Those are some ugly piggy banks, but great rendering

Thanks everyone for welcoming me to the forum and for viewing and responding to my post. To answer your question, Bytor, i've only used the kt point and spot lights (and obviously the sun). I light my scenes minimally and I use false emitters for the cans in certain situations to decrease my render times. I have toggled with IES lights, and actually like using them, but again, they increase the render times. So if I can achieve a decent effect, I just go with the basics. Thanks for your compliments- they're much appreciated. I don't want school to start tomorrow- i'm not gonna have time to play anymore Dale, and others who are new- or still learning KT, I can't encourage you enough to visit http://www.kerkythea.com/joomla and start posting your works for feedback and instruction on your renders. The team, and other members there are tremendously supportive- i would have given up after the first day without them !! Hope all of you have a good week!!!! -Calvin

Forgotten King Kwistembiebel, Willed body wars action. This is Dr. Timothy Leary, no? Are you into the action that he wrote a book on the Jack bird Tarot? Yeah, baby, the Thoth to be specific... Bring that. A curved channel cheese gymnasium is my take. Brain spark sequence initiated... Assign brain waves... Count down under way... Bowels armed.... Discharge and launch... Vectoring on target... Spare no gas... Durant "put it into practice" Hapke

Thanks again guys . The swimming 'man glue' is not my own unfortunately, it's an added segment I found on youtube and is credited at the end. I wonder what they used though..

The white walls looks plastis I think.

Looks cool Dolphus, I thought of helicopters from the firs moment i saw these cars.The Mark II reminds me a little of my Airdrop car, that red thingy that looks like a cute bug .

jason, Thanks! the glass part was a bit hard infact.. took me a lot of time and trials to get it right. Tom, Initally, the finish was supposed to be plain stucco with grooves.. later on they decided to go with stone cladding.. well i was in a kind of rush and couldnt wait to reimport the model again without those grooves.. but u spotted it well! thanks once again!

thanks guys for you comments.

i like them! your pics are always nice. i like the dogs, but maybe they're too many...

Stefanq none has no problem, this is done several times, when there is no tubing for this purpose in place, there is thus avoids footers behind the break up walls cheers

Vray is a rendering plugin used for sketchup. It is similar to the vray plugin for 3d max but a little toned down from what I understand. But you can use SU materials or you can use vray materials...whichever ones you use, you will still need to tweak them cause they need different characteristics to look like what you want. I usually combine the two. Just google vray for sketchup and u will find out a lot more about it. Try checking out podium too...much easier to learn at first.

Puma, this is a really nice pod. I would call it beatle oh, and geh4evr is right. this vehicle is destined for rendering, cause then you can have a glowing energy connection between the engines...

the second one has a nice fresh look.. i think the other two suffer from the black ground plane... maybe lighten it up a bit?

@unknownuser said: on first glance I thought it looked like Suzuki Swift Funny you should say that, I forgot to say I used blueprints from a 2006 Suzuki Swift as a base.

That Image looks great. But you have three vampires in the forground (no shadows) Us LA should be more visable

..thanks guys.... appreciate it. here is the other.... this one was supposed to be modern... [image: http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6756/cabintwooveralldayframekr6.jpg] [image: http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/9244/cabintwooverallnightfraqy5.jpg] [image: http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6559/cabintwodetaildayframesd5.jpg]

great, Fred. I have been waiting for you to start impressing us with renders of your models. and after a long silence from you (I was a bit concerned already) such a wonderful surprise! I am looking forward to see more of these!

how can i do this ... whats a displacement map ? which rubies do i need to download and how to i go about creating these terrains like solo has done?

dear Durant, unfortunately I have to agree with you, that George Lucas was wrong in thinking Episode I is supposed to be a naive children story. Anakin Sucks with his "ooops I saved the world" behavour. In the second movie I hated Hayden Christensens performance. this little stubborn adolocent shall become the most powerful Warrior of the imperator? the third movie was better, allthough way to short to tell Anakin's journey to the dark side. however, there were elements I really liked in that movie; Darth Maul for one was awesome (even if a bit too obviously diabolic). would have liked to see more of his double blade action. Ms Portman has allways been an eye catcher and added a bit of beauty throughout the second trilogy. but what I really loved about all three of the movies, what made me whatch them over and over again, was Ewan McGregor, a worthy successor of dear Sir Allec Guinnes. his ben kenobi was so charming, serious, powerful, cheeky... he made half of the movies - the other half was amazing SFX! but, Durant, I know exactly what you mean. I would have liked to see the first half of the Star Wars saga in a more sinister, dirty, realistic way - a bit like nowadays James Bond is reborn with Daniel Craigs performance or Batman is told in the right manner for the first time with Chris Nolans Dark Knight and Christian Bales great performance (who else would fit character like Bruce that well - just remember some of his previous movies, The Machinist for example) sorry, serrot, for jacking your thread Jakob PS: have you seen the "Firefly" series, Durant? or the first cinema appearance "Serenity"? great, fabulous, exciting - the best character of the old Star Wars movies, Hahn Solo, transferred into a dark, allmost realistic future of our universe... some great hours of film!

Serrot Wild, This is quite "Pushed," and progressive, but to be all down with telling you my guts on it, I find it a bit to scary... This is the kind of pad that the Grays will be looking to set up camp in, and the round tube glass walk way between the units would give me a big blast of "holy mad cow, I'm not digging it in here..." It reminds me of this aquarium deal I went to once with this Christie chick, you know the big kind that have the mad cap big tanks. We got all giggly getting an order of fish at the aquarium snack deal -- they really had fish at this joint -- and this curve was all fun and letting me look way down to deeply into her shirt top, and we decided to go wander through this shark deal that had a tube like that, and it was Jack bird a big mistake. This way bloated big thick gristle brain of a sad sack "I never had a more then a notions of eating everything that fists in my mouth" sharky shark comes all over to the glass tube and just stares at said date... Stares at her like she's a big brown hush puppy (not that I wasn't doing the same, but the shark was doing a more primitive kind of staring), so she got all, "It want's to eat me!" And that put an end to the fun, as later I said I wanted to "eat her like a shark," and that didn't get any traction, and she didn't find it clever, or kinky, or anything... She just said, "That's cleaver?... unfortunately, to much so by half..." Then she asked me to drive her home. So that left a bit of a scar. Durant "Harsh on sea life" Hapke