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Published: 2009-01-03 04:15:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 6182; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 446
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After nearly 12 hours of torture (and 3! hours of rendertime) i present my first fully feature rich scene ,pNow some things beforehand
- Yes, its photoshopped, not much (in terms of time, but generally quite a bit)
- Yes, the "Daggers" were last-minute additions, it shows
- Again deviantart's categories really do make my life alot harder, Apart from scenes other, i wouldn't know where to put it.
If you like useless stats here are some
- its got well over 1.5 million polygons (mainly because of displacement nurbsifications
)- The Total CPU time used to render this was 13.7 Hours
- The Actual scene file is well beyond 120mb
- The Actual Ram usage for rendering was - hold your feet, 3200MB
- There is 40 Shadow Casters (Omni Lights)
- There is NO Radiosity or Global Illumination thingy used
- There is plenty of Ambient Occlusion Applied (with 512 samples)
- This was made with Cinema 4D , Settings BEST - Sinc 2x 4x and 100 mipscale
- Textures are from Jack's Secret Stash, and the shaders which make them look hot are entirely by me (i refined the steel shader again and again ,p)
Please pay attention to the checkers board
It features a fully functional ankle/hinge and is completely hand crafted with great care. Each field and each side of the border hat its textures fine tuned miniscule. This is the MAIN object of the scene.Although i think the oil lamp will now definitly steal the show again, this is the 3rd revision of the lamp, finally coming close to an actual LIGHT source
Btw, i noticed about 99% in that i could have been less "robotic" in the placement of board and lamp, i didn't really notice i was falling for that trap... too late
The daggers really don't look so well, its really beyond me how do make the sharpness look sharp and not.. you know, not sharp, also the "leather-grip" is maybe a bit to liberally applied
Generally, ignore the daggers (they are dark and shadowy as intented though)
Please comment and such, but i can definitly say that there will be NO revision of this scene. 3 Hours of 100% usage on all 4 cores make my feet very cozy-warm, but aside that its been hell, my fans are really noisy when all cores are used 100%
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Comments: 38
it seems to me that there is another light source coming from the right hand side somewhere off the image, was this intentional?
It is incredible, I absolutely love it. did you just create it from scratch, or did you start with an image or something?
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Great art.
I would like to ask for permission using it in my future website that probably will run in one year.Β
I will credit your work or if you have some preferences, please tell me.Β
If you want really to help, you could share with me the 3D source, it would be an astonishing help.Β
Would this be possible?
I'm eager to hear from you.Β
Thank you.Β
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Absolutely stunning; the lighting and texturing are just perfect. Brilliant work.
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Wow! Looks great. Itβs almost perfect. You see, the checkerboard pieces are always placed with the pieces starting at the lower left corner. Sorry for the bad news
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Yes i know and it was such a silly error that i am surprised that so few noticed
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Well I think everyone else already covered how the workflow and render times could be dramatically improved, so I won't bother repeating the technical aspects.
The scene itself is really quite lovely. Your 40 odd lights does make it look great. Love the textures, love the lighting.
Only thing you could really improve on would be, as you say the daggers. The main thing is the shadowing looks too dark compared to the rest of the shadows. The lamp should also be making them cast shadows in the opposite direction.
Overall the mood really struck me. The thumbnail drew my attention and made me want to comment when I really should have been studying
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You are welcome
If you check out my last 2 submissions you can see i am back in meddling with interior stuff and just trying to find my way..
The last thing i need is refine my blade skills (modeling, not swinging them ,p)
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Yeah took a quick look at those. I reckon the lighting is on par with the Checkers Table scene. I assume the newer ones have a much shorter render time though?
Oh, and if you want to start swinging blades I recommend starting with wooden ones
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I might look bitchy for commenting this.. im not intending to be so, just some constructive comments for your next work.
The composition looks great, materials and textures are nicely achieve. The modeling work looks niced as well. The overall work is nice.
However, 3 hours of rendertime with a quad core is crazy ! A good 3D artist knows how to optimize his work. You might want to work on that. 40 lights aint good either. Final Gather and GI can make wonders. Your ilumination doesn't look real. Also you might want to learn some photography, it helps tons. Specially with the positioning of your objects.
Still good job.
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Yeah don't worry about looking bitchy..
Originally i wanted to light this properly but yeah.. i agree its looking pretty ugly by my standards nowadays... see this [link] 12 minutes rendertime
With stuff like this 90% of the work is lightning and textures and this isn't exactly my favorite past-time
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What render did you use?
3 hours for this piece is waay tooo much, especially when we are talking about quadcore?!
The result is nice scene, beautifully illuminated, with nice materials
but quad - 3 hours..
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Not really too much, i used way oversized textures (4048x) for normal maps and such and 4x 4x (that means 32x) AA
Usually the scene would render blazing fast (4 minutes) but when you got reflections with a high blur factor on curved objects and enable AA it kills rendertimes
With Best - Sinc, it also doesn't only smooth models but also enhances textures (like supersampling in 3dsmax) and since i needed to kill a pesky artifact on the lamp, i needed that high AA and so that long rendertime.. oh well
Also i guess i should mention that i rendered on Low priority and played something besides rendering
Anyhow, thanks
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it brings up pictures of knife fights over checkers it's a good"mood" pic just don't gloat over being kinged.
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True, actually i wanted to do a money purse with satin-black and some gold coins, but then i remembered the expected rendertime (it was 2 hours estimate before i actually tried it)
Sadly, satin cloth would require me to do cloth calculations, make a proper texture, model a string to close it, and model proper gold coins aswell...
Well, its still a possibility, just need to rid of this coughing and shit (virus ~.~)
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I really need to get more powerful 3d programs you make it sound fun, not the flu part get well soon, oh well i'll save and save till I can take it easy and have fun out there
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Well 3d-design is allways fun, wouldn't be doing it otherwise
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Impressive work! Imagine the render time with GI on
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Hah, you know, its not as bad with GI at all, GI calc is maybe 4 minutes
The main thing here is Ambient Occlusion and reflection with 128 sample blur on the steel and transparancy with 128 sample blur on the glass sphere. All that stuff that only gets calculated during the main pass
Also lots of omni lights casting area shadows arent helping either..
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Well done man! I can see you like using that lamp, why not model a full mine shaft with it or something like that? Excellent work
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,p Actually i wanted to mod it up to become a steampunk lamp, you know with capacitors and such, this is still in production so to speak
It took me a lot of tries to even get a oil lamp to look "cool" though, after alot of renderings i think its finally not "totally" ugly anymore, the glass is still iffy and i have ideas how to fix that (so actually a revision 4 of the lamp with 2 different tech versions of it and another scene may still be in the works
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really splendid. not much to say really
NIce textures and light, modelling too.
Zbrush for organics or how did u pull it off..
(lamp's fine now 
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Not at all zbrush hehe, just good normal map use, and with omni lights only you get really REALLY nice bump. GI kills that (mostly)
Thanks btw
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First thing that crosses my mind: the reflection on the lamp shows a lot of white that it's reflecting, although the scene is meant to be dark
You state that the boards squares are all different, but to the eye, there are several that look pretty much the same
the lamp looks wonderful now, the dirt on the glass and the diffure but bright light that comes off it really stands out
I would think about deleting the lights on the right side of the scene, because it lays a lot of focus on the knifes, which you don't want.
last thing before I like I said too much: the wall behind the lamp looks squashed.
Good job!
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/me checks his procedual shader, darn it
Anyway, the reflection shows the only window/door if you don't have that many holes, its bound to get dark
The wall aswell, you probably can see that i am not really skilled yet in scenes, it was more of a hackjob and displacement moved the wall inside the table, gah!
Anyway, i keep those things in mind
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hehe, I told you some more objects would make the scene look better. Well this is much better : )
Good job. I wonder where did you get your inspiration for checkers table
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Yeah wonder no further, it was your deviation
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well it was either that or a chessboard
Lazyness prevailed!
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Wow, this looks amazing. I'd love to see this with radiosity, but I suppose that would take an even larger amount of time. Heck, Blender takes five minutes with less than ten thousand polies. Wow. Two complaints: 1. how precisely and "robotics", as you put it, the things are placed, which you've already mentioned, and 2. the placement relative to the wall. It looks like it's just a bit too close and tight, which makes it hard to see the edge clearly, and also looks weird with the struts sticking out. Maybe for another shot at something like this, you could pull it out from the wall and rotate it. If you want a challenge, make everything strewed all over the place and a dagger sunk into the middle of the board like there was a fight. But it really does look amazingly realistic. I can't make anything anywhere close to this. Good job.
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You did a simply awesome job on this one guy!
nice tweeks to the lamp! it really looks good now.
Really like the Sooty look to the glass, like this lamp is well used. wonderful detail to the checker board. You've really managed to some rich detail to this one!
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dang I got to stop trying to type when the brain is not functioning 
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at first glance I thought this was a photo . . . great work!!!
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Thank you alot
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well it is only 10:23 pm . . . I did have to take a second look . .
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