Lighting Challenge #1: Fruit Bowl

[jeremybirn]

Ravix -

Nice!

I don’t think the “wet” look is really working yet though, it looks too much like a picture of water just texture mapped on.

-jeremy

PS - If your img tag wasn’t working, I think it was because you put in something ending in /my.php?image=morningfruitsvelazquezfinal2xu.jpg and you needed to view the actual image and get the url ending in /morningfruitsvelazquezfinal2xu.jpg

[floze]

hey flloze that looks good , how u manage t do the translucency of the grapes?
is that a sss shader?

Thanks Ravix, yes it’s Magical Master Zap’s Superior Subsurface Scattering Shader. It comes with the mentalray for maya installation (from maya version 6 up afaik).

[gerardo]

gerardo, amazing!! very nice, bright and natural light.

btw., thanks for sharing so much of your research work in the LW forums! i wonder about those ‘hairy’ cherry stems, i newer saw this kind… looks terrific how did you achieve this effect? hd instance or photoshop?

Thank you 3dworks! the good thing about this tricks is that most of them are applicable in other 3D packages too. Recently I saw a similar technique adapted to Blender and as far as I know Max and XSI works well with ramps too. Spinning lighting trick is a little restricted to LW but perhaps it might work in Renderman as well. I think this kind of cherry is known like sweet birch or cherry birch or something like that, I’m not sure but it isn’t common. Btw, I’ve used a fur system for LW called Sasquatch, very useful for this kind of things

Gerardo

[lazzhar]

Nice!

I don’t think the “wet” look is really working yet though, it looks too much like a picture of water just texture mapped on.

-jeremy

Now you are between our hands Jeremy:twisted:
I I like the morning feeling and the depth of field. However I think that the leaf of the apple looks too thick . The green grapes(if they are grapes lol) are looking like olives :rolleyes: Maybe some tranclucency would be welcome there.

[raghuramp]

Hi ,
This is my updated one plz comment on this.
Raghuram.p

[jeremybirn]

Hmm, I used it on the bananas, the askdan* and the grapes. Only for a bit specularity and least little bit diffuse contribution though. And of course on the fabric.

Master Zap: I want the exact position (x, y, in raster space) of this pixel!!

*whatever fruit this might be, I assumed it’s something plum-like

Regarding the “askdan” fruit - Dan Wade built the first version of the scene that was up. When I remodeled some things and made a second version that’s now up, I tried to name the fruits. The ones that were unidentifiable spheres in the back were named “ask dan” as in he should know what those spheres represent.

-jeremy

[MasterZap]

Now you are between our hands Jeremy:twisted:

That’s not Jeremy’s he was simply helping the guy above post his as an image.

Jeremy’s would probably contain a car

/Z

[Ravix]

Jeremi I appreciate the critics and help for linking , Ill find a way to wet all my objects. of course if I find some time off.
love ur book

[azazel]

Maybe just model some water droplets on the fruits, give them some transparent reflective shader… just do it the ‘hard’ way Actually this has quite a bit of potential, i may be tempted to make yet another version

[Ravix]

Maybe just model some water droplets on the fruits, give them some transparent reflective shader… just do it the ‘hard’ way Actually this has quite a bit of potential, i may be tempted to make yet another version

hi I thouhg on that, but if i want to wet the whole scene imagine to model all that stuff, im thinking in simulate some random drops , not sure how yet

[as07]

hi all this is updated version of my fruit, just a little fix and some shader fix, this one should be final:D of my painterly look, maybe if i have time before another scene of lighting challenge come i will try realistic version of this fruit bowl, thanks for viewing^^

[as07]

hi all this is updated version of my fruit, just a little fix and some shader fix, this one should be final:D of my painterly look, maybe if i have time before another scene of lighting challenge come i will try realistic version of this fruit bowl, thanks for viewing^^

[Ministry]

hi,
may i know when is the last date for the submission . .? because my computer was corrupted for the past few days and i just saw the challenge . . anyways, i ;m gonna do it . . the posting looks awesome. . boosted already.
started my work.

[jeremybirn]

hi,
may i know when is the last date for the submission . .? because my computer was corrupted for the past few days and i just saw the challenge . . anyways, i ;m gonna do it . . the posting looks awesome. . boosted already.
started my work.

Go for it. There’s no real deadline. Although in February we’re going to start another challenge so everyone will be talking about that.

-jeremy

[MasterZap]

Always keep in mind Douglas Adams immortal words vis-a-vis deadlines.

/Z

[jeremybirn]

I also did the Car paint (something for Jeremy I guess ) and the AO and…

Thanks for the car paint shader. I’m working on rendering the fruit bowl scene and using it on the bowl now. Is there a focus/offset type parameter to determine what it reflects somewhere? (like a reflection angle thing?)

-jeremy

[swag]

jeremy you rendering with mr i thought we will see some rfm action here

[Ministry]

hi as07 vbmenu_register(“postmenu_3196061”, true);
awesome job . .i love it. My only comment would be the grapes . . the transulency part didn’t work well i guess… looks a bit artificial . . other than that. . . its wonderful . loving it.

[jeremybirn]

Yes, rendered in MR. This is like all carpaint, for the bowl and the BG. I’m going to do a new BG I guess, I just got tired of making textures all day, bitmaps for all the fruits, so I put that shader on the BG so I could post something. Maya/MR nothing special going on:

-jeremy

[floze]

Yes, rendered in MR. This is like all carpaint, for the bowl and the BG. I’m going to do a new BG I guess, I just got tired of making textures all day, bitmaps for all the fruits, so I put that shader on the BG so I could post something. Maya/MR nothing special going on:

-jeremy

Awesome, you did a great job on the textures! I notice a bit of nickeling on the pear and the ask-dan fruits though. Maybe try out the subd approximation nodes on them (if it doesnt work out in the first place, try to physically triangulate the meshes).