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Just starting Concept #17 today. Hooray for work, school, relatives, and college!

I pretty much started with a basic straight staircase with basic supports, and gradually pull ideas out of my head and modeled as they were thought of. I like the process, and plan to use it more. No concept art for this one.

The lighting is pretty much finished. The modeling may be touched up (the stairs' modeling will definitely be cleaned up), and the scene will be improved. The modeling was actually very quick thanks to handy-dandy Dupliframes. The floating glowee sphere that you may notice is just a glowlight that I have not built anything around yet. Maybe I'll slap some furniture and pictures in there, or get a shot of a window. GI is low-qual right now. Caustics have yet to be added. The camera angle is also a bit boring.

I'm considering as to whether or not to keep the Plexiglass material for the steps. I've tried texturing it with wood, and leaving it just flat gray, but neither seemed to fit.

Specs:
Created in Blender 3D and rendered with YafRay for 2:23:23.70 at 1000x750.
Postpro: Signature.
Modeling: All modeling by me. Verts/Faces/Objects: 160852/168022/11.
Textures: Blender basic shaders.
Renderer: GI, glowlight, soft shadows, volumetrics.

Comments appreciated, crits valued!

Description
Just starting Concept #17 today. Hooray for work, school, relatives, and college!

I pretty much started with a basic straight staircase with basic supports, and gradually pull ideas out of my head and modeled as they were thought of. I like the process, and plan to use it more. No concept art for this one.

The lighting is pretty much finished. The modeling may be touched up (the stairs' modeling will definitely be cleaned up), and the scene will be improved. The modeling was actually very quick thanks to handy-dandy Dupliframes. The floating glowee sphere that you may notice is just a glowlight that I have not built anything around yet. Maybe I'll slap some furniture and pictures in there, or get a shot of a window. GI is low-qual right now. Caustics have yet to be added. The camera angle is also a bit boring.

I'm considering as to whether or not to keep the Plexiglass material for the steps. I've tried texturing it with wood, and leaving it just flat gray, but neither seemed to fit.

Specs:
Created in Blender 3D and rendered with YafRay for 2:23:23.70 at 1000x750.
Postpro: Signature.
Modeling: All modeling by me. Verts/Faces/Objects: 160852/168022/11.
Textures: Blender basic shaders.
Renderer: GI, glowlight, soft shadows, volumetrics.

Comments appreciated, crits valued!