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AnimSchool Fantasy Character WIP - Long Tran

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(@abdulrahmen)
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amazing lighting ? 

 
Posted : 17/01/2021 1:39 am
Long Tran
(@longbtran88)
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Thanks @abdulrahmen!

After last rounds of revisions I finally have my final render! I rendered the final scene and exported it at 4k resolution. It took my PC about 2 hours to generate the render, I'm not sure if that is normal or very slow. What is your guys experience generating hi-res renders?  

Another new workflow for me in this project is use the Arnold AOVs to render different light passes. This was awesome since in the end I got a 32bit .exr file with my different lighting setups separated out into different layers. It also allowed me to generate some very clean masks that helped me with the compositing that I would do in photoshop.

For the compositing stage in photoshop, I wanted to keep the changes relatively minimal and only make adjustment that I felt would accentuate the image. I believe I could have accentuate the glowing effect ever more in my maya scene using particle or emissives but I felt that it would be simplest to make these lighting adjustments in photoshop. I used a free plugin I found called exr-io for working with the 32bit layers in photoshop. I did a final pass adjusting the brightness of my various lights, knocking back a few highlight and visually experimenting with the glow of the gem and sword. I made sure to frequently switch my color mode to grayscale (you can do this quickly on on Windows 10 just by pressing Ctrl + Win + C!) to evaluate the overall value of the image. Even though I had a bright glowing objects in my image I wanted to make sure the the highest area of contrast remained within the face.

Here is my final beauty shot! Let me know what you think!

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Posted : 17/01/2021 6:32 pm
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This one is the render straight out of Arnold before I made the final lighting adjustments in photoshop. 

1610930161-ElfWarrior_render_final.png
 
Posted : 17/01/2021 6:36 pm
Long Tran
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Wireframe

 

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Posted : 19/01/2021 10:49 am
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Very sweet character, man. I love it!!! 

Per aspera ad astra!

 
Posted : 19/01/2021 11:12 am
Long Tran
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Thanks @lifelover90!

I was looking at your artstation earlier today. Amazing stuff! I love your creature work. 

 
Posted : 19/01/2021 3:42 pm
Yuan Xi "Birdy" Mog
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I love it! Your WIPs has also been really insightful 🙂 

 
Posted : 20/01/2021 10:45 pm
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Thanks @birdymog! I'm glad you got something out of the posts. I've learned so much from other artists share online so I'm glad to be able to pass on helpful knowledge where I can. 🙂 

 
Posted : 21/01/2021 2:52 am
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