No plugg'ns, I'm using a weightmap and gradients to control the translucency and other surface propriety’s

U need soem serious anti on that render dude.

lwwiz - Ya, for the final I will max out the AA

For now here is a hi res test render with 5 pass AA

Thats better but FOr soem reason the image looks sideways.

I was going for a drymadic effect with the tilted camera angle.

Guess I shouldn't have posted as a Norm. Looks like you got me beat...

I think at this stage of the compitition it is any ones game. good luck to us all.

Ryan

Been work on the candle surface and add a flame. Crits very much welcome.

Been work on the candle surface and add a flame. Crits very much welcome.


Whoops DP

no question, the lighting and the glass textures are amazing. stick with the dramatic angle, it gives the scene a feeling of dread or uncertainty.

so far, my only crit is the lens flares. I've never ever been a fan of them and you have three. From a photography standpoint, lens flares are despised, unwanted elements and you have three in the form of candle 'halos'. Strictly speaking from a realism perspective, you wouldn't have three in a photo, maybe one, but never three, because a flare is the results of the angle of bright light compared to the surroundings bouncing off the various lenses of the camera.

They are distracting in your image and you want your focus to be the bottle.

On the flipside, I'm a huge fan of depth of field and the ease with which LW 8 makes it with the built in focal plug-in, you might want to give it a shot.

jedimasta - Thanks for the crit, I agree that the lens flars are distrating. Made some changes some I like, its a very delicate balancing act to get the candle light.

No big changes, I add fog to help push the candles into the back ground and added a suger cube to the glass that will be burning in a blue flame. I also incressed the DoF, but I didn't have the focus or the F_stop right so the bottle is a little blurry.

Going to model a pipe and another small bottle next. then the blue flame.

Ryan

Looks fantastic. I especially love the effectiveness of the refraction in the glass with the candle being distorted.

looking great!
 

i love the scene u got this far . your candles are amazing, with every post they got better. the bottle reflections on the table are little "burned", on my monitor, anyway.
btw ... what is that label on the bottle ?
looking forward to see the new items and the blue flame.
:beer:

sandfish - thanks for the post, glad you like the scene, and thanks for info. As for the label that will be the reveiled in the end.

Ryan