Tag: 3d

Postwork Hints and Tips

What you do to your render when it comes out of the render engine may be what sets your image apart from all the rest. It’s where you define your style. Take command of your post-processing tools and make it pop! This is a selection of hints and tips for using Photoshop to edit your images….

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Dynamic Cloth in Poser

Here’s a quick-start guide for setting up dynamic cloth in Poser. It covers clothifying objects, and how to drape them over other objects.

Detailed Skin for Poser

Here’s a quick tutorial giving some ideas on adding detail to dull skin textures in Poser. It covers adding bump and specularity, and using HDR lighting to improve your renders.

Interview with 3D Art Direct

I did an interview with 3D Art Direct this month: How to create digital character art with impact. The Podcast is available here.

Liquify Tutorial

Did you ever spend ages setting up a picture, then wait hours for it to render in your favourite software, only to find when it comes out the other end that it’s not quite how you wanted it? Photoshop’s Liquify filter is a quick and easy way to sort it out (as featured on Renderosity).

EZ Skin

I got this free Poser script yesterday, called EZSkin and I absolutely love it! Both the images below use the gorgeous Nosfearatu texture from RDNA. Both were rendered with the same HDRI light and a single specular light. Displacement is turned on in both cases. The original render isn’t bad, but on running the EZ Skin script for the…

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Easy Depth of Field in Poser

This is a quick-start guide for anyone who wants to have a go at rendering in Poser and getting those nice blurry focal effects you see everywhere these days. It covers setting up focus distance, fStop and pixel samples – all you need to get nice depth of field effects in Poser!

Update to Bert the Barbarian!

The author who commissioned me for the artwork for ‘Bert the Barbarian’ came back recently and asked me to update the cover with title text.  Here’s the updated version. 🙂