Render this:Christmas Night

boofredlay

Adam, that rocks

Marian

I'm blown away. That's as good as the inspiration for the model.

sepo

Beautiful image Adam. Very nice Christmas card.

solo

Great stuff Adam, Vue or Vray?

EarthMover

Thanks guys! Pete, it's Vray. The mountain is just a background image that I added in post. Actually the raw render is not impressive at all.

Here's another daytime one to show a close up of the displaced cobbles popping up through the snow mesh. Tried to keep the color balance cold and wintery. If anyone wants a copy of cobble texture or the snow image I used for overlay, let me know.

snow scene_cobbles copy.jpg

EarthMover

Had a quick go at this one because I love the model so much. Great job Ely. Quick render and a bit of photoshop.

Snow Village 1 copy.jpg

dermotcoll

Earthmover

Those last two images were amazing - pure inspiration for us novices!!

EarthMover

Thanks Dermot for the compliment. The longer you dabble, the more tricks you collect. The raw renders for those images where nothing special. I spent little time on the materials and rendering. Good photoshop skills can make up for a lot.

Snow Village 1.jpg

snow scene_cobbles.jpg

stefanq

Looks fantastic Adam! Congrats!

dspace

EarthMover
Definetly the best Xmas render

Ultimatez 32

Adam, is this V-ray for Max or V-ray for SU? I'm asking because I'm trying to find out how to add displacement map to a texture in v-rayfSU

remon_v

under the "maps" rollout check displacement en click on the "m" > type "bitmap" > click on the "m" and browse to you displacement map

dedmin

@ultimatez 32 said:

Adam, is this V-ray for Max or V-ray for SU? I'm asking because I'm trying to find out how to add displacement map to a texture in v-rayfSU

http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=343&Itemid=480

ely862me

Let me pick my jaw from the floor .
David, Adam...speachless .
Thanks a lot guys.We can clearly see that in a project the 3d model represent about 20-30% ..the render does all the job.
Well done guys,well done!!!

Elisei

michaliszissiou

Adam

KXI System

Amazing picture to get inspired from! But I'll be blunt about one thing, scientifically the moon part of the picture is done wrong-the moon crest should not have the clouds in it.

But still... Amazing picture to get inspired from!

CaptainsLS

Ok, I gave it a whirl. I had fun with it and learned a few things too. Getting the snow to 'bunch up' on the roof was new to me.

EarthMover

Sweet work Captain! Lighting is very realistic. Vue? Only critique would be maybe a different material for the bottom of the light poles and a touch more contrast overall.

AdamB

Here's my attempt using image-based lighting AO and I made the windows area emitters.

First one is just linear AO, second is using skybox as emitter (IBL), third is with direct lighting as well.
Lighting time is 3 minutes.

ely862me

Very realistic Captain(only one thing bother me..those square shadows down there on the snow)..
Adam,those are very nice thinking there is no render engine involved .

Thank you for posting ur renders!

Elisei