Glass Dragon by Dark6Rayden

Maya • Objects • posted on Jul 10, 2006

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Description

Just a fast one to show you I'm still alive. I have much work to do, so I can't spend as much time as I would like for my own personal works. Dragon is from The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository, rendered in Maya with mental ray, postwork done in Photoshop. Thank you for viewing!

Comments (6)

precious30265

7:05AM | Mon, 10 July 2006

Wow, it looks so real. Excellent job.

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cshark

10:24AM | Mon, 10 July 2006

You've hit the same problem I am facing laying with ice: the thickness of the tail section and neck give that more 'solid' look. (same for the horns). I've been trying to model my object to include an inside layer; this seems to give the same results as the glass looking bits - feet, face, and parts of the neck.

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Dark6Rayden

3:05AM | Tue, 11 July 2006

@cshark Thanks for comment. Actually I think it turned out pretty realistic, as the model should treated like a solid material (thinking of Swarovski, almost all glass models are solids). I used a IOR of 1.5 so light will bend a little more than usual. Unfortunately I haven't buyed this dragon from Swarovski to tell if I did it right, but I sure will soon. ;)

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Silgrin

7:12AM | Wed, 26 July 2006

Pity you haven`t posted your rendertime:) I always love such lay of light in glass objects.

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Dark6Rayden

3:18PM | Wed, 26 July 2006

@Silgrin The rendertime was about 75 minutes if I remember correctly. The settings where like: Samples min/max Sample Level: 0/2 Multi-pixel Filtering Filter Mitchell, width/height 4/4 Raytracing Reflections/Refractions 10/10 Max Trace depth 20 Shadow Trace Depth 4 Caustics Accuracy 200 Photon Volume Accuracy 200 Max Photon Depth 5 Max Reflection/Refraction Photons 8 Final Gather Rays 300 Trace Depth 8 Trace Reflection/Refraction 4 A Final Gather File was created during a 640x480 rendering and then used for the final render in 1600x1200. That's pretty much it, I hope it was helpful. :)

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