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This one began as “explaining a game badly” and spiraled into a full #Pokopía vignette. The Hammer is a nod to Dragon Quest Builders, and the logo borrows the circular motif from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. I love when a #Zbrush sculpt turns into a story about misguided persistence. Sculpted in Zbrush and rendered in Keyshot.

My DA Post

#zbrush #rhino3d #keyshot #ditto #pokemon pokopia #pokopia #pokemon #DigitalSculpture #3DArt #Pokopia #CargoCult #PokemonFanArt #DragonQuestBuilders #ReincarnatedAsASlime #DailySculpt

Spent waaay too much time with pokopia... so I sculpted out a Peakychu in Zbrush She struggles so much in-game, slowly walking upright, dragging her tail, struggling pulling herself up a single block. She keeps going even when she isn’t interacting with the player at all. https://www.deviantart.com/unexpectedtoy/art/Zbrush-Sculpture-Day-4144-Hopeful-Peakychu-1320536622

#zbrush #keyshot #pokopia #pokemon pokopia #peakychu #pikachu

Some creations from 7/2023-8/2024. Sculpted in Zbrush and rendered in keyshot.

#3d sculpting #zbrush #keyshot #artists on tumblr #my art

Some creations from 5/2023-7/2024. Sculpted in Zbrush and rendered in keyshot.

#zbrush #keyshot #3d sculpting #artists on tumblr #my art #pokemon #bear cub #kobold #imp #goblin

Some creations from 3/2023-5/2024. Sculpted in Zbrush and rendered in keyshot.

#zbrush #keyshot #3d sculpting #my art #artists on tumblr

Some creations from 12/2023-3/2024. Sculpted in Zbrush and rendered in keyshot.

#zbrush #keyshot #3d sculpting #character design

Fan art!

Quick Zbrush doodle of Brianne Drouhard’s Bleep Bleep from her comic and animated short Harpy Gee. Go and read the Harpy Gee comic here, and check out the new Nickelodeon Harpy Gee animated short here.

Before I forget a DeviantArt version of this post.

#harpy gee #fanart

Sculpted Animal Crossing's Sonny Resetti in Zbrush and rendered the work in Keyshot.

#animal crossing #animal crosing new leaf #acnl #resetti #mr resetti #nintendo #sonny resetti #リセットさん #risetto-san #zbrush #Keyshot

Continued experiments with panoramic photography.

HDR is great in concept, controlling the intensity of shadows and capturing the luminance of light. When HDR is applied to panoramas in a 3D rendering applications such as Keyshot in an ideal world objects are properly lit and shadows are cast.

However capturing multiple exposures in the real world has issues. Wind blows, trees move, the clouds pass by and can cover the sun. Any of these can cause imperfections in a HDR panorama.

Capturing one exposure and using Photoshop to generate faux HDR files works to a point. It is ideal for cloudy days outside and indoor shots. However on sunny days or under bright indoor light these faux files do not cast proper shadows.

This can be corrected in Keyshot with the HDRi editor, or manually in Photoshop. Carefully adding blur of white to the sun. Oddly enough discovered a similar issue with some HDR images as well, so even they may need to be retouched capture realistic lighting.

Studying the number of shots needed for a clean panorama

Examined this morning’s woodland photo shoot. (A notably complex panorama due to overhead trees, leaves and a slight breeze.)

Removed the +3 & -3 exposures.

Then made folders based on 10° degree increments; 10°, 20°, 30°, 40°, 60°, and 90°.

Made panoramas based on these 6 groups.

The results: stitching errors appear in the apex of 4 to 6 shot panoramas. Once there are 9 or more shots these errors vanish.

Comparing the 9, 12, 18, and 36 shot panoramas in Photoshop only difference is the amount of stitching distortion. The more photos the less stitching distortion.

Final notes

Without the need for bracketed exposures (using post processing) and using a wired camera remote switch the process is much faster than before.

36 shots could be taken in 41 seconds. And 9 shots in as little as 10 seconds.

Five minutes to process 36 shots into a 16-bit panorama, ten minutes to convert the 16-bit panorama to a 32-bit HDRi panorama.

#ptgui panorama vrphotography photography 360 #ptgui #vrphotography #photograhy #360photography #hdri

Asked the question what if my prior bracketed exposure panoramas would look better with more shots.

At 9am EST took a series of shots bracketed at (-3, 0, +3) every 10 degrees, resulting in 108 shots. (shot in 2:49)

Imported the results to PTgui and took a half hour to process and stitch. The preview indicated that despite the wind being pretty low the upper tree branches were blurry. Created to the panorama just for comparison reasons. (13308 x 6039)

Removed the shots bracketed at -3 & +3 processing for 15 minutes to create a 16-bit panorama. Imported to Photoshop and ran a script to simulate the exposures for a 32 bit image. Another 15 minutes of processing. (13178x 6130)

The results when imported to Keyshot indicated that the faux 32-bit panorama produced the same lighting and shadow as the version created with 3 exposures. But it contained none of the wind blur from the trees.

#ptgui zbrush keyshot battlepip dragon quest panorama 360 32 bit vr photography #ptgui #zbrush #Keyshot #dragon quest #panorama #360photography #vrphotography #battle pip #hdri

Another 360 panorama test. This time with a single exposure, nine photos, taken from 13 inches off the ground. Processed a faux 32-bit hdr effect and imported the result to keyshot. Used this dragon quest themed Zbrush creation sculpted in Oct 2016 to test the new panorama. Despite a slight breeze there is no apparent blur on the trees.

#Dragon Quest conklave hdri zbrush keyshot #dragon quest #conklave #hdri #zbrush #Keyshot

Just wanted to note a discovery. Been making 32bit HDR 360 panoramas for 3D artwork. (These serve as both the lighting and background. In this example using Keyshot.)

PTgui has been great stitching fish eye shots together to a point... Spend way more time than I ever should trying to blend three exposures together to make seamless 32-bit HDR panoramas. Often ending up with motion blur with moving clouds and wafting trees.

Asked the question, what if I just took the middle exposure to make a panorama, afterwards use a Photoshop script to make a HDR version. Oddly enough the single exposure made into a fake HDR 32 bit version was much cleaner and less muddy.

#keyshot 360 panorama hdri #ptgui #360photography #vrphotography