Post by Scruffy on Mar 22, 2016 16:33:40 GMT
Hello everyone! Scruffy here. This image of Bowser is the last render I made on Blender 2.75. Before switching to 2.77, I wanted to create this thread in case anyone has off-topic original artwork they want to post here (although maybe not too off-topic, this image is still in the Nintendo realm).
For this render, I was digging through models I didn't want to keep anymore and found the Super Mario 3D World model of Bowser. Bowser's personally my favorite Nintendo character, and I wanted to pay a little homage by upgrading the model to how Bowser might look in a CGI movie. It took about 20 hours, my longest single-image render yet, at 2,250 samples, my highest sample count yet. In this render I:
Hope you like it! On to Blender 2.77!
Update: The eyebrows just weren't quite the way I wanted them. The hairs were too coarse, it made them look plasticky. I've fixed that in Blender 2.77 now, and I'm very pleased with the result. Looks like 2.77 is going to work out.
For this render, I was digging through models I didn't want to keep anymore and found the Super Mario 3D World model of Bowser. Bowser's personally my favorite Nintendo character, and I wanted to pay a little homage by upgrading the model to how Bowser might look in a CGI movie. It took about 20 hours, my longest single-image render yet, at 2,250 samples, my highest sample count yet. In this render I:
- Crazy-subdivided his geometry to smooth out the shapes.
- Updated his iris and eye textures so that they don't have a constant highlight or shade to them.
- Created displacement textures for the scales and snout, so the scales are actually bumpy, not just an illusion of that.
- Converted his eyebrows and hair to real particle-grown hair simulations. This was by far the most arduous task.
- Studied some cinematic lighting tips to bring high contrast to the colors and tones present.
Hope you like it! On to Blender 2.77!
Update: The eyebrows just weren't quite the way I wanted them. The hairs were too coarse, it made them look plasticky. I've fixed that in Blender 2.77 now, and I'm very pleased with the result. Looks like 2.77 is going to work out.
