Model for Rendering Samples - Green Dragon

Frederik

@d12dozr said:

How does my simulation look?

The wooden texture used for the table looks low res...

d12dozr

Too funny, Kim! It IS one of those fake wood countertops.

andybot

@d12dozr said:

How does my simulation look?

Real nice SSS

Elibjr

I used IRender nXt...
I was first going to do a simple light around the table, but then I decided to MODEL a room as opposed to using an HDRI image. Then I decided to complicate matters by making the material 48% transparent, w/ 1.5 refraction, 73%+/- Translucency, and then checked Thick and Gather (this gives it the speckles when light goes through it). Attenuation at about 35%, 10% Dispersion and about 70% Saturation. I made the reflection intensity over 70% and Sharpness about 50%. Because of this, it took a while to render! The chairs lamps and vase are from the 3D Warehouse. The room is a rectangle with 5 windows into it. There is a lamp in each corner. I with the nXt image editor I did one render and created 6 images with the lighting channels. There is a Sun channel, a Sky channel, and a Lighting channel. I can add color variations too. I had too way much fun here. Thanks all for posting this thread Al.
Elibjr - EB

IRender nXt raw run though a free Gif animator. One render, 6 images.

Elibjr

@d12dozr said:

How does my simulation look?

[attachment=2:1q2508sj]dragon01.jpg[/attachment:1q2508sj]
[attachment=1:1q2508sj]dragon02.jpg[/attachment:1q2508sj]
[attachment=0:1q2508sj]dragon03.jpg[/attachment:1q2508sj]

Ok, these are real photos, if you couldn't tell. I scaled the model down to 2" long and printed it on my little Solidoodle 3D printer. My printer needs some calibration, as you can tell from the stringy bits and uneven layers, but at least the photos can be used as reference for real world lighting conditions.

This is awesome! How long did it take this thing to finish? What is it made out of? Cool! I want one!

d12dozr

Hi Eli, it took 55 minutes to print at this scale (2" long). It's made of ABS plastic, the same stuff Lego blocks are made of.

If you want to get one made, I have attached the file I used to print. It is converted to an STL file and fixed up so that it's solid for 3D printing. You can send it to a print service like Shapeways, or even better find someone near you with a 3D printer. Here's a good place to look: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

As a bonus, I found a photo of a the same dragon made on a $200,000 printer

Talk about fine detail and SSS!

Dragon 2inch (repaired).zip

marked001

messed around with KeyShot this weekend...here's a quick render. 10 second setup time.

jeff hammond

had to test a material importer so i used the dragon..

then fredo's thruPaint > Natural did a pretty good job at laying out the tiles in the way they'd go down if you were to really attempt tiling this thing.. anybody got a diamond saw?

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