jermi
03-26-2006, 02:18 PM
http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/2397/2397_1143386286_medium.jpg
Title: Monarch Cluster
Name: Jere Leppänen
Country: Finland
Software: 3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop
Why do Monarchs do this? I bet it has something to do with making baby butterflies.
For this I used Steven Pinker's photos of Santa Barbara & the California Coast (http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/photos/santa_barbara_california/) as reference and a texture map for the butterflies.
There are 300 individuals in this picture (some of them may be completely occluded.) I wrote a little rotation controller script that keeps them aligned to the surface, then let "crowd" place them. Then I had to manually adjust maybe a hundred of them to make sure that they don't overlap, and also to prevent the cluster from being too uniform.
Lit with four big area lights, rendered with mental ray (DOF and motion blur, no GI).
Title: Monarch Cluster
Name: Jere Leppänen
Country: Finland
Software: 3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop
Why do Monarchs do this? I bet it has something to do with making baby butterflies.
For this I used Steven Pinker's photos of Santa Barbara & the California Coast (http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/photos/santa_barbara_california/) as reference and a texture map for the butterflies.
There are 300 individuals in this picture (some of them may be completely occluded.) I wrote a little rotation controller script that keeps them aligned to the surface, then let "crowd" place them. Then I had to manually adjust maybe a hundred of them to make sure that they don't overlap, and also to prevent the cluster from being too uniform.
Lit with four big area lights, rendered with mental ray (DOF and motion blur, no GI).