Render this: SSS

tallbridgeguy · 13 Nov 2009, 20:51

Love the chocolate.....best I could do was this thingy. Orange-sicle?

Pete thanks for the fun challenge!

david_h · 13 Nov 2009, 21:07

Delic-icious!

boofredlay · 13 Nov 2009, 21:39

Dude you guys are sick. This is great stuff. I wish I had more time to play right now.

Ecuadorian · 13 Nov 2009, 21:44

That looks yummy, TBG.

Move on, Pete? But SSS is like DOF; it's LOF = Lots Of Fun. Besides, I prefer to just lurk the water fountain thread for a while as everybody is giving away great ideas and I still can't come up with a practical one.

EscapeArtist · 14 Nov 2009, 13:52

OK, I couldn't let it sit with my previous complaint about Kerkythea, so here's another attempt. Tried to get a cloudy emerald rock-crystal look to it. Might've done better with a reflection environment, but I forgot about it and have already let it run overnight.

woodtick · 14 Nov 2009, 15:20

I had to give it a try with this little guy.Twilight #9....let it render while I was at work yesterday for about 12 hrs.
Rich

dale · 14 Nov 2009, 16:34

Tried an experiment. Copied the dragon, pasted it in place, scaled one copy down by 10%, placed it inside the other dragon to give it a real subsurface, assigned the outer skin a transparent material, and the inner a green translucent material. Didn't turn out like I expected, but was fun.
The mint jello dragon

jeff hammond · 14 Nov 2009, 16:47

@dale said:

The mint jello dragon

woulda sounded better if you called it sour apple or something

EscapeArtist · 14 Nov 2009, 16:54

@dale said:

Tried an experiment. Copied the dragon, pasted it in place, scaled one copy down by 10%, placed it inside the other dragon to give it a real subsurface, assigned the outer skin a transparent material, and the inner a green translucent material. Didn't turn out like I expected, but was fun.
The mint jello dragon

Hmm, if the IoR is the same it may have negated the effect. Perhaps applying a mild fresnel effect to the outer layer?

david_h · 14 Nov 2009, 17:09

@unknownuser said:

@dale said:

The mint jello dragon

woulda sounded better if you called it sour apple or something

Looks more like Lime Green Life-Saver.

olishea · 14 Nov 2009, 20:29

great renders guys. man this is getting technical!

how about some sub surface scat?! im sure a good old dump has some sss haha, so come on guys lets polish a turd

Ecuadorian · 14 Nov 2009, 21:10

@woodtick said:

I had to give it a try with this little guy.Twilight #9....let it render while I was at work yesterday for about 12 hrs.
Rich

Woodtick, this looks very interesting. Could you share how you did it?

arail1 · 14 Nov 2009, 22:23

modo with drag and drop presets

solo · 14 Nov 2009, 23:15

Playing again.

woodtick · 14 Nov 2009, 23:52

Ecuadorian,
Well, since I'm really new to this I'm just trying different ideas to see what happens. Nothing scientific to my approach, but I'll share as best I can.
Dragon sits in the bowl: high reflective template
Dome goes on top for the render:diamond glass
spotlights as shown

Spherical sky, no sun, HDRI
Two small red omnis, nose& throat
skinny spotlight on tongue
tiny orange omni eye

started with rubber ball material and tweaked :

SU fog on
TW preset #9

That covers most of it I think.
Lots of great images here folks......keep 'em coming.
Rich

richcat · 15 Nov 2009, 00:28

Pete that's not the Lockness monster is it

dale · 15 Nov 2009, 15:32

[/quote] escapeartist wrote: Hmm, if the IoR is the same it may have negated the effect. Perhaps applying a mild fresnel effect to the outer layer?[/quote]

I haven't had much time to play lately, but when I do I'll give this a try. Thanks

edmund · 16 Nov 2009, 17:54

playing

solo · 16 Nov 2009, 17:55

Edmund, those look fantastic, what render app?

edmund · 16 Nov 2009, 18:04

@unknownuser said:

Edmund, those look fantastic, what render app?

twilight
rubber ball material
preset 9
let it run overnight

Thanks Solo.