All Alone - Composited WC entry

Samir

Here is my entry for the latest Weekend Challenge, 'All Alone'.

This is my first try at compositing with Blender. All comments and critiques are welcomed.

Thanks to WeirdHat for his excellent compositing tutorial.

Samir

NQE1

That is very nicely composited. Extremely realistic. Will it count as pure?

nastacc

great

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very good composited

, the only thing i would mention is that the shadows aren't dark enough, that would be great

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nastacc

Jack000

It's almost perfect, but I think the ledge should have made a shadow that almost makes the bottom leg black, since it's hugging so close to the side. Otherwise perfect.

mr_artshow

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! you definitely got my vote.........you win, you win, you win(in my book).....wait wait wait, is the guy the only thing you done here?

Samir

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Originally Posted by NQE1

That is very nicely composited. Extremely realistic. Will it count as pure?

Thanks. I have been told it will count as Open, not sure really. I guess it must be open since more square centemeters of the image are "non-blender"... do 50% alpha shadows count as 50% Blender... I wonder???

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Originally Posted by nastacc

very good composited , the only thing i would mention is that the shadows aren't dark enough, that would be great .

Thanks, glad you liked it.
Agree about the dark shadows bit.

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Originally Posted by Jack000

It's almost perfect, but I think the ledge should have made a shadow that almost makes the bottom leg black, since it's hugging so close to the side. Otherwise perfect.

Yes the leg is something I need to work on. It will probably take a more complex ligting setup to get the leg to be blacker witout totally darkening all the shadow areas... will work on that at leisure.

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Originally Posted by pimposiun

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! you definitely got my vote.........you win, you win, you win(in my book).....wait wait wait, is the guy the only thing you done here?

Damn! You caught me...

Hey wait a minute... I took the picture too, and I pretend to clean that window everyday... honest!

Thanks for the support.

Samir

fizzleduex

WHat I would do for the leg is to put a mesh box where the bar is in the picture. Then i would set the material so that the alpha was 0.00(with ztrans on) and just leave tracable on. That should cast a good shadow on your leg.

Also, do you have your little dude casting a shadow on the ledge?... cause if you do I can't see it.

Sweet picture man.

shbaz

He's jagged.. OSA?

Samir

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Originally Posted by fizzleduex

WHat I would do for the leg is to put a mesh box where the bar is in the picture. Then i would set the material so that the alpha was 0.00(with ztrans on) and just leave tracable on. That should cast a good shadow on your leg.

Also, do you have your little dude casting a shadow on the ledge?... cause if you do I can't see it.

Sweet picture man.

Thanks, for the tip. I have posted an update with better shadows on the leg. A layer exclusive lamp did the trick. And, the little guy is casting a shadow on the ledge, but the diffused light that I have emulated coming from the white wall outside has lightened it.

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Originally Posted by shbaz

He's jagged.. OSA?

Didn't really notice that myself, but I can try it out with a bigger OSA setting. I kept it on a low setting so that the figure does not stand out from the very sharp and textured objects in the photograph.

Thanks for all the comments guys. Here is an updated image with better shadow casting on the leg.

Samir