Spiky Creedite Cluster
Beautiful, Martin! Very well done! 8)
Eric
Yes It's very nice !
Thanks Eric ... Thanks Finema
Martin
Wonderful, love it Martin
Thanks Arian - Always nice to hear from you
Martin
Well, this is different. Really nice reflections.
Looks awesome!!
Thanks Nico ... Thank you Thomas
Martin
Looks great!
wow! Well done!
Calcite deposits with Dogtooth Spar growing on a Sandstone massive
Modelled in Blender 2.78a
Rendered with KeyShot and MatGraph
No post. No 3rd party materials - 512 Samples
These are cool! That last one looks terrifyingly sharp. What kind of material did you use on it?
Cool stuff.
Love that color combination going on in the first shot.
That first one looks really cool indeed! Sharp!
Another great image....Martin i LOVE the 2nd too!!!! :)
Quote from: Will Gibbons on November 23, 2016, 08:36:13 AM
These are cool! That last one looks terrifyingly sharp. What kind of material did you use on it?
It started out as the milk translucency material Will, thanks for the taking the time to look and comment
Martin
Brilliant, Martin! So realistic. Is the Dogtooth Spar modeling done somehow with instance replacement of particles on the surface? I've never tried Blender, but I think I really must!
Cheers,
Eric
Quote from: Esben Oxholm on November 23, 2016, 10:27:45 AM
Cool stuff.
Love that color combination going on in the first shot.
Thanks Esben, just two pins added to one of the Dosch interior HDRi maps
Quote from: Magnus Skogsfjord on November 23, 2016, 11:29:36 AM
That first one looks really cool indeed! Sharp!
Thanks Magnus - great to hear from you :)
Quote from: Arian Shamil on November 23, 2016, 02:22:27 PM
Another great image....Martin i LOVE the 2nd too!!!! :)
Thank you very much Arian - Hope you're all well :)
Quote from: bdesign on November 23, 2016, 05:51:31 PM
Brilliant, Martin! So realistic. Is the Dogtooth Spar modeling done somehow with instance replacement of particles on the surface? I've never tried Blender, but I think I really must!
Cheers,
Eric
My thanks again Eric, the models are random linear subdivisions for mesh density, then Catmul-Clark subdivisions again for the displacement using cloud and Voronoi procedural shaders and some noise too for the rock
All the best guys, won't be around much for a few weeks after the weekend, so more renders are likely to be few and far between
Martin
stunning work Martin! the first on looks amazing man! very interesting project. :)
Quote from: Hossein Alfideh on November 25, 2016, 08:57:25 AM
stunning work Martin! the first on looks amazing man! very interesting project. :)
Thanks Hossein - appreciated
Martin
Acanthite and Calcite combo modelled with Blender 2.78a using particle emitters and sub division modifiers exported as OBJ
11 Million Tri's
256 Samples
Bi-Crystal combo cluster without any base stone/rock matrix.
Martin
Awesome! Nice choice in colors/materials.
So cool!
What base materials are you using here Martin?
Quote from: Will Gibbons on January 03, 2017, 06:57:05 AM
Awesome! Nice choice in colors/materials.
Thanks Will :)
Quote from: Hossein Alfideh on January 03, 2017, 07:57:02 AM
So cool!
What base materials are you using here Martin?
Hi Hossein the Calcite is Miscellaneous/Milk the Acanthite is custom metallic paint with bump and metal colour using texture maps from KS
A happy new year to you both :)
Martin
Great model Martín ! Textures are looking really good too.
Quote from: NM-92 on January 03, 2017, 09:14:21 AM
Great model Martín ! Textures are looking really good too.
Thanks Nico - Have a great 2017 !!
Martin
Looks nice man!
Happy new year too ;)
Project Agate - Sequential render study from rough to tumbled, to cut and polished and finally a sliced and polished to finish with.
Modelled with Blender 2.78a
Materials created with KS MatGraph and one 3rd party texture from an unknown person so can't give credit
1 Hour render time
Camera set as Nikon 110mm/f5.6
Super cool, Martin. Look forward to seeing the progressive steps!
Cheers,
Eric
Looking good, Martin. I'm always on the lookout for unique stones. Keep 'em coming!
Nice scene ! I really like the colours in the image.
Quote from: bdesign on January 15, 2017, 11:22:46 PM
Super cool, Martin. Look forward to seeing the progressive steps!
Cheers,
Eric
Thanks Eric - Tumbled agate won't take too long in coming (famous last words)
Quote from: Chad Holton on January 16, 2017, 06:03:32 AM
Looking good, Martin. I'm always on the lookout for unique stones. Keep 'em coming!
Will add it to the Cloud Library if you want to play with it Chad :)
Quote from: NM-92 on January 16, 2017, 06:47:28 AM
Nice scene ! I really like the colours in the image.
Thanks Nico - They did take a bit of time to get them looking about right
Martin
Sweet additions, Martin. I gotta say I really like that Acanthite and Calcite stone. Looks superb!
Quote from: Magnus Skogsfjord on January 16, 2017, 01:23:11 PM
Sweet additions, Martin. I gotta say I really like that Acanthite and Calcite stone. Looks superb!
Thanks for the kind words Magnus, always good to hear from you.
Martin
Same settings as before other than a change in the materials and render-time which had to be extended to two hours. All materials this time were constructed using KeyShot Procedurals
Martin
Interesting study Martin! I was thinking the last one looked like a piece of candy :o
Quote from: Josh Mings on January 17, 2017, 07:36:04 AM
Interesting study Martin! I was thinking the last one looked like a piece of candy :o
Tumbled and talc polished agates can look like candies - Just don't try crunching into one :)
Martin
Looks delicious Martin :D
Kind of reminds me of some dragon egg or something...
Low grade pressure fractured Agate with Quartz inclusions cut and polished. I should have spent more time with the modelling to create a better geode as the outer crust should intrude into the interior and wouldn't have a clean edge as depicted here.
Thanks go to Eric for his crackled textures that I am sure are going to come in very handy soon.
Martin
This looks awesome, Martin! Beautiful texturing and detail. Well done! Thanks for the mention :)
Cheers,
Eric
Quote from: bdesign on January 21, 2017, 12:44:18 PM
This looks awesome, Martin! Beautiful texturing and detail. Well done! Thanks for the mention :)
Cheers,
Eric
Thanks for the comment and you're welcome :)
Martin
Those little reflective pieces on the inner surface look gorgeous.
Sadly my modelling skills let down the final result of this render, but at least the concept works.
Modelling: Blender 2.78a
Rendering: KeyShot 6.3.19
Render Specs: 454,658 triangles rendered to 128 samples on 32 cores = 6hr render time
Raw image from KeyShot with no post editing.
Martin
Final image after retouching with Pixelmator ...
This one is amazing Martin. The best of this set IMO.
Thanks Nico - Done with Agate for now :)
Martin
Wow! I really, really like how this turned out. I don't think your modeling skills took anything away from it. Definitely, both the inner and outer surfaces look great. I know you said you're done with this one, but I'd be curious to see how this looks sitting up on end with a point light behind it... see if it glows since it is translucent.
Very nice.
Quote from: Will Gibbons on January 30, 2017, 09:59:38 AM
Wow! I really, really like how this turned out. I don't think your modeling skills took anything away from it. Definitely, both the inner and outer surfaces look great. I know you said you're done with this one, but I'd be curious to see how this looks sitting up on end with a point light behind it... see if it glows since it is translucent.
Very nice.
Thanks for the kind words Will - Going to leave this one cooking for a few hours. I am doing the render like a partial eclipse so you can see the back light peeking over the top of the slice. I will post it either in the morning or after it's done doing 128 samples if I am still awake then :)
Martin
Raw KeyShot image to test translucency for Will - 128 samples rendered in 5hrs 26mins
Martin
Nice! What really works here, is the 'whiter' areas let more light through (as they would( and it shows off some depth. The veins between the cells too seem to pop out. Thanks for doing this and posting it!
Quote from: Will Gibbons on January 31, 2017, 07:49:57 AM
Nice! What really works here, is the 'whiter' areas let more light through (as they would( and it shows off some depth. The veins between the cells too seem to pop out. Thanks for doing this and posting it!
You're Welcome Will, it turned out quiet well :)
Martin
I love the slice,Martin. Very well done! Also my favorite :)
Cheers,
Eric