X-Massacre (Post Your Chrismas Wishes Here)

[Metin_7]

The best wishes to all of you. I know it's a bit early for this, but I think it's never too early for some good wishes.

Cheers,

Metin

Edit: changed the image into my 2008 V-Ray X-Mas greeting.

[Candelero]

GR8

I think the idea is very cool, no matter it is quite Early...
I will make this TOPIC Stycky, so that everyone else who makes another X-Mass POST Card - to post it here... So, at the end we will have all the WISHES collected together...

Nice Start,
I will try to find some time for my card too...

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[Metin_7]

Hey, that's a great idea, thanks man!

By the way, a shameless plug for people who would like to send the above image as a high-quality printed postcard. You can buy a six-pack of greeting cards with the image at my shop:

http://www.cafepress.com/sevensheaven.38356650

Looking forward to view the other images!

Cheers!

Metin

[val2]

alright I've also started to work on a holiday card. (my kids of course)

val

[Metin_7]

That's cute! If you're gonna say this is a rendered scene with photos of your kids, then I want to have a training from you.

[val2]

Metin_7,

yes it's a rendered scene I used snow particles and I cut and pasted my kids in. I did a reflection layer and erased the areas on the kid layer for the snow. pretty simple.

i do one every year.

Hey, I like your site(s). Are you also thinking of making the character items as objects you can hold? or are they to stay as virtual?

[Metin_7]

Wow, if you're really serious then I bow for you, as the metal, the solid snow layer and the glass look amazingly real.

Thanks for your compliment about my sites. It's a dream for me to see my character designs materialized, but it's very hard to find an interested party that can help me realize that dream.

All the best,

Metin

[val2]

Metin,

the glass is standard vray glass setup, reflect all the way to white, Fresnel refection on, refract all the way to white and a little bit of green in fog color.
the metal (I thought it looked more like a goldleaf aplication) is a bit map in difuse and a grayscae bitmap in relect and refl. gloss. with Fresnel reflec checked and the IOR set to 10. also a very low bump bitmap. like I said very simple stuff. It comes down to the HDR files lighting quality.

val

[Metin_7]

Well, simple or not, the end result looks very convincing, so my respect to you anyway.

Cheers,

Metin

[Frances]

This is last year's but it's one of my favorite Vray renders.

[TRGraphics]

Ahh yes, remember this scene well, Fran. Looks great.

[Metin_7]

Definitely looks great, Francis. I assume the blurry refractions took quite a bit of rendertime or did you use some trick?

Cheers,

Metin

[RErender]

Happy Holidays from fOCUS360!



This years card is homage to Escher a collaborative effort between our Imaging Dept., Management and 3D.

PS. Thank you Chaos for giving us the tool to bring our pipeline to a new level, V-Ray has made all the difference.

[Metin_7]

Very cool to maestro Escher! Looks like this has been a lot of work!

Cheerio,

Metin

[Gijs]

@Val2, that metal looks great

@Rerender, this is one of the best applications of Eschers work I've seen, wonderful work!