Light Bulb by theemperor84
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Description
When I was first learning Cinema, I studied a lightbulb for hours in order to reproduce it. However, having finished it, I was not happy. Since I didn't know anything about HDRI it was basically clear glass on a black background. While looking through my old files I found it again and reworked it. This is the result. Please leave me comments so I know what you think.
Comments (8)
cshark
Nice work, but I have to say the glass looks solid. Have you tried air poly's ? Good render, by the way.
chachi
looks awesome i think. lightbulbs are a pain. but i agree, the glass does look solid, i never knew how to get around it though. great work as usual! -chachi (Ps- what the hell are "air polys"?)
TheMekon
Nice render. I don't know what 'air polys' are either! Have you tried a Lathe-Nurbs object? Been experimenting on lightbulbs myself...
theemperor84
Air polys are a lightwave thing that helps the ray tracer render more realistic refractions for class when the glass is not a solid one. Basically it's like extruding a thickness to the bulb glass so that the light bounces correctly which is what is wrong with my image. However, I've been having some problems that I will be posting to the forum on.
Fand
It is very nice and interesting
fybsltd
great render !!! keep on the good work...
Trepz
a sharper highlight and far less refraction(a lightbulb is essentially air after all)and you would have a helluva well modeled lightbulb(;
Becco_UK
Give the glass some realistic thickness (the explosion fx deformer is useful for this), light the filaments a bit and an already good model will shine brighter. Maybe the glass material looks a bit too high grade for a light bulb?