[Maximus3D]

This will be my first post in the gallery in years, i never really had anything worth posting here before but i thought i would try and post this one..
It's a teapot i built in Modo, then i setup a studioscene in Modo using SLIK, rendered out a spherical HDR there of my studiosetup, after that i
deleted the setup, used the HDR as my main lighting and created the materials for the teapot, rendering was done via the Modo plugin.
A friend helped by rendering this on his machine.



/ Max

[gadzooks]

Very nice. Great materials. Was wondering what you thought of Slik?

[Maximus3D]

Thanks gadzooks the materials are quite simple but effective, they give the scene lots of contrast. Especially the orange/yellowish teapot material.
SLIK, it's like a personal pet of mine as i spent a year on it totally so yes i love it to bits. Even more so after Yazan gave it it's final treatment and adaptation
for Modo. It made it real useful and a professional tool to have in your toolbox. If you're into any form of visualisation work then it is a helpful tool, productviz is the
most obvious one but it can also be used for interior archviz, vehicle renderings, portraits of characters and much more. Ofcourse what use other people have of it
depends on them and their type of work, some people will do just fine without it and some people will find great use of it, not everyone can use this because they don't
like to deal with props in a studioenviroment, they just wanna use their plane emitters to get the job done.

/ Max

[JorisMX]

I will never understand this teapot fetish amongst the cg community...


Nice lighting though

[devista]

[quote="JorisMX"]I will never understand this teapot fetish amongst the cg community...
quote]
hahahaha

[Tok_Tok]

Nice render. I like the brushed metal and the ground material!

Is it the image quality thats creating those weird patterns on the ground?

[Maximus3D]

Joris: Hehe, the teapot is kinda sexy. Don't you think so..

Tok_Tok: Thanks if you see any artifacts it's probably due to the jpeg compression. There is no texture on the ground itself so it has to be compression.

If you guys wanna see the final rendertime for this, my friend let it cook until it was finished and here's a screenshot, enjoy..


/ Max

[JorisMX]

Can we please get condensed water droplets and Steam on this?

[caryjames]

Hey Maximus- That looks GREAT! Nice model and product shot- very cool.

[Tok_Tok]

I see it now. The text in the screenshot is also very compressed.
I use my own webspace to upload images to use on the forum. But if you dont have that you can use Picasa. Works really good and is very handy for managing your pictures.

[oscarMaxwell]

I like it

[Maximus3D]

Joris: Ofcourse! hehe, it's coming in version 2.0 of the teapot

Cary: Thanks! nice to hear you like my little piece of work. It's a pretty typical productshot with a black background,
large softboxes reflecting on the smooth curved surface of the teapot but i think it looks good like this.

Tok_Tok: Yep the compression probably ruined the shot, oh well.. i got uncompressed files on my hdd if necessary.
This one will do fine for online posting on forums. i'm actually using my own webspace to host these images now
but it's the resave i do locally before uploading that drops the quality down a bit too much. I'll try to fix that next time.

Oscar: Thank you! i'm glad you like my teapot.

/ Max

[caryjames]

I hear you guys talking all of the time about compression artifacts but I can't see them on my monitors so I am wondering where in the original image posted do you see any compression artifacts? Looks really good to me.

[Tea_Bag]

Woohooo Max is back!! - Nicely done! REALLY good lighting and materials!! Looks like the time spent creating the SLIK models
was worth it!

[giacob]

when a teapot is preised from a tea Bag the author can be really happy