Blackberry Torch

[simmsimaging]

This was a test image done for a pitch for a cellular phone account. They opted to go with photography for this round, too bad

Modeling by Rowan Simpson, lighting/materials/rendering/post by me. Original renderings were around 6K each. I made very heavy use of RT for lighting these images, although I did composite a number of lighting passes in post as well. This is the kind of stuff that RT is *perfect* for. Don't know how I could work without it now.

C&C would be most welcome - seriously

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Higher res links (Forum seems to be downsampling things these days...):

http://www.simmsimaging.com/ssp_dire...ne_comp_sm.jpg
http://www.simmsimaging.com/ssp_dire...lg/details.jpg

[pailhead]

quite nice! i see a lot of effort that went into modeling, is it possible to get some wires?

[simmsimaging]

Thanks. Rowan did a really great job on the models - I'll leave it with him post some wires for you.

[pailhead]

were you eperimenting a lot with the lighting setup, perhaps looking at some studio reference, or do you have experience with photographing stuff like this?

[prateekvishwa]

oh man! such a nice renders.. don't know what your client is looking for.. these are so good.. going thrw BB site to see what type of photography are they doing to beat these renders..

[simmsimaging]

were you eperimenting a lot with the lighting setup, perhaps looking at some studio reference, or do you have experience with photographing stuff like this?

There is always some experimentation with lighting setups, but I have a lot of experience working with photography, and with retouching phones (done a few campaigns).

oh man! such a nice renders.. don't know what your client is looking for.. these are so good.. going thrw BB site to see what type of photography are they doing to beat these renders..

Thanks The agency was pretty happy with the work we did on this, I think the end decision came down to the client's comfort level with photography - they are still a bit leery of CGI because they just haven't done that much of it yet. At least that is what they told us

[sandykoufax]

Very nice detailed work!

[rivoli]

The agency was pretty happy with the work we did on this

eh, not surprised

[simmsimaging]

Thanks Sandy!

Thanks Rivoli

Pailhead: Rowan was having problems posting so here are the wires as requested:
higher res: http://www.simmsimaging.com/ssp_dire.../TorchWire.jpg

[Chris]

Wow, model, renders. Slayed it!

[rmejia]

Very nice work, love the lighting.

[simmsimaging]

Thanks Robert.

[lukx]

Awesome work ! What was used for modeling the phone? Standard max or some nurb soft? What's your rig Brett for using RT ?

[simmsimaging]

Awesome work ! What was used for modeling the phone? Standard max or some nurb soft? What's your rig Brett for using RT ?

Thanks man I am pretty sure Rowan built it in modo actually, but I'll have to ask him. Not sure what you mean by rig for RT- hardware? I am using RT in CPU mode only because the GPU version is still too limited for me, and I generally don't use the DR option much these days because of the long start up time entailed. It pretty much just runs on my workstation (i7 980x).

[lukx]

Yeah I meant hardware Thanks Brett