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And but one word with one of us? couple it with
something; make it a word and a blow.

- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

There seems little point in practicing magic unless you want to do at least a few extraordinary things with this incarnation.

-Peter J Carroll, The Octavo

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

- Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.

-Peter J Caroll, Psybermagick

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Behind the clock back there you know
At the four winds bar

- Blue Öyster Cult, Astronomy

Offering's a complicated business.

- Jake Stratton-Kent

Another related point is that theological eclecticism to the tune of replacing this structure with pagan deities so it appeals to personal taste does the ritualist no favours as it undermines their ability to leverage a power dynamic that is better understood and has been employed countless times.

- Julio Cesar Ody, Magister Officiorum

Only fluffy bunnies need apply.

- Jake Stratton-Kent

Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a time, now isn’t then.

- Ursula K. le Guin

...the practioners of magic have always been syncretists, experimenting intraculturally and sticking with what worked.

- Michael M. Hughes, Magic for the Resistance
#MagicResistance

Bakery and metallurgy are just different applications of alchemy, and all three are closer together in practice and mystery than most people might expect.

- Sam Block aka polyphanes Digital Ambler

Tutorials and Examples

DAZ Studio iRay Canvases, An Addendum

My first  youTube video! Not exactly a tutorial, but a little bit on canvases in iRay.

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Dark Is Not The Absence of Light

Lately, while commenting on images in various groups, two interrelated concepts have come up: iRay's desire for light to render 'noiseless' images and the idea of a 'dark' render. Let's tackle that first one.

iRay is a photoreal render engine. It functions, in physics terms, as a camera. A camera, in the physical world, needs light in order to produce an image. There's no getting around this: it's the way the engine works, and it does a very good job of simulating the physics of real world light.

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Practical Example 1 (Part 2)

When we left off, I had just put in a spotlight to give our main figure some definition and overall better illumination. I'm pretty happy at this point; I've got my light illuminating the scene (and it looks pretty good on the water of the stream) and its doing a nice job highlighting my figure and making him stand out from the background. The fill light I added shows off his physique to nice affect and illuminates some of the detail on his clothing.

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Practical Example 1

Lighting Outdoors in Iray with Sun and Sky (Part 1)

Final Render

In response to some posts on Facebook, I thought it might be a good idea to demonstrate some lighting techniques in Iray. This is not a tutorial, its what I'd call a practical example. I'm going to build an image, piece by piece and talk about my choices along the way. I will do my best to point out options as I go, but this is not supposed to be an exhaustive resource, just a example of how one might go about setting up their lighting for an image.

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