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Step One. Load the figure and pose her dress her and put texture and hair on her.



Step two. Loading the background scene. At first she was off center in the camera so i moved to her a more responsible position in the scene.



Step three. Chose the right lighting for the scene. As you can see each lighting has pre-renders already done so you can see exactly what it will look like rendered before you render it. As you also can see in this preview the image is using default lights in step 2. Now im picked different lights and you can see in the preview the lights changed.



Step four. These lights will give the scene more of a moody feeling. The lights with a somewhat highlight is what i choose. The lights are the most important part of CG art. It can break or create a wonderful piece of art. It can take a crappy looking scene and make it beautiful or it can make a beautiful scene and make it ugly. Its all in the lights.



Step five. The render settings are also important. Now my lights i used are special as they dont need max render settings to create the same effect in sort cutting the render time from 6 to 12 hours to under 30 minutes with no lose to detail.



Step six. Looks like everything is set up properly time to render it. As you can see the render engine is loading the texture block by block to save time. I could have set it to render randomly BUT i wanted to render faster. Ether way would make no different. The render will come out the same.



Step seven. As you can see it is making the final texture renders of the finish piece.



Step eight: The finish piece. Now its ready for post work in any graphic editing software. I prefer Photoshop.

alot of my art material i payed for ^.^ also notice the time on my clock that shows you how long it took me to make the finish piece

same thing how is any of those famous people's paintings there if they didn't made the paint for it. My 3d models are just that material the finish piece is mine.

*Sighs* Apparently you haven't done 3d art before. I'm going to be nice ok. I'm not an a**. It doesn't work that way. No mater if i made or bought the models or textures. The program is going to do the rendering itself regardless of how i make the scene. And the program didnt do anything I placed the character in the scene i posed her like that not the program, and i placed each an every object on the scene like that by hand. The program only loads the materal into the scene. Only thing the program does is render everything else was placed there by hand. Please try to understand that.

Sorry the principle is not the same.

Yes, it is.

What you're basically doing is equivalent to having a collection of dolls and pre-made sets, and taking a picture of them. You have to place the dolls, the objects, and the set and pose/compose them (while putting a lightbulb near by for better lighting) but you didn't make the doll, the props, or the set. You bought them and own them, but they weren't made with your own personal touch; you just liked them when you saw them at the store.

Sure, it takes work to compose the dolls and the props together, but you really can't call it your own art piece if you didn't create them.

*sighs* I just like making 3d art that is all I didn't post this to start a fight with gaians. Yes it does take work ALOT of it to do Renders. There no button to push to get what in your head out on the screen at all. You still have to do the work. Sometimes you make a wonderful works of art other time you have to redo it tell its just the way you want it to be. It takes time an ALOT of self control. Its not for everyone