Colleagues,

Finally found a little bit of free time to get back to this project.

Rage on,
Ty

Another render.

Wow, very impressive modeling and renderings!

Hi Ty, it's looking great! Thanks for sharing the images!

- Michael

Michael & Metin,

Thank you -- !

One last render.

Rage on,
Ty

True eye-candy! Keep up the great work.

it's a complete imagineous thing or it's real one?

Sweet! Looks great :-)

Yup, that's some serious modeling work, and very slick rendering ! Thanks for sharing !

Wow, looks fantastic.
What do you use to render it?

Metin -- Thank you -- !

@> Frenchy -- Thanks -- all made up.

@> Chip -- You are the man.

@> PaQ -- Thanks -- !

@> Nicolinux -- Thank you -- !

Colleagues,

Another.

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@> Nicolinux -- Keyshot.

Ty,

Really nice work. Especially the attention to edge boundary details.
A couple fun things you might try:

Consider positioning your product on a rough metal grate (with hex holes in it) and a box below the grate which you can use in KeyShot as an area light. Use radioactive green. Set a RIM light of red or blue for contrast

1) Create a long lens (less perspective) shot with the horizon close to the ground. The bottom of the device (because of the coarse texture on the body) will reflect the green nicely.
2) Create a short lens with DOF birdseye (raking perspective) The green may dominate, but you may be able to use metal reflections to add other color to the shot via the RIM.
3) Use curvature and AO in KeyShot to create a weathered material so that it looks beat up -- you may want to see my MoI -> 3DCoat -> KeyShot tute on how to quickly apply proper UV coordinates to the OBJ before importing into KeyShot.

Just some ideas to toss around. Thanks for sharing!

Chip,

All your ideas are really great -- thank you for taking time to send them along -- greatly appreciated.

With regards to the grid with the lights underneath -- is there an example you can point me to? Would love to get a better sense of what you're suggesting.

Thanks -- !

Rage on,
Ty

I don't have time currently to experiment, but I did find a few 'inspiration' images which might help...

You can create smoke in KeyShot with alpha plains with Photoshop cloud textures in the transparency channels. Layer a bunch of them every which way.















Best of luck!

Chip,

Thank you -- ! -- Will give it a try in the not too distant.

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Colleagues,

Managed to carve out a little bit of free time over the winter break to get a bit more MOI practice in.

Best wishes to everyone for a grand and evolutionary 2017.

Rage on,
Ty