For my latest work, a scene with a HH-65 Dolphin in it, I found a great way to model detailed shapes (like windows, little holes and similar things) onto a round and complex surface without getting ugly crases and similar things on the surface because of edgeloops destroying your round shape.
What I did:
I recently read some article about parallax mapping when I got the idea that it could not be that difficult to realize that inside the Blender Compositor since the Blender internal render-engine does not support it.
Here my monthly list of my favorite threads at Blender Artists Forums:
electric chair and the deep blue by poke
These pieces captivate with their special look making them both very unique and giving them a very artistic look.
While the “electric chair” builds on a very realistic environment in which a set of interesting soft-toy-characters are integrated, “the deep blue” has heavier effects and achieves a great painted appearance and also some kind of old air by simulating a very rough and structured underground. Definitely interesting stuff – and great models and textures too, of course.
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A bit more than half a year ago, I started modelling and texturing the Jet of the Italian aerobatics team “Frecce Tricolori”, an Aermacchi 339. I did all the test-renderings in Indigo at that time. Now I found some time to finish the jet and transfer all the settings to Luxrender, the modelling now looking like this:
Aermacchi Mb-339 PAN Mesh turnaround on Vimeo.
And some shots of the plane in a test-environment:
Based on this Article about Non-photorealistic Rendering Using Existing Tools (SIGGRAPH 2009), there was an interesting discussion on different Blender Forums about the different techniques to get a painted-looking result with the Blender Internal Renderer.
Here my monthly list of my favorite threads at Blender Artists Forums:
The bugs that ate San Francisco…. by Michael W
A stunning action scene, a realistic picture of a street and great character design in one single work? Yes, it’s possible. Although being unfinished, the development of this WIP already shows that the result will be something great. I especially like the light effects making the scene dramatic and I can’t wait to see the character finished and put into this scene.