July/Aug - Norm - Ryan Watkins
 

I'm very excited to be here, and look forward to seeing everyone artwork, I have been using Lightwave for about a year now and it is the first 3d package I have ever use. I have been visiting the forums and have been learning a lot, but still have only scratched the surface.

I love to learn and hope to learn a lot from everyone here and hopefully others will learn from me.

My idea for the contest is a still life, with a bottle of absinth, glass, candles, and maybe some drug peripheral.

Good Luck to everyone.

Ryan

Concept Drawning
 

Quick concept drawning.

Bottle Render
 

The Ansinth bottle render with one sport light.

Same reder but with a bloom effect aplied.

Coming along very nicley :)

David

Wow, that looks amazing. Texturing glass like that must be pretty tricky

Nice refraction and light scattering, another good entry can't make anything else out of it.

Thanks for the post,
pianoman - the glass really isn't all that tricky, the bottle is basicly a box with the inside polys copied and pasted right in the same spot then flipped( in side air polys) this is very important in creating the glass.

Here is a screen shot of my layout with the surface editor open showing the surfaces.

Ryan

Modeled the Glass today, how I'm working on the candels and think about other sence elements I would like to add. Any Ideas?

Ryan

ur liquid seems dotty (little black dots in it) is that intentinal?

no he needs to up his rays per evalutation I beleive. It will also cause increased render times. I would say stick with what you have for now and for the final increase your rays.

I'm not sure what is causing the dots, but I know it gets better as I incress AA.

Here is a new low res test

it's either your rays per evalution(located in the global illumination settings) or a bad HDRI image.

Hey I love the candle you've got on the right.
Looks like you got some subsurface scattering going on.
How'd you achieve that effect?

He probably used G2 or Ska.