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Published: 2011-08-28 17:23:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 95970; Favourites: 3995; Downloads: 5378
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Princess Celestia from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic TV show.The animation can be controlled with the arrow keys (It may be necessary to click on it first)
Made in Zbrush, Maya, Aftereffects and Flash.
A stereoscopic version is here: [link]
Model downloads are available here: [link]
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Do I need all of those software to make one image like that, though? Just curious
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Well, you could get away with only one 3d tool (Zbrush or Maya) - but you will still need something for the compositing, to create the video out of the rendered frames with all those effects.
And to create the html5 script for a preloader and the controls (if you want them), a program that is used instead of flash these days.
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Oh, okay...Thanks! 
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Mama Celestia!!Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β
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The modelling is amazing, and the glow looks so pretty! Nice work!
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Oof, did you use Maya's Toon Shader on this? The shadows and glow are delicious c:
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It was rendered in Zbrush - a pass of the colors with a very subtle shader, one pass with ambient occlusion and one with directional shadows (and a depth map). And one pass with a special direction-based pseudo outline effect shader. I combined them in aftereffects and added a few glow and contrast effects on top
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Thanks for the response! 
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That shader is based on the facing ratio of the object (or the polygons). That means, for example, a part of the surface that points towards the camera will be white and a part that points away (to the side) will be black. And depending on how much a part is curved, it will be different shades of gray.
It's like a depth map, but instead of the depth driving the brightness it's the facing of the object.
You can find a tutorial that shows how it works here (just ignore the "ghost" part
www.pdipierro.com/tutorials/Saβ¦
But this is only the first step, since rendering the facing ratio will not create an outline. Instead it will be gradients of bright to dark. Later in the compositing process, you need to apply a gradient filter on the render to push the values around to make it into an outline.
When I made the turntable animations (putting all the render passes together in Adobe Aftereffects), this particular approach to make the outline created a few ugly artifacts in (mostly) the faces of the characters that had to be masked out to make them look nice.
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Bit of a late reply but thanks very much for the help! 
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You're welcome
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Your model was extremely helpful for me. No, in fact, it ended up being EXACTLY what I was looking for.
I was having quite a battle with the aura-mane of Celestia in my artwork, but you're model make figurate that "radianting mane, why not?!"
And all thanks to you, here an small preview to prove I imitated your light in my painting
www.dropbox.com/s/c248vwyvcoaiβ¦
Sorry, you requiere login outside DA to see the complete piece...
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Good news!
You no longer requiere login in, now is available on tumblr
so if interested I can tell you the site to.
thanks again, glad you liked i make something inspired on you!
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Thank you
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Your welcome say wanna be a friend?
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Thank you :3
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damn 0-0. Β that's... it's... how... HNNNNNNNGGG SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
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Thank you :3
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Thank you :3
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This was made in Zbrush and Maya.
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Thank you
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No problem!
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It's tough for me to say, but I like this model better than Trixie.
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where can I download this? She looks absolutely beautiful!
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Thank you :3
You can right-click on the download button to save it.
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ok, thanks!
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oh my gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
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Celestia looks absolutely beautiful!Β I would love to see her mane and tail animated, to see what that would look like.Β I was gonna mention that the hair might look too thick, but this is exactly how I would picture her as a porcelain figure and I wouldΒ think would be perfect for that cause her mane and tail is so long, that would add strength. This would be a figure I could see sold by Lladro, that would be amazing to have a line with them. I did notice there is gradient in her mane, with the green, I dunno if that's just an effect with with the lighting, or if it was intentional.
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Amazing - especially for studying Pony Poses, thank you
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Even in 3D Princess Celestia is very beautiful 
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Nvm my comment. Just noticed the banner on your front page about the collaboration.
just wanted to make sure you weren't being ripped off.
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All right :3
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Did this guy get permission off you to make money off your model? www.superfanart.com/artist/chrβ¦
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Yes, it's all right - I have made an agreement with Chris regarding the use of my models.
Anyway, thank you for your concern
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That's cool then. Just wanted to be certain, I'm probably going to nab a Celestia very soon
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