Some lathe work

[Speedster]

Hi all;

KeyShot 5 is like eating peanuts- you can't stop!  Goes great with beer also!  What sucks is when your clients keep interrupting our fun with "work"!

This 1879 Engine Lathe is from the same drafting book as my twin launch engine, using the same Edison Shop backplate.  Modeled in SolidWorks.  My goal with this rendering was to learn how to insert a CAD model into an existing backplate such that it really "fits in" as to materials, lighting, etc.  A lot more difficult than putting an auto or train into a scene!

For the first time I made extensive use of the eyedropper color picker.  It would be nice if it did not enlarge the target so much. The new KS5 Perspective tool is awesome! HDR is a moderately tweaked "Indoor Factory" in the KeyShot 5 library.  It's a very useful HDR!

I rendered it at 20 inches wide, as I find a large size allows for much finer post, allows for a large print if I want, and besides, I'm spoiled with my 32 cores!  1.47 million polys, and with these materials runs an average of 620 fps on 32 cores.

Bill G

[feher]

OMG !!! This is just beautiful. I have many times stood in that shop and just imagine what it was like back then. I feel very lucky living in a area where I can go see all that history when ever I want. Greenfield Village is one of my favorite place to go. So much history in one place.
Great modeling and great image.
It's a keeper in my book.
Tim

[Speedster]

Thanks, Tim!  The sad part is that I spent a week at Greenfield Village as a consultant, but took very few photos.  This was way before KeyShot, and little did I know what the future would hold.  My advice to all of us is to always carry your camera (cell, duh!) and pause to take great backplates.  I know Egon does, and it shows in his great work.
Bill G

[evilmaul]

great model and render Bill, as usual.
If I may, I would add some chromatic aberration in PS (lens correction) and a slight blur to the CG so that sits better into the plate.

cheers,
M

[Speedster]

If I may, I would add some chromatic aberration in PS (lens correction) and a slight blur to the CG so that sits better into the plate.

Thanks, Marco!  The Lens Blur makes quite a difference, even though it's subtle.  I isolated the CG with the clown layer and applied Lens Blur with a Radius 5 and Noise of 2.  New image below, cropped to hide my screw-up of not hiding the countershaft brackets above the leather belt!

But I don't understand "chromatic aberration", and can't find it in the CS5 book, only as a lens correction?  I tried it to the isolated backplate, and it only seemed to shift the entire image.  What is your description of CA, and how would it apply?  More important, what does it do?

Thanks!
Bill G

[evilmaul]

sorry Bill I should have spent more time explaining it.

I did a quick thing in PS. You can find CA in lens correction under Filter menu. I have applied here CA on the copy on the right ...and indicated where is obvious on the plate.
hope that helps
again great work , with or without PS work
Marco
PS: it might be hard to see due the jpg compression

http://www.marcodilucca.com/tmp/CA.JPG

[cx66]

bravo Bill, awesome, very nice rendering

xavier

[Despot]

Yes, nice compositing Bill, not sure whether I dare show renderings of your Allen Engine now I've seen this... 

Could be embarrassing...

J