The Bulb

[giraffe]

hi
Again I made a small scene to experiment more with texturing.
Actually this is an object from my new wip scene
but I decided to make a small seperate scene of this object to practice.I tried to give dirty old look on materials except bulb. As if the bulb is newly replaced...Because I like the clean sharp reflections on glass and it adds some contrast to the old look and I like this mixture
All your crits are welcome!

[jonnybefree]

really nice
i really like the plastic of the bulb

[DaForce]

Very nice.. did you use bump or displacement on the left thing.
Can you share some details on your dirty plastic.. its excellent.
I assume the crack is modelled in.

[Candelero]

EXCELL-MENTE !

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[giraffe]

hi
thank you very much for your replies and nice words

the left colum is made with blend material of wood and paint with a dirt texture mask. and I used displacement. but it is very small amount of displacement. so maybe even bump can be used.

the plastic bulb head is also mix map of some colors with a dirt texture mask and on top of it another mix map of noise map again.
with little glossy reflection.
crack is a just a simple bump.I used a concrete texture map. I just cropped and played with levels and contrast and make a new texture out of it. and then mapped.

[DaForce]

ahh ok ... thanks for the info.

Works very well

[cristoforo]

Amazing work!!!!

[Nek]

great render

[studioDIM]

Very nice balance, pleasing to the eye, and made me squint and get closer

the left colum is made with blend material of wood and paint with a dirt texture mask. and I used displacement. but it is very small amount of displacement. so maybe even bump can be used.

Bump wouldn't work so well at a slanted angle (ie. the righthandside of the column): it works very well when it's directly lit and possibly as face-on as it can be.

Displacement on the contrary works exceedingly well as you used it, to add more high frequency detail in those "dull" areas.

Confrabulations again!

Lele

p.s.: are you planning to try and light the bulb?

[giraffe]

hey thank u very much

studio-dim: u r right. that is why I used displacement. because it affect geometry too. but as I said very small amount of displacement. so someone can prefer to use bump to save some render time
thanks again.

[greg04]

beautiful image and great cg skills,
it looks like i still have a lot to learn.

on a more technical note, i think there is a Health and Safety issue with that cracked casing and the rods do not extend all the way inside to connect to the mains/power/

is that noise on the right of the bulb intentional?

[jacksc02]

light it up giraffe!

[Paul Oblomov]

Nice environment

[stochastic]

wow very subtle image, excellent texturing, *lovely* work

[__Leo__]

Great rendering...

I have an idea/request....

1- Would you be able to light this bulb up.. maybe something in a very very low Watt-age.... where the coil is quite orange/red instead of a brightly lit light bulb...

2- You may need to texture the wall a bit...

3- While you're at it and since the bulb is so close to the wall... why not make a burn mark on the wall....

Leo