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This is an LP for a techno artist with a sense of humour. The idea was to take the piss on the traditional Flemish/Dutch still life and make it with elements from a DJ slob's apartment (with a lobster thrown in for good measure).



I started in Mental Ray since I was using my laptop (I lost my desk job recently). But after getting fed up with trying to get subtle lighting with MR, I did what any sensible person would do: I bought a new Mac Pro and used Maxwell

Used a variety of apps: Maya, Mudbox (Mac beta tester), ZBrush, Headus UV Layout and some stock shaders.

Working on the sandwich meat SSS (any tips helpful) and the lobster now.

Nice assortment of strange objects!

that smoke is sexy!

needs a few E's scattered to the left....

Awesome!
Is the coloring on the rec a post?

Real artwork, please tell us more about this, and post wires!

Excellent! I really like it
Flawless technique and perfectly nailed look. Lighting suits perfectly to your declared purposes...love it

tom wrote:Awesome!
Is the coloring on the rec a post?

no, the texture file has the spectrum in it so that's a bit of a cheat.

I can't take credit for the smoke - got that from mxmgallery. I need to give it a bit of faux volume since it's a bit flat.

Here's a snapshot of the scene:

http://www.3eige.com/ars/fioritoscene.jpg

The light at the left is not visible. The plane at the right is just a reflector card to pick up some edges to the right. I modelled everything except the skull, the sunglasses, the chalice and the motorcycle guy in the background. I actually took a picture of ham The tablecloth is Maya nCloth - I froze it and then bevelled the edge. I need to dirty it up a bit and add some burn holes.

fantastic image!

Just cool man!

WOW What an image!!!
And there's my MXM smoke being used there... So glad that someone found a good use of it. Makes me all proud BTW, I remember experimenting with applying a displacement map to it, to make it look a bit more 3D, but it changed from scene to scene + the rendering took way too longer...
Here's one more trick I used to do with that smoke: Duplicate the mxm, make it 'invisible to camera' and turn it to 90 degrees or so against the light source...then the smoke begins to cast a nice shadow and gives it a fake feeling of being 3D...maybe it'll become handy

Thanks m-Que - that came in really handy. I think I'll have to reserve my smoke touchups for Photoshop since I am on my last day with this file.

Man, the mxmgallery as a whole is such a lifesaver when you just want to concentrate on creative compositions and not screw with shaders all day. I spent more than my fair share doing that still though, what with this ham SSS...

I'll post the mxm to mxmgallery if I get it right. I think I may take the standard mxm scene and drap a piece of ham over the sphere

This is something I've been struggling with. I'm getting too much transparency in my SSS:



and I basically am just tossing around shots in the dark now. Any tips on what might be wrong? I tried reducing the transmittance value dramatically but it didn't seem to do anything.

Increase the numbers instead of decrease!

Try:
Scattering Coef. = 12000
Absorption Coef. = 6000

And make the colors semi-dark and saturated.

Nd 1.2?

really cool idea... and nice render... !

I like the cover very much! one of the top images here imho...