A gust of wind

massimo · 4 Dec 2010, 19:42

Latest fun...Modeled in SU and rendered with Twilight.
The lighting is made with three slightly yellowish IES emitter planes and a coloured point light in the flame. Progressive preset, 115 passes and no post pro of any kind.

Rich O Brien · 4 Dec 2010, 19:51

I check this out earlier at Twilight. Really exquisite technique and application. Members would benefit by seeing the raw SU setup. Check it out in the Gallery forum.

Thanks for bringing here too massimo

solo · 4 Dec 2010, 19:58

Very cool, there is a new plugin that can animate it now.

massimo · 4 Dec 2010, 20:08

Thanks guys.
Rich here you have some raw SU's screenshot. Very simple setup.
Saw that plugin Solo, maybe I'll try it.

olishea · 4 Dec 2010, 21:28

photo!

massimo · 4 Dec 2010, 23:09

Cheers Oli.

Roger · 5 Dec 2010, 07:18

Excellent lighting. What can you tell us about the makeup of the wax. What numbers did you use for subsurface scatter, index of refraction etc.?

massimo · 5 Dec 2010, 09:39

A new version. Added something and changed a bit the lighting. The fabric was taken somewhere from a bedroom scene and "worked" a bit with S&S plugin. Again Twilight, only 60 passes this time. no post work.

massimo · 5 Dec 2010, 10:16

Thanks Roger. If I remember well you use Kerkythea. The material I've used for the wax is the "milk" from the translucent material pack, with no changes. It's a simple mix between a dielectric glass and a tranlucent mat, with scatter and falloff. It comes with Twilight installation as well.
IOR=1.35
Fog settings
Emittance=1
Scatter=1
Falloff=135

fymoro · 5 Dec 2010, 15:53

Massimo, Perfecto...

Roger · 5 Dec 2010, 19:49

@massimo said:

Thanks Roger. If I remember well you use Kerkythea. The material I've used for the wax is the "milk" from the translucent material pack, with no changes. It's a simple mix between a dielectric glass and a tranlucent mat, with scatter and falloff. It comes with Twilight installation as well.
IOR=1.35
Fog settings
Emittance=1
Scatter=1
Falloff=135

Wow, good memory Massimo. Yes I think KT is great but now I am also using Twilight as I like the interface a little better.

massimo · 6 Dec 2010, 08:03

Glad you like it Fred.

Larsen · 11 Jan 2011, 11:59

A lot of congratulations... But no sharing.
Showing is GOOD,Sharing is better.

numbthumb · 11 Jan 2011, 12:25

Simple, yet effective. Bravissimo!

reitveld · 14 Jan 2011, 01:23

Really nice! Thanks for sharing.

Bryan K · 15 Jan 2011, 01:18

Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

massimo · 15 Jan 2011, 16:56

Thanks again guys.

Richard · 17 Jan 2011, 22:31

Mate you are an artist!! No doubt! It's in the detail - the direction of the flame, the lost wax resulting - who else would care for such detail unless it is part of their personal charter!

SurfingAlien · 18 Jan 2011, 00:09

this is great, Massimo! just g-r-e-a-t
still waiting for the OSX port of Twilight to have a go myself, BTW

massimo · 18 Jan 2011, 07:15

Thanks for the kind words. Cheers Richard and Alessandro.