[rusteberg]

nice shot of dragon, brian

[Bubbaloo]

I think I gave it around 16 hours. I let it render at night, for a couple of nights. I hate to have my computer idle at night! Better to put it to use...

[Bubbaloo]

Some more dragon fun:


And a full res crop:


This is my scratched gold material that I was testing some time ago.

[NicoR44]

That is just perfect Brian!

[Bubbaloo]

Thanks, Curt!

I turbosmoothed that damn dragon to 5 million polygons!

[tom]

My eyes hurt... It's like reflecting the light off the screen!

[djflod]

i like your kind of fun bubba ... simply stunning reflections

[Bubbaloo]

Thanks! Wait until you see the animation.

[kami]

the gold really is excellent!

[sampson]

shiny

[Bubbaloo]

Here are a couple of new renders I created for an upcoming tutorial in 3D World magazine. They are based off of the waterfall render I did a while back. The changes I made from the original include a more realistic scale, better motion blur, foam mesh added, and a ridiculous amount of particles simulated. Although the tutorial is set up for rendering in mental ray (as requested), the Max file set up for Maxwell will also be included in the disc and I made sure to note in the tutorial that the final renders were created with Maxwell 2.





They requested these two renders at 5000 x 3000 landscape and portrait. With all of the motion blur, they both rendered at least 10 hours on my i7 980X. I'd love to hear your opinions.

[brodie_geers]

Wow, 10 hours at that size for that quality doesn't seem to bad at all and the renders are great. Can't wait to see you in 3d World!

How are you liking the 980x? I'm poking away at my I.T. guy to try and get one. I'm running a Q9550 right now, quad core non-HT.

-Brodie

[Bubbaloo]

Thanks, Brodie! I'm working on an animation of the scene now. Trying to get the frame time down to 10-15 minutes.

BTW, get an i7! This 980X is fast.

[Hervé]

Brian... these are so cool.... ...

[Bubbaloo]

Thanks, H!