Greeting from Krampus!

[Nearl]

I hope everyone at Chaos Group has an excellent holiday season!!

I had a lot of fun creating this piece. Constructive criticisms are always welcome.

[glorybound]

Nice work, Neal!

[Nearl]

Thanks Bobby! I hope you're doing well!

[glorybound]

Yes, thanks.

[Ihno]

Awesome work!
Everything's perfect model, texture, light i'm blown away.
What did you use for texturing this?

And just out of interest, do you have a german background?

[M.Max]

This is really cool !

[Nearl]

Awesome work!
Everything's perfect model, texture, light i'm blown away.
What did you use for texturing this?

And just out of interest, do you have a german background?

Thank you!

As far as texturing, I setup two wood triplanar materials, one is a light natural wood and the other is a dark varnished wood. I then instanced them into a dozen or so VRayBlend materials that each had a unique mask I painted in Zbrush. This way I could adjust the look pretty quickly for the entire piece and the scale of the wood grain would stay consistent from object to object. I try to keep things as simple as possible

Not really, my dad's side of the family was german. My best friend lives in Stuttgart. I've visited him a few years ago and LOVED Germany, a very beautiful country!

[Nearl]

This is really cool !

Thanks man!

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

I wish i had time, level of craftsmanship and the patience to do somethign like that.
GREAT, just great.
Thanks for sharing!

[Nearl]

I wish i had time, level of craftsmanship and the patience to do somethign like that.
GREAT, just great.
Thanks for sharing!

Time is always the issue. I give up an hour of sleep each night....it gets done eventually Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

[rusteberg]

nice details..... really nice details

[Nearl]

nice details..... really nice details

Thank you!