Mental Ray - Shaders

[InoDetelic]

Hi folks,

has somebody an idea how to get a material like this in mental ray?
Thx for your help.

http://s14.directupload.net/images/111205/temp/8hydd2ef.jpg (http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/2729/8hydd2ef_jpg.htm)

These are the phenomenons I see without thinking too much about the image, all doable with mental ray:

1. SSS sub surface scattering.
2. Skylight or a large area light behind the camera, no hard shadows. The light has a strong falloff, objects in the back are dark.
3. Perpendicular/parallel falloff map, faces parallel to the camera have a white color, and the more perpendicular don't.
4. A lot of Ambient Occlusion, either naturally with the final gathering or artificial.
5. The top left looks it has a bit of transparency but I might be mistaken, the image isn't very clear.
6. DOF, while not very shallow, its noticeable.
7. I'd use an object with a high poly count for the irregularities to be affected by the falloff map of the shader. I don't know if you could achieve this with normal maps, so I'd stick with a high poly count.

[Ash007]

Hi InoDetelic,

first of all, thanks for your quick reply.
Unfortunately I must say, I'm more the modeling/particles guy, so it's very hard for me to follow your tips. Can you please upload a test file for me, so I can have a deeper look on your material and camera setup? It would be very very helpful for me!

If not, thank you anyway.

cheers

btw, the picture is made with a microscope for medical research

[visualchaosfx]

Hey guys,

Did up some still image renders in 3DS Max using Mental Ray. Gettin the hang of the renderer haha. Anyways, how do these look? I didn't create these models. Its just rendering excercises :)

http://visualchaosfx.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/1957_thunderbird.jpg

http://visualchaosfx.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/camaro.jpg