Indigo Renderer Forum

Hi, A small scene I have been playing with. Its coming out quite nice, again as usual for me the modelling is all quite basic. I would appreciate any suggestions, in particular I would like to know what everyone thinks of the soup. Believable? I have a few changes to make before I go for a final render. Oh and it was also done using the camera tone mapping, I love that it just added so much more contrast and impact to the render.

how romantic caustics

I really like the scene composition The DoF is probably a little extreme as even the glasses in front of the rose are out of focus but other than that, nice!

Great scene!
agree with wytraven and kram
two advices: maybe the candle light must be "a lot hot" and try to change the "soup" material... don't know... broth? (and maybe some smoke in postpro)
i'm following
bye bye

the soup needs some of these too, and for the color I would choose this one (don't looks that much like blood )

ZomB wrote:the soup needs some of these too

Does the soup have to register on Maxwell forums ?

Nice nice composition really ! Normal smoothing pb on the soup tho, either set smooth shading off or bevel the sharp edge.

lol, I thought, that would be spaghetti with too much sauce

Thanks guys, yes I don't like my soup material. I was actually trying for tomato soup. Its actually just a plane with phong/ null blend material. I guess I am going to have to try a sss material, the candles are already killing my render times though. A decent soup material will have to be high absorption and high sss I would guess, any hints on where to start. I grabbed that parsley thanks Zomb, it should be pretty easy to use the textures in indigo, and I like the look of that soup you pointed out. CTZn, good spotting on the smooth shading, i didn't even realise it was on. And funny enough it was going to be a bowl of pasta originally, but I couldn't work out a way to model it. Slamdog, i am not sure what you mean by the flame must be lots hot, do you mean more of a reddish colour. Its actually a textured emmitter, roughly flame colours

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... o_soup.jpg a soup doesn't need to have high scattering

I thought I would show you guys an early render of this scene that i did, its quite crude. But the are some interesting caustics going on. Got a bit of a rainbow effect happening

ru use some dispercion for your glass??from where come this rainbow effect?

tabulated spectrum, I guess - one of wytravens great glasses

CTZn wrote:Normal smoothing pb on the soup tho, either set smooth shading off or bevel the sharp edge.

Erf that's the shadow I took as an error

yes, i mean more reddish. However, if it's textures with flame colours, maybe you could try to dim the intensity of light.
It seems to me too strong to be a candle light, with not much decay... but maybe i'm in error.
Good work

the problem is, that the dynamic range of a photo isn't high enough to capture both the scene (in a well-lit way) and the candle. that results in overcasted flames, which you usually could see in colours in reality.
So, actually, that's quite real - might be too aliased (too high contrast :S - try higher super sampling factor ) and not bloomy enough (add bloom and glare post processed in violet ) though...