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policarpo
12-17-2002, 06:19 AM
i know i bring this up every 5 or so months...but man...when you render in passes..your final images just friggin' rock.

:applause:

anyway...here's an image that i think simulates SSS, and it was achieved quite easily by tweaking my Diffuse, and Specular, and Luminosity channels in photoshop. total time with rendering and tweaking...about 5 minutes...the render itself only took 30 seconds...i took nearly 5 minutes just tweaking and tweaking and tweaking until i ended up with a look i thought was cool.

i'd love to hear your comments on it. :)

http://www.policarpo.net/cgi-bin/images/graphics/blog/021212-big.jpg
Nikodemus
12-17-2002, 06:31 AM
that looks really cool! im confused... if you did animation, you would have to tweak each frame in PS?
how do you render in passes?
... and what did you do in PS?
policarpo
12-17-2002, 06:45 AM
nah..you tweak the individual passes in AE or combustion or whatever package you use.

the Rendered layers are seuqntial so you'd just stack your movie properly and go from there tweaking....

you tweak the Diffuse, Specular, Luminosity, etc type of channels all in real time....until you are happy with the way your image looks...

here's a good primer to help get you up to speed:

http://www.3drender.com/light/compositing/index.html
Soeren Nielsen
12-17-2002, 08:01 AM
policarpo, that is looking extremely nice, and the method is simple, and very effective :thumbsup:
visualboo
12-17-2002, 12:43 PM
nice one policarpo. Looks pretty cool man :beer:

Passes are the key to all happyness :D
kurt30
12-17-2002, 01:13 PM
That image looks sweet. I wish I could import my individual passes into AfterEffects for manipulation like that.
Great work Policarpo!
policarpo
12-17-2002, 02:29 PM
thanks everyone.

and kurt...you can import the sequential files and passes quite easily just use the Buffer Saver Pixel Filter to do this. :)
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