Here's a little model I did in MoI off course, for a french contest. I'm really not use to do that kind of 'naive' design,
but it was fun to do. Modeling time has take 1 hour max, so I had all the left time for the rendering.

Thanks for reading.

Pascal

Looks great PAQ, you use Modo for render? The confetti was done how? I thought their were no particles yet, just planes and alphas?

Hoooo, the particules ... well I let you imagine the work when you don't have a particle system :o)

There is in the wish list "a random function for some effects" ;)

Cool image! Pour modélisation minimale :D

Nice. When I first saw the MoI screen grab I imagined this as one of those vinyl squeeze toys. I see in the final render you went for a glazed porcelain. Well done.

Great Render! I like the contrast between the soft scarf and the shiny snowman.

Marc

Great job - I love the expression on his face, makes me smile :-)

Hi PaQ,

Always interested MoI Character Project :)
Would you like to share your technique to create the hand / arm...

thanks

This is my rough guess?

Brian

Hi Pascal, Nice!
I like your use of simple spheres to create the overall snowman, the lighting and camera angle in the render are great too.
I'm trying to work out the lighting scene you used, I can just see the reflections, looks like a long hanger with a series of lights on the wall :)

Cheers

love it mate and very nice final render

Hi Anis,

I don't have the contruction curves anymore, but here's the method I used for the hands.
I hope it's clear enough.



Thanks for your comments, I'm happy you like it :)

@Danny,

I don't have any clue about how lit a scene myself, so I suppose it's far to be a good case study for you.
For this scene I've used 2 planes, one in the back (the white background you see is actually a light), and one on the left.
The overall background/environment is full white (at 25% of light emission). And I add an hdr for the reflection, to have some extra specular spot on the snowman.

I will use your method to rebuild the hand.
Thanks for sharing.... :)

Its very clear !

http://www.3dvf.com/modules/publish/_2170_1.html

Well ... thanks MoI ... again :)

Bravo! Felicitation! :)
C'est le printemps :D

Wow congratulations PaQ, you're winning contests all over the place!

That's a great prize you won on this one too, those Shuttle computers are pretty cool, I have an older version as my living room computer. That one looks really loaded up.

- Michael

Thanks Michael, merci Pilou :)

Yes this shuttle looks super cool (even more powerfull than my actual box :'( ) ... I just hope the quad core with not overheat to much :S

Hi PaQ,

> I just hope the quad core with not overheat to much

They have a pretty good cooling system in those things, there is a heat pipe that connects to the CPU and goes to a radiator that is right along with the rear fan. So basically the CPU heat blows directly out of the case instead of the normal kind of setup with a larger case.

- Michael

Well done Paq. It is great picture and looks like a worthy winner.

Hi Michael, this cooling system sounds great ..., can't wait to have the little box :)


Thanks Tony !