"Machineflesh"

[gregpetch]

I made this guy for the "machineflesh" challenge on the website CGTalk.


Makes pretty big use of the features of VRay. In the end I gave EVERY material (with the exception of a couple of tubes and wires) glossy reflections, Vray dispacement here and there, GI and area lights of course. Oh, and the distant background was a vray depth of field render.

You can see a bit more on the cgtalk thread:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php...6&page=6&pp=15

[chris-x//]

totally mindblowing ! GREAT stuff, congratulations !

1st prize you deserve !

I just went and watch the cgtalk thread, your world is really impressive, simply no others words.

I just wanted to quote "I've used the lighting from a skylight (baked out to a bitmap) to give the metal more grunge in the crevices." in your metal test post, could u explain the technique of baking the skylight lighting to bitmap, thank you.


COngrats again, you master !

[natty]

Fantastic work .... i need to start getting into more Organic modelling.

[rhino]

wow!

[maxpowa]

WOW!!!!!!! COOOOOOOOL!!! ))

[gregpetch]

Thanks guys!

could u explain the technique of baking the skylight lighting to bitmap,

I used bake3d, I can't remember if bake3d is part of vray by default, or if we got it through some special procedure here at work. I just temporarily deleted all the lights, turned on a white GI environment, then used bake3d to bake out the resulting lighting as a bimap. I used that bitmap (mixed with grungy/noisy maps for randomness) in a blend material, to blend between a clean chrome material and a dull dusty material. The result is that the crevices look like they have collected some gunk or corrosion. The problem is that you need a seperate bitmap and material for every object. I collapsed him into managable chunks so as to minimise the number of bitmaps and materials I needed to manage.

[chris-x//]

Thank you ! Once again congratulations for the work, I'm really impressed, I should get back to organic stuff and find some bucks for Zbrush I watched some tutorials and it seems so powerful !

Regards.

[vince_1972]

Magic and Wouhaaa`!!!!

Wonderful image

Vince

[dusan]

i simply dont know what to say

..special procedure here at work...

where do you work, ILM ?

[percydaman]

wow wow wow...what was the render time?

[J_Bug]

Wow

From one horsepower to 1k horsepower.

This beast is amazing. So is that an engine block in its back?

--Jon

[jedisalf]

I used bake3d, I can't remember if bake3d is part of vray by default, or if we got it through some special procedure here at work. I just temporarily deleted all the lights, turned on a white GI environment, then used bake3d to bake out the resulting lighting as a bimap. I used that bitmap (mixed with grungy/noisy maps for randomness) in a blend material, to blend between a clean chrome material and a dull dusty material. The result is that the crevices look like they have collected some gunk or corrosion. The problem is that you need a seperate bitmap and material for every object. I collapsed him into managable chunks so as to minimise the number of bitmaps and materials I needed to manage.

well, you can tell im a n00b on MAX.....cuz all this is chinese to me.

[budd]

nice and dark!

[Adrian A. Brown]

Ooooh my god! That is sick!!! In a very good way that is. Wow!

[robing]

WWOOOOAAAHHHH!!!!
AMAZING work, just perfect. I usually saw a so detailed beast in some big
US blockbuster movie.
mindblowing , congratulations.