LAB#3015 Skybase

ok, so all these things have been split up into specialty programs. things have changed a lot since the 8 bit days.

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Kraellin wrote: ok, so all these things have been split up into specialty programs. things have changed a lot since the 8 bit days.

Well, not necessarily. Most 3D packages feature all modeling, texturing, and rendering components. Although because 3D is such a large field, we split it up into parts to make life easier. This is true especially for studios where you would be assigned just the modeling, texturing, render and compositing separately.

The point being that it makes it easier to focus on one thing than various things. And so it happens that render engines are separately. They basically specialize in just rendering and nothing more.

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Kraellin wrote: so, i know there are some standard file types and such, but how easy is it to go from one modeling program to another light program to another texture program and then incorporate all those different file types into another render machine if each of those programs is made by someone else?

Very easy. Although remember, MOST 3D packages include the main parts: Modeling, Texturing, lighting, and rendering. You really don't have to move from one program to another at all. Now if by any chance you WANT to utilize a different program to do the modeling, texturing, and otherwise, you can always create a workflow. You can always use standard file formats (for 3D there are: OBJ, DXF, FBX, and others.) So nothing's really a hassle. As much as you may be sharing images using the JPEG compression, as long as the rest of the programs CAN open the files I save as, I have no trouble going from one program to another.

Some more tests

One more!

Very cool!

I'm looking forward to it.

So, I had two thoughts in my head. Photoygraphy 3.0 IS INTENSE. Sometimes too intense, I think. IT works stylistically, but if you want something more subtle and more like a photo, it's really not the filter you'd want.

Several months ago I began constructing a "Kodachrome Filter." The goal was to simulate the signature 1940s Kodachrome look using FilterForge. As its basis I used some of the components I created in Photoygraphy 2.0, which resulted in disaster. I switched to Photoygraphy 3.0's color correction method and it worked better. Ok, well I totally forgot about it and just today, I came back to editing it for a 2011 release.

I still wasn't satisfied with the look. In the end, I felt like I was wasting time trying to make a specified filter that did one thing. Instead, I began deconstructing the filter to get something a bit different.

So what now? Well, I'm a big fan of analog photography. While I was REALLY interested in high-resolution digital photography, I also enjoyed using crappy cameras. Yes, I love point and shoot cameras with the worst possible lenses. People usually recommend me go Lomography buuuut those are just too expensive. I already have a nice Canon 60D (digital) SLR camera and I take tons of photographs with that. I also use my point-and-shoot but those are film; and film takes a while to develop. So I told myself, why not just make a filter that makes images look kinda analog?

After a couple hours of playing around with nodes, I hit something that I totally wanted. It's basically Photoygraphy 3.0 stripped bear minimum. It's got only 5 basic features (so far) and it probably won't have more.

The results are actually great. They do look like photographs from the 70s, 80s, or 90s. Success! What's the name for this filter? I'm just calling it Oldify for now. But that sounds lame and boring. I'll change it around.

I'll be attaching several examples below. Oh boy I'm excited.

I swear, some of these photos I'm processing begin to look as if they were really taken with a crappy point and shoot camera. Almost scary how convincing some of these results are.

The place you're seeing, by the way, is Tsukiji, the largest fish market in the world.

The other thing about this filter is that you'll never hit nasty results with the randomizer. Unless you feed it a bad image, the results will always look decent and to expectations.

Maybe I should call the filter "Disposable" or something. I'm really just pondering about the name.

This filter, I plan, to release it early 2011. Probably the first week of 2011.

That's some burning incense in the picture below.

love the dabber, skybase! when are you publishing?

Happy New Year FilterForge! Submitted 2 filters this first hour of 2011 in Japan!

looks like a coiled up chain. i like.

very cool [ melting ]

Pattern Generator 1.2

Yup!

nice patterns.

It has a couple features currently, will be adding more.

You can control bulkiness, saturation, scale, and I had to tie variation to it. This generator is slightly broken still. Tons of fixes needed.

nice. still a bit too 'stone' looking to be glass, but one can certainly see where you're headed. hope you get it. would love to see a good stained glass filter using an imported image!

You can colorize the cells according to your likings, can change size and several other values for randomization.

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Indigo Ray wrote: And what's with the sperm cells?

Bacteria lol.

Rendered with Octane again. I sat with this one for 30 minutes. The previous image was left to render for 1 hour and 9 minutes.

Octane basically works so that you can pause the render when you feel like it's reached a good point. I just ran out of patients so I paused the render. So there aren't as many "samples" as it would on the previous image.

I return! I was getting a bit busy for a while. I haven't updated much of my filters as I said I would sometime ago... but anyway.

Point and Shoot now has a small addition. It now has chromatic aberration just for the heck of it. Not that its needed, but it does make the image look just slightly... pretty.