The One Ring

[the_real_cabal]

this picture looks great - i am a giantic fan of the lord of the rings ( the book! ) ; isn't that the scene in the beginning - the creation of the one ring by the dark lord sauron ??

[3dsmax5]

Here's a screen-shot of 3dsmax in action, so it's not a rip-off from the movie :p

[3Ants]

good!!!!!

nice render!!!!:thumbsup:

[MrPatel]

Wow! Great work! :)

[beta]

the text on the ring looks JUST like in the movie so hot it's glowing when burned on... looks just like the .... ermm melted steel? (lava looking stuff) a blacksmith works with. :thumbsup:

[3dsmax5]

Another ring pic for you lotr fans :)
Background made in Illusion and Photoshop...

[Nikodemus]

wow that is excellent!! :bowdown:
i attempted to make that ring earlier... but i didnt know how to make the glowing text.. im still new at this :shrug: however i did make a really nice stand for it like was in rivendel :cool:
if you dont mind i will post a picture.. *i dont mean to steal or ruin your thread* but i thought this is good in the spirit of LOTR
http://web.utk.edu/~mkuzio/smallstand.jpg
maybe i can get some pointers how to make my own ring?

[The Magic Pen]

Both pics look great !! :applause:

[robin]

WOohhhaa !!! :surprised

3dsMax5 those are fabulastic renders ...

im getting an Real internet Beatup right now !!!

POST MORE !!

[anticz]

Cool, Great render. Mesh looks a little dense in the wireframe. Does it really need that many poly's?

[3dsmax5]

I like that pedestal :thumbsup:
About the glowing text...

I made 2 copies of the ring. Scaled them so they wouldn't get hidden by the original ring. One with the inside removed,
the other with the outside removed, applied two opacity mapped, self-illuminating materials (also had a material g-buffer on them, for the lens effects glow). Note that the inside text is actually reversed (since the cylinder UWV map only works on the outside of a tube).

And... the One Ring can never have enough polys :p

[dark_lotus]

where did you get the texture for the inscription its sooo cool, great work.

[the_real_cabal]

Originally posted by dark_lotus
where did you get the texture for the inscription its sooo cool, great work.

http://home.earthlink.net/~darrenv/tolkein.html
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/

there are many tolkien fonts use those in your render work :)

[dark_lotus]

the_real_cabal - you are a god, see those big red lips - they have just given you a big phat kiss!!!!!

YaY!!

[3dsmax5]

I scanned it from the books :)

[dgpilot]

Great work!
I'm probably the greatest LOTR fan there is (screw you all! :) )
Could we get wallpaper size?

[FlangBG]

Well done, never seen anyone do it so well. I've been attempting the same, although i don't use Max, i use LW. I get the texturing wrong. Could someone explain how he did it. I find it difficult to get the shape right to, never realized it until now.
You did it well with the Eye of Sauron, i would assume that's post.
:thumbsup:

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