RAIN: September Render Challenge

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1. https://www.deviantart.com/willibrordusart/art/Driftstang-Rain-914488371

   NSFW warning.
   Not a very recent piece, but currently the only one with rain that I have
   published in april 2022.
   Made in Daz 4.16
   with minor postwork in Photoshop 7.0 (the 20 year old fossil)

   • Thanks Willi, you’re the first submission for September. Awesome! 😎

2. https://www.renderosity.com/gallery/items/3074737/cyber-assassin

   One of my recent works. Few days old.
   It was made with Daz 4.20 with some postwork with Affinity Photo.

3. A couple of older ones, but I may see if I can cook up something new as well:

   https://www.deviantart.com/ragnarokeotw/art/Rainfall-828392106
   https://www.deviantart.com/ragnarokeotw/art/Gallop-Fracturing-Veil-AMA-3-924159105

   Rainfall is the older one, (old enough that when I set it up, it was before Mesh Grabber was released, and as I was using a Genesis 2 figure (mostly for the look) with much newer clothing, this meant a lot of exporting meshes to Blender for fine-tuning.
   It also took a painfully long time on the 1050 Ti I was using at the time.

   Gallop was an experiment with geometry based rain, to see how it worked compared to card/billboard based rain. There’s 100,000 instanced refractive raindrops in the scene – which, counterintuitively, rendered faster than you’d normally find with rain cards. Although each actual intersection with a raindrop was more demanding, the fact that Iray was usually only hitting one or two drops per ray rather than having to process a dozen layers of cards on nearly every ray proved faster in the end.

   Alas, the lack of motion blur in Iray limited how good the raindrops could look though, and they’re stretched out and crisp more than the vaguer blur that I’d prefer. But still, an interesting experiment.

4. Hey everybody 🙂
   I did this about a month ago. I made raindrops in Blender and then multiplied them in Daz using node instance then In post-processing, I added fire and smoke.
   https://www.deviantart.com/rendorgal/art/Good-boy-923486222

5. Hey 3Dshannanigans,

   Here is my submission for this month.
   Rain huh? Didn’t have one but, I did have a shower one and I hope this also counts for this month’s challenge.
   As it is falling water 😉

   Anyway about this picture:
   Did this one back in 2020 and made an SFW version yesterday out of it, especially for this occasion.
   This was a commission done for a customer of mine called “Blondbeth”
   A model specially made through my customer’s wishes.

   I can remember very well how hard it was to have good lighting when I started out.
   WP Guru was one of the few that helped me out through one of his earlier tuts about lighting and since then
   have been wildly experimenting with different light setups that eventually give me the looks that I have been using
   for about 2 / 3 years now which is very vividly satisfying and pleasing to the naked eye ;).
   Even in darker scenes lighting and reflections can be very hard to do.
   Especially where Iray doesn’t like darker scenes very much.

   This render was made with Daz Studio
   Products used:
   https://www.daz3d.com/sy-rigged-water-iray-3-dforce
   https://www.daz3d.com/designer-bedroom
   https://www.daz3d.com/marble-shaders-for-iray
   https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/bcs/sexy-bikini-for-g8f-fundoshi3-/142189
   https://www.daz3d.com/rim-light-rig-iray
   https://www.renderotica.com/store/sku/62395_Ultimate-Skin-Moisture-CORE-G8F
   https://www.daz3d.com/side-layered-messy-hair-with-dforce-for-genesis-8-females
   (Wet hair applied)

   Post work with Photoshop:
   Adjustment curves layer for a bit more light/contrast
   And a fill (pink color) layer (opacity at 7%) (Soft Light) to give it a little bit of a soft color tone.

   added splashes and floor water droplets with:
   https://www.daz3d.com/rons-water-bundle

   added Smoke with:
   https://www.daz3d.com/rons-smoke

   SFW version here:
   https://twitter.com/JMC3DX/status/1562916410791182336
   4K version here:
   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X6P8JVagvvrDKdW5ybvkJM8pCiSxitiR?usp=sharing

   2020 NSFW 18+ Version here (Warning, very sexually explicit theme):
   https://twitter.com/JMC3DX/status/1313357077008572416

   Have fun with the challenge and happy rendering 😉

6. NSFW:
   https://www.deviantart.com/shedofjoy/art/Freedom-918060044
   Created June 2nd 2022, (one of my favourite pieces).

   https://www.deviantart.com/shedofjoy/art/Rain-904954608
   Created Jan 25th 2022.

   https://www.deviantart.com/shedofjoy/art/The-Hunter-908356565
   Created Feb 27th 2022.
   Hope you like my Renders, and Thank you for looking.
   All images created in DazStudio, and postwork done in Photoshop 6.0.

7. I made “Rainy Night Downtown” some time ago, using Daz 3D Studion and with postwork in Photoshop. I often get inspired by an environment and get ideas on how to make it shine. I try to make a lot of effort into getting the light right. Great idea with this monthly Render showcase 🙂
   https://gcdn.daz3d.com/gallery/image/1199996/1642956022/main.jpg

8. I made this around a year ago but far too busy to make a new one at the time XD. This was made in Daz3d and did some Photoshop magic but the rain is an actual prop inside Daz.

   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mIPKZ94Rhn3kVYozTE_fSj6YGREV2zIa/view?usp=sharing

   Sorry for using google drive but diviant art wouldn’t allow me to upload my webp ><

9. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RnrLnv

   My submission features my own custom character, Victoria, who was created with Reallusion’s Character Creator. Her Dress, hair, and the kitchen environment were all Daz assets that were brought into iClone where everything was arranged and rendered.

   This was not too technically challenging, although I had to modify the window in Blender to remove the double-pane of glass. I probably spent 80% of the time trying to get the texturing on the window to look properly foggy and rainy. In the end, I purchased a texture set from Flipped Normals to help me out. (https://flippednormals.com/downloads/30-droplet-alphas-8-bpr-wet-glass-material-all-4k-tileable/)

   The kitchen was part of this set: https://www.daz3d.com/european-style-apartment?cjref=1&utm_source=cj&utm_medium=affiliate&cjevent=514e87dea8f611eb817700b70a82b838

10. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nEG4yK

    This is my second submission to the challenge and it is quite a bit different than the first one. We were told that the rain did not have to be water, so I somehow immediately thought of it raining blood. And who better to enjoy a blood storm than a cute vampire girl. So, I created Susan here for the challenge, and also as something to do to de-stress from a hectic week.

    Susan was created in Reallusion’s Character Creator in about 1.5 hours and the scene was rendered in iClone. The background is the “Old London Town” from the Daz3D store: https://www.daz3d.com/old-london-town?cjref=1&utm_source=cj&utm_medium=affiliate&cjevent=514e87dea8f611eb817700b70a82b838

    There is one purple and one green point light on either side of her face, a spot light on the back-left, and another white point light lighting up her face from the front. The balance of the scene is lit by an HDRI which also serves as the sky. I rendered out an Iray depth mask for the scene and used that in Paintshop Pro to fade the background into darkness. Some crappy blood rain was also comped in as well on a few other layers to complete the scene.

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