Last check before final render. Any Comments? Composition ok?

Glow in the dark 'shrooms!! Nice :) Do you think they would light up the ground a little more though?

You know, I saw some glow in the dark mushrooms in 2000. Walking home without a torch on a moonless night - there they were glowing green. I never saw them in the same place again - and no, I had not been sampling the amber ale :-)

My only comment, could there be more texture on the mushrooms, perhaps a bit of bump with something organicy...

eat them? EAT THEM?! They look radioactive!! Or at least haunted.  Actually they look quite tastey. hmmm

It took quite a few trys to figure out how to make them glow. Anyhow, the method works with any material. I was not shooting for photorealism, just mushrooms which didn't look corny like in this picture

BTW, here is a real world mushroom which glows in the dark. It's called the parrot mushroom.

Oughta get Ricky's mice children using these as night lights on their campout. LOL

mdb

And they could double as umbrellas

"And they could double as umbrellas"

Now, there's a market opportunity for some enterprising, physics-unchallenged inventor...
Umbrellas which glow (for second or so) at the point where the raindrops hit...

I'll (almost) bet it's possible. It might make a new sensation if anyone took it up..:-))

Probably not in my price-range though...

Ahem....

MRIguy: I quite like your image, but find it a little bland. Nice technique, well done! - but a little more variation required. It seems too obviously cloned, all the shapes the same (and even mushrooms do have personality, as your "real world" pic shows..)

Just my personal opinion, of course.

Cheers
Diolma

Some variations like this perhaps? I can email the OBJ if you like (800kb).

Yeh, I got in a hurry. I do have variegated  mushroom models. Just need to replace a few 'bland' ones. Diolma, thanks for the kind words.

I don't know why when i read the title, I expected those silicon packets they put in boxes..;)

Here's something that might be interesting to use with your 'shroom renders. I did it with simple spheres to be quick. It's lit from behind with a radial light using squared falloff. I didn't throw in light values, since it seems to change how it reacts with every light that is added.

Basically if you do this with a mesh, I'd suggest taking it into Wings3D, selecting the whole thing, switching to face mode, and extracting region by normal a small amount. That should give the same offset over all surfaces.