Showing posts with label post work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label post work. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Now we're cooking!


Now we're cooking. Shaders, lights, the works. I'd been a bit worried that the interface was going to confound me, but it's feeling reasonably good in a day. This one isn't even touched up, just the raw render -- five minutes in Iray. Two big challenges are ahead: one is to get 280+ objects installed into Studio, and since they're third party, they have to be installed manually. Ouch! The second thing is, working out where the DAZ auto-installer has put everything. Right now, I can't find anything! Props, costumes, poses, textures ... I imagine it's all there, but the old Studio 3 content seems to be exploded in every direction, without rhyme or reason. Finding it all, and getting it cataloged for ease of access -- now, that will be the job.




The other thing I find myself extremely interested in is post work, and rebalancing images to turn one picture into another. This is something I've barely looked at in he past, but it's fascinating -- like this, above. This, below, was a nice but "ordinary" photo; some post work in Affinity Photo, and it's considerably more interesting...


This is going to be a lot of fun!