dining table

[lar111]

Hi, A small scene I have been playing with. Its coming out quite nice, again as usual for me the modelling is all quite basic. I would appreciate any suggestions, in particular I would like to know what everyone thinks of the soup. Believable? I have a few changes to make before I go for a final render. Oh and it was also done using the camera tone mapping, I love that it just added so much more contrast and impact to the render.

[Kram1032]

how romantic caustics

[WytRaven]

I really like the scene composition The DoF is probably a little extreme as even the glasses in front of the rose are out of focus but other than that, nice!

[slamdog]

Great scene!
agree with wytraven and kram
two advices: maybe the candle light must be "a lot hot" and try to change the "soup" material... don't know... broth? (and maybe some smoke in postpro)
i'm following
bye bye

[Zom-B]

the soup needs some of these too, and for the color I would choose this one (don't looks that much like blood )

[CTZn]

the soup needs some of these too

Does the soup have to register on Maxwell forums ?

Nice nice composition really ! Normal smoothing pb on the soup tho, either set smooth shading off or bevel the sharp edge.

[Kram1032]

lol, I thought, that would be spaghetti with too much sauce

[lar111]

Thanks guys, yes I don't like my soup material. I was actually trying for tomato soup. Its actually just a plane with phong/ null blend material. I guess I am going to have to try a sss material, the candles are already killing my render times though. A decent soup material will have to be high absorption and high sss I would guess, any hints on where to start. I grabbed that parsley thanks Zomb, it should be pretty easy to use the textures in indigo, and I like the look of that soup you pointed out. CTZn, good spotting on the smooth shading, i didn't even realise it was on. And funny enough it was going to be a bowl of pasta originally, but I couldn't work out a way to model it. Slamdog, i am not sure what you mean by the flame must be lots hot, do you mean more of a reddish colour. Its actually a textured emmitter, roughly flame colours

[Kram1032]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... o_soup.jpg a soup doesn't need to have high scattering

[lar111]

I thought I would show you guys an early render of this scene that i did, its quite crude. But the are some interesting caustics going on. Got a bit of a rainbow effect happening

[Kosmokrator]

ru use some dispercion for your glass??from where come this rainbow effect?

[Kram1032]

tabulated spectrum, I guess - one of wytravens great glasses

[CTZn]

Normal smoothing pb on the soup tho, either set smooth shading off or bevel the sharp edge.

Erf that's the shadow I took as an error

[slamdog]

yes, i mean more reddish. However, if it's textures with flame colours, maybe you could try to dim the intensity of light.
It seems to me too strong to be a candle light, with not much decay... but maybe i'm in error.
Good work

[Kram1032]

the problem is, that the dynamic range of a photo isn't high enough to capture both the scene (in a well-lit way) and the candle. that results in overcasted flames, which you usually could see in colours in reality.
So, actually, that's quite real - might be too aliased (too high contrast :S - try higher super sampling factor ) and not bloomy enough (add bloom and glare post processed in violet ) though...