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Be SMART and use SMART OBJECTS - check it out here....or at the very first post of the day at the bottom of this page!

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Sidenote: with a little retooling this is a fast way to take an old rendering, or model that you forgot to run Material ID on and make quick selection subsitute to help turbocharge a rendering and save time in selecting swaths of material and space

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Add color, but just a subtle lil’ bit....or alotta bit - up to you.

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GRUNGE - it’s not just a musical style epitomized by Nirvana and PearlJam (but you should play them while you apply this style)

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Getting good base images [is so important] - but once you find it... :)

Alex Hogrefe

Car Streaks - Snow Tracks - winter trees

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Clay model pass...Ta DAH!

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Material ID

It looks like this:

AKA 

HOW TO ACHIEVE A FLAT TONE RENDERING PASS TO USE AS A ‘GREEN SCREEN’ FOR MAKING QUICK SELECTION (and not going crazy cutting out tons of little bits ever again!)

Learn more about it here:

http://v5.rhino3d.com/forum/topics/best-way-to-make-a-material-id-mask-render-with-rhino-5-0 

and here:

http://www.rhinoscript.org/forum/1/501

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Varied texture across the image can really help focus the story of the image - grain in the steel, in the asphalt of the stree, and more blur and distance in the clouds and the background. It brings the focus where you want it.

Alex Hogrefe

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Google Nik is a filtering collection that allows you to add a finishing polish to your post-processing in photoshop. It’s like a final Instagramming to bring out detail, and interweave the photoshop layers to cohese together.

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AO stands for Ambient Occlusion - it’s a pass in VRay that gives adde depth, minute shadow, and added textural detail - it’s gives the detailed PUNCH that really moves small variation and believably to your images.

‘Ambient Occlusion is a “hack” to create more realistic ambient illumination cheaply’

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Bob ross - showing you how to paint a background... not actually that different from our approach in photoshop - attention to building slowly using layers, textures, scale, color.

sidenote: Vis Faculty are not required to have this haircut....but it helps.

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Killer Images by a Killer Rendering group - the devil’s in the details - slowly building it up, not in having the best picture, best sky, bluest sky, or most crazy image.

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Rendering with MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION - bright colors with no shading that are just used to do create ‘quick selects’ for working in photoshop - MINIMIZE your time cutting stuff out!!  

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Some really great entourage of ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE doing ALL KINDS of things

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I almost never use the first solution that comes to me... experiment and push it as far as you can while your working

Alex Hogrefe

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[For final images] Think of the layers and overlays like watercolors... don't go overboard, layer it in slowly [to get the best effect]

Alex Hogrefe

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LARGE 2 megapixels+ grunge textures to use in rendering texture overlays