Render This - Marble

boofredlay

Ok, I was sifting through old models and found a marble I tried rendering last year without success. So I put it up for a render challenge. Use this marble or make your own.

The image above is not a rendering, just an example. My poor attempt is below.

Marble.skp

Here is my attempt.

olishea

ooh nice challenge

sepo

I wish the model was smoother.

marble 1A.jpg

massimo

Here is my shot...

Rich O Brien

Something a little different [sic. shite]

EarthMover

Render engine? Render Time? Technique & Approach? These should be mandatory with every render submitted in any "Render This" challenge. If not, then you might as well take "Ucation" out of SketchUcation.

Rich O Brien

Good point Adam

Render Engine - Simlab Composer

Render Time - 1hr

Technique/Approach - Basic Studio with Titanium texture. Studio HDR and a directional light. Glass was water ior value with plastic applied to interior feathers. Tried to create a more NPR feel to it. Not to everyones taste I'd imagine but I liked the result all the same.

andre51

This is a welcome break from the normal architectural stuff!

Used Maxwell - render time about 3hrs but image was OK after about 1hr.

Bump to surface a bit overdone.

fymoro

Here is my render,

Twilight 1.4, easy Hight+ preset, Hdri lighting, 8 minutes at 800/800.
PP with ACDsee pro for contrast and border...

fymoro

Another image, preset easy 10, 40 minutes...
Twilight caustics...

olishea

bravo guys!!

martin-art

Rendered in Shaderlight, taking 33 minutes at 800 x 600. Setup using a simple room environment with GI and bump.

boofredlay

Oh man, these are looking great. I must try again soon.

Burkhard

..another raw octane with hdri lighting.

massimo

Another one. Kerkythea again, unbiased 100 passes, procedural clipmap for the sack. No post pro with the exception of the vignette in Photoshop.

stefanq

V-Ray for SU, studio setup, 21 minutes, HDRI in background, and for illumination.

EarthMover

A quick stab at it. Vray/Max - 40 minutes at 1600x1200. Rendered with a studio setup and HDRI. Post process to color adjust, add the DOF and vignette. Also smoothed the geometry.

Tweaked

Raw Render

urgen

...Hypershot 20 min+some photoshop...hot weather now ...

puck

First crack at this one.
Arion Render - 60 mins
Set up time after sketchup was about 15 mins

I've got another one cooking at the moment with a slightly different material for the outside of the marble. I'll upload it when it's done.

Puck

puck

Second one using Arion Render. This took about 1h 20m. I'm quite pleased with the results, would like to have put some DOF on it but I'm not sure how to do that with Arion yet.

Puck