Render this: Mad science

Rich O Brien

Hold on...

I just noticed the brain for Christ sakes....

Then I spotted the bloody text on the pages!

[Insert very long sigh]

solo

LOL...I spent too much time thinking about this...

Okay regarding the flame, it's actually a clipped emitter, I will post a thea scene later with it and my new Tesla orb (will render it later) as I think I nailed it finally.

D-space

1.5 hrs KT. A continuation of my leaves. Probably will do another with other apps as well.

mouse leaves.jpg

KarinaGM

Oh please, please.
Any hints on how to render that lightning sphere / tesla ball / plasma ball (or whatever it is called) ?

Are those here modeled?

And about the brain, Solo (great render!), in your outlined image in SU it does look as a brain, have you tweaked it to improve the realism? I'm having troubles placing a convincing texture to it...

tridem

Dspace, how did you managed the rat? SU fur or simply KT material? (pretty looks like velvet...)

KarinaGM

@unknownuser said:

I don't like just the syringe so close to the camera (too much distorted and seems out of scale)...the rest promises very good!

Oh well, the distortion is on purpose, as well as the rotation of the camera. I am terrified by needles, so I tried to emphasize it, but you are right, maybe it was too much...
I moved the camera a bit and changed the angle another bit, hope it looks better now

Ah, the render was already running when I noticed this square flame... , gotta fix it later for the next test.
I'm still struggling with the mats, I don't like those liquids, I have to do something with them...

I know the image is still too noisy, but I was not gifted with patience anyway, as I have to change so many things I think I'll stop the render.
I'm hating the emitter in the middle of my scene, but I can't make it look dimmer without loosing the light it emits. Maybe I'll postpro this... or hide it a bit into those strange googles.

pyroluna

that brain is the first one you find when you search for components...

Gaieus

Good - because I sometimes cannot find my own...

olishea

Karina nice little scene you got there. I like the distortion; it looks like a nightmare!

dale

I'm re-posting the link to the CGI site that is in Pete's first post. It's really worth seeing what people are doing over there, some great treatments. This is a very challenging challenge.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=185&t=885168&page=1&pp=15

david_h

I like this one.. All Mad scientists movies were in Black & White right?

arail1

@unknownuser said:

I like this one.. All Mad scientists movies were in Black & White right?

I didn't want to do any post work but I think the original black and white films had a much greater degree of contrast than this image so maybe I should have brought it into Photoshop to do that. Tonight I'll call up The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and see what it looks like.

david_h

Frank N. Stein.jpg

It's AL-IIIIIVE!!!

arail1

modo

michaliszissiou

Excellent renders, especially pete's.
I just did this in five min, just a clay render to understand what I have to do.

arail1

Gave the mouse a nuclear touch.
I promised myself I wouldn't get too much into rendering as most of my work is CAD related, but once you start it's hard to stop.
I really need a new computer. The computer I have shuts down when I try to render something in Octane (it should have a splash screen that says: Who Do You Think You're Kidding?!). This simple scene took a couple of hours in modo.