Splash WIP - Desk Fan Meets ...

[g60]

Well, what it meets is a little complicated.

MLT + Path tracing, 1800 S/P

I hope I can pull it off in time since I have to allow a few days for rendering

This is a 1920's era American desk fan (part Emerson, GE, and Westinghouse), designed way before any consumer protection laws. I need to model the little tiny handle in the back to make it "safer". The grill is from a design that I noticed on several competing models ... industrial espionage, perhaps? I'm making fun of this thing but I would love to have one.

[Carbonflux]

thats a very beautiful fan

if no one else steps forward with better resources I would be happy to render a final version for you on my quad

[g60]

Thanks for the comment and the offer. I think I can finish the other part and be ready for a final composition by tomorrow and I don't mind letting my machine run. Even CPU bound my machine is very usable and I like keeping it busy. It also forces me to model more efficiently.

[Radiance]

Hi,

Looking nice
Some interesting lighting and a cool camera angle will make this rock

Don't worry about time, i decided yesterday that we can prolongue the competition a bit more,
maybe another week, as we will probably be releasing v0.6 a little bit later that christmas too during ongoing development...

I'll post in the competition announcement post about this.

Radiance

[g60]

Not quite there yet but this is what meets the desk fan:

Posing study, MLT+BiDir 5/5 1000 S/P

There will be some modeling changes, textures, and a few lighting tests before starting a final render later tonight. Well, it is never a FINAL final but I think this one is going to need at least 3000+ S/P plus a few motion-blur'd objects.

The bot is not fully rigged but it took me quite a while just to parent all the parts so posing wouldn't take all day.

[Carbonflux]

The arms and legs are beautify modeled...I look forward to seeing the next version, I like the pose but the eyes of course might need more work which you imply at the end

I hope you are warm and not totally buried in snow, good time to render stuff, adding heat etc

[g60]

The eyes have been difficult because the glow doesn't come through on a preview; that is, after an hour or two of rendering the emission becomes more resolved and they look too bright. I think I can work it out. I'm also changing the body material. I'm trying not to get too crazy about it.

I'm not going to complain about the cold yet. I am getting low on propane so check on me in about 4 days . I posted a pic here: http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&p=11094#p11094 . Next year I am going to surround my feet with a few quads. (I have to go now, it is a 2 day walk to the mail box )

[Lord Crc]

I think I'd try one with and one without emission, and then blend between them in post process.

[Radiance]

nice robot

love the thin film reflection on his 'visor'

Radiance

[g60]

I think I'd try one with and one without emission, and then blend between them in post process.

I like that solution. I only did about 3 tries and got too bright, too dim, and not quite right. Anyway, I hope to find one that is just right and use your method as a fall back.

I haven't tried this in a while but it used to be that bordered renders would work with lux. That would help with getting that part correct.

love the thin film reflection on his 'visor'

That's the other part of the equation --- it is 200nm 'Opal,Black' on light gray glass with dispersive refraction. I don't want too much of the eye modeling to show up since it is just an inset for the emitter icospheres but I wanted the light to spray a little across the visor.