[3dgeek]

Does anyone know how the "Stay Creative" image on the Maxwell v3 main page (http://www.maxwellrender.com/V3/feature/) was actually created?

It's obviously replicating a very slow shutter camera and light drawing... what I am wondering is... was this faked, in other words.. achieved via geometry and materials or was it actually achieved with an animated object and a really slow shutter?

I've never been able to reproduce this effect digitally without modeled geometry.

Anyone know?

[nachob]

Hi 3dgeek,

It is not fake, its only geometry and motion blur. You have some more info about the scene and some tips from the author (Mihai) here:

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 15&t=41341

nachob

[dariolanza]

Hello 3dgeek,

It has been created by true motion blur of an emitting object, like the light trails you can see in this video:

http://support.nextlimit.com/display/mx ... otion+Blur

There is a tiny optimization tip that was used to reduce render times there (we would like to publish a tutorial about it in the near future) but the general approach is true real motion blur of a moving light.

Dario Lanza