Cut Glass Fruit Bowl

cotty

I've rendered it with Indigo as a standard glass material and an EXR as the environmental lighting.

solo

Cool model thanks for sharing.

Took a break from work to play.

fruit bowl with apples.png

andybot

Nice work Chris! Thanks for sharing.

CJRyan

Cotty, thanks for responding, I'll look into Indigo more thoroughly!

Solo, that's almost exactly how it looks sitting on my kitchen table!
I'm flattered that you took the time to render it. I've seen a lot of your work over the years. Thanks for showing me what it could look like.

I know because of you experience rendering, you could probably get nearly the same results in many renderers. But out of curiosity, not that I could afford it, what are you using?

Chris

solo

Thank you for the distraction, have not played in a while.
I used Thea Render, a fast 5 minutes Presto render.

Box

@cjryan said:

I do wish there was a plugin like Chris Fulmers Shape bender that created concave and convex group/components.
Chris

For future reference, Shapebender will bend a bunch of components/groups as long as they are nested in another Group/component.

CJRyan

Solo,

LOL, I let mine grind for hours. And it ain't all that slow! Six core running at 3.7.

Box,

Do you mean to tell me that if I'd have bent it on the red axis, then re-bent it (after switching my axis 90 degrees) I could have done it that way? Please show me. But, that's sure a doh moment if that actually works! (and where the heck where you when I asked about that in my first post?)

Chris

Box, this was what I was going for. I wish shape bender could have done it!

View for box.JPG

CJRyan

Never mind solo, I just realized I was rendering an entire model, just not the fruit bowl and a floor.

But thanks!

Chris

pbacot

Wow guys. Incredible!

Box

Here's a rough version using shapebender just as you describe.
It starts off as a group of components but ends up as one component.
It may not be as clean as you want, you'll notice some of the faces are split to allow the bend, but it is very quick.

You could also use Fredo's Radial Bend, part of Fredoscale.

Crystal Shapebender.zip

CJRyan

Thanks for the example Box,

It never occurred to me to bend the bottom twice!

Because I sure would have! Oh well, I learned about "Smart Drop" anyaway!

Chris