Matt Paquin

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mpaquin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:27:30 +0000

quick architecture

mpaquin — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:26:04 +0000

Stumbled on a new way to create some interesting architectural designs. I left this one a little rough. I was playing around with Sparth’s method of using the smudge tool on abstract shapes, duplicated a layer, distorted it, duped it and set the duped layer to Difference mode. The angles complimented each other and some forms started popping. Looking forward to playing with this some more.

icey cold

mpaquin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:08:49 +0000

The wind has been howling and freezing in the northeast the last couple days.

red cape

mpaquin — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:48:52 +0000

One way to end the day.

no flowers?

mpaquin — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:00:10 +0000

Tonight’s speed painting.

Ice Hotel Final

mpaquin — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:08:38 +0000

Finally calling it finished. I could keep tweaking and adding things but I don’t want to miss the deadline. So many of the ice rendering tricks didn’t make it into this, but I’m still pleased with it. Its really subtle, but you can still see some of the tile work inlaid into the ice floor. The balcony ice is all interlocking like Legos.

SSS Ice

mpaquin — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:58:20 +0000

I saw this post about ice with Subsurface Scattering. He doesn’t provide his settings so I went ahead and tried to replicate it. I debated about the color and ended up with just white. You can tell at the top of the image the SSS passes photons which I was pretty happy with. Started adjusting some color temperatures for the lights.

mpaquin — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:58:20 +0000

Figured out a different cloudy looks solution. Separate geometry inside with 3d cloud textures.

Done

mpaquin — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:46:53 +0000

Calling it done with experiments with ice shaders. Moving on to modeling the scene next.

Ice Shader Update

mpaquin — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:10:08 +0000

I experimented a little with adding a parti_Volume thinking that the ice really is volumetric. It made a really cool darkening effect, but render times shot through the roof. I went back and tweaked the cloud shader driving the translucency to clear the ice up a bit and render times dropped to a manageable 30 seconds.

Just to check on the darkening I switched the background to red. Any of the splotchiness is from using only 100 fg rays.

Essentially the little fuzzies inside ice cubes are formed by tiny bubbles. So why not just emit some particles?

That’s 100 particles rendered at 26 seconds.

500 Particles rendered at 44 seconds

And that’s 1000 particles rendered at 1:07

To get a truly fuzzy effect this way would shoot through the roof. But then it occured to me to try some other particle types. This one is a MultiPoint, set at 1000. :56 to render.

Getting the gray out was a pain. This last example uses MultiStreak.

Feeling good about all these options for different looks.