Render this: SSS

solo

Rich, here is my setup, see I have 3 lights behind and one in front, I rendered using preset #9

I used the studio setup, painted black, I have no sun and a black background.

tw sss setup.jpg

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Here's my attempt....

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looks like I'm a bit behind.....oops Guess I've been Dragon my ass....

d12dozr

Fantastic renders, guys! This is so cool

Using Twilight, I also had the same problem as Rich, I started using the Low and Medium presets and it was taking forever, but I'm getting much better results after switching to #10 - Interior+ (but not good enough to post here yet)

woodtick

Very interesting thread........thanks for starting this.I've just started working with Twilight and rendering in general.Keep in mind I'm a carpenter, not a graphic artist so any breach of rendering etiquette is purely unintentional. This is what I came up with....not sure it meets any of the sss criteria but it sure was fun trying.

Rich

Ecuadorian

Twilight Render's Easy 09 preset should be enough; Easy 10 enables color dispersion and some other special FX, however.

I made two more tries: One with Easy 09 and another one with Easy 10. I stacked them together:

And then added some airbrush to the eyes and altered the curves a little bit in GIMP:

Hey, Pete, how about "Emitters and LEMs" for the next "Render this"?

avariant

I started with the Twilight SSS template (Wax I think), then I made some extra changes in KT to produce this material. I was really surprised how it turned out; I really like it.

massimo

Coca-cola version. Just a Kerkythea material.

Ecuadorian

Another try with Kerkythea. I didn't let it cook for more than a couple minutes as I'm preparing another one.
Kerkythea Dragon.jpg

sepo

Guys I am really impressed with varied and good output. Seems all unbiased are doing really well, but I am very impressed with Vray/Max combo and Vue.

thomthom

@ecuadorian said:

Next time you ignore kitty, the dog will pay.

dacad

Wow guys, great renders you're pulling out. I'm really liking this thread.
But can i ask for the ones using twilight to, instead saying the number of the preset, can you say the method of render?like photon mappping, ppt, mtp, bpt, etc etc etc. Just to compare results and see how diferent methods afect the materials in the final image. Thanks

avariant
Great material and render. Is that MLT?

Ecuadorian

Thanks, Sid.

DacaD, in Twilight, presets Easy 01-07 use Photon Mapping. Easy 08 use Progressive Path Tracing. Easy 09 is MLT. Easy 10 is BiPT-MLT.

I liked Remus' blue rubber dragon so much that here's my attempt to have an Aerogel dragon in Kerkythea:
Aerogel dragon.jpg

tallbridgeguy

I'm still having some trouble making a decent render in kerkythea. The dragon I tried looked great but I don't think it was sss.

I downloaded some sss materials from the KT website, coke, red, blue, yellow and gum. I am using the the three backlights and the front light suggested by Pete (with MLT) but I can't get the sss light changing direction thingy. Just a well lit dragon. (which I like and the software is free.)

Could someone post some KT settings for a sss dragon? It would be very helpful if the comparison settings were shown for Vray vs KT and the matching images to see how the two systems compare.

Great renders in this thread!

thanks!
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nomeradona

joining you here... using translucent material vray sketchup.. which the equivalent of SSS

Ecuadorian

TBG, I gave up trying to achieve SSS in Kerkythea, too; I do most of my renders in Twilight, which uses the same engine. My last blue dragon in Kerkythea is literally filled with air; it's just fog. Here are my settings. I scaled the dragon a lot (it is around 30m long) so the fog would become visible.
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d12dozr

My attempt on the dragon...Thanks for starting this thread, Pete, I've learned so much and the subjects are so fun that I'm really excited to render them ...oh, and the amazing images are an incentive as well

Twilight Render, White Wax Library material I think, #10 preset - I stopped cooking after 8 hours (this SSS is killing my poor laptop)

Say, is there a way to change the library colors in Twilight, or to I have to do that in Kerkythea?

Dragon SSS Test 8h Preset10.jpg

olishea

you can change templates but not library.....but im sure u can change library in kerkythea, maybe im wrong. and yes sss is very slow

solo

These are fun, and some excellent renders as well as some great learning.
We may not need SSS on a daily basis, but on the off chance we do, we now have learned how it can be achieved.
So we have covered studios, SSS, what next you ask....

Keep an eye out for the next learning challenge, one a little more relevant.

Ecuadorian

LED lighting?
Neon signs?
Water?
Vegetation? (Vue wins. End of thread)