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Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:28 pm
by MartinBrinks
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:38 pm
by Rafal SLEK
You are joking and these are photos.

Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:34 pm
by Polyxo
very nice, especially the lace.
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:05 pm
by Fernando Tella
Amazing! How did you make the mat?
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:31 pm
by tom
Very bad renders for health

Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 1:30 am
by bograt
Cool! nice textures and tone
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 1:39 am
by bograt
By the way, the bump looks good but I agree it could be reduced for greater realism.
I often take a parameter to where I think it looks right and then drop it to 70%...
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:09 am
by eric nixon
Martin, It would be really nice to see the wireframe of that lace, its very cool.
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 9:31 am
by Hervé
very nice

Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 9:56 am
by MartinBrinks
Thanks for the comments!
@Bograt: Sounds like a good rule of thumb. My overall experience is if I think I nailed the bump/norm/disp at SL 10, I will think the opposite when it reaches SL 14.
@Eric & Tella: I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you a bit. It's deceptively simple and easy. A mesh created in Marvelous Designer (quad mesh coming in the next version I think), a one layer masked material with a dedicated bump & disp, and that's it. Below is the mesh as well as a job I did for a lingerie company using the same combo.
I experimented a bit with sss on the mat, but it took way too long to clear. An alternative route was to add a heavy dose of short hair, but the overall result wasn't good. Still miss a slight amount of roughed up surface on the mat.
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:02 am
by Rafal SLEK
Its not a photo... Effect is incredible and this mesh look rather simple.
Great work.
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:07 am
by MartinBrinks
Thanks, Rafal - and yes, Marvelous Designer is a pretty powerful piece of software. During this summer holiday I'm using it to add clothes to a range of tiny figures on a personal project rendered with Maxwell. You create the pieces with patterns just as you would if you made the cloth in real life. Which is good if you design cloth in real life but a pain if not. Finding the right sewing patterns is hard!
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 11:23 am
by Fernando Tella
Good textures was the trick then.
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:06 am
by zdeno
just fantastic ... great renders. I would say 100% photo if someone would ask me on another forum. But we are in maxwell world so I can belive it is CG.
give us MORE!!
Re: Books closeup with knitted table mat
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:13 pm
by dariolanza
Good work, Martin ; )