Eriks Xmas-Contest WIP-Thread

[pnoland]

That has an interesting look to it, very Christmasy. Good luck! :)

[FantaBurky]

Good as a beginning, I think?. erm, the snow must be way darker or the cottages must be way lighter. They dont match. Add the bump image you got as a displacement map instead then it will be much nice at the bottom intersections of the cottages. Also perhaps smudge the intersectons a bit in photoshop aswell. The trees in the second image looks way nicer with only white. Erm, I dunno. But it has potentials (IMHO ;) )

EDIT: Is "grafik design" in your link really german, as its desame in swedish then

[Erik (the known one:-)]

Youre right, I'm busy with fixin all of this. I've postet some testrenders from the last two days, actualy I've got no time for a big new testrender. I'm not sure if I want the cottages ... hm ... for the trees I have three versions: green with white dust, green with HN-Snow and only white (ice) ... I gonna try only white with HN-Snow, too :-) In the moment I try some different light-setups, but it seems the actualy fits perfect. Cause I made all tests in different scenes, the snow-material is different. At the end it will be all the same :-)

Oh ... yes, we really call it so. Today it would be 'Graphikdesigner', but I'm an old one :-) I use the former version 'Grafikdesigner' ... its nearly the same as in English, but thats normal with 'new' words in German, we steal a lot :-))

[FantaBurky]

Lookin foward to it :thumbsup:

[Erik (the known one:-)]

I've changed the cottages and played around with the light again. The ice is not final in the moment :-) I'm thinking about the background, too ... hmm :-)

[BazC]

Coming along nicely Erik!

[Srek]

This is looking very promising Erik :)

Cheers
Björn

[Erik (the known one:-)]

Thanks :-) I had a look at your wip too, but I closed the window before I could say something :-) Looks nice, so far. I had an indoor-christmas-theme last year - or was it the year before? Hm ... - and wanted to go out this time :-) Cause of the moode I would suggest to put the center of the image in front of a window, so you could get some more 'winter-moode' with the outside (sorry, my English is not the best, no time to train it:-) ... what I mean is iceflowers at the glass, lightet trees in the garden and so on. But thats maybe only the trashy christmas-way of mine :-))) I like your materials, the glass looks very nice.

Are we the only ones or am I to stupid to find the other wip-threads? ... öhm ... :-))

[BazC]

Cheers Erik, there are one or two WIPs on the main contest thread but that's about it I think. Maybe people are being cautious about showing what they're up to! :)

[Erik (the known one:-)]

Thanks Björn ... I'm to slow with tiping here

[Erik (the known one:-)]

ARGH! to slow again ... maybe they don't show, maybe we're the only ones :-)) Hehe ... we will see :-) It's hard to make a christmastheme at summer ... I had to put my head into the refrigorator for some hours to get the right moode :-))

[Erik (the known one:-)]

Here is a test with icy trees ... takes long time to render, but I like that (I mean that ice:-) The smoke will be replaced with pyro later.

[Erik (the known one:-)]

Here ist the pyro-smoke

[Erik (the known one:-)]

This is an early ice-shader-test for the figures ... maybe I put them in the garden or so ... I'm not sure

[BazC]

Nice! Love the ice mats!

[Erik (the known one:-)]

now I think I have to hurry with my final, I do the last settings and start it, cause the testrender without the icematerial took more than 18 hours for 80% ... the icematerial is replaced with a simple white here. The black blocks are alphamap-errors wich come from the pyrocluster-tag on the environment-object ... the support is still lookin, I fix it with prerendering the trees and mapping on the prerender.
I'm not sure if I should keep the stars or not ... what do you think?

And there is an test with the C4D-bauble ... I will put it in the final-render, but it takes a very very very very lot of time (very very very) - or do you think its to much? If I leave it, I maybe finished in time :-)

[Distal]

cool work Erik !

you managed to get a nice christmas atmosphere :)

[Erik (the known one:-)]

Thanks :-) My Final is rendering now, I hope it finishes in time ;-)

[BazC]

Thanks :-) My Final is rendering now, I hope it finishes in time ;-)

I hope so, you've still got 3 days left! Looks great Erik!

[Erik (the known one:-)]

Okay, I post my divers final versions here and that one I make my entry in the main-thread ...

http://www.erik-kinting-grafikdesign.de/downloads/Schneelandschaft-Eis links Rauch hell Final 01.jpg (http://www.erik-kinting-grafikdesign.de/downloads/Schneelandschaft-Eis%20links%20Rauch%20hell%20Final%2001.jpg)

http://www.erik-kinting-grafikdesign.de/downloads/Schneelandschaft-Eisskulpturen-01.jpg

[tonare]

First two look great, but the last 3 links do not work.

[Erik (the known one:-)]

uuupss ... sorry ... I tried to edit it, but it didn't work, so please copy the whole link into the browser, then it works ... just add a 'www' before it ... seems that the script of this site don't like spaces in links :-)

erik-kinting-grafikdesign.de/downloads/Schneelandschaft-Pappen mit Eis und Licht Final-PH.jpg

erik-kinting-grafikdesign.de/downloads/Schneelandschaft-ohne Eis Final-Rauchabschwächung 01.jpg

www.erik-kinting-grafikdesign.de/downloads/Skulpturen-Eisäste-beidseitig01.jpg (http://www.erik-kinting-grafikdesign.de/downloads/Skulpturen-Eisäste-beidseitig01.jpg)

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