Aura Dragons

[atomcraft]

Just playing around with the new ply2vrmesh converter and using some of the Stanford 3D Scanning Repository models (I hope they dont deem this as inappropriate use of their models )
Then Spent a bit time with Aura making some dragon flames (thanks to the person who made the flame shader bcurve - I can't remember where I got it, but it was called blue-yellow-red-bright.bcurve - so thanks )

Anyway - it was really a nice technical demonstration for me to amuse myself with (and make a new dual screen wallpaper for the new year) but I thought I'd share it with you all as its dragons and fire - and that's just cool!

[ridestowe]

well i love the material on the dragon in blue, its perfect, but i believe the fire would look better if some sooty, black smoke was added, as it is now its too light.

[Syclone1]

Maby the red dragon is running on butane

-dave

[RErender]

Pretty cool, I think the flame is appropriate since the dragons are obviously not real so the use butane or the like would be likely.

[Trapezium]

Nice colors, I agree about the blue material looking much better.

Have you tried a more extreme camera angle? Maybe over the back of the blue would give you the chance to use some DOF and emphasize that they are small models.

--Jon

[atomcraft]

Thanks for the feedback everyone - I's like to spend some more time on this image and make it sing a bit better.
The texture on the blue dragon is mainly due to the actual model which is very high resolution and it's picking up the yellow of the flame.

I think what I'll do next is just use the blue dragon (XYZ dragon as it's called) and make him breathe fire - as I have an idea for a cool looking flame, and put him in a darker more menacing environment.

At the moment he's quite cute and I just want to pat him - when I get the time I'm going to model my own dragon - gulp

[J_man]

Hi,

Nice image! I think you should change the colour of the background, and maybe add some DOF for more emphasis. Nice flame!

J.

[atomcraft]

I aggree with you on the DOF issue J_Man - however I find render based DOF frustrating becasue of the repeated re-rendering required to get it right - and the model is so large that it's unworkable.
For still images I like to make a Z-Depth pass in Render Elements and use PhotoshopCS Lens Blur - it's quicker and I have more control.
Hmm - one way to do this is by sending the render to the backburner and then enabling Z-Depth through that - who know if it will work - especially with Aura - I doubt it but now Im curious......