"urchin"

[olishea]

experimenting with different lighting and caustics.....63 hour render (i added some noise, raw render was too clear)

cheers

Edited by Frederik: In order to avoid possible loss of images hosted at 3rd party, I've attached the image direct to the TWR Forum.
This is the original link: http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu26 ... _small.jpg

[Stu]

woooo Oli!! thats fantastic!!!

[given the stuff you have been producing lately I think your place should be quarantined......just to be on the save side!! ]

[olishea]

cheers stu, took ages getting the lighting right!!

here is the larger version, however, some artifacts from lifting levels in photoshop.

[olishea]

the inverted depth mask looked awesome too:

[olishea]

sketchup setup (studio backdrop, pointlight inside urchin, spotlight behind, studio hdri at 0.4 brightness):





brighter version:

[Frederik]

These are definitely spectacular caustics...

.....63 hour render (i added some noise, raw render was too clear)

But in a couple of years, when you have your 64 core 'puter, then you won't mind...

[olishea]

the caustics pleasantly surprised me to be honest! they look smokey! and they are all real, i haven't added anything in photoshop just colour correction etc.

[Fletch]

that's a beauty, Oli!
a caustic jamboree... in case anyone had doubts about TWL's caustics

[rangerrick]

WOW A pat on the back for your patience with the render time but well worth the wait with this spectacular result
Thanks for showing your SketchUp setup, always interesting to see that. Oli, what render preset did you use ?

[Ecuadorian]

So you added noise afterwards... This tells me that, had you decided to use the "natural" noise, you could have reached the same result in a fraction of the time.

BTW, what's inspiring you to do this kind of stuff?