Abstracts

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Hi polyloopers. Been a while since I posted any finished stuff here. I just finished doing these for the organic abstract challenge over at N+P. These are all different views of the same model.

Modeled, materials and rendered in modo. Slight contrast enhancement in Photoshop. Comments welcome.

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Posted these over at luxology as well as here, and mike modo asked how it was done. Thought polyloopers might like to know as well:

So, here's a shot of the model in the view port. I used solid-sketch to do each individual strand. Started out kind of random then as I got more strands I interwove them together, adjusting existing ones as I went along. I wasn't happy with my first background so I put the whole lot inside a sphere and started playing with the mats, reflections and lighting.



I used gradients for transparency, luminosity and colour and I turned off everything except 'visible to camera' for the sphere shader. Plus a lot of tweaking and re-rendering at lo-res before I was happy with the result. No Global Illumination. Final render size 5400 x 2700 pix.




You can get loads of different pics out of this one model. I had to force myself to stop. At one time I had a dozen different cameras, all looking in different places. In the end I chose these three for final renders.

Any feedback or comments appreciated.

[Hugo]

i like that kind of abstract modeling/rendering, you made a nice job. Not sure about the colors you choose.... maybe it come from the multiple light (colored ?).

Did you try to make a render with a Depth Of Field ? i'd love to see one with some dof.

[jbshorty]

and shorter lens length! How many forums do i have to chase you about it?! ;)

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I did try depth of field and it didn't work well in modo - was going to give it a shot in Photoshop but felt I really needed to move on from this.

JB:
The lens length is 10mm. How short do you think it should be! My understanding is that modo is based on a standard 35mm SLR so 10 seemed pretty short to me

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Originally Posted by Hugo

i like that kind of abstract modeling/rendering, you made a nice job. Not sure about the colors you choose.... maybe it come from the multiple light (colored ?).

Just realised didn't answer your question about the colours. They are made up of the lights (one blue, one orange and one purple) and using a gradient to change the diffuse colour based on distance from a locator.

I wanted to make something really colourful and when my wife said she liked it I went with it

[jbshorty]

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I did try depth of field and it didn't work well in modo - was going to give it a shot in Photoshop but felt I really needed to move on from this.

JB:
The lens length is 10mm. How short do you think it should be! My understanding is that modo is based on a standard 35mm SLR so 10 seemed pretty short to me

move in closer! Don't fear the worm! Actually a lot of people have made complaints about modo's DOF. I did a print job recently with a ridiculous small F-stop and still no result was visible. Recent discussions on Lux forum say 401 will have some improvements for DOF

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Originally Posted by jbshorty

move in closer! Don't fear the worm! Actually a lot of people have made complaints about modo's DOF. I did a print job recently with a ridiculous small F-stop and still no result was visible. Recent discussions on Lux forum say 401 will have some improvements for DOF

The first one is almost inside the group (and is my favourite) so can't get any closer. Obviously you can't tell from the picture, so on that level it has failed

The third pic is from further away (and is my wife's favourite) so it stays

The second is half way between the two.

Hopefully 401 will make DOF more useful.

[mayito7777]

I love the images.

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Originally Posted by mayito7777

I love the images.

Thank you - glad you like them.