the_black_mage
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true. and also do more than just a light shining above.
heres what you do...
1. make that light you have a spot light, change the shadows to z-buffered, change the shadow darkness to your liking, then set the shadow smoothness to any ware from 50 to 100%, also turn off specularity. also do have it just above make it angled...
2. make a second light behind it(everything), i would prefer a bulb light. in its options turn off every thing but specularity. then change the light intensity to 1000% or higher.
3. next in the lady bugs shell options. change the bugs specularity intensity to 10% and its size to 2000% or over. you can do the same to the eyes too.
4. in the render settings (in the tools tab) goto plug-in shaders and select oren naylar. no need to change the setting here.
5. some focal blur could help as well...when you turn it on you'll find two purple lines on the camera move those to determine the focal distance, this adds a nice blur to the background that add focus to the scene...
what i just listed should give you this effect
but heres the thing i really think the scene needs...an environment, just sitting on a plane doesn't really cut for a ground. you know what I'm saying?
hope that helps...
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nice man not bad, but the bust is still a little weird looking...
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i am so sorry that i haven't been on here much!!! i just got a job at the county courthouse, and i am going to be on the road a lot this summer. i am going to be getting a laptop here pretty quick from the money i am making from my job. (not to gloat, but i make $125.00 a day--$625.00 a week, cough cough..) I am buying a laptop with a great graphics card so during my breaks, and traveling i can work on the film.
get a tablet pc, it will do you good... thats what i'm getting, its great for 3d and painting programs. its kinda required for me...i miss my pencil sometimes...
nice vid Chris!
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maybe you should practice more, do something small... then move back to this....
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i don't like the feet....
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sorry to disappoint but..that doesn't look like aura.... look at the eyes man...
also use this as an image reference....
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heres a tutorial on painting an eye, you could just focus on the eye part....
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not bad...
the bust is a little off though....and it seems slightly fat....scale it thin,lol
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i could try, i normally draw my own characters, but it shouldn't be a problem...
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some people form textures from pictures taken, i've never done it though, so i really don't know.....
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oh i finally decided to actualy read the first post (lol lazy), and anyway yeah i use it for that....in fact the tree in this image was used with hair...and an image from the site i linked above...
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i can model that room....yeah looks like no problem.....
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sometimes materials aren't always the way to go...a texture(image) would be better used...
heres some links
http://www.mayang.com/textures/
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/texture_colour/
then things like cracks and dents can be used along with these....
also this plugin should help as well...
http://www.darksim.com/html/simbiont.html
but these are best for regular 3d(nontoon) and increase render times significantly...
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ok, btw i'm having some toon render problems(maybe cause i haven't used it in a while), but i'll tyr and get it right and see what i'm doing wrong....
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you give me too much credit dude..
actually you'll need some plugins which is what i used....
http://www.kci-group.com/z/index.htm
http://www.kci-group.com/z/plugins.htm
i'll have the toon set up soon, my mouse has been acting stupid so work is hard to do...
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start working in the cheeks...kinda flat faced now...
great, i don't have to say anything about the lips
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UPDATE!!! go 2 first post
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in you version toon render uses only one light...i'll make a prj file showing a toon render style you might like.
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um for one you need a light source....this scene isn't even finished...let alone ready for lighting...now if your going for some tets lighting thats diffrent. do you want toon rendering on these?
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i seriously have no idea.....it kept happening and i couldn't figure it out so i just let it go....
SWEET POST NUMBER 1200!!!!!!!!
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I have decided on what i'm going to do!!!!
i'm doing a funny remake of an old animation i saw.
baisicly its a cigar(alive) thats about to be lit by a lighter(also alive) suddenly they stop and the lighter directs the cigar out the window(there in a city building btw). the cigar goes out and then a pipe comes in the room door. the cigar does a 'sigh' movement, he moves his way toward the corner of the building looks around the corner then BAM!!!6 other cigars are around the corner, the cigar is so shocked he falls off the ledge!!!
it was a short 10 second animation that i thought was hilarious! it also seems like something i could do with out much problem too...
Grass material
in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
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Fliped normals? the grass could be upside down....