My latest avatar creation - pretty realistic 




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Software developer. iClone hobbyist since January 11, 2020. Best work so far: Robots among us: The Lab and The sad end of a legend
In progress: Black Mamba
AMD Ryzen 3950X 16C/32T 4.2 GHz, 64GB RAM, RTX2080 11GB, 2TB Samsung 970 Pro SSD, 8TB Seagate BarraCuda HDD, Win11 64-bit, iClone 8.12

Tried yesterday the iClone 8 volumetric light and DOF on an ultra widescreen format. Though I'm still reluctant to use RL's DOF due to its (lack of) quality, definitely there's a big improvement compared with the one in IC7. Volumetric light is nice, I still have to learn how to use it.
The most interesting here is the ultra widescreen format, I don't feel very confortable with it yet, but is looking interesting in using it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjCiSPgFm9Y


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Software developer. iClone hobbyist since January 11, 2020. Best work so far: Robots among us: The Lab and The sad end of a legend
In progress: Black Mamba
AMD Ryzen 3950X 16C/32T 4.2 GHz, 64GB RAM, RTX2080 11GB, 2TB Samsung 970 Pro SSD, 8TB Seagate BarraCuda HDD, Win11 64-bit, iClone 8.12

Billboards on the rescue 
Today at work I was thinking how can I populate the set with other avatars - IC8 is doing far better than IC7 in resources management, but anyway... So it came in my mind something I never tried so far: billboards. So here it is. I was surprised by the result, and I'm assuming after a bit of polishing will look even better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsRKGuqAUg


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Software developer. iClone hobbyist since January 11, 2020. Best work so far: Robots among us: The Lab and The sad end of a legend
In progress: Black Mamba
AMD Ryzen 3950X 16C/32T 4.2 GHz, 64GB RAM, RTX2080 11GB, 2TB Samsung 970 Pro SSD, 8TB Seagate BarraCuda HDD, Win11 64-bit, iClone 8.12

Unbelievable ultra-realism? A thread title like that is an invitation for honest feedback.

She looks like she was created in a laboratory, with her extra wide man-shoulders and skinny waist. Women do not look like this!

Render quality, okay... but very orange skin. And under chin on left side there's a glow which shouldn't be there. Hair looks like a wig, not her hair. On the plus side, her eyes and face look pretty good, some actual life there, some hope.

I'll rate it 5 stars regardless, if someone pays me per star, in DA points. :-)




 

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Software developer. iClone hobbyist since January 11, 2020. Best work so far: Robots among us: The Lab and The sad end of a legend
In progress: Black Mamba
AMD Ryzen 3950X 16C/32T 4.2 GHz, 64GB RAM, RTX2080 11GB, 2TB Samsung 970 Pro SSD, 8TB Seagate BarraCuda HDD, Win11 64-bit, iClone 8.12

I added @Data Juggler's "Newton's Cradle" and @BiggsTrek's confetti - but, unfortunately, I had to remove the confetti, even they were looking nice, because I figured out I will run in a difficult task: some confetti should land and stick on characters' hair and clothes. So I will use instead his party baloons

P.S I found a bug in IC8:
the "remove object animation" does not applies correctly in keeping light's volumetric intensity, it resets it to original value 2.0. I had to copy/paste desired keyframe. I will double-check and if confirmed I will open an issue to RL's FeedbackTracker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96do4Tz8PpM


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Software developer. iClone hobbyist since January 11, 2020. Best work so far: Robots among us: The Lab and The sad end of a legend
In progress: Black Mamba
AMD Ryzen 3950X 16C/32T 4.2 GHz, 64GB RAM, RTX2080 11GB, 2TB Samsung 970 Pro SSD, 8TB Seagate BarraCuda HDD, Win11 64-bit, iClone 8.12

Well, you're absolutely right, not that it matters.
Your critique was formulated to help one of the forum's most arrogant members, but as you can see all he wants is gushing praise.
So he will always have an exaggerated estimate of his accomplishements.



Animating now to life itself --Walt Whitman