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?t=131766&page=6&pp=15
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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 ! 
Fantastic work … i need to start getting into more Organic modelling. 
wow!
WOW!!! COOOOOOOOL!!! :)))
Thanks guys!
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.
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.
Magic and Wouhaaa`!!!
Wonderful image :shock: :shock:
Vince
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
i simply dont know what to say
where do you work, ILM ? :lol:
wow wow wow…what was the render time?
Wow :shock: :!:
From one horsepower to 1k horsepower.
This beast is amazing. So is that an engine block in its back?
--Jon
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.
nice and dark! :twisted:
Ooooh my god! That is sick!!! In a very good way that is. Wow!
WWOOOOAAAHHHH!!!
AMAZING work, just perfect. I usually saw a so detailed beast in some big
US blockbuster movie.
mindblowing , congratulations.
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In-freakin-credible man! Beautiful work!.
Jeff
the win is between you and anto because faustodemartini didnt send it on time.
exelent work :!:
Amazing!!
Bloody awesome mate :shock:
-Matt
Verry nice work, I love it
-dave