Noëlle Wrote:Because every artwork discussion devolves into talk about breasts, I'll ask something else.
I've always admired 3D artwork, but I've never really looked into it.
How long does it take you to do finish a piece, like the picture you posted?
If I have everything I want / need for a piece, each one takes me anywhere from 1-3 hours. If I don't have what I need, and I have to go find it (I mean, pay for it! Yes!) it can take longer.
The initial set-up part usually only takes me about 30-45 minutes total. Getting a model dressed, pick a skin, hair, eyes, pose, props. Usually I know what I want to do when I go into it, so that part is pretty quick.
Usually, it's lighting and postwork that kicks my butt. Lighting can look GREAT in the pre-render, and look like crap later. So if I get lucky, I may only render the same piece three times -- one of those is usually to fix something I should've caught before, like in this one, I managed to miss her fingers clipping into her sleeve twice before I noticed it. XD
I've had bad days, where I'll render something a dozen times before I get the lighting I want.
And then postwork, if an image needs any -- anything from fixing a clipping issue, to adjusting lighting, to adding filters. This can take as long or as short as you want.
The real time-sucker, when all is said and done, is getting your start-up materials. That takes ages. XD
Now, people who really put time, money, effort and more time into this sort of thing can take 8-24 hours per piece. Sometimes the rendering alone (hair and shadows really makes it take forever) can take hours. I don't get quite that picky, nor do I have a program / machine that'll go to those lengths, so I'd say my average piece runs 2.5 hours per.
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