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davescm
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July 24, 2020
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Something for the weekend - Part 103 - Pool party!

  • July 24, 2020
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Hi,

Thanks to all who took part on last weekend's "drifting" challenge. 

This week I bring you a swimming pool. I modelled and rendered the scene in Blender 3D,  and textured it in Adobe Substance Painter. However, it looks far too quiet for a pool party. Can you liven it up ?

 

The “rules”:

  • Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
  • Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. It also would be great to see all those who have taken part in the previous challenges come and take part in this one.
  • There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!

To download the image below at 3000 x 2000 pixels with an embedded ICC colour profile (sRGB), hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right. Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser).

 

 

For those that like to get a sense of scale, the pool measures 12 m x 8 m and is 1m deep at the shallow (far) end and 2m at the deep end. The "camera" lens used in rendering is 26mm focal length.

 

When posting back your image – please use the Blue reply button in this first post. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.

 

Have fun.

 

Dave

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Rista12
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July 24, 2020

davescm
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July 24, 2020

That cat does not look pleased to have taken a swim 🙂  Nice job Rista.

 

Dave

 

kphotopage
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July 24, 2020

Feed me Dave.

davescm
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July 24, 2020

"What's that Flipper? Bud's not keeping social distance again ?........"

(Only someone growing up in the 60's will remember 🙂

Dave

kphotopage
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July 25, 2020

LOL Dave. Yep I was thinking about Flipper when doing this quick and simple PS image.

Guess that dates us all. We also had the original reruns in the 90’s.  

 

Here is link to the TV series.

https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1960s/flipper/

Jacob Bugge
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July 24, 2020

Apologizing for its being stronger than we.

 

 

davescm
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July 24, 2020

The pool's looking a bit rough. Is the weather turning 🙂

Dave

Ussnorway7605025
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July 24, 2020

when the server starts working I'll post my image

July 24, 2020

Wonderful render Dave, how long did it take to render and do you have to UV unwrap before texturing in Substance Painter also do you just bring in the bare mesh into Substance and texture from there

davescm
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July 24, 2020

Cheers Ged and thanks.

When taking objects into Substance Painter I unwrap them first. Substance Painter does now have an auto-unwrap function , but I prefer to do it manually in Blender so that I can control where the seams are to keep them unobtrusive.

The final render took about 15 minutes but that was only because I upped the samples to 1024 in cycles to keep noise down in the water. Prior to that I'd been doing test renders at 64 samples which only took 2.5 minutes, the longest part of which was computing the particle systems for grass and trees prior to rendering. That is on a RTX2080ti using OptiX with a tile size of 512 x 512.

 

Dave