Odonata Epiprocta

[Cyberdactyl]

Hi everyone,

I posted this also over in the Sketchucation forum, but since it's Indigo, I thought I'd throw it over here as well.

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Here's a few dragonfly constructions I've been working on. I have maybe ten cumulative hours on the modeling and another 2-4 on the lighting, staging and touch-ups.

Rendered with SU6 Pro and Indigo v1.0.9_3 with some minor tweaks and the frame with Paint.net. I really wanted to incorporate more than one complex model in a scene, but my PC and/or Indigo can't cut it.

'Surface Tension' is full diffused light, to attempt to bring out as much detail as possible in the wings and body hair.



In the below night scenes, I just couldn't rid myself of that last bit of noise, so I decided to work with it, and added small 4 point pyramid emitters as 'pixie dust' coming off the firefly's tail.

All the renders were given about 6 hours.

[dakiru]

The third render looks great The wings structure seems to be very detailed but aren't they too thick?

[Cyberdactyl]

Yes, I think I may have made them a bit thick. I was trying to give the reflective surfaces some dimension, so they wouldn't look like simple Tiffany-style glass panes.

Possibly I should have used some other technique for skin thick semi-transparent reflective textures.