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Show Us Your HiveWire House Cat Renders Here!
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Speaking of fishbowls, until the dog arrives, my naughty kitty decided to go fishing!
When the Master is not home....
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This is awesome. Great render, but equally creative. Can we highlight this image of yours in tomorrows newsletter?
Chris, thank you so much for appreciating my renders. I would ask you to wait a little longer since I am preparing an even better render of it with atmospherics, volumetric light, dust in the air and caustics . I am working on it as I type,
, and I would like you to post the best possible one if you agree. Maybe it will be ready in about two hours and I will post it again in this thread as well as in my media album. And congratulations for the upcoming kitten!
, and I would like you to post the best possible one if you agree. Maybe it will be ready in about two hours and I will post it again in this thread as well as in my media album. And congratulations for the upcoming kitten!Sooooo.... I thought I might improve on my original render, amending a few things I didn't quite feel pleased with. First, I displaced the water surface in the bowl and added a small splash and some air bubbles which add a bit to the dynamics of the hook being dropped into the water, I think. Then I changed a little the shape and the position of the worm on the hook so it no longer looks like a pretzel. As far as lighting went, originally I illuminated the scene with just one indoor HDRI image. While overall was OK, upon further evaluation I found it to be a bit too flat for my taste. Looking at the cat, and comparing it to the fish bowl, it strikes me as a cardboard cutout placed behind it. It lacks volume. And overall, the image looks too clean and speck-less.
This is not how things are in real life. So I decided to also add a spotlight to increase the volume and emphasis of the foreground characters and the depth of the whole image. The added atmospheric volume and dust and the caustics cast by the liquid onto the table contributes in my opinion to an increased realism which makes it a better image than the previous one. But again, this may be a matter of personal taste. So Chris, please feel free to pick whichever one you think better suits the purpose .
As you can imagine, the render took longer than expected. Sorry for the delay. Here it is:
When the Master's not around...
This is not how things are in real life. So I decided to also add a spotlight to increase the volume and emphasis of the foreground characters and the depth of the whole image. The added atmospheric volume and dust and the caustics cast by the liquid onto the table contributes in my opinion to an increased realism which makes it a better image than the previous one. But again, this may be a matter of personal taste. So Chris, please feel free to pick whichever one you think better suits the purpose .
As you can imagine, the render took longer than expected. Sorry for the delay. Here it is:
When the Master's not around...
Zaarin
Brilliant
@Dan30 I actually think the first looks better. Unless the fishbowl is being seriously rocked, water in a fishbowl isn't going to be that choppy, and the volumetrics make the image look like an old photo that's been colorized rather than a color image. The water itself, however, definitely looks better with the caustics in the second image. But that's just my opinion. 