TpwUK Gemmology material Studies (Project Agate - Agate Slice)

[Esben Oxholm]

Cool stuff.
Love that color combination going on in the first shot.

[Magnus Skogsfjord]

That first one looks really cool indeed! Sharp!

[Arian Shamil]

Another great image....Martin i LOVE the 2nd too!!!!

[TpwUK]

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

[bdesign]

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

[TpwUK]

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

That first one looks really cool indeed! Sharp!

Thanks Magnus - great to hear from you

Another great image....Martin i LOVE the 2nd too!!!!

Thank you very much Arian - Hope you're all well

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

[Hossein Alfideh]

stunning work Martin! the first on looks amazing man! very interesting project. 

[TpwUK]

stunning work Martin! the first on looks amazing man! very interesting project. 

Thanks Hossein - appreciated

Martin

[TpwUK]

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

[Will Gibbons]

Awesome! Nice choice in colors/materials.

[Hossein Alfideh]

So cool!
What base materials are you using here Martin?

[TpwUK]

Awesome! Nice choice in colors/materials.

Thanks Will

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

[NM-92]

Great model Martín ! Textures are looking really good too.

[TpwUK]

Great model Martín ! Textures are looking really good too.

Thanks Nico - Have a great 2017 !!

Martin

[Hossein Alfideh]

Looks nice man!
Happy new year too