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Kirk Andrews wrote:
> I just did some quick color-adjustments, adjusting the highlights to more
> yellow and the shadows to more purple, and got this. Just my suggestion.
Thanks for the suggestions and the example!
Dabbling at the color-balance is often best done with post-processing,
tweaking colors in POV-Ray (especially once the rendertimes skyrocket
due to media, focal-blur etc) is very tedious, especially after a
certain color-balance is already established.
The colors you chose are really more cartoonish and illustrative than
mine, it definitely is nice. I'll experiment on that end
(post-processing) later, when the image is done renderwise. Overblowing
colors for example might look nice (as does glare/bloom), but I like to
render at a good quality level whilst retaining all details, losing them
later on isn't a problem, but if you don't have them, you can't get them
back! ;-)
Regards,
Tim
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aka "Tim Nikias"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>
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Tim Nikias wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
>> As to the paths looking too much like crackle, have
>> you
>> tried an agate pattern? The middle of the color map (0.45-0.55 or
>> whatever)
>> can look nice and stringy without the cell-structure that crackle
>> produces.
>> It might not work, but could be worth a look!
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try it!
The agate-pattern didn't work out. Scripting an entire
path-generation-thingy seemed overkill, I tend to do that only if I
A) Have that much fun doing it or
B) Can reuse it in later images/shorts
For this image though, it just seemed feasible to simply draw a map by
hand, as I have control where the paths should go and can check they're
placement in regards to visibility.
The current background is being rendered now, but will probably take a
few hours. I increased the image-resolution for the background by 50%
because I also hand-placed the sign-bundels in the background to match
the style of the foreground, and their poles get lost unless I use a
larger resolution or better AA. I figured a larger resolution wouldn't
harm if I plan to render this poster-sized or such, but the clouds
(scattering media) take their time...
I'll post the update later.
Regards,
Tim
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aka "Tim Nikias"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>
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