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Published: 2012-11-27 06:54:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 3804; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 73
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Zeke and co stripped naked to produce a calendar of Pilates poses.Then had some fun dressing up for the cover.
Enjoy!
You can purchase the calendar here [link]
Look out for some 'out-takes' from the studio coming shortly
Ko, Chou and Sonora belong to
Zeke, Kyle and Yasmin belong to me
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Characters created using Genesis and DAZ4. Rendered in Lux using Reality plugin for Daz Studio. Postwork in PSP
Links to free items:
Zeke's collar, Sonora's handcuffs & Kyle's glasses [link]
Chains used to create Ko's necklace by Toxic Angel
Kyle's hard hat [link]
Yasmin's Bajoran Earring [link]
All other items purchased from Daz3d or Renderosity
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Comments: 29
Great idea!! Their poses and expressions fit the mood of this group portrait, very nicely done!!
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The builder character morph is great - purchased or dialspun? M5?
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These are all Genesis/M5/V5 base and they are all my own dialspun characters.
I prefer to dial my own people and even mess with the skins as well
These characters are all part of a story in collaboration with I do the art, she writes the words.
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Well he is great! Only wish his was a purchasable character hehe
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Thanks for the interest.
I'll let Kyle know he has a fan
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This is amazing
Your lighting makes this look like a photograph! Brava!
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Thank you 
It's actually only one sun light turned down really low.
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Really?!
Thank you so much for sharing; I have so got to try that!
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I'm finding that the renders get more 'realistic' the more light you have in them, so have been experimenting with sun lights.
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That's really interesting 
I downloaded Village People so I could study it; I hope you don't mind 
What I haven't worked out is how to reduce the intensity of the sun; it doesn't seem possible to do that in Reality itself. Does that mean you did it in LuxRender? I hope you don't mind these questions
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Yes, sorry. I mean intensity. So stronger/brighter light and adjust the camera settings to the level of brightness required. You are right in that you need less lights generally in a scene. I also used only one sun light in my latest piece Better? as well.
You can adjust the sun/sky gain in Reality. On the lighting tab, if you select the sun light, you get settings relating to gain/turbity in the bottom half of the panel.
These are the settings for Village People:
Sun Gain 0.10
Sky Gain 0.50
Sun Turbidity 2.20 (default)
Sky Turbidity 2.20 (default)
Sun Size 1.0(default)
Camera: ISO 100 Exposure 1/250 FStop 8
Film response: Agfacolour Optima II 200CD
There is no IBL sphere, the sky light acts like one. You are right about the floor, it is just a basic plane and kind of a happy accident that it worked that way
I don't have a problem with the questions at all. Happy to help where I can although am still learning myself
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Merry Christmas dylazuna 
Thank you so much for the tips and settings; I haven't used Agfacolour yet but you can bet that I will now
And I left a comment at Better?
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Thank you
No problem. That's the film response I use the most as it gives good depth in the shadows. Sometimes you need to adjust the gamma setting though. You can also get some really nice effects with the other film types. the Kodacolour ones are quite good with firelight as they have come out in the warm spectrum, and there are others which would be really great for sci-fi/horror effects. Since you can change the settings on the fly, have some fun experimenting. Also try changing the colour space settings. The flourescent ones are good for effects and the daylight ones go from cool to warm. All in all you can change the lighting from day to night just within LUX.
Thank you, you're too kind
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It was good although I was under the weather; there's some bug going around and people with respiratory ailments were particularly hard hit 
I'll remember that about Agfa 
What exactly is colour space settings (then again maybe I should watch Paolo's Make Your Own Reality
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Sorry to hear you weren't well over the holidays. Hope you're feeling better now though.
I'll try the fuji cine. Thanks for the tip.
The colour space settings are in LUX. On the Imaging tab under Tone Mapping there are drop down tabs for Colour Space, Gamma + Film Response, HDR Histogram, Lens Effects and Noise Reduction. If you drop down the colour space tab you can change the white space balance. It's usually preset to something like D65 which is sunlight, but there are other presets.
Can't remember if it was in the MYOR or not. I'm an ex programmer, I just like messing with the software
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Oooohhhh I like
I knew about the Gamma + Film Response because I've been tweaking that during processing 
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Pleased to help.
Look forward to seeing what you come up with
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Thank you so much; will probably wind up re-rendering it as I've come across another technique for dealing with "dead eyes"
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Ooh please share if it works.
I usually make the iris and scelera highly reflective as well as the cornea being glass to try and catch any light. I sometimes also attempt to shine an eyelight, but I don't find it very easy to line it up.
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Sorry to get back to you so late
The method doesn't work with a sun but will under low light conditions
I used it here :thumb341792876: and here :thumb346995951: In "Pursuit" the only light source was an IBL sphere and in Erinyes: Amazon 7 the IBL provided fill (the light source was the tunnel/belt lights which I converted to mesh lights in Reality). The eyelight produced was ok but when I had all the characters tool at a sphere then the eyelight really popped
Will continue to suss out a way to create eyelights in a full shot/sunlit scene
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No problem. I sometimes take a while to get around to answering things myself.
Thanks for the info. I remember reading in the forum that in order to get an 'eyelight' you need something for the eye to reflect. So guess that's why it's difficult with a sun light. I seem to vaguely recall something about placing an object to be reflected next to the eye in order to capture a reflection in photography
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* "look" at a sphere (which was 25% of the original size)
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They look great!
Zeke: looks like he's trying so hard to keep a straight face but starting to fail miserably.
Kyle: personal modesty is starting to kick in but he's still having a good time.
Ko: ...It's Ko. He's having a blast.
Chou: "I'm the Chief!"...enjoy it while it lasts, sweetie.
Sonora: trying not to laugh/fall over. I appreciate her strength but there are some things that she just needs to warm up for.
Yasmin: looks like she's having so much fun!
Their clothes look fabulous! I love this work! I would fave it over and over again if I could.
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Thank you
I'm quite pleased with how this turned out and I love your interpretation of their expressions
The helmet does make her a little top heavy. Not to mention all the other 'gear' 
For some reason the eye shield also makes her eyes look blue. I had to go recheck the maps to make sure I had the correct brown one in there
At least Sonora had a chin strap, Yasmin had to hold her hat in place
Thank you. I really appreciate that thought
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You're welcome.
It does but that's okay. Changing her eye color...? How weird. Well, stranger things have happened.
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