#or using shaders

[zylphiacrowley]

Okay so now I'm thinking about rack focus and gpose and I just want to talk about it in regards to vanilla gposing. I've never been trained in filmmaking or anything so this is not expert advice but I enjoy absorbing cinematography tips and tricks as a very passive hobby so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, rack focus is explained in this video:

or if you don't have the time/attention span to watch the video it's when you shift focus from one subject to another usually to draw attention to or emphasize a connection between the subjects your focusing between. It's used all the time in film and is an effective way to "show, not tell".

I've used it in some of my own gpose sets before like between these two shots:

These shots were used to illustrate how this character had just stepped outside to see the night sky for the first time in their lives. Could I have just used the single shot of them looking at the sky? Sure I could've and it would've been fine, but to shift focus is to allow the viewer to dwell on it just a bit longer to absorb the information and emotional intent behind the shots.

But of course, that wasn't done using vanilla gpose tools but you can achieve a similar effect with vanilla gpose tools! It's available right here:

I took these shots using vanilla gpose tools (with the exception of my gameplay shader which doesn't have any DoF settings on):

In the first one you of course see the chocobo in the foreground before switching to focusing on my character in the background. These might be good shots to set a scene. Catboy at the chocobo farm, what he gonna do next?

the settings I used for each shot:

Of course these were just really quick snaps I grabbed to try to illustrate how you can apply rack focus in gpose, so I'm sure with actual time and some messing about in your settings with various sliders and such, you could come up with something much more polished and nice than what I managed in 5 minutes. OTL

And even if you don't use it for rack focus specifically, I encourage people to play around with the Depth of Field sliders! Go nuts! You can easily take some really dynamic single shots with combinations of gpose settings and actions.

Edit to add this bit of important information from @candycryptids: If DOF is not doing anything in GPose for you, check your graphics settings under system. There’s a box at the veeeery bottom that will disable DoF for EVERYTHING. Make sure it’s ticked.

[hoolyelina]

swingset that came to me in a vision

[nipuni]

A warm up of Solas! Trying to remember how to draw him. It's been forever, bear with me 😵‍💫

[gyroncraft]

Fractal building interior thing i whipped up (some sort of temple or maybe just a monument idk)

[samuraijacksoff]

iv lately been converting minecraft screencaps into 32x32 pixels so i can cross stitch them :)

[architectural-sims]

New pastry stand in Windenburg Alter Platz

[something-lives-there]

all Ghast live reaction to seeing how much better their life could've been if they were just waterboarded as a child

anyway live was good

[wistfulpoltergeist]

♫Beborn Beton - Electricity♫

[astravires]

*heavy breathing*

kash in lavenfurs amazing tops

[cherriesforheaven]

i love these screenshots ( did not edit any of these but perhaps i should pick up some editing skills)

[ectoimp]

Low Polys your Mystery

[beanysprout]

ok now here's her in minecraft

[ilikedetectives]

[gothoffspring]

She's H-O-T-T-O-G-O 💒 ✨ Regina's current hobbies are listening to chappell roan and mixing brains w/ her favorite slurpee flavors

[deifyruby]

ㅤㅤyap about rejoice's how i made the mace useless.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ(beware for spoilers)

feel the need to put a disclaimer: this is my first ever time watching something about strength, so please don't crucify me for inaccuracies or mischaracterization! this is just my first impression of... basically everyone lol.

i love rejoice. he's this guy who is really fixated in his goal to kill tai, but it isn't for any sort of big, grand reason. it's not because tai is public enemy number one. in fact, it's really selfish. at one point, the guy betrays the rest of the server and starts killing everyone who is going after tai simply because only he gets to kill tai.

rejoice: "so why do i not want him to die?"

tai: "he doesn't just want me dead, no— he wants to be the one that kills me."

yet, one thing stays consistent and steadfast throughout all the chaos and mayhem, and that's rejoice's single minded focus on his goal to kill tai, and his pride that guides him. rejoice gets interrupted by tai's teammates every time he gets so, so very close to killing him, but rejoice just takes the outnumbered fight and keeps trying, yet never brings on his own teammates to even the field. why? if the goal is simply to kill tai then it doesn't make sense. but that's not it. rejoice won't allow anyone else to potentially steal his kill, no way. so instead he works alone, throwing himself in outnumbered fights and still escaping with his life intact. (insane skill btw. that rat tunnel chase scene was sooo fucking funny.)

and for this very pride, later tai basically entrusts his life to rejoice and teams up with him. this is after he is basically betrayed by his own team. his team ditched him, he's public enemy number one, i mean. come on. who can he trust? for all that he's been killing off people, tai really comes across to me as a guy who thrives in companionship. he also needed a team that would protect him from people like... rejoice... but hey, two things can co-exist at once! his need for protection, and also his want for friendship and trust.

anyway, so he's alone now, so he goes to rejoice and asks him to team up with him! why? why after rejoice spent the last two months trying to kill him? (and almost succeeding every time). why when he needs a team to defend him from rejoice in the first place? and it all circles back to rejoice's single minded focus on his goals, and his pride.

rejoice is transparent. he knows what he wants (killing tai fair and square), knows what will hinder his wants (server wide hunt for tai = can't get the fair and square kill on tai), and works towards it in a fairly predictable path to anyone who pays attention at how rejoice works. so for as long as tai knows what rejoice wants, and can offer that to him, there's a trust between them that's not one that's built up through countless experiences together, but of mutual benefit. you can't betray me because i have something you want, i can't betray you because you give me something i want. this way, tai knows what to expect, and what to offer. it's trust not in their relationship, but in rejoice's person and his pride.

to tai, to who the trust that's built on honest companionship is not attainable in the current climate where he's hated by the whole server and man hunted down on sight, this kind of trust he has with rejoice is precious. it's the most he gets akin to companionship and friendship in the midst of all of this.

and of course, if you watched the video, cough, rejoice betrays tai like two days after their team up. this doesn't really contradict anything i said, it's just that tai failed to see what was rejoice's goals, so he failed to expect what was coming. i peeked a little at tai's own video, and god i felt a bit bad but lol. really, rejoice's "i'm such a villain! (evil cackle)" is sooo funny for me and so sad for tai. he doesn't care if he's a hero or a villain for as long as he can obtain what he wants. and obtain, he did. one of the last people standing after half the server got banned for duping.

rejoice made insane (ly gay) replay shots, like this? this is crazy but i support it!

anyway, W yaoi. (ref)

[wynandcore]

Rendering attempt! He’s kinda self-reliant I sure hope this doesn’t manifest into a bigger problem with intimacy later in life