Renderotica

Wait: Quote:" ... a new comic every 4-6 weeks..." ???

I thought every 4 to 6 months would be already quick.

My comic has 421 rendered pictures, including outtakes it would be about 500. I made 2 a day, which means setting up the scenes and rendering over night. That makes about 250 days.
Count another 50 days to it for photoshop the renders and putting it all together in Comic life.
 

Originally Posted by: Masterstroke

Wait: Quote:" ... a new comic every 4-6 weeks..." ???

I thought every 4 to 6 months would be already quick.

My comic has 421 rendered pictures, including outtakes it would be about 500. I made 2 a day, which means setting up the scenes and rendering over night. That makes about 250 days.
Count another 50 days to it for photoshop the renders and putting it all together in Comic life.
 

I think that what you are describing is more of a graphic novel and not a comic book.  When we were kids, I never bought a comic that was more than around 30-50 pages.  The requirement here is 50 pages for single panel pages or 35 for multi panel pages.  I've looked at some of the other vendor offerings and most are in the 70 - 200 page or so range.  Most of my comics fall into this range also.

As I have said I have slowed down quite a bit as of late  but I stand by 4-6 week quote.

I have heard the nightmares of long overnight renders and frankly I think the longest render I had to wait on was 4 hours and that was do to an light system and plenty of ray tracing elements.

I keep things as simple as I can and plan ahead. A scenic render or say a bedroom scene,  Doctors office or Hospital room do not get eliminated when I close a story, they get saves sao if I need a go to scene I can quickly bring it up and save some time by not building another set. Characters I keep certain characters in a special runtime.  never know when you might need a nurse, police officer, or some well dressed businessmen and Business women,  and some nice looking call girls..  Just bring them up and maybe change the hair or texture of the outfit and they are good to go.

I use Poser and my renders tend to be 150-300 dpi and exported in PNG format. Lately the sharpening tool in Comic life has added a nice crispness to my images. 

For new characters I figure out what I will need from beginning to end,  Usually I have no more than 5 major characters per story.Each base figure starts out as a nude and saved to runtime,  Then the nude gets underware,  save to runtime, remove the underware and cover in street clothing or casual clothing  and save to runtime.  That takes about a day.

Bring in my backup figures place them on the desktop and then add them to the story library and I'm ready to go set up my sets. Usually one or two bedrooms and I already have those saved,  Interior.exterior house scenes if needed,  If a Bondage scene is called for I get something from my Davo runtime  In three days tops I am ready to begin and on a good day I can run 15-20 renders.  Remember the nice thing about 3D sets, is the ability to turn the set around for a different POV.

As to my runtime  I have a very unique runtime system that makes it fast to find things and Import things I need and export things I do not. I have runtime files devoted to Strictly Air Ports Interiors/Exteriors and Planes and Jets

Another runtime devoted to Arab themed scenes and characters. another runtime devoted to bedrooms and bedroom poses, and so on,  Having everything in one place saves time, Vendors I do a lot of business with have their on Runtimes Like Davo,  1-13, Stonemason's Poser items,

The V-4 Library took the longest to set up  But I have clothing character, hair characters, even the V-4 base set in alphabetical sub catagories.

Example  Hair A-F  G-M  and N-Z I do this for the character props, and texture props.  and also for smart props.   This is also done for clothing and shoes

My base textures I call Poser people I have a sub file for 19-21 and then list the other textures as A-F  G-M and N-Z 

This system took me 3 weeks to amass and it has served me well and increased my productivity. Less scrolling because I know where everything is.

And yes it's backup and gets updated every month

My Hard drive that my Poser work sets on is having SMART issues, Going to swap out the drives and then reload by backup after I for mat the disk.

To the artist who do produce visual stories or superior quality work,  My hats are off to you because I have seen some of the new artist selling items in the store.  It's awesome..   I have a top notch PC loaded with ram, speed, and mid range cuda video cards.

My desk is like an assembly line with 3 PC's I does the rendering,  One does the Post work and the other has the comic software. So while i render I post work finished images in batches and then send to the the PC with the comic software I build the pages and then drop and drag my art into them. Once all the panels are done I go to work adding the text, but while that is going on I am rendering for my next story.

My wife does the editing as she has a AA in English Then I do a final run through and lastly create the PDF.

It works for me and I make sure it meets my own standards or I go back and rework any images that need it.. What can I say  I'm a virgo who turns 70 next week

Have a nice weeknd everyone

Sorry for the long post

Regards  Shado

Originally Posted by: mjw

Happy birthday for next week, Shado.

Hey thanks MJW    Feeling every year now.  Bad knee... bad back other than that my VA DR say IM in the pink of health.. 

I thought retirement was going to be fun  

Regards  Shado..