Gold Dipped

[mbin]

Just posted this on the Reality plug in group gallery at Deviant Art, and Paolo suggested I post it here too...

Not really sure, as there are some exceptionally tallented modellers posting here, and this uses pre-built models... all I have done is assemble the scene to my liking, and set material and lighting options and let Lux do its work! But for what its worth, here are the details;-

Finally ended the render at 126,320 s/p... the grain in the foreground of the water is now much improved, but has not changed much in the last 30k or so... calling it a day on this one

Items Used;-
(Daz3v1.2.32 to Reality1v25 to Lux0v8)

v4.2 Complete
Sarsa/Mada's Thistledown character
All V4 materials set to metal, type gold, with polish set to 9990

Sunny1 IBL from Skies Of Reality, by Dimension Theory

Primitive plane (400 x 400) scaled to 1800%, set to pool / sea water, ripple
= 2.16, sub division = 2

Primitive plane (400 x 400) scaled to 1800%, set to matte 128,128,0 for seabed (Upon which Thistle character is kneeling on)

iso 800, 1/4 sec, f2.8

Film response = Ektachrome 100 plusCD
image size = 900 x 1200
samples per pixel = 126,320
render time = 257 hours 27 minutes

no post work other than sig and banner

[SATtva]

Definitely love this image, great work!

[weltbesiedler]

It looks wonderful and it was absolutely worth the render time! On which CPU you rendered?

[paco]

that water is really nice

[Ze_Blob]

Really a magic picture !

May be a little too much "defocus" for my taste, but it's hard to find a balance between reality and artistic effects.

[mbin]

It looks wonderful and it was absolutely worth the render time! On which CPU you rendered?

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz

Thanks for the comments, most appreciated!

[B.Y.O.B.]

Great image