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mike-reiss β€” I put a spell on you

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Description ------ 3D character rendering in Cinema4D (mesh here: [link] ) ------

WOW! Thank you for this DD! I feel honored.



Alexander is ready to cast his first magic spell (on you!).

Thank you all for your great feedback and suggestions.
This helped a lot getting Alexander this realistic!

Rendered in Maxon Cinema4D R11.5 using GI and a very complex light- and reflection-system of my own. Alexander is M4 based with mayor improvements on the textures.
I am using my own skin shader and my own shader extensions for the eyes. The mesh is hypersmoothed and optimized. The curtain is modeled using hypernurbs to.

The spell is created using light sources combined with fractal shaders... My first own magic spell!

I hope you all like him. His evolution can be seen here:



If you would like to peep the 3d mesh under Alexanders skin, you can do that here:



Thanks again for your great support!



Complete project description here: [link]
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Comments: 623

ArbArtist In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 03:33:51 +0000 UTC]

WOW i toke a graphic arts class and we used Cinema4D and i never got anything this amazing out of it Wow your really good how long did this take

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mike-reiss In reply to ArbArtist [2010-05-21 08:58:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much. Alexander belongs for shure to the best renders I have done in Cinema4D.
C4D is an amazing software package and the best render engine I know so far....

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ArbArtist In reply to mike-reiss [2010-05-21 22:02:04 +0000 UTC]

it seems so lol how long did it take for to make that...did you start with a cube or a spline or something else

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mike-reiss In reply to ArbArtist [2010-05-22 19:10:20 +0000 UTC]

The 3d mesh is based on a M4 (Male Version 4) mesh.
Its smoothed and deformed using Poser morphs and Cinema4D deformers.
The texture shaders are highly improoved using c4D layer shaders and procedual shaders like noise, frensel and refraction....

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ArbArtist In reply to mike-reiss [2010-05-22 19:16:52 +0000 UTC]

i see you must have a very new version the one we had in that class i toke was a older one

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mike-reiss In reply to ArbArtist [2010-05-22 19:22:22 +0000 UTC]

I use R11.5. This is the current version... [link]

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ArbArtist In reply to mike-reiss [2010-05-22 19:26:50 +0000 UTC]

i see

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RauhfaserKleister In reply to ??? [2010-05-16 18:32:07 +0000 UTC]

Lexy & K. Paul
[link]

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mike-reiss In reply to RauhfaserKleister [2010-05-16 19:22:54 +0000 UTC]

What do you want to tell me?

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RauhfaserKleister In reply to mike-reiss [2010-05-17 18:10:24 +0000 UTC]

Γ„hm... Der Titel dieses Bildes hat mich nur an das Lied erinnert. Ist dir nicht aufgefallen, dass einmal drin "I put a spell on you" vorkommt?!

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mike-reiss In reply to RauhfaserKleister [2010-05-17 18:16:38 +0000 UTC]

Ist mir aufgefallen. Ich hatte irgendwie auf einen "Magic Spell" grafisch wie im Bild gewartet...

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RauhfaserKleister In reply to mike-reiss [2010-05-17 18:34:52 +0000 UTC]

Achso.... ne, mehr stecke da nicht hinter.
Aber ich hab gestern da einfach dran gedacht und dann musste ich dir das eben unbedingt zeigen.

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Pinkyri In reply to ??? [2010-05-10 08:08:53 +0000 UTC]

That's a great rendering!! Really! You're very very good at it!

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mike-reiss In reply to Pinkyri [2010-05-10 08:15:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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Pinkyri In reply to mike-reiss [2010-05-10 08:21:47 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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CoffeeToffeeSquirrel [2010-05-08 14:44:10 +0000 UTC]

Featured in my journal [link]

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mike-reiss In reply to CoffeeToffeeSquirrel [2010-05-08 23:34:13 +0000 UTC]

Thank you Therese! I feel flattered....

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CoffeeToffeeSquirrel In reply to mike-reiss [2010-05-09 11:48:08 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure. It's an awesome picture!

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mike-reiss In reply to CoffeeToffeeSquirrel [2010-05-09 19:07:25 +0000 UTC]

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unmerwe In reply to ??? [2010-05-04 18:27:38 +0000 UTC]

admirable!!

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mike-reiss In reply to unmerwe [2010-05-04 20:28:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, Martina!

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unmerwe In reply to mike-reiss [2010-05-11 00:30:39 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome !

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TinaNordloh In reply to ??? [2010-05-01 23:23:59 +0000 UTC]

I love his expression I can see how much time and attention you put into the project!! Congrats on the DD - it is well earned. He is very life like!

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mike-reiss In reply to TinaNordloh [2010-05-04 16:26:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you Tina!
Alexanders expression was the most tricky part. I agree.
But it was even the most fun part doing. You should see some of the expressions, that did not make it to the final render....

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TinaNordloh In reply to mike-reiss [2010-06-04 15:46:11 +0000 UTC]

hehe - facial expressions are so tricky! Especially when your trying to nail a certain emotion. Still working on that myself - and have a long way to go hehe. I have alot of respect for this particular piece because you did capture the emotion so completely. Sorry for the late reply - new job has kept me away. Off to see what you've been working on

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TheBarracuda57 In reply to ??? [2010-04-25 15:23:23 +0000 UTC]

Reminds me of the song "Strange & Beautiful" By: Aqualung. If you haven't heard of it.. your title is within the lyrics. Amazing.

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mike-reiss In reply to TheBarracuda57 [2010-04-25 18:56:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much. I will check that song out....

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malytopol [2010-04-25 11:09:00 +0000 UTC]

this is amazing

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mike-reiss In reply to malytopol [2010-04-25 20:41:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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spoofdecator In reply to ??? [2010-04-23 22:55:01 +0000 UTC]

wow! excellent work! I had to enlarge to see he wasn't real, lol

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mike-reiss In reply to spoofdecator [2010-04-24 13:30:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you Tera!
Alexander is the human 3D render I had the most fun with doing it lately.
You can see his evolution over 3 versions here [link] and his 3D wireframe here [link] !
The most challenging part was to get his eyes and his expression right...

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spoofdecator In reply to mike-reiss [2010-04-24 17:44:22 +0000 UTC]

yes, and also muscles movement perfection is hard too...mens bodies are the hardest of the 2 sexes to draw more hard lines. eyes are my fave to do..

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bluediabolo In reply to ??? [2010-04-21 18:16:02 +0000 UTC]

GefΓ€llt mir, sehr sexy und nu sag schnell wode den tollen KΓΆrper her hast ^^ .

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mike-reiss In reply to bluediabolo [2010-04-21 18:30:58 +0000 UTC]

Alexander basiert auf de M4-Version der Poser-Modelle.
Seine Geomentrie wurde in C4D verfeinert mit Deformern und Morphs erweitert und mit gelayerten und teilweise shader-basierten Texturen ergΓ€nzt...
Freut mich, dass er Dir gefΓ€llt!

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bluediabolo In reply to mike-reiss [2010-04-24 21:56:50 +0000 UTC]

Ma wieder typisch, kaum gefΓ€llt dir was isses nich echt kicher
ja is suuper

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mike-reiss In reply to bluediabolo [2010-04-24 23:30:08 +0000 UTC]

Du musst ja zugeben, er ist wirklich zu gutaussehend um "echt" zu sein...

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bluediabolo In reply to mike-reiss [2010-04-26 17:28:42 +0000 UTC]

ja leidaaaaaaaaaaaa

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VuDu-DawL In reply to ??? [2010-04-18 03:23:49 +0000 UTC]

Awesome and so realistic. You did a FANTASTIC job with his expression! Very nice.

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mike-reiss In reply to VuDu-DawL [2010-04-19 19:24:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! It was a challenge to get Alexander this realistic.
You can see his evolution here: [link]

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VuDu-DawL In reply to mike-reiss [2010-04-19 20:18:29 +0000 UTC]

You seem to have conquered the challenge very well. If you hadn't revealed the origin of the work, I'd have thought it was a photo-manip, he looks so real. Kudos.

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mike-reiss In reply to VuDu-DawL [2010-04-19 20:35:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! After all Alexander is one of my best human 3D renders!

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Ivenzia [2010-04-01 13:32:28 +0000 UTC]

An dem Bild gefΓ€llt mir alles. Die Idee und Umsetzung sind einfach klasse! Er sieht so lebendig aus

LG Ivenzia

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mike-reiss In reply to Ivenzia [2010-04-06 15:30:15 +0000 UTC]

Oh vielen Dank.
Es ware mein erstes realisitsches 3D Rendering eines Menschen.

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Wilpan [2010-03-25 01:21:02 +0000 UTC]

woww.. look like a potrait

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mike-reiss In reply to Wilpan [2010-03-25 09:12:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I am glad you like Alexander...

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Flora-Silve In reply to ??? [2010-03-23 20:45:47 +0000 UTC]

Hot !

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mike-reiss In reply to Flora-Silve [2010-03-23 23:13:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! I am glad you like Alexander.

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Ymazpan In reply to ??? [2010-03-22 11:51:32 +0000 UTC]

You've certainly casted a spell on me...!!! I loved it...! Gratz!

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mike-reiss In reply to Ymazpan [2010-03-22 20:30:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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Ymazpan In reply to mike-reiss [2010-04-06 12:13:40 +0000 UTC]

hehe... No problem! you should try doing a naked Alexander! XD

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