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Description
Anemone Identity

Author's Note
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A new month, a new render. As you may have guessed, I got the inspiration for this piece from watching a clip of "Finding Nemo" (2003), specifically the opening scene where Nemo (still an egg) survives the attack by a larger fish. At first I wanted to imitate the cartoony colors of that scene, but then realized that Luxrender's photorealism wasn't going to allow that. I might try a cartoony version in the future, though, when Blender's Cycles renderer gets production-ready.

In terms of technique, I wanted to try out the DOF feature in Luxrender, and also use Blender's NURBS instead of the usual Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces (I've never used NURBS before...). I also used the Kodachrome film response in Luxrender again, to get more interesting colors.

This image was by far the most difficult to render, ever. It took more than 135 hours on my Q6600, and even at 11.11 kS/p, it *still* had sharp noise in some areas, so I had to some manual pixel manipulation with Gimp (I had to change around 20 or 30 pixels, by hand). Because of the atrocious rendering speed, I did not bother with the usual 2560x1600 resolution and just stuck with good old 1080p.

-magic-byte

Software
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Blender 2.61 + Luxrender 0.8

EDITS
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* 2012-01-15: See [link] for some cool data...

Description
Anemone Identity

Author's Note
---
A new month, a new render. As you may have guessed, I got the inspiration for this piece from watching a clip of "Finding Nemo" (2003), specifically the opening scene where Nemo (still an egg) survives the attack by a larger fish. At first I wanted to imitate the cartoony colors of that scene, but then realized that Luxrender's photorealism wasn't going to allow that. I might try a cartoony version in the future, though, when Blender's Cycles renderer gets production-ready.

In terms of technique, I wanted to try out the DOF feature in Luxrender, and also use Blender's NURBS instead of the usual Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces (I've never used NURBS before...). I also used the Kodachrome film response in Luxrender again, to get more interesting colors.

This image was by far the most difficult to render, ever. It took more than 135 hours on my Q6600, and even at 11.11 kS/p, it *still* had sharp noise in some areas, so I had to some manual pixel manipulation with Gimp (I had to change around 20 or 30 pixels, by hand). Because of the atrocious rendering speed, I did not bother with the usual 2560x1600 resolution and just stuck with good old 1080p.

-magic-byte

Software
---
Blender 2.61 + Luxrender 0.8

EDITS
---
* 2012-01-15: See [link] for some cool data...