timelapse/walk-through exploring some of Carrara’s Dynamic Hair Shader parameters applied to a simple single-guide ponytail – approx 25min edited and sped up to about 4min. As you watch the video remember that the guide hair is not changing at all, just the hair shader.
Phil Wilkes demonstrates draping Carrara’s Dynamic Hair, and the steps involved for a natural look. I was not able to find the product at the DAZ 3D store, but the process is useful for learning to drape your own Dynamic Hair models.
Three point lighting can transform your remders! Suddenly flat dull pictures take on a 3d quality of their own. The basic principle is this, shine a keylight onto the subject and a fill light to the side, plus a backlight to the side and rear. Now the magic happends when the three lights overlap on the subject.
However I take things much further in this tutorial. How about using three point lighting on individual objects to make them stand out in a scene. If you make the lighting so tight that It doesnt spill over onto the ground below or other objects you have massive control over your subject.
In this 3d animation tutorial, I uncover a way of emulating indirect lighting and to a lesser extent ambient occlusion to greatly speed up your render times.
The basic idea is to use moonlight with 4 distant lights each with their own colour shading and intensity, in order to simulate the slow to render indirect lighting that is available under global illumination. I go into how contrasting additional lights with this lighting can help the whole scene look like night time.
The video is geared towards surviving youtubes encoding for darker lights. Of course using some kind of gamma correction is useful, but how about fixing the scene at source? Gamma correction can light up everything, here you can select what is to stand out.
Finally I mix a three point lighting idea with this set up to show how you can cheat and help individual objects stand out in the darkness.
How to make 3D coins. A beginners tutorial and a gentle introduction to the Vertex Modeler, UV Mapping, and texturing from a photo. Encourage yourself as a 3D modeller with this easy tutorial!
In this example I show how to toss coins into a cardboard box. The emphasis is on being artistic rather than scientific. In other words I’m going to show you how to “cheat”. How to focus on getting a result quickly, using a reasonable start point and then fiddling a bit until we get what we want.
By ensuring that you work with proxy objects or simple objects, then the simulation in Carrara 8 is pretty fast. This makes working with this kind of animation technique a joy!
I cover all the basic techniques needed to get an object to collide in a realistic way with another object.
