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Practicing Magic Spells
3D Render by MjrkThe actors: Dolb as the grumpy butler, Chani as the tutor, Maisy an Mei An as the witches.
The room is a part of the Hobbit-home by Roguey & Strangefate/DAZ.
Models from sketchfab: "Homo sapiens sapiens" by Museo [UV] Historia Natural, "California Bighorn Sheep specimen : adult male" by UVic Libraries, "1991.45 Tea Table" and the Bugatti tea and coffee set by Cleveland Museum of Art (I add another picture because these strange but somehow cute Art-Nouveau-objects look a bit dark in this environment), "Hebe" by Geoffrey Marchal, „Compound Microscope“ by Virtual Museums of Malopolska, "Old Portrait of Witch" by Anskar, skull of a horse) by zmmu, "Renaissance Round Dining Table" (https://skfb.ly/oAQyu) by Modenese Gastone.
Models from Renderhub: „Entomological Pictures. Beetles and Butterflies“ and „Old Books Set“ by Tatiana Gladkaya,
Lit by SASE promo lights/RR and some Ghost Lights by KindredArts/DAZ.
P.S. I recommend downloading this.It took ca. 19 hours in rendering and was only 26 percent ready (and hardly any visible change for at least 10 hours!). So I reduced it to 50 percent and most of the unsolved pixels vanished. It is still 4500 by 3000 pixels large.
Techno-Blah: I’ll add another picture with a Golden Ruler that I have once built in Cinema 4D. It is parented to the camera and I change the proportions to match the ones in the current picture.
When I arranged the figure groups I asked myself, why not place them in the middle. And when I saw it through the Golden Ruler-grid, I knew why. A lot of lines in the object arrangement match lines in the grid.
(Well, not as many as in Vermeers pictures, but I still found it interesting)
Thanks for looking!
The room is a part of the Hobbit-home by Roguey & Strangefate/DAZ.
Models from sketchfab: "Homo sapiens sapiens" by Museo [UV] Historia Natural, "California Bighorn Sheep specimen : adult male" by UVic Libraries, "1991.45 Tea Table" and the Bugatti tea and coffee set by Cleveland Museum of Art (I add another picture because these strange but somehow cute Art-Nouveau-objects look a bit dark in this environment), "Hebe" by Geoffrey Marchal, „Compound Microscope“ by Virtual Museums of Malopolska, "Old Portrait of Witch" by Anskar, skull of a horse) by zmmu, "Renaissance Round Dining Table" (https://skfb.ly/oAQyu) by Modenese Gastone.
Models from Renderhub: „Entomological Pictures. Beetles and Butterflies“ and „Old Books Set“ by Tatiana Gladkaya,
Lit by SASE promo lights/RR and some Ghost Lights by KindredArts/DAZ.
P.S. I recommend downloading this.It took ca. 19 hours in rendering and was only 26 percent ready (and hardly any visible change for at least 10 hours!). So I reduced it to 50 percent and most of the unsolved pixels vanished. It is still 4500 by 3000 pixels large.
Techno-Blah: I’ll add another picture with a Golden Ruler that I have once built in Cinema 4D. It is parented to the camera and I change the proportions to match the ones in the current picture.
When I arranged the figure groups I asked myself, why not place them in the middle. And when I saw it through the Golden Ruler-grid, I knew why. A lot of lines in the object arrangement match lines in the grid.
(Well, not as many as in Vermeers pictures, but I still found it interesting)
Thanks for looking!
a Hell of a Job done. Bo one can imagine the hard Work behind it. The electric cost for this Render
might be high. This is, what i call, a really Fan
might be high. This is, what i call, a really Fan

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Mjrk
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Fri, Feb 23, 2024Thank you! I must say, I haven't thought about the cost, but last year I got some money back from the E-Company. 

Fantastic work
In my head Dolb is asking "When will you three meet again?"
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Mjrk
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Fri, Feb 23, 2024That sounds like something from Shakespeare, right?
I thought he grumbled something like "Who needs blue light? On the fingertip?"
I thought he grumbled something like "Who needs blue light? On the fingertip?"
Superb, Mjrk. Note - 4500 x 3000 is still pretty big! I've run into similar issues with lots of assets crammed in a scene (the things that make it a scene) and have run up to 8 hours at 2400 on the big side with the old 1080ti.
Ghost lights can be quite effective.
Always a pleasure to study the little things rhat bring your scenes to life.
Ghost lights can be quite effective.
Always a pleasure to study the little things rhat bring your scenes to life.
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Sat, Feb 24, 2024Thank you! The original was 9000 x 6000. No matter what the dimensions, renderings with several light sources fighting for their places for their pixels don't seem to end. So I make them bigger and rescale the result.
I like images that have lots of detail. I'm too lazy and should work on that. Well done.
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Oh I love lots of props in a scene this is wonderful but sadly my pc struggles :C she's an old girl now I got to cross my fingers for a render to finish that's how I do my renders lol ♥
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Thu, Jan 02I know, my old iMac seems to get slow nowadays. Well, it is from 2012...