Various rendering choices? -- Challenge!

notareal

Here is another try (again pure render from Thea).

KarinaGM

Wow! I love it. What are the settings for this material? and what material is this?
Lights?

TaffGoch

notareal,
I'm also intrigued by your Thea transparent material for your latest.

Is this material available for download (here or at Kerky website.) ?

Here's my latest (slowly improving) attempt at jade (still using Photoshop adjustments):

(I'm testing only material changes, to get accustomed to the materials editor parameters in Kerkythea. I'll move on to lighting & environment, after I'm more comfortable with materials.)

-Taff

notareal

Sorry, unfortunatelly Thea materials cannot be used in KT, material systems are that different. Thea can do a conversion of KT materials, but as it does use heuristic, one might need to tune up imported complex KT materials.
But to the render... The material uses thin film interference for color and fairly simple studio with HDR. You can find full Thea scene here (Note: need to use Thea RV378 or later).

Gaieus

There are some other, interesting layers in there...

Anssi

A first quick one with ArtLantis. 20 seconds.

Anssi

TaffGoch

@solo said:

I smell a render challenge....
Frigging cool model, curious how it was made.

Your wish is granted...

I included hidden layers in the model, to demonstrate the development of the sinusoidal "Follow me" path. The methods are conceptually simple, and radial symmetries permit copies of components, so it's not as complex as it first appears.

BTW, you may consider yourself challenged....

-Taff

TaffGoch

@gaieus said:

There are some other, interesting layers in there...

Indeed! Extreme "lensing" magnification, by that orb.

Nice resultant caustics, too.

-Taff

KarinaGM

@unknownuser said:

The material uses thin film interference for color and fairly simple studio with HDR.

You mean you used thin film and nothing else?
well, that HDRI must be a good one.

boofredlay

Twilight Render. Progressive, 175 passes.
Iridescent Coated Aluminum material, two spot lights.

solo

It must be a guy thing... we love rendering balls.

boofredlay

And mine is blue.

Gaieus

Ah, nice trick indeed. MLT is "best" when there is (are) enough light(s). In some really shady areas it can get clear really slowly.

TaffGoch

Gai,

I liked your iridescent render enough to give it a try, using Kerkythea, Metals_Ashikhmin_MLT, rainbow_metal_02, (M)etropolis(L)ight(T)ransfer (for a couple of hours):

Actually, I only used the resultant iridescent colors, saturated and layered, in Photoshop, to "colorize" a greyscale version of my original gold render. (Much faster than waiting for a long MLT render.)

[ My new wallpaper! ]

-Taff

boofredlay

Here is another angle.

olishea

like this one A LOT!!

Gaieus

@olishea said:

like this one A LOT!!

+1

boofredlay

Thanks.

TaffGoch

Boof,

Can you dish out some details?

(I'm still learning materials, but need to move on to depth-of-field, etc.)

-Taff

Rich O Brien

Thanks for sharing the settings Eric

This is a great learning thread, much appreciated.