[David Solito]

don't miss showing us your scene setup

EXACTLY

[sandykoufax]

Bottle Master!

[djflod]

amazing renderings ... i would love to see a bombay sapphire from you =)

[simmsimaging]

Really nice work!
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[caryjames]

Agreed, really nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rusteberg]

my favorite is the tide container... i tried making one of these a while back as an exercise, but failed miserably...

what do you model all this with? the precision in modelling those things is just as admirable as the renders (to me at least)

[itsallgoode9]

Next week I'll try to show a lighting setup from something here. Sometimes my lighting setups are less than optimal but they work. Also, I do alot in post work to finess lighting and clean up the image. Just as much retouching goes into these renders as would a photo.


Rusteberg: everything is modeled in polygons in Maya. I really need to start learning nurbs or surface modeling, it would some of these things a heck of a lot easier

[itsallgoode9]

As promised, this is a lighting setup from the Blue Moon Grand Cru bottle. This is the lighting for the bottle only, i did a separate setup for the labels and cap. This is probably one of my least sloppy light setups I have done and is actually one of my favorite renders. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, much of the time my lighting setups are pretty terrible in terms of practicality and efficiency, so most of the other setups wouldn't be beneficial for anybody to see.

Below the lighting setup image is a thumbnail link so you can see a raw render from using this lighting setup. As you can tell I do a TON of post work in Photoshop to get my images to their final state. It's all lighting and retouching work though, not adding parts from actually photos into it or anything like that (I'll say though, I'm not opposed to that at all, it's just not something that helps with my renders).

[tom]

Fantastic!

[itsallgoode9]

Is it more efficient or less efficient to use an actual emitter instead of bounccards? I generally leave multilight on for my renders, if that makes any difference in the answer to this question.

[tom]

Yes, it's more efficent than using bounce cards.

[Bubbaloo]

I think you may want to try to avoid intersections with your emitters and other geometry, but I can't say much because your results were great.

[itsallgoode9]

Good to know because that is much more flexible! I've done both methods, never knowing which one was better.

[Fernando Tella]

I love the bump on the bottle.

[gadzooks]

un-frigging believable!! The shanghai white rendering on your site is just about perfect! In fact their all outstanding work! Where do you get the graphics from (labels)? Also the St. Germain bottle is sublime! GAdzooks