. Had it dropped out to CPU or I'd had a second figure it'd probably have taken 24hrs+ to render.
generation2235 Online Now!
Wow! Your hard work had definitely paid off. A stunning and very photo-realistic image!
richardandtracy
Thank you.