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Published: 2015-12-14 23:17:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 21765; Favourites: 383; Downloads: 404
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Since many hoped for me to publish more of Ashley, here she is, as promised!Posed in XPS, rendered in Blender Cycles 2.73a + Adobe Photoshop CS5. Model provided by (x ). This is the background.
Ashley Williams from Mass Effect belongs to Bioware.
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This is probably my favourite version of Ashley. It combines her stunning looks in me1 and her uniform in 3.
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Thank you! That was my purpose when I was working on this render 
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Have to say, now that I also started with mass effect: So far, I quite like Ashley.. !!
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There are a only few things I don't like about her personality, but I like her too 
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She is very frank and open minded, which is what I like. Just her little rassism isn't that nice. xDD
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Ottimo lavoro!
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Molto belli e realistici.
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this is about the most beautiful render i've seen this year!
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Oooh, thank you, I'm flattered!
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Not often a post makes my jaw drop like this one did. Just wow
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Oh, I'm flattered and I'm very glad you like it!
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This is fantastic! Probably the best Ashley Williams fan-art I've seen.
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Oh, you flatter me! Thank you! :'D
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We need a remastered Mass Effect 3 with her looking like this.
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Very nice render. I see you experimented with chromatic aberration, try to use it low as possible. Background looks like it have grain or something going on.
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Thank you! Yep, I agree, especially if applied on a small sized image, I guess. And yes, the background is quite grainy... I can't render bigger images at the moment and my PC crashes every time I push some features to a higher/better value. Maybe I could avoid that by improving my skills at setting lights and samples (?) LOL Sometimes Photoshop makes miracles, tough :'D
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Well from dump file after crash you could find the source of the crash. But your pc should handle renders pretty good until it is not notebook. But UE and Max tend to crash due to overload buffer. And if your CPU would overheat computer would just shut down. I cant imagine working with such a machine. That must be a nightmare. Do you work on some of your personal project now ? That you invest a lot of time ?
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Right... I used to work on a 10-year-old Windows XP (I don't even know what's inside its case, since that PC wasn't mine) and now I literally borrow computers because that one it's broken (hopefully I'll get a new one in less than one month. It should be a quite performing machine).
I was investing quite a lot of time on a Mass Effect film project, but I stopped because of this issue mentioned above (and university, which is eating my soul LOL). So no, I am not working on any big project at the moment. You do instead?
I am a huge fan of your works, btw!
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Oh my god I love your renders.
The lights are amazing- they seem very soft and the shaders look perfect!!
May... may I ask: what lights do you mainly use in Blender? Mesh? Area? Or.. even.. HDRI?
I can't fathom this grateness!!
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I am very glad you like them!
I never use the same type of lights, actually! For this one I used a plane and a point light. The rendered image was quite dark, so I played with regulations on Photoshop (Curves, Levels, etc). A plane is quite useful for portraits, I think :> I'm planning to read some manuals, in order to achieve a better understanding of the use of lights in Blender!
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You're amazing already. 
Oh, may I ask.. - when it comes to light, in the 'world' options, do you set the background to completely black?
Or do you leave it on it's greyish appearance?
God.. I am admiring you!
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Ohw, you flatter me :'D
I usually leave the grey default color and sometimes I set it to almost completely black. I never choose light colors because it makes eyeballs look awful, since I created a mirror-ish shader.
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I really love it. Really do- all your Renders are amazing!!
I love your normal pictures as well though so you are generally just very very talented.
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Aww, thank you, I'm very glad you like my works :>
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This time I only mixed a diffuse shader with a glossy shader. I created a specular map in Photoshop and did some editing after rendering in Blender to better simulate skin. I'm still working on decent skin materials, which I'll probably submit at a later time.
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in her blue gear she's lieutenant commander Williams. same rank as shepard
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You're right but I imagined the Alliance already got that suit in ME1. It's just... a personal headcanon. I know it's wrong and I might change the render's title, if that bothers anyone anyway.
Edit: Yeeeep, it looks like it's an upsetting mistake. LOL
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I got you. but only time I go off script is in my own work, other wise I stick to it. I write fan fic stories and role plays using my favorite characters. with just a couple of OCs and a fictionalized version of myself as the MC
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Instafav! 
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I fell in love with this model 
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Is this a modded model or did you have to splice her me1 head with her me3 body? I'd love an me3 mod with this look. This is so gooooood.
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As I wrote in the description, Mellin provided the model - you can find it here ! It's not a mod you can use in game, since this model was made for XNALara/XPS, I am sorry. I don't know, if you know someone who's able to work on mods, then it would be possible to make one like this for the game. This version of her appearance is awesome btw, yep
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Ah, I didn't even see that you put in the description, that was my bad! Thank you for the link!
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No problem
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Man, you do some amazing renders. She looks fantastic!
I love how you zipped up her jacket, very cheeky. 
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Thank you!
Melllin was the one who provided the model . I like this version a lot, it's a perfect combo
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That is one hell of a render, wow. Almost looks photo realistic.
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Thank you! I attempted to get that result
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