Pure sci-fi (added short animation)
Pure sci-fi (added short animation)
Hey guys. Been working on this for the past few days. It's a 1.0.9 render since I had trouble making the scene work with post 1.1.1 versions (mostly due to my own stupidity plus a few Blendigo problems which Smart has now ironed off).
The version thing is no big deal, though, as this is a good old-fashioned scene that uses neither shift lens nor displacement.
There's a bit of post-prod work, but not a huge amount (some atmospherics, contrast work, colour correction, motion blur and chromatic aberration). The sky is a background plate that was placed in the scene.
The scene is quite low-poly (130,000 polys, including lots and lots of instances) so despite the many tiny emitters, it rendered pretty fast (7 hours were enough on my quad at a resolution of 3000x1500pixels).
I'm attaching a few crops from the full-res render.
As always, happy to hear your comments, criticism, insult and injury
PS: Heavily inspired by the wonderful work of Rudolf Herzog and Stefan Morrell.
PS2: See short, buggy animation here: http://bertrand-benoit.com/GalleryVideo.html
The version thing is no big deal, though, as this is a good old-fashioned scene that uses neither shift lens nor displacement.
There's a bit of post-prod work, but not a huge amount (some atmospherics, contrast work, colour correction, motion blur and chromatic aberration). The sky is a background plate that was placed in the scene.
The scene is quite low-poly (130,000 polys, including lots and lots of instances) so despite the many tiny emitters, it rendered pretty fast (7 hours were enough on my quad at a resolution of 3000x1500pixels).
I'm attaching a few crops from the full-res render.
As always, happy to hear your comments, criticism, insult and injury
PS: Heavily inspired by the wonderful work of Rudolf Herzog and Stefan Morrell.
PS2: See short, buggy animation here: http://bertrand-benoit.com/GalleryVideo.html
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- CITYfinalCROP1.jpg (233.59 KiB) Viewed 13047 times
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Thanks guys. You're all darlings as always.
aleksandera
Basically the key to nice aperture diffraction is a high f-stop (i.e. small aperture). You won't see much of it at all below an f-stop of 16 unless you have one small very bright spot amidst a big dark surface. This, incidentally, means it's also quite hard to get aperture diffraction AND shallow DOF in the same image since DOF requires a wide aperture.
So for big, nice diffraction effects, take f-stop of 16 or higher, camera tonemapping, and play with the iso and exposure time values to get the right amount of light (since you can no longer play with aperture).
aleksandera
Basically the key to nice aperture diffraction is a high f-stop (i.e. small aperture). You won't see much of it at all below an f-stop of 16 unless you have one small very bright spot amidst a big dark surface. This, incidentally, means it's also quite hard to get aperture diffraction AND shallow DOF in the same image since DOF requires a wide aperture.
So for big, nice diffraction effects, take f-stop of 16 or higher, camera tonemapping, and play with the iso and exposure time values to get the right amount of light (since you can no longer play with aperture).
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aleksandera
No problemo
Neobloodline: Cheers man!
zsouthboy
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Sure. Very happy to e-mail the full-res to anyone who'd like to take a look at it (or print it for that matter). Just drop me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll send it away.
tobak30
Yep, he's one of my favs too. And sooooo productive!
No problemo
Neobloodline: Cheers man!
zsouthboy
OnoSendai
Sure. Very happy to e-mail the full-res to anyone who'd like to take a look at it (or print it for that matter). Just drop me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll send it away.
tobak30
Yep, he's one of my favs too. And sooooo productive!
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