V-Ray Jewelry

[swisscad]

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Travis I LOVE that animation...
could you tip me on how you actually do this.. :'(
Thanks for your time

[Travis Serio_cg]

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Thanks ;D!

as a matter of fact I just did a video tutorial on how to do it. hopefully you'll find it useful. I realized when i made this that I say "uhm" way way to much lol. sorry for that in advance. looks my hopes of being a radio dj are shot lol.

here is the video tutorial rar'd. its a pretty large avi file, but it should explain everything for you
http://www.gemvisionstorage.com/kent...animations.rar

[swisscad]

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thanks I check that out

[Travis Serio_cg]

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added a new animation just to bump my thread

happy holidays everyone ;D

(wait for the flash animation to load, there is no preloader 2.97 megs)
http://www.cadcamtrav.com/vray/mwm2.swf
Ring design and model by Mark Morrell http://www.mwmjewelry.com/

[jenujacob]

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this is wicked!!
good goin dude!

[Andresg_cg]

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Hey travis did you put your studio lighting bitmap right on the shank? to make it seem more like it was photographed in a light box.

[Travis Serio_cg]

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@jenujacob - Thanks!


@Andre - No it's a standard background map. I think the illusion comes from the material. It's fast rendering, single reflection material so it doesn't have as much depth as a dual layer. I hate waiting for those dual layers to render... they take forever.

[Micha_cg]

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Very nice. Good idea to direct post a flash movie. ;D

What did you use to create it? Pano2QTVR?

[Travis Serio_cg]

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Thanks Micha. I used bobyte avi tricks (freeware) to assemble the jpegs into an avi. I then imported the avi into flash and saved it as an swf.

http://www.bobyte.com/AviTricks/

[swisscad]

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great
what hdr are you using in the background?
thanks

[Travis Serio_cg]

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I made 3 surfaces in the top down viewport in rhino. applied an emitter material to them and rendered them with clamp output and sub pixel off. After that i saved the image as an HDRI and used it as a background.

Here is a link to the file in rar format

www.cadcamtrav.com/vray/Studio%20Lighting.rar

[lover05]

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Travis would it be possible to tell us your settings on your first animation. I want to know how to make a quality gemstone other than a diamond. thanks

[Travis Serio_cg]

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The orange spessartite was actually a very simple material. I just changed the refraction color to the orange I wanted and increased the refraction IOR.

The reflection layer is a standard fresnel with top being around 2.4 to give it better env reflections off of the table facets. That's it. ;D

[lover05]

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cool. thanks.

[swisscad]

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another great animation!
this last one does not look like the turntable, what did you use fly or camera path?
would you be so kind to show a screen shot of your curves that the camera follows... I can get a correct path and my anim is not very nice..
thanks in advance