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[Ferocious Simplicity]

These look great. How did you manage to get that great material and lighting setup for your renders?

[DoctorBubble]

Ferocious Simplicity, on 25 February 2012 - 11:29 AM, said:

These look great. How did you manage to get that great material and lighting setup for your renders?

Hello and thanks FS Each has a different set up my friend. Which one specifically would you like to know about?

[DoctorBubble]

Here's another. This one is called the smiling assassin.

And a simple turntable animation

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[Ferocious Simplicity]

Hi DoctorBubble.

I really like the first and third images you uploaded along with the disruptor drone renders. They are really nice WIP renders and id like to be able to recreate that.

[DoctorBubble]

The first one render was made choosing a mental ray shader and adding an ambient/ reflective occulsion pass in the surface slot, I also zero out the max distance parameter. I then darken the image via After Effects.

The third render/ orange render was rendered using again the mental ray ambient/ reflection occulsion option and then using a HDRI map in the environmental setting (press 8 and select a map, preferably a blurry one) and set the mental ray material to reflective in the ambient occulsion option - the HDRI map will provide the light source. I also composited the image inside After Effects and slightly adjusted the contrast and added an additional glow. Giving a more warmer colour to the render.

The disruptor drone look was created by a basic A&D matte material with the AO switched on with a low reflection. I added 4 omni lights around the perimeter to give it a tinge of colour, 2 dark orange and 2 blue.

I hope this helped in some way - let me know if would like any more information.

[rainycat]

Very inspiring works Doc. Best thread for a long while.

[DoctorBubble]

rainycat, on 02 March 2012 - 09:55 AM, said:

Very inspiring works Doc. Best thread for a long while.

Thanks Rainycat. I've also added some turntable animations from the previous renders that I posted, check them out sometime

[DoctorBubble]

Here's a few more along with a basic turntable animation

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[DoctorBubble]

Here's my crab tank bomber like-thing lol with different shaders and textures (yes I'm aware the textures etc couldve been better and more thought-out)

1. Mental ray using the AO shader - then I added a photo filter in post using After Effects.

2. Autodesk metal shader with a basic daylight system to light the scene.

3.An AO using the same method as 1 , I also added a glow.

4. Variable textures and shaders with a daylight system. Background sky added in post.

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[DoctorBubble]

For anybody wanting to know the settings I used for these ambient occlusion renders using mental ray:

Samples 100
Max distance 1500

the remaining settings were left to default.

I then composited the renders in After Effects and added a colour correction (to reduce the contrast) and a photo filter effect to give it some colour

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[lovingsaskia]

Some interesting designs you got going there, nice renders too

[DoctorBubble]

lovingsaskia, on 11 March 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:

Some interesting designs you got going there, nice renders too

Thanks. In fact, I'm working on some new ones.

[DoctorBubble]

This is not my design but rather a satellite design I found on Google images. I thought it was an ideal shape to do some model practice. I've added some additional extras like thrusters, decals and some rusty textures.

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[DoctorBubble]

This was the original mining ship design before I decided to change it to the design you see in my very first post of this thread. The topology on the original being messy, the viewport slowing down to a crawl and not knowing any better at the time.

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[DoctorBubble]

Here's a new one -just a spin on the so-called UFO shape - took me around 6 hrs - basic A&D shader - yes the landing gear is crappy.

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