I love DOF too. Terra cotta WIP

michaliszissiou

Tanagrea (woman from Tanagra -near Thibes Greece) is the common greek name for these ancient terra cotta sculptures. Usually 10-25 cm.
Modeled and textured and baked in blender, rendered in SU+podium. No zbrush this time. Rendered in 52 sec - old noisy preset. PP just for DOF and vignetting.

nomeradona

wow another awesome use of your trademark michalis' workflow...

michaliszissiou

Thanks nomer. Here's the model too.

TerraCotta1.skp.zip

sepo

Great...love the lighting and pp.

fymoro

Wowo, very cool render...

solo

Very Cool Michalis, I notice soft shadows, is that rendered with the new Podium beta?

Is the composition intentional? the three sisters huddled together, gossiping and planning the demise of the pretty one... a Cinderella scenario.

michaliszissiou

@solo said:

Very Cool Michalis, I notice soft shadows, is that rendered with the new Podium beta?

Is the composition intentional? the three sisters huddled together, gossiping and planning the demise of the pretty one... a Cinderella scenario.

Exactly so pete. I'm modeling 3 more figures, placing them together, you'll see then what 'intentional' means. lol This is the funny game with these beautiful little statues.
New podium? I'm just a poor mac user.

olishea

The woman on the far right looks really suspect. Watch out

michaliszissiou

@olishea said:

The woman on the far right looks really suspect. Watch out

Suspect of what? Everybody has the right to use his own lighting.

Ecuadorian

I like the statues.
Now you got me interested in Blender. Any good "Blender for newbies" tutorial you might suggest?

michaliszissiou

@ecuadorian said:

I like the statues.
Now you got me interested in Blender. Any good "Blender for newbies" tutorial you might suggest?

The most important in blender is box modeling (completely different from SU methods).
Here's one nice for newbies. As I remember, Sepo sent me this link.
http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html
use this too as a reference:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual (unfortunately its for an older version but most of them work)

michaliszissiou

Added some more. WIP

olishea

@michaliszissiou said:

Suspect of what?

She's keeping watch for the others. Scheming.

michaliszissiou

The third sister.

michaliszissiou

Some PP here just for DOF. Two dof maps exported from SU. I had to simulate a macro style photo. An apple model too, (for PC lovers lol), a blender UV mappning at its best. Have fun.

apple.skp