An experiment in 3D Max :o
Messing around in 3d max…haven’t used it in so long :o (see image to right, and video at end)
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Just an experiment in some things. For the image:
- Texturing
- This failed :/ I wanted to try to make the tree look as realistic as possible. Unfortunately, the texture I used was too low of a resolution and I couldn’t get the bump map to work out the way I wanted. Also, I couldn’t figure out how to properly texture the vines. UGH
- Lighting
- I think this turned out ok :) I wanted to make the tree blend in with the background. I should have changed the angle of the lighting a bit but it’s not bad I think. Also messing around with HDRI maps, and global illumination.
- Modeling
- Modeling of the tree, and the vines. Mostly trying to get micro-triangle modeling to work…worked out decently for the vines - couldn’t get it to work at all for the tree :(
- Compositing
- Getting the tree to blend in with the background and not look out of place. Pretty much failed here too lol
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The video was just to see how it the global illumination would hold up in an animation. Some methods end up producing a lot of weird artifacts once you start trying to animate and such. I still have to try to build a scene and move things around inside of it instead of just the camera and see how that turns out. I also did a small bit of post processing on the video - added some film grain, color correcting, and other little things here and there. Since I rendered the video at a very odd resolution, Youtube decided to sample it down to an even lower res. Meh. The video download probably looks a bit better.
Video: Download
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