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Geespot
06-24-2003, 11:20 AM
Wow just reading through Maxons 'in the spotlight' page and there was a link to some LOTR characters rendered in a glass cube. The realism is outstanding and it was made with c4d too.

Have a look at http://www.clarisso.com/LOTR/lotr.html

The bottom right image is my favourite, the chain is remarkable.

What techniques would they use to render images like those? At first I thought they was real glass models but then I saw the making of them and it was CG!

http://www.clarisso.com/LOTR/film_fe4.html <-- For the making of them
LucentDreams
06-24-2003, 12:07 PM
The models and such are madein 3D, but the final products are glass. Theres a shopat West edmonton mall here that can do that same thing with your face, they do a quick scan, and I'm not sure what the waiting period is, but you have your face in 3D inside a piece of glass. Its not a full surface, but more like a pointcoud its tin tiny dots. Cool process, don't ask me abotu the technical end I have no clue, lasers is all I know.
Geespot
06-24-2003, 12:19 PM
Ahh I thought they was actual 3D models :rolleyes:

So that means, they make LOTR models in 3D using C4D, then they use some kind of hardware to 'carve' the 3D image into glass?

Thats some impressive stuff
Telnoi
06-24-2003, 01:04 PM
http://www.3dscanners.com/

You can even do it at home...

You've got those lego things which you can connect to the computer. Write a small program for that and you've got yourself a home cutting edge system :buttrock:

;)
pgp_protector
06-24-2003, 01:58 PM
I saw earlear on Maxon.net they also had a "in the spotlight" a site called 3DArtToPart (http://www.3darttopart.com) that would also build your models but out of plaster.

Look to be great pricing compared to the other places that did the same thing.
dg3d
06-24-2003, 02:02 PM
It took long for me to load but anyway i saw the work, very amazing. and pgp_protector is right, if you go to the spotlight section you will see it.
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