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Title: Ice flow
Post by: chris_x422 on September 29, 2013, 04:50:12 PM
Hi guys,

Been a while since I posted any work.
Had a bit free time to play around this weekend and decided to do something that was a little more abstract than my usual fare.

The colour could be a little out as I'm working on my laptop, and it really needs calibrating.
Had fun doing this, and might continue a bit further yet, as it's been a bit slapped together so far.

Chris
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Post by: Lady of the Lake on September 29, 2013, 05:06:42 PM
That is wild!   I like.
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Post by: yossam on September 29, 2013, 05:24:19 PM
I like also............shame we don't have subsurface scattering.  :'(
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Post by: Kadri on September 29, 2013, 05:35:34 PM

Looks nice Chris!
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Post by: TheBadger on September 29, 2013, 05:46:25 PM
The light is remarkable... Fantastic.

The terrain reminds me of A Nightmare Before Christmas a little, but with an updated feel to it.
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Post by: chris_x422 on September 29, 2013, 06:07:31 PM
Cheers guys, glad you like it.

I get the Tim Burton reference now you mention it, though it wasn't intentional at all.

Chris
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Post by: masonspappy on September 29, 2013, 06:22:32 PM
Wow, that's different.  Now I really do wish there was a "like" button here
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Post by: inkydigit on September 29, 2013, 06:55:54 PM
nIcE slapping Chris... great effect!
beautiful results...
Burtonesque indeed!
:)
Jason
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Post by: Dune on September 30, 2013, 03:12:33 AM
Yes, really ingenious, and good that you post again. Keep that up! And now for the big question: did you use a VDisp map, or procedural redirects, vortexes and/or blue stuff?
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Post by: EoinArmstrong on September 30, 2013, 03:25:41 AM
Well we may not have SSS but whatever you've used (transparency?) it looks just as awesome!  Wonderful stuff...
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Post by: chris_x422 on September 30, 2013, 04:42:23 AM
Thanks again for the kind comments.

Working in cg every day, it's not very conducive to spending my free time doing more cg, but it's nice to do something that's a little more creative and less directed. I'd love to do more things like this on a regular basis.

It was sculpted and brought into tg as vdisp.
I did try several different techniques in tg to get the type of translucency I was looking for but I just couldn't match what I'd intended for the shot. So in the end I ran a subsurface pass through vray and added the sss pass to the tg layers. I'd normally persevere with a tg render but this was meant to be a fun quick piece so I thought what the hell.

As I suspected, the colour is very different on my work monitor, so I'll probably re-grade it a little when I get a moment.

Chris
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Post by: Bjur on September 30, 2013, 08:48:56 AM
Great mood!

Looks like a perfect BG matte of a kinda "magic ice world" scene of an upcoming CG fairy-tale.
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Post by: j meyer on September 30, 2013, 11:18:50 AM
Really cool!
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Post by: mhaze on September 30, 2013, 12:03:16 PM
Beautiful.
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Post by: cyphyr on September 30, 2013, 12:31:22 PM
Really sweetly done.Love the shapes and the colouring. I must get my head round this vdisp techniques.
:)
Richard
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Post by: chris_x422 on October 01, 2013, 04:03:00 AM
Cheers guys
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Post by: Jo Kariboo on October 01, 2013, 07:55:06 AM
Very nice and original work!
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Post by: Seth on October 04, 2013, 08:19:45 AM
nice one Chris :)