Waiting For Spring, Marek Denko (3D)

[ThirdEye]

Everything fantastic, both the idea and the realisation, congrats, i love it!

[psycho1]

wow just wow great job how did you get the snow like that ?

[ashakarc]

Both, the car and the forsted environment are superbly done. Congrats

best,
ashakarc

[yangmiemie]

:scream: nice work.
i like snow!!

[b-element]

Denko: Je to super :buttrock: :buttrock:

[shakes]

fantastic job on the ice and the car- really original idea

[PabloCZ]

Great and awsome work :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :)

[Jasper Lammertink]

just great :D the snow is very nice just like the rest of the scene... keep it up

* 5 stars *

[doohanarai]

It's so cool!

[arona]

its just awesome. love the snow and materials in overall :buttrock:

[DeadWINGS]

oh man! it's briliant. congrats. very, very realistic :eek: :thumbsup:

[thx1138]

Wait a sec. One week ? It that including the modeling ? Damn, that's fast. You probabky have to catch up some sleep :D Well anyways, it looks awesome :thumbsup:

[Neochris]

Superb!!
Both ideas and lighting are great, you really did a incredible jobs on those snow ice.
Impressive atmosphere and photorealistic, congratulations!

[Numse]

:eek: Damn, if you don´t get an award for this..

Though the dirt on the side isn´t very realistic, but the rest is very impressive.

[Evgenii]

Super job!

[Cyborgguineapig]

Are you serious that snow on the ground is Cg? Wow

[krishki]

Man its cold out here:shrug: . Nice work:thumbsup: . Cool snow. Ice cristals on the botom of the car is very good. nice detailing:) .

[JCFrog]

Oh yes, fantastic! :thumbsup:
Is there a WIP somewhere? :)

[tobiasth]

fantastic work! 5+

[DenkoM]

I'm very happy that you like it... :scream:
Here is shade and wire

http://denko.maxarea.com/ever/fiat500L/fiatall512.jpg

[Abyssis]

hey man, cool work :thumbsup:

[^vampir^]

Wooowww..... Love the Snow.....:thumbsup:

:applause: :thumbsup: :applause: :thumbsup: :applause: :thumbsup:

[squall_svk]

snow is perfect, no doubts... :thumbsup:
car paint isn't that good, but overall this is very nice picture. congratulations, marek

-squall

[Farins]

heh,e great image!! and great subject, good modelling and good snow

4 star for you

[furo]

right,it's pretty cool.. i don't like car paint too.. and licence plate font is a bit thin imho,but.. DETAILS,ya know... i found your words in the title,so i'll be only silent admirer.. you've got 5 stars from me my man.. this is imho your best work! congrats:thumbsup:

[Koen86]

this looks really awesome! you could add some snow on the projection, like the bumper, or side lamps. but thats up to you.
Great work!

gr koen

[turx]

this is beautiful! :D

[s0real]

well done! awesome work!

[Adam Gur]

simply awesome... loved the snow on the ground and on the car.... I'm not crazy about the sun flare but I can't say it's wrong. One other thing, the reflection of the tree on the second car window should perhaps have continued onto the driver's window... but that's nit-picking, kudos on a great job.

Adam

[RiotManZ]

this a masterpiece man!
could u give us a short tut about the snow material? would be great (if it can be done short, hehe)



rock on
RiotManZ

[Schnupps]

It looks really great, just the background could be nicer in my opinion.
Some info on the snowshader?

If you are bored you could try to do this next ;-)
http://sis.slowli.com/images/DSCN7720.jpg

[mindovermatter]

Awesome work, especially if it only took one week. Good job

[DenkoM]

It looks really great, just the background could be nicer in my opinion.
Some info on the snowshader?

If you are bored you could try to do this next ;-)


No problem ;) just tell me wath car it is beneath the ice ;)

[DenkoM]

THNX to all of you again
I'll write tutorial how to create snow like this.

[OZ]

DAMN!IT IS PERFECT! amazing render!the snow is perfect!never seen before a so realistic snow render.

oz

[Farins]

tutorial??? for make this snow???? ahhhhh i love you!

[Velinov]

Just unbelievable!!!:thumbsup: Masterpiece. No doubt. Keep the good work, man. You make people happy with your art.

Cheers

[randalls]

Very nice render and composition. I think I appreciate it more now that it is Spring!

Good job.

[hansworks]

nothing to criticise about...just Great

[phoenix]

very nice work

[Guanny]

Amazing work !!! :buttrock:

Impressive shader of snow and cool render.

***** for you.

[PeterSanitra]

gratulujem k frontpage

[Deniss]

love the snow... what's the render time?

[DenkoM]

render time : 11hours on P4 2.4Ghz 1Gbs of RAM

one more time thnx to all

[Sue3d]

I love that snow! Great job. :thumbsup:

[satch919]

Great picture. I don't think i've seen snow done so perfectly before. It does look photoreal. Very cool.

[shazzed]

What can be said that hasn't ..... WOW!

My only comment is under the car iceicles thingys don't fit some how. No offense intended, I am but a noob. In short this is a kick ass image!!!

[XLNT-3d]

THNX to all of you again
I'll write tutorial how to create snow like this.

I'll be watching out for it.

[Mirwen]

Jesus! Tak s tim snehem jsi me fakt dostal. Ten je uzasny!:eek:

[Aenvil]

Wow :eek:

I love how you have the snow tucked underneath were it meets the car. Great observation.

I give this piece 5 stars, however, what would a post be without a comment. I'm sure the reference you may have used will tell otherwise, but I think the pink sky in the background is distracting.

Great subtlety of putting the new clean black car in bkg, it shows appreciation, and how this one is neglected.

:applause:

[balistic]

The only thing that gives it a way is that the reflections in the paint seem to too clean.

Otherwise . . . very convincing.

[midazolam]

Dobro!

Very very nice! Another her also interested in seeing your tutorial on the snow...

[mathew_er]

Gratulujem Denko!

[HapZungLam]

oh my! how did you model everysingle detail of the snow on the ground???? superb

ps Schnupps nice photo. nicE!!!

[scrimski]

At first look I thought it is a photo.

Great stuff.



The Fiat 500 was my first car too( tutorial on 3dtotal.com), but I ended far away from renderings like that.

[cszetela]

Very nicely done. The snow looks very realistic - I should know, being a life-long Michigan resident. Beautiful modeling and rendering also.

[ja3d]

The snow and the ice on car are fantastic, very photoreal model, congratulations!

[gigatron]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/gallerycrits/68732/68732_1112306630_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/gallerycrits/68732/68732_1112306630.jpg)

Title: Waiting For Spring
Name: Marek Denko
Country: Slovakia
Software: 3ds max, finalRender, Photoshop

Hello there.
Here is my latest work. It tooks me one week of work. I tried to achieve photoreal look.
Blueprints are from http://www.suurland.com/ . I made a lot pictures of real Fiat500L to achieve best details.
All object are modeled as Editable poly. Snow beneath the car is also model but with displace map. It was whole day of painting displace map.
All 3d except houses in background.

Hope you like it.

P.S: It is my first finished car ever so "car fanatics" please be patient and forgive me some bugs on car model. ;)

Some info about geometry:
objects: 412
faces: 1 427 996

:O uhm tried ey

:thumbup:

[Hiha_Psychose]

Very nice picture man, it's photorealist. The snow is a displace map ??

Good luck for the next ;)

[droidzlander]

Just one stupid crit. You could use the old Fiat logo, revamped these very days. You have used the modern one that does not fit that much on a 'cinquino' (loving nickname given by italians to the glorious Fiat 500).
Excuse me but I'm italian and the 500 is part of the italian history like the Pope, Leonardo da Vinci and Julius Caesar.

[Yfkar]

Great snow!

[DiederBohlenTK]

AWESOME! First time I saw it, I thought you just took a photo! You're really rocking!

[tomaya]

Cool job man,Nice idea...

[cg219]

nice job, very photorealistic. nice shaders.

[daart]

:bounce: GREAT! Love the snow, and of corse the cinquecento :thumbsup:

[love2exelere8]

i dont know if anyone has mention this yet, but ur missing the snow on the buildings(roof, windows,etc) and on the windows. other than that it look great!

good job:thumbsup:

[Alexandrite]

whoah. my first thought was, "what's a photograph doing on CGtalk?" then i realized it wasnt a photograph! :)

i'm stunned.

[Momentum]

fantastic work! I love the snow shader its as good as if not better than the one used on the day after tomorro!

[Autarkis]

I'd have to say that this is an amazing snow shader you've achieved here. The displacement map painting time (a day did you say?) certainly shows your efforts!!! This is purely amazing snow! (I've been trying to recreate a realistic look for it, but it always seems too cartoony to my taste.


And thank you SO much for writing up a short tutorial on how to do it, i really really cant wait for it!

[REZI-st]

congratulation Denko ;) very cool pic ! I think that this is your best work to ;)

[Tilstrom]

great work, love the snow especially, looks excellent. :)

[unwrap]

No crits! Excellent!

[robin]

Yes great snow render, how was it done ?

:D

[HenningK]

Dang.
you've captured the season. The snow around the wheels is especially perfect.
Silly nit picks follow: In my city, that crusty frost stuff on the sides of the car would be whiter. And I think there are a few too many icicles under the side.
love,hen

[aliasali]

Wow!
thats Fantastic,although the dirts on the background wall are not that realistic.
can u explain how did u paint the desplacement of the ground and how did u do the textures and shaders of the snow?
thx alot,

[jake rupert]

That really looks like a photo to me.
Outstanding work!

:>) jake

[SegFaultII]

top notch work, technically very well done. but one thing seems wrong:
the image layout. the car is very small in reality, and when a photographer takes a picture, it would not be so big. the car takes almost all of the image, which makes it look bigger than it really is.

the backgound and height of the shot look like the viewer is standing, now imagine walking up to the car. the roof would be higher than the viewers head.

[chengyeekeen]

correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel that the snow on the car...seems more like a blanket. As in, it follows the shape of the car too closely. It gives you the impression that snow falls down at a constant rate which I don't think it ever happens.

There should be like uneven snow on the car. Am I right or wrong?

[thx1138]

Originally Posted by Schnupps
It looks really great, just the background could be nicer in my opinion.
Some info on the snowshader?

If you are bored you could try to do this next ;-)



No problem ;) just tell me wath car it is beneath the ice ;)

It's an MG-F.

[MrPositive]

Wow snow is so difficult and here it looks flawless. You cease to amaze me. Well done! and nice composition, instead of just a fiat render on a chrome floor.......thank goodness!

[3DArty]

Love It Just Love It.:)

[DenkoM]

thnx again guys :bounce:

[Trep]

thats awesome man, well done for the award. you deserved it

[eoin]

Yes, this feels much more creative than the usual car posts that get knocked out!
Got a real sence of Artistry to it. sweet
Great Job :]

-Eoin

[tgg]

Beautiful! Especially the snow, it looks so real! Very very nice job :applause:

[JasonLin]

sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nice~~
very very well done!!
great snow u did!!
happy creation~~~five stars for u!!:thumbsup:

[loocas]

Very impressive! Real nice man! http://www.cgtalk.com/images/rating/rating_5.gif from me! :buttrock:

[DenkoM]

I dont know how you made this material, but my snow shader is my own...
No offense but is this your own propaganda or what? :curious:

[furo]

yeah,man,i'm curious too,cause i saw denko's progress and i'm sure his shader is hundred procent his own.. so,i don't understand your post loocas too... just explain:twisted:

[loocas]

I dont know how you made this material, but my snow shader is my own...
No offense but is this your own propaganda or what? :curious:

Calm down man, I didn't mean any offense! I was just curious whether you used my material or not? I showed it to you so you'd know what I meant... But obviously you didn't, which is absolutely fine (even if you did). As I said, I was just curious how would my mat look in a complex scene with complex lighting...

This should explain the post. If I offended you in any way, I'm sorry man, I really didn't mean to do so!

Peace? :love:

[DenkoM]

:love: peace :deal:

[turbinea]

very good work i must say. i like it a lot :scream:

ktora cast blavy je v pozadi?

[DenkoM]

ktora cast blavy je v pozadi?

Ulica na ktorej je ministerstvo obrany myslim ze Kutuzevova alebo tak cosi ;)

[randomsheep]

i.. uh.. dont like ur snow ontop of the car.. looks to "put there" looking uva than that.. frekin sexy

[Igor Trajkovski]

Great!
I like the car chosen.
We have here in Macedonia some old Zastava 750's aka Ficho(read Fee-cho).
Same by look and at the time manufactured by licence in Yugoslavia
at the Zastava factory.

Yeah, realy cool choice (instead of a high-tech speedster)
:)

Haha... :)

Some coments still:

The gray patches on the door. I would try without them.
Or reduce their opacity. They look to me out of place. To strong.

and

The pinkish think in the background.


Bottom line, VERY GOOD WORK!

My BRAVO to you!

Keep up the good work!


Igor

[rollmops]

R E S P E C T
:thumbsup:

[<GarfieLd>]

nice work.this is most realistic snow (3d) i have ever seen,and bacground adaptation is also nice...

[ffourier]

just amazing !! shaders are very impressive.

[meathead]

That's a really great render. Don't know where the CG starts or stops. Only in being told do I see it as CG.

Here's a picture of my car, because it is similar and has comparable features. The only thing CG about it though, is that it is made with pixels.

http://www.massdlm.com/misc/house_snow_car.jpg

[Artist-Lounge]

Thats fantastic man ..
absolutely no comments ..

[Capn_Camo]

Gday man,

Love the lighting and the final render, plus the car has great proportions. I only have two crits:

1) the snow atop the car looks a little too perfectly rounded, as if its just been sat on top
2) the reflections on the car are a little too strong and stretched in parts.

Other than that, seriously top notch :buttrock:

[palko09]

fantastic snow! you must be a mad man :bounce::applause::twisted:

[Helk]

Very nice.

[iguana007]

Beatiful render ... especially snow ... 5* from me ;)

igi

[tienj]

wow.. it looks so real.. nice work...

[Luciferul]

The snow cloth is great...i like the idea.

Good job man.

[feiye]

It's amazing me!
I love snow!!!

[MARTSMONDE]

YYes!!! very nice god work
It's real fanstastic

[hadimoom]

nice work:thumbsup:

[hadimoom]

your modeling is great:thumbsup:

[Djampa]

I respect you very much...
You are a serious artist.
:thumbsup:
:applause:
All your work is very realistic, awesome really.
That snow on the ground... wow, how you made it? If you dont mind telling us (sure), I think everyone here loved it too.

Thank you for the pleasant image to admire.

Congratulations,

[Eddie_rossi]

Hehe look at the foot impressions in the snow leading to the door.. This guy knows what he's doing!

[dannyfalch]

Fantastic job!!

Very realistic!
hmm,. i think i better try finalrender.

[sakhkalyan]

Texturing is good! Nice spirit!

[lan3d]

Wow.. now that's one hell of a render... the snow looks gr8.. !! to realistic .. good work !!!

[etni3s]

hmm i don't know if this is an error or not, but..
look at the car in the background, the top of it has a reallt white color, while the bottom is normal. Shouldn't the FIAT be the same?
Also (minor detail), that car has no snow on it ;)

[tkoc]

Your first car? Keep doing them, you´ll keep us all happy.

[DJB343]

Totally Amazing Work Man, ***** five stars from moi :-)

I so totally want to know how you achieved that material also, SO PLZ TELL ! lol,

[R]

great work, specially beeing your first car

keep up with fiats hehe, great cars

[arcdummy]

Amazing Snow :D

[curry_t]

This is an amazing photo, very realistic. big congrats on the snow, looks great!

[goktugg]

wow!:) wow! looking so real* Perfect job*. Perfect snow* car texture* environment lighting also colors of image.so nice* so pretty.:thumbsup:

[tgfx]

wow dude that is something...impressed..

[Pavel Lazarov]

Wow Really amazing! Keep it up! And I am waitning for the tutorial... if you have the time to do it!

[ashen]

The thing I love the most are the detailed texture and finely tuned reflection on the car. The car's shape doesn't look just like another ordinary car either. The only thing that jumps out to me is the wall on the left that sorts of lacks detail; not in the texture itself, but structure wise. It may very well be intended to avoid creating distraction from the center of focus, though. Generally a nicely done piece!

[tonyg3d]

Fantastico! Tres Bien! Excellent!

[jurx]

great idea and work,...man that´s fantastic,...good job:thumbsup:

[Kenter]

Real,it is is'nt it?;) very nicely done.:thumbsup:

[TheAnarchitect]

hah, admit it! you failed modeling the hood so instead covered it with snow!!! gotcha!

just kidding, it seems you made another eye popper-jaw dropper work!

totally awsome!

[DenkoM]

to all: THNX!!! I'll write tutorial ASAP... i'm hard working now on my diploma so... ...busy busy busy
to TheAnarchitect: LOL yes you right :twisted:

[oopper]

Awesome!!
I'd like to see snow~ Great job!

[applenote]

wow good ,very good

[gyfcg]

Very good!

[Aldarion]

What can i say ? Your the best 3d artist we have here in Slovakia, and i mean it !

-no a kedze na icq som uz dost davno nebol a kedze pises diplmovku tak asi ani ty, mozes pls poslat dake info o tom snehu ??? je naozaj dobry... mail ti poslem PM

[dixit13]

Denko ....its really crazy stuff you have made...."AWESOME" and Very "Fresh”!!:applause:

Really liked the lighting in the scene and snow seems very real. Also i have visited your website and find some real cool architectural visualization with good and very realistic looking landscaping ....which plug-in do you used for that:shrug: ?....An ways very nice work, seems like a "genuine talented CG artist work" ....I m looking forward for such work of yours in future…. Keep it Up n Real!! Have a nice day.



Amit:)

[Hake Oslo]

I love it. Favorite aspect of the image would have to be the lighting.

You have done a great job.

[attila]

Awesome!

Nothing to critic! It's good to see the spring is comin' ;)

[cuervvo]

:applause: good work!!!, i like that, the snow is genius:buttrock:

[sequel]

REALLY GREAT WORK MAN!!! :buttrock:
Can you post some finalrender GI settings? How did you do light in this scene?

THANKS! :thumbsup:

[ReBootedOne]

Awww, such a nice concept.....
And so superbly executed.

Awesome.

-The ReBooted One

[jeevachandran]

it is nice realy nice

[3dstar]

Great piece of work! Amazingly done lighting and material. cudos to you:thumbsup:

[TechnoFeather]

Very nice job! First I really thought it would be a photo! Awesome work done!

The only thing I have to mention is, that there might be to little snow on the bumper, door handle and indicators. But that doesn't keep the realistic look away from that great picture.

Keep up the good work and congrats to your award! :)

[kuks]

hey! It's the Fiat 500 of my mother! i think it was a photo, it's an amazing work!

[BMAXTALK]

here has people exelents for taht l am seeing here...
its work receives 5 stars....
very good...
compact car....

[Juzcapes]

That is really great. A week of good work, only complaint is the lense flare/glare in the background.

[volcomboy]

Man you gotta go to [URL=http://www.ebaumsworld.com/icescraper.html] Sorry its just that your car remindes me ok this guys situation.

[Drag Tec]

I absolutely love the snow

Though my only crit: would be that the highly reflective paint, no snow under car and ice sickles give the impression the snow is melting witch would mean it would be smooth ice or wet under car and I presently would think that would give enough back light to see the frount tire.

This of course comeing from some one that lives in the south

[Vital Organ]

Amazing work, truely great modeling and rendering of the snow.



vital...

[Vladvrz]

is real,is really looking real.Great work.:buttrock:

[DenkoM]

Thnx to all guys again.
here is me and my references ;)
http://denko.maxarea.com/photos/25.jpg

[omarhib]

oh man... this is great...

How did you modeled the snow? it is very real.

Keep going...

[Lupin500]

Nice snow shader! :applause:
We share the same Fiat500 passion! :thumbsup:

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/oikbb/altro/500.jpg

[PO-8]

Wow! habitually i don't like the 3d cars, because they are never original, but your atmosphere and render is so sweet, realistic and awesome, that i say.... 5 stars! and maybe 6 if i could...

[PO-8]

wow, habitually, i don't watch cg car's works, because it's always the same work, without interest, but here, you did such an amazing work on your scene, nice atmosphere, realistic render and original way to make a car, so... 5 stars!

[Djuls]

The snow is so real !! perfect !

[MrPositive]

Haahahha man you are like Kong next to that car! Hehehehe

[ffourier]

the car is so smalll compared to the others :)

Haahahha man you are like Kong next to that car! Hehehehe
it would not be necessary that he is upset :p

[chanxf]

I like the style of the envirment.

[cermit]

Perfect !!!

[camillo6]

I'm a newbie in CG, and, after seeing this and other great Works in this Forum, I am starting to believe that I am going to remain a beginner forever...Such perfection seems impossible to even get closer to it!!!
congratulations for this incredible rendering!!

[centavrus]

very very good:)

[King555]

Very stick, true result.Feel very comfortable, give the person the nature the felling that become intimate with!

[Woooo]

Thank U, This is really GOOOOD work!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
here's my car,also my first, I am really annoyed with my terrible UV layouts...that's not so many textures on it.
Will you please to show us a part of you textures?...


http://www.jllib.cn/jijch/up/up/6101860108081200573213415.JPG

[fxo]

Stunningly realistic!, wonderful job with the snow.

[pumpkinseed]

hi,

really impressed by your work! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
this is a stunning rendering n modeling with maya, which is the same software i use too, but im not even able 2 complete a car. :sad:
im curious about what modeling method u used on the car. polygons? i always have problem trimming holes on a wide and smooth curvy surface while keeeping the surface looks smooth...could you please give some tips on how 2 do it? i tried very hard looking at the wirefame pic u posted up but its not very clear...

thanx in advaced. :)

[Zanith]

Wow. It looks real. I have never seen such well done snow. The attention to detail on the ground . . Wow

[Maxcre8]

Amazing work! I love the light, colours and detail very nice done :)

[DenkoM]

Thnx very much :)

[Defacto]

Tak to je mazec:eek:

[TTL]

Looks amaing...Iwis I had time to try something this good!

[pister]

I love this scene, you are an inspiration.

[dorvanium]

your work is wonderful. good luck

[psycho_matic]

WoW, this looks real!!! Congrat. 5 stars!

[PabloG]

Amazing job man!

[SJM]

Nice job mate, great composition i reckon :)

[anusankar]

wats it? icant believe it.....he is here...marek denko is my favourite cg artist.iam a real fan of him.....

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