Doing Art

Artistic Depth of Field

Today I answered a post, here, that said of a rendered image:

Playing around with depth of field and sort of liked the effect?  Too much?

If you haven’t gone to look at it, it was a figure against a blurred background, basically. The background was barely distinguishable as light and dark objects. (Really, the background is too . . . → Read More: Artistic Depth of Field

Doing Art

Masks and Render Passes

I’ve been asked about my references to alpha masks and z-depth (or depth cue) with regard to creating renders in Poser, so here’s my run at explaining that. First, an image: This is from the Advanced Render Settings product in the RuntimeDNA store, and is so perfect I could not improve upon it as a visual . . . → Read More: Masks and Render Passes