Octane Render: Photorealistic Material Library.

Octane Render: Out of the Box, No Tweaking.

Octane Render: Adding HDMI Lights and Real World Cameras.

You’ll either believe it’s real, or not.” Tweaking the lights, refining the intensity, position, colour… as John says, “lighting can make or break a scene. Next, we add a couple of primitive spheres in the Daz scene to act as emissive light sources in Octane, and here it’s worth pointing out that these are the ONLY changes that we make to the Daz scene actually IN Daz. In a few short moments, we’ve transformed the Daz scene into something completely different from what the Out of the Box render looked like. Then we examine the massive photorealistic material library that comes with Octane, its real strength. This, coupled with the massive photorealistic texture library that is available to anyone with the plugin, creates one of the best render engines on the market.Ĭhoosing an HDMI lighting source in Octane The strength of Octane is the ease with which it mimics real-world photographic and cinematic terminology, which means that anyone that understand these real-world disciplines can easily utilize their knowledge to make use of Octane to create very realistic renders. Octane, created and sold through Otoy, has been used to create many of the graphics that appear in acclaimed tv shows and series and one only needs visit Otoy’s homepage to see a variety of examples.

Octane Render: Girl Playing a Flute, courtesy John Kentįor those of you that are unaware, the Daz Studio Octane plugin is a unique and powerful render plugin that is used by many of the major players in the entertainment industry because its ability to work within a variety of platforms that include Cinema 4D®, 3ds Max®, AutoCAD®, Blender® and Lightwave® to name just a few.

Octane Render: Girl Sitting on a Motorcycle, courtesy John Kent.

Octane Render: Makayla, courtesy John Kent.

Octane Render: Exotic Jewels on Three Women, courtesy John Kent.

If you are an artist looking for photorealism, this is the tutorial for you! John Kent, who has been a Daz Studio Octane plugin user and real-world photographer, takes the student from simple to more and more complex scenes cohesively building on previous knowledge. This is a two part tutorial that will be sold as a single item on and will run about 120 minutes total. We’re pleased to bring you our next tutorial… Fueling Your Renders with Octane.

Octane render for daz studio