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On Fri, 4 May 2007 06:37:58 +0200, "Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot
com> wrote:
>> I've seen this scene before, possibly on the cover of Amazing Stories, or
>the
>> like. A bit before your time, I know :-)
>
>Or maybe when I posted it a couple months back.
Yes I remember that too :-) It still reminds me of my pulp SF books,
>> If the people are in statis then I think that they should be rigid. If
>they are
>> in suspended animation and in a liquid filled container, then I think that
>they
>> should be naked. (Who wants to wake up in soaked clothes?)
>
>Well, they're not really there by choice, so they didn't have a real say in
>the matter...
True but you do and it's your scene :-)
>> I like the empty space, good composition I think. But the room is a bit
>too
>> light and clean.
>
>I need to do something with the lighting. Too bright
>
For the moment, I'm sure.
Regards
Stephen
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On Fri, 4 May 2007 06:43:34 +0200, "Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot
com> wrote:
>I'm not sure which I prefer. The empty scene was too empty, but I'm not sure
>I like this either. hmmm
The empty scene could be a great one in its own right. I think that it is quite
evocative, a phrase I use with Thomas de G's work a lot.
>> His gun seems to be too heavy to be holding in one hand and I would beef
>him up
>> a bit, more muscular thighs. Also I don't think men look good in tights
>:-) At
>> least not action men.
>
>Sometimes I hate Poser. *g*
>
It's hard going at times :-)
But keep up the good work.
Regards
Stephen
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On Fri, 4 May 2007 06:43:34 +0200, "Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot
com> wrote:
>
>Sometimes I hate Poser. *g*
Have you thought about replacing him with a 'bot?
Regards
Stephen
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What if you made the figure a lost child?
I have pondered this scene at some length trying to figure out what it
is for me and possibly what it is for you. For some reason it brings to
mind two of your former scenes from memory, one that involved skeletal
remains of warriors outside of a dragon's den, and one that involved a
fish jumping out of a picture.
I know that you do some sci-fi writing too that has the same feel. It
is like there is some aspect of scifi/fantasy action scenes that you are
drawn to and want to recreate.
You have to follow that question I think. Why are you drawn to this?
Why are you doing it?
This scene, and scenes like it, have a voyeuristic component to them.
In that regard, the sense of the female figures floating and gentling
undulating in the liquid is the most potent and expressive part of the
scene. That they are clothed adds to the psychological titillation and
recreates the suffused eroticism in many juvenile scifi flicks. They
are exaggerated in scale, they are on display, in poses free of gravity
and that they may not be in control of, and finally, unaware that they
are observed.
I think your action/combat reflex is confusing here. That the scene is
suddenly presented to the viewer just as it is revealed to the
explorations of the little combat figure IS a typical scifi devise.
But I wonder if you could push it further. There is something
unsatisfying to me that it all ends with this unresponsive little turd
with a gun.
There is a faint spike with the idea of the vulnerability of the figures
heightened by the presence of the trained weapon. There is also
something going on with the visor-hidden eyes, given the implicit
voyeurism involved, but at this point I find it a less than satisfying
conclusion to a potentially emotive scene.
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> I wonder if you could push it further. There is something unsatisfying
> to me that it all ends with this unresponsive little turd with a gun.
What if the gunman was posed looking startled, with the gun lowered just
a few degrees, as if he lost track of what he was doing when he saw the
bodies?
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you think to yourself
"cool lens flare effect" while you're watching REAL lensflares on TV,
off car windscreens, etc.
Chris "I drank what?" Upton
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Perhaps the guard could be seated?
Something like a cop outside a hospital room...
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> This is something I've been fiddling with on and off for several months. I'm
> mostly happy with it, just not ure anout the guy standing at the end.
> Without him, the scene seems to lack focus, but I'm not sure if he's the
> right thing.
>
> Suggestions? Comments?
I see some banding from the lights. If you're using area_lights, try
putting some jitter into them.
Regards,
John
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Gail Shaw nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 04-05-2007 00:30:
> "Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbrain com> wrote in message
> news:4638c0f4@news.povray.org...
>> Looks pretty cool. I think the lighting needs a bit of work, there's some
>> wierd shadows around the table in the background and near the ceiling,
> also
>> some coloured lights with a short fall off would look more sci-fi.
>
> The lighting needs work. I intend to use area lights, to remove to banded
> shadows, but it's slow.
You should use adaptive for all area_light. Start with adaptive 0, go to
adaptive 1 if you get artefacts (aray at least 5*5), adaptive 2 if you still get
artefacts (aray at least 9*9)...
With adaptive 0, area_light 1*x,1*y, 33,33 (or even 65,65) is almost as fast as
...4,4
>
With adaptive, the optimum aray size are: 5 (usualy to sparse), 9, 17 (I normaly
start at this density), 33, 65, 129 (this and greater are problbly overkill), ...
--
Alain
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'hAS ANYONE SEEN MY cAPSLOCK KEY?'
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"John VanSickle" <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:463bbe31$1@news.povray.org...
> Gail Shaw wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > This is something I've been fiddling with on and off for several months.
I'm
> > mostly happy with it, just not ure anout the guy standing at the end.
> > Without him, the scene seems to lack focus, but I'm not sure if he's the
> > right thing.
> >
> > Suggestions? Comments?
>
> I see some banding from the lights. If you're using area_lights, try
> putting some jitter into them.
>
They're not area lights. too slow for test renders. Will change them to area
later.
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High!
Stephen wrote:
> Also I don't think men look good in tights :-) At
> least not action men.
...then you probably never saw Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson in action! ;-)
See you on www.khyberspace.de !
Yadgar
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