Ethnic/race diverse entourage

Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:43 pm

HI, does anybody know were to get ethnic/race diversed entourage? Whether free or paid? I need it for a studio/ station setting.

Thanks in advance

kubo · Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:14 pm

Have you checked this? http://www.axyz-design.com/index.php they have quite diversity, and they are not too expensive. Also they have nice bundles.

Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:43 am

Thanks a lot! Will take a look.

Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:03 pm

Thanks again for the link Kubo but are there any alternatives? Like billboard type entourage it's only for a static archvis render.

kubo · Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:57 pm

sure, if you want billboards, http://www.doschdesign.com/ and http://www.marlinstudios.com/ have a lot, but in those cases I just do my own, go one morning to the park (even better if you have a specific time for the render go at that time) and take some pictures of the people passing by, they don't need to be either great pictures or have a good quality for billboards, and if you take care of choosing a nice neutral background you'll save time. Take care not to wear a long coat and short pants under, cause mixing that look with taking pictures will get you a long talk with the cops for sure...

Now seriously if it's billboards is quite easy to make your own, just go to photoshop or whatever, then cut them out and save them in png, and to save some of the valuable image quantity in octane, pack them in 4x4 or more and then do a little uvw mapping in your modeling app.
Also check http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ they have plenty of billboard people, and it's free, just open them in sketchup and export it to image

Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:33 pm

As alway you rock Kubo!

Yeah I tried the sketchup 3d warehouse but the quality is not there. Unfortunately this is going to be printed so a picture is the only option.

will probably make my own but are there any legal implications if you use an image of a person even though you captured it on a public space? Just asking as I don't want to get into trouble...good suggestion on what not to wear while taking pictures though LOL!

kubo · Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:57 pm

well good question about privacy, I usually dont take pictures where the faces could be clearly seen, mostly because then people's attention in my render goes there, and it's not "natural", also the close ups I have are from friends and family who know by now that they've been seen in hundreds of contests and commercial renders country-wide, lol. It also makes a fun experience have your friends playing where is waldo with their own pictures