Low Tech Analysis by big_empty_brain
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I dunno. A bone? Petrified wood? Nah, a 3D Max geosphere with a "cloud" applied as a displacement map, then stretched, squeezed and scrunched all to hell. Magnifying glass, ruler: Rhino 3D. "Bone": Max. Apologies for the graininess. I should have bumped up the render quality, but I just 'bout had it with this image anyway. ;-)
I eagerly await V6i for its promised ability to natively use displacement mapping. The coolest thing since seedless watermelons. This damn object was exported from Max as a half million polygon mesh! (decimated to 200000) Better to handle the displacement within the program itself than to export the geometry. (Guess I coulda kept the whole thing in Max and rendered it there, but I like working with Vue *so* much better.)
Comments (9)
bruno021
Very cool & original work. I don't see any grain here, btw. V6 will also compute true caustics and light dispersion!
DominiqueB
I really like this composition, simple yet appealing.
Traligill
I agreee with both the above, I like it!!
chippwalters
Well done! Well lit and well composed. Did you achieve the DOF in Vue or post process using Lens Blur in Photoshop?
Umbetro38
Excellent realistic renderjob - Bravo
jmc95
Great compo & lighting !
big_empty_brain
Thanks to everyone! Note to chippwalters... The DOF is Vue's ray tracing DOF, with a hand-fumbled Photoshop smudging of the grainy shadow boundaries. Photoshop's alpha-depth map lens blur effect did not really work too on this image unfortunately. It's a time saver ;-) ) Obviously, I did some post filtering of the image as well, to soften it up a bit.
garyandcatherine
My gosh this is some fine work. Except for the "plastic" look of the looking-glass this can easily be mistaken for a photo. Very, very good work.
Polax
This image has a lot of appeal. and yes displacement maps will make things easier :) Excellent work!