Hi,

A free time project I did recently:
A Geloso Italian microphone that hosted Radio broadcasts in the 1960's.

Very interesting object to model!

Marc

Hi Marc, it looks gorgeous!

What did you use for the render?

- Michael

Vintage!!!
Color is not very fllashy, is that for army? ;)

Hi Michael,

Thanks! It's rendered in octane

@Pilou, it's the original color of the microphone, I imagine it was a fashionable color at the time!

Marc

Great model and render.

Out of curiosity, how did you do the mesh screen?

Very cool Marc, nice modeling.

Cheers

Brilliant. Great work all round, model and render.

Great, anything well done.

How long need Octane for one rendering like this?

Thanks for the comments guys!

@ Phil: I don't remember exactly, l think I used "aspect ratio" limit with "avoid smaller than".
I remember trying a couple of combination to get the right size/detail ratio.
Just one side of the microphone screen is a 27mb 3dm file!

@Micha: 5min for the first, 15m and a half hour for the last one, close-ups with dense mesh tends to take longer.

Marc

>@ Phil: I don't remember exactly, l think I used "aspect ratio" limit with "avoid smaller than".

Marc, I will need to do a grille/mesh at some point and the one on this mike looks great. For the benefit of beginners like myself would you mind giving us a brief walkthrough (from the start) of how you made the mesh?

Dan

Whoa! Sweet mike!

Bravo!

Hi Dan,

The screen is made of swept curves.

Marc

Excellent work, I love the mesh - yes it would be nice if folks would mention their renderer when they post renders of their MoI objects.

This is a case where Octane did a good job - I really hope the artifacts issue gets resolved in the future.


-Will

Great work Marc, I see how you made the wire mesh but how did you bend it into a semi-circle?

Il grande modello e rende!

Michael T.

Absolutely stunning, the details and render are top notch.

Thanks a lot for the comments!


->I really hope the artifacts issue gets resolved in the future

Hi Will, It's much better with the latest versions. I also hope those issues will be addressed, the realtime interaction is quite awesome.


->how did you bend it into a semi-circle?

Hi Grendel, I couldn't figure a way do a curved mesh with 45deg angle with my current brain resources, so I made it straight and used the "flow along curve" command in Rhino. I sure wish something like this would exist in MOI.

Marc

Marc - Ahhh not in MOI...I feel better because my brain could not figure out how to do that in MOI either lol

< how to do that in MOI
That will be possible : make a little curvated cross module ;)
Then array /curve (arc circle)

>The screen is made of swept curves.

Aha, interesting, thanks for the picture Marc.

Dan