Abizeitung Cover

[B.Y.O.B.]

Hi,

I recently made the cover image for the "Abizeitung" of my school (kind of a yearbook).

It was rendered with SLG2 in 2 hours on a GTX 460 1GB (2000 passes).
The background is a HDRI from openfootage.net, other textures are self-painted, from wikipedia.org or from cgtextures.com.

[SATtva]

Very nice, although i prefer the dark one.

Some black outline has remained on the top edge of the foam, you can remove it in Photoshop or Gimp.

[B.Y.O.B.]

Some black outline has remained on the top edge of the foam

Yes, I think that are shading issues - the foam is a sculpted mesh that's set to smooth shading and that is a little bit emissive (0.8, to fake the scattering of the sunlight in the foam).

I had not much time to do this image, otherwise I would have spent more time working on details like table accessories, bubbles in the beer, drops on the outside of the glass etc.

[homer]

Looks fine.

+ für das bayerische Logo
- für das Kristallweizen, bitte ein trübes Hefeweizen

[B.Y.O.B.]

- für das Kristallweizen, bitte ein trübes Hefeweizen

I had to use Lux to achieve that (SSS). Maybe I will set up the scene for Lux, with different lables on the glass I could use it as a entry for the Splash Screen competition.

[Carbonflux]

This is wonderful, its like taking the glass of water render to the next level, so many great details. The foam is really working well, Very interesting result, I looked at it for a long time even though its a simple glass of beer, it really IS a glass of beer.

[Pilchard123]

That lion looks rather smug.

Is there any particular beer that it is based on?

[homer]

- für das Kristallweizen, bitte ein trübes Hefeweizen

I had to use Lux to achieve that (SSS). Maybe I will set up the scene for Lux, with different lables on the glass I could use it as a entry for the Splash Screen competition.

Sure.
Maybe try to put the bavarian logo in front of the glas and try to make a volume material for a "Hefeweizen" (oder Weißbier wie man in München sagt).
Another idea: Make a brezel on the wood plate on the left, to mimic a bavarian "Brozeit"

[A-man]

Maybe I will set up the scene for Lux, with different lables on the glass I could use it as a entry for the Splash Screen competition.

I don't think you are supposed to re-use scenes for competitions. You should double check with BinaryCortex. If you are gonna change a bunch of stuff it might be ok.

[B.Y.O.B.]

Homer: something like that, yes.

A-man: afaik I can use any scene for a competition that was created in the time frame the competition was running - not before. But you are right, if I really use these scene for my entry, I'll ask Binarycortex before.