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I made this for a school competion that goes on to a state competion, and I got second place in my category, so this is going to the state competition!


By ryandaniels at 2008-04-14

Yeah, I know about the poly issues, but I was a noob and pushed indigo to far.

Anyway, I rendered it to 13,000 samples, because it was at 1000, and because there was this cloud of particles in the corner, it was still pretty grainy, and I could, I let it continue rendering over last weekend with 10 slaves. Anyway, grain is down to acceptable levels, and you can barely notice the clouds.

Speakers look great

lol facepunch studios...
garrys mod rocks
nice render

Smooth your normals! The chair back, monitor stand and your desk legs spoil the "realism" (I know some other elements are not "real" as such, but the non-smooth surfaces don't fit the scene feelas a whole).

Also, I would add a small skirting board too, as the differentiation between the floor and walls is not obvious.

dougal2 wrote:Smooth your normals! The chair back, monitor stand and your desk legs spoil the "realism" (I know some other elements are not "real" as such, but the non-smooth surfaces don't fit the scene feelas a whole).

Also, I would add a small skirting board too, as the differentiation between the floor and walls is not obvious.

Yeah, like I said, the polycount got to large, and indigo crashed from the file being to big.

About a baseboard, your right, I should have put a black baseboard, but I didn't think about it until it was too late.

Smoothing your normals doesn't increase the poly count - it simply smooths the edges that you have already.

dougal2 wrote:Smoothing your normals doesn't increase the poly count - it simply smooths the edges that you have already.

Well, I guess I've never heard of that before; mind telling me how to smooth normals?

Well, the way I would do it is select my object, go to the Normals menu and choose "Soften edges".... but then I use Maya

In blender? Hit "Set smooth" in "Link and materials" in the "Editing" (F9) panel.

Yeah it is easier to smooth normals than to make a massive sized mesh which only makes the faces look smaller. Unless you are going for that look it is best to meet somewhere in the middle.

You can't smooth something rough, I mean you still need some detail in your mesh but if your scene is crashing (your scene is a simple scene, I don't mean anything bad by this) then you have meshes that are far too detailed. Looking at the chair, I can see it is quite detailed.

Anyway, I like it. The baseboard was already mentioned and I would only want the LCD screen to be a bit brighter. I personally set mine up very dim [in real life] but it is still quite brighter than the one in your scene.

Hi Ryan! Nice image
I don't think the glass chair must be smoothed if you don't want to: after all i've see chairs like this a lot of times! Instead, i would put some lightness on the pc screen: now it seems like being in standby mode

Good work!