xmas-card (w.i.p.) - updated once -

[Gijs]

I am making this x-mas card for my company.
Let me know what you think about this. At the right side of the image there will be some text.

(Known problems: mapping of the second T and the ugly drip of wax, which will either be adjusted or removed and moremblur samples.)

[natty]

thats really nice ..... nice light ...good candle's .. nice

[Nenad]

Excellent! Have you tried lighting the scene only by the candles? Just curious to see how it would look...

[paulison]

haha that is REALLY cool!

[flipside]

Gijs, that's great!

I think you really need to explain how you did the candles...

[Gijs]

Thanks for the comments,

here is an update.

We found the candles attracted to much attention. Mblur improved.

To Nenad: that's what I first tried. But then either you get very unrealistic candle light or completely blown out candles.

To Wouter: Candles are glossy refractive with gradient map for both transparency color as diffuse color. I did not use SSS.

[meanadam]

It's kind of dark, isn't it?
Not very happy?
Candles look good. Dont know about the aqua green-blue - seems to be of different mode than the rest.

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[mc-escher]

Hi, great picture.

I've been Having a heck of a time with a realistic flame... Are those self illum objects, or did you do something tricky for them?

[Gijs]

The flames are a picture on a plane with an opacity channel. I used a standard material for this because it has more options to blend it in the image. Also this map has an output to it. Here is a better candle example rendered with it:

[mc-escher]

Ohhh, I see.

Thank you very much.

[DaForce]

Very nice candles.

I really like them!!

[aylama]

Really nice. I have a question to you.
How did you do the wax material? It is very very nice and reallistic.
Thanks in advance

[cocolas]

love your lighting and shadow colors, Gijs

it conveys that right type of holyday warmth....very nice


paul.

[brian80]

I thought the last image was a photo you used as reference for your renders
Really impressive

[luhna]

very realistic work!!!