Nepenthes by DeZ
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Description
I read an article in a Swedish popular science magazine about ants and their relationship with the carnivorous plants of the nepenthes genus. It had a wonderful profile shot of the plant and I had to try to make in Cinema. The model was lofted and the textures are a mix if scanned images (partly from the magazine) and edited through BP2. Projection painting was used to apply them to the mesh. I used HDRI lighting (DOSCH Nature probe) with spotlights and simulated SSS on the cover leaf using Translucency Pro v1.1. Slight post work done to sharpen and to give that hazy look.
I also got to use my ant again =)
Thank you for viewing!
Comments (50)
Yluik
Amazing!!!
IceRain
and again! what for a fantastic idea! this is awesome!
EugeneTooms
Bloody hell, thats absolutely awesome! I think this is your best one yet...the lighting is superb. What a fantastic idea!
Lynne
The lighting, majestic feeling...I can almost smell the jungle. A very stunning work!
3D_Explorer
Looks fantastic Peter. The "Featured C4D Image" on the home page is turning into the DeZ and Carmello show. ;-) -- 3d_e
Booly5
Fantastic!!! You did a great job!!!
aceface041973
Awesome job here Dez. :))
Artzy
Nicely Done!
jddog
Excellent work Dez: texture and lights are really excellent ! Compliments ! Arisaema count about 150 species, to tell the truth, this one I never seen, did u know wich one is ? A wonderfu species is Arisaema sikokianum, with red wine/bordeau colors and a cream whit calice ! ;)
thomaskrahn
Gaaahhh?! :-0 WOW!
DeZ
Thanks all! Hey jddog, after doublechecking, I found that I incorrectly interpreted the latin genus name from the swedish common name and it should correctly belong to the Sarracenia genus, and not to the arisaema genus. I also changed the title =P
strata
O yes, this is just beautiful!! I love it!! :))
rem_cl
Beatifull lighting and materials!!!
carmello
wow! this is really beautiful in all aspects!
mafenther
Excellent lighting. It looks so realistic, I didn't know that Cinema had this much potential.
mafenther
Excellent lighting. It looks so realistic, I didn't know that Cinema had this much potential.
Stitch1984
awesome dez!! hmm, maybe i'd consider to be one of ur student to make such a beautiful things!! hehe ==wita==
miketche
You amaze me with these fantastic images. Wonderful work.
linkinpark
Im amazed,truly..most awesome work,lighting is briliant!!
turx
wonderful!
Nod
Amazing stuff. This could be a photo. Get it over to Maxon and 3D World Magazine for their galleries.
Curious
holy moly joely lol very cool, great teuxtures great picture..agh! lol
MartinK
Nice work!
cartesius
Impressive, truly impressive! It strikes me as beeing somewhere in between photo realism and non realism (something with the plant's surface that makes it look to "hard"). Don't get me wrong, the image is amazing in every aspect, I just get the feeling that this is what the movie Antz could have looked like if they had pushed the work just a little bit :) Mycket, mycket bra, Peter!
DeZ
Thank you all!!! I'll do a tutorial covering modeling, lighting and texturing something similar soon, perhaps with another bug!
cathedral81
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool! soft, smooth and nice. 2 things i still miss: MUCH PATIENCE and a faster pc :-(
Continuumx
It is strangely real in appearance, the loft trunk shape of the plant pulls me into the image, the bodypaint 2 work is fantastic- Could you create a tutorial on this, it is absolutely wonderful image
LCGuy
Beautiful work.. really enjoyable!
Chris
excellent!
Doublecrash
Impressive indeed. It's just fantastic. Specially the light and the sub-surface scattering. Most excellent work.