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G'day!

It been ages since i posted anything in the gallery and a long time since i rendered anything with Maxwell so now i thought i'd run a real life test of the material i made for the candy challenge to see how it would behave in a simple yet quite effective setup.

This scene has it's main light and reflections provided by a hdri map of a house, and there's a small fill lightplane that just provides very little extra light on the side but it's not much at all.

I let it render over night for 8 hours 33 minutes 55 seconds and it reached SL 14,58 at 1600x1200 resolution.

The candy itself is just a simple model i made in Modo, then the scene is setup in C4D and Maxwell Studio. Setup time was perhaps a whole 15 minutes totally including modeling

Reference material


MXM Site Material Preview & Link

http://mxmgallery.maxwellrender.com/new ... 006&id=572

800x600 Rendering (Half resolution)


1600x1200 Rendering (Full resolution) ...click on it to view it..


/ Max

good one

Hi! looking good, but.... i think material must be have some SSS & circle in the center of candy mast be more smooth IMHO

Olivier: Thanks

jenyaz: Thanks, and yes i tried with SSS but i couldn't get satisfactory results and it added so little also that it wouldn't be visible unless the scene was overexposed. And then i thought i'd skip it and hoped i could get away without SSS in it but yes you're right, if it worked better then i would definately have added that to this as it would have improved the quality alot more and made it realistic.

Btw, maybe i shouldn't have posted this in the main Gallery. It feels more like a silly testrendering so if any moderator wanna move it elsewhere then feel free to do so.

/ Max

Looks yummy.

nice candies!

Cool!!
We've just added this pic to the MXM gallery... if you don't mind.
http://mxmgallery.maxwellrender.com/new ... 006&id=572

Sandykoufax: Hehe, indeed they're very yummy

Aitraaz: Thanks

David: Thanks so much & and ofcourse i don't mind i appreciate the help.

/ Max

Absolutly delicious looking.

You are too funny .... nice pick and great render!

Max., .. I think the 'Original' candies have some SSS going on .... and maybe you'll have to mess with the attenuation a little too.

great stuff tho .....

Edit:

Oops ... sorry , ... I see jenyaz mentioned the sss. I think he's right on both points.

Yes, this is a very good looking material ! Congrats

Bravo Max!

I'd sure pull out my fillings with some of those

Hyltom: Thank you

Ivox: Hehe thanks! yeap you said it Chris, there's a little bit of SSS going on in the real deal. The attenuation hmm.. i'll look into that one, you got a sharp eye for details.

Thomas: Many thanks i'm glad you liked it.

Tom: Cheers & thanks so much glad you too liked it.

Jeff: Hehe, these are hard candy's, not soft. But they can do a give your fillings a equally hard beating

I'm gonna rework the material a bit more to try to get some SSS in there and then i'll be squeezing in some nice dof aswell as they're not the size of small planets ..expect an updated revision 2.0 either tonight or tomorrow of this.

[Edit] : I played around with the simple scene and material last night and tweaked things some more but at the same time i messed it up and the whole subject is outta focus and blurry and the lighting and material ain't that fun anymore so i'll be ditching this and moving on to other stuff.



And a quick Multilight test with this rendering..


/ Max

drooling here .. very realistic looking material