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SickleYield — Making of Elite Rob M4 Study
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Published: 2014-09-22 19:05:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 4240; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 147
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The cited image set is here:sickleyield.deviantart.com/art…
The download contains my Amazing Skins preset and the lights I used in DAZ Studio. Paste them into your DAZ3D library and choose yes to merge with your Light Presets and Genesis 2 Male/Materials folders. To use them, you will need to have:
AoA's Advanced Ambient, Distant and Spot lights.
www.daz3d.com/age-of-armour
Yannek at DAZ3D's Elite Rob textures.
www.daz3d.com/m4-elite-texture…
V3Digitimes' Amazing Skins for G2M shaders. And no offense to him or her, but those promos do not do these shaders justice. They're incredible.
www.daz3d.com/v3digitimes/amaz…
The picture shows my render settings. I moved the lights around to keep the spotlight behind Rob relative to the viewer so it could act as a rim light. I forgot, the size shown there is wrong; I actually rendered the images at 2000x1458 IIRC.
The only postwork was adding brightness 37, contrast 25 in the GIMP (something I do for almost every image, probably because I don't fiddle with gamma correction).
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I'm with I-Am-Madbat. I'm looking forward to working through this a few times to learn something.
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Those amazing skins look really good. Do you think, those are someting for me and would help me to improve? So far I was always very happy with the way my skins look but of course I am always open for something new... and improvement is always something. 
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Well, you don't really need help, but I think you could try them and see if you like them. They're a totally different shader base from HSS or SSS, so they might let you do even more with your existing (and amazing) textures. At least it's something to add to your toolbox.
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Aww man, damnit, I feared you would say this. Now I gotta spend more money. 
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For the promo, yes you are right, it was a pain for me to try and synthetise all that was included in so few images... And still today, I have a doubt about the promo efficiency. But renders and comments as you did are better for the skins as any promo image I could make
And I'm really happy of what you said, since the skins were made to make people free and happy to render characters, so I see my goal is reached
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I will remember in future.
They're not bad promos, they were good enough to get it published at DAZ.
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Indeed at the beginning I thought you were a male, but I must have read somewhere in DAZ forum you were a women... Lol! Keep SickleYield as the name, it is perfect (just a bit hard to write when you're not english).
For the promos they mixed up the main images and the worse I had, and kept the worse as the main.. Well, anyway, what matters is that the feedback I have is that people really like using them.
That is very nice from you to promote these
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Oh yes, they like having us change the order of promos, good point. 
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Now they even don't ask me. I just discover the day of the release the main is not the main any more and has been replaced by "the one which su*** the most". Well they did it the two last product, and I always tell to myself : "they are the marketers, I'm not, they must know what they are doing"... And I cross my fingers. In general I tend to trust them, since we are supposed to have the same interest. It's cool to see I'm not the only one to have my images "the other way round"
PS : sorry for the delay between the answers, I'm totally overwhelmed, I am in so many things pro and perso that everything finally takes years!
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That's okay! I understand what it's like.
I don't worry over it too much as long as the money keeps coming in. So far I'm making more this year than ever before, so I'm not going to argue with them about things like promo order.
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Well good to know, I'm only in the beginning of my second year so I have not comparison possible, so if other artists earn more than they did, this must be that DAZ know what they are doing... And I'm not a complainer in general, I just don't like that. No we just have to take care that they maintain a fair balance between their interests and ours, but I think (hope) they know mutual confidence is important for business. No if sales started falling off, I would have to talk to them, and might also reconsider my decision to quit my previous job (I'm in a kind of years off)... if not too late for that.. I really wish I could go on with 3D. I think it is possible (I don't remember who wrote just gotta love pastas during the first years - funny).
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I just wish I knew enough to be a vendor.
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I am loving the new shader so far. I will change the skin shader of all my characters.
Besides being very good, it render very fast even with the hd morphs!
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I know! I love how efficient it is, too! It is completely its own thing, and that is fascinating.
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Well... I'm using these skin shaders on all my characters too...
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