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fake Swarovski again.) The strongest effect of the rainbow background is in the background light, but in the interior it is very difficult to make such lighting so that it does not interfere with the overall picture. You have to do only the back position and brightly highlight the rainbow background pattern. If you shift the drawing a little, rotate, shift, then the reflections of the highlights change very much, each time everything is different. The process is unpredictable, and a lot of trial renderings are needed. what is not included in the frame is the background behind the viewer's back, with illuminated panels.
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the goldfish is the most beautiful). All the fish on the boxes are highlighted with their small hemispheres (pointing up or down). The main thing is to choose photos that are similar in their shadows to their location relative to the lamp. Then they look like real fish next to the lamp.
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Those fish look amazing! If you didn't tell they were pictures on a box nobody would know. You have taken the simple idea of the photo-on-a-box to a whole new level. They look like real 3D models. Very good work!
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Ha ha!)) Thanks Keet! Now the main task is not to bring this great idea with boxes to the point of absurdity). We must remember that there must be at least one normal 3D model). Surrounded by beautiful phantoms))
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No such thing as absurdity, it's just another tool in the toolbox. Seeing how well you manage to integrate this I'm most definitely going to use this for a project where I need a crowd of 500+ people. That would be impossible with real 3Dmodels, it would take a few years to render You have proven that the photo-on-a-box concept works very good and when done right you can't see the difference. It takes away the limit for integrating things for which there is no 3D model AND (and this is important for me) the result is a very small object compared to what a real 3D model would be.
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The main idea is that people are not fish, hares or butterflies. If you stretch or flatten the fish, you will get an eel or a flounder, a rabbit will turn out of a hare in the worst case. You can't do that to people in any way. They require very careful attention to themselves. Because each photo of a person is a specific real person with their rights, and this person requires at least respect for himself. Therefore, working with photos should follow the rules and I propose an algorithm for such sequential actions. How do I choose a photo from the many on the Internet? I advise you to look first of all from a variety of media personalities. For example, these are TV series characters, singers, famous athletes. The photos of these people are recognizable and already colored by the attitude of society towards itself. You will not encounter a situation when a random stranger suddenly appears in the interior of your project. Believe me, it's important. An unknown person in the house is perceived with a sense of anxiety. A stranger may appear on public territory, this is normally perceived. He has come and will soon be gone forever. The personal private area of the interior is much more sensitive to the feelings of the viewer. It is important not to spoil the impression by rash actions. It is better to search for photos in high quality, it is better to get them directly from photo studios. Lighting specialists have already worked there. There are well-balanced light sources, there will be a backlight that gives a feeling of reflexes. Random street photos will play out. It is better to consider advertising posters for movies or pictures from a person's portfolio, everything will be fine there. In other words, use high-quality material in your work.
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so the algorithm. 1. You have selected a photo. I advise you to cut it to the minimum size immediately. It is important to precisely trim the bottom edge of the shoe so that the figure does not hang in the air later. I'll show you everything using the example of Daenerys Targaryen. then in Photoshop (I use the free simple version of Photoshop online) you need to carefully clean the background with an eraser. You can not use the "magic wand" tool, it is a very rude and sloppy tool. just an eraser. The eraser should be with the maximum stiffness setting. Carefully remove all the crumbs and dashes along the edge of the background, they will then hang like gray flies on the render. when everything is ready, you need to export the photo in PNG format. During this operation, you will have information about the size of the field in pixels. Put these numbers in the name right away, they are very important.
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now you can proceed to the next step. 2. Create a box with dimensions from the name. Height 1207 cm, width 409 cm, depth 5 cm. Don't be confused by the huge size. Assign our photo to the front surface, make all the others invisible. In the size settings, check the box "keep proportions" and set the height to 180 cm. The remaining sizes will decrease in the right proportion. It is very important for us to maintain the initial proportions so that the beautiful Daenerys remains so truthful and continues, and does not turn into a flounder or a rabbit because of our negligence. The height of the image will be approximate for now, we will be able to adjust it. The human figure has growth parameters, but for example, if a person has a headdress with feathers, a crown on the king, if a hand with a sword is raised up - how to set the correct height? It's very simple!) There are reference points, and these are human eyes. They are located exactly minus 13cm from the top of the head. Therefore, you can always confidently set the correct size of the figure at eye level. For simplicity, you can take the universal height for girls of 163cm (eyes minus 13cm = 150 cm). For men, the height is 178cm (eyes minus 13cm = 165cm). For a person sitting on a chair, the eye level can be set at 115cm. This level may be lower, depending on the furniture and the person's posture. He can sit straight or lean back on the sofa, then you can adjust the eye level to a smaller side (110cm). How do I set this level? It's very simple!) You need to make a reference box of the right height and cut it into the figure without pity. The 150cm high box will be a template for adjusting the size of the box with the image of Daenerys. Keep the proportions of the box and carefully lower the height of the box with the photo so that the eyes are exactly on top of the standard at the level of 150cm. Everything is very simple. for seated figures, this size needs to be meaningfully adjusted. The height of the furniture may be different, for example, for expensive sofas and armchairs, this seat height may be lower than the height of the chair. A chair has 47 cm, an armchair or sofa can have 40-42 cm. The girls on the couch are of different heights. The girl on the left is sitting on her own leg, so she is sitting taller than an ordinary person. This needs to be adjusted with understanding.
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I forgot to say that it is very important to arrange our selected photos correctly. If Daenerys has a light source on the left hand side, then you need to put her in the right place relative to the light source in the room. In my interior, it's a chandelier. If you put Daenerys to the right of the chandelier, then there will be an unnatural lighting of the figure. If everything is done correctly, it will be as similar as possible to the real human figure in the interior. You can go even further and use more accurate information. For example, in Wikipedia, you can often find information about the true height of an actor, and then the figure of a real artist will be as realistic as possible. For example, the height of the wonderful actor Peter Dinklage is 132cm (eyes minus 13cm = 119 cm). If everything is done correctly, everything will be as it really is, without distorting the growth of a real person. The height of actress Emilia Clarke, who played Daenerys in the series, is 157 cm. So I was a little mistaken, in reality Emilia's eyes will be at a height of 144cm, but we can assume shoes with heels, I probably wasn't much mistaken)). It is also important to monitor the skin tone of people if they are nearby. For example, the girls on the couch have clearly just come from a southern resort, and the rest have not been there for a long time and look pale next to such southern beauties. This can be taken into account in the selection of photos and their location in space, so that they do not argue with each other in such small things. To make the photos look attractive under a light source, I covered each figure with a compact 5-8% hemisphere hood, it illuminates the head and shoulders. This gives a sense of overhead lighting and a more complex image. I tried to correct different skin tones, for example, I covered pale-faced beauties with an orange cap, corrected the situation a little, but it didn't work out at all.
