[michaelplogue]

Just toying around with some glass blocks........

[3dtrialpractice]

wow.. michaelplogue
clearly the "glass" dialectic is working wonderfullly...

like i said before, you have some great renderings..
this is a wonderful aspect to your unique view.. its a great abstract render that shows the power of maxwell capability...
can you post the wireframe of this render..
none of the less it is a great abstract scene with alot of feeling behind it..

great work michaelplogue..
this scence display the power of dialectics behind the beta engine

michaelplogue.. can you specify some of your scene specs..
show a wireframe.. or describe the dialectice properties behind the glass blocks?(scene scale and block scale?)...
great post, and wonderful additon to your gallery...

--edit- -so you decided to go back to beta despite the rc5 advances?

[giacob]

beta is the best choise to me... your render are and beatifull and interesting as always...

[Olivier Cugniet]

nice render michael i love glass blocks

[-Adrian]

too much nude, not enough glass block

nah seriously, very cool looking refraction effects.

[Maximus3D]

Hehe Adrian, i was just about to say the opposite too much glass, too little nudity

/ Max

[iker]

Beautiful again! ...I love the wall texture

[aitraaz]

well done lovely image...just one curiosity - the last glass block, lower left corner - is that what i think it is?

[NicoR44]

don't stop toying

[michaelplogue]

Thanks all!

3dtrialpractice - Thanks for your kind comments. Yes, I have gone back to Beta. What's important for me is ease of use. RC5 became too much of a hassle and was interrupting my work flow. The scene is really very simple. I made a single glass block using booleans on campherd boxes with noise added to them. This single block was then instanced and rotated to eliminate any repeating patterns. Everything else is just a series of planes, one for the brick wall, one under the subject, and one behind the subject. Exterior lighting is physical sky with sun set for very early morning, and a single sphere with a strong emitter material is inside the 'room' to iluminate the subject. Everyithing is using real scale - the blocks are 10" x 10" x 4".

giacob - Agree, Beta is much more intuiative and easier to use for my needs (except transparency/opacity mapping). Thanks!

Oliver - Thanks, I may come back and do some other scenes using blocks, but I've got another project on the stove...

Adrian - Damn those nudes! Always messing up a perfectly good rendering!

Maximus - Damn those blocks. Always messing up a perfecly good rendering!

iker - I like this one too. I got it as a freebe, I think from Renderosity. Thanks!

aitraaz - Thanks, and you are absolutely correct. Those are her feet!

NocoR44 - Toying is my 'modus operandi' - I rarely plan ahead except with just an idea. I just let the piece find it's own way out.

Thanks again all!

[Xlars]

Wonderful idea, composition and render. Excellent stuff

[beppeg]

I like very much your works, bravissimo