Some more chocolate

[guismo]

It has been some years since I did some chocolate using 3ds max with blender simulation, this one
https://vimeo.com/57079700

Since then, I have always wanted to try it again, but this time using only blender. Now with tools like Cycles and remesh modifier, I could. There are still some superior things in max that would help a LOT in blender, like dynamic vertex groups (they are real modifiers, I don't have to enter edit mode and assign manually to each vertex, something that is actually impossible with fluid simulation or mesh sequence animations). So, here is the current effort:



And some stills following.
I don't like so much the camera in the chocolate bar, but I wanted to show that I was able to solve almost completely the simulator bug of making huge wrinkles in the mesh. I will also something with better angle.

The method I used to clean up the simulator bugs on the mesh was quite different between both renders. The bar used mostly shrinkwrap with animated vertex (thanks a lot for the animALL plugin, because using shape keys would have made this a nightmare!) and the strawberry used both this and a lot of remesh. It was a lot more complex, since the chocolate fell on itself twice.

Although I don't think I will have time to work on this again soon, any critiques and suggestions are very welcome for my next attempts.

EDIT
Here are the strawberries for whoever want it.
http://www.blendswap.com/blends/food/strawberry/

[David Hattori]

Wow that looks really awesome! Like straight out of a commercial.

[guismo]

Thanks
Here is a different view of the bar

[axelredfield]

Amazing, can you do a tutorial?

[SSimpossible]

This is incredible! Especially that most recent render you just posted. It's amazing that you can render such a large image of it, and it still looks not only edible, but delicious!

[harleynut97]

I'm hungry just looking at it! The best CG chocolate I have seen so far.

[jrossjr79]

Dammit, its midnight here, and now I want chocolate............................ I would also like to see a tutorial on this.

[Zabander]

is awesome man!, really awesome, tutorial please!!!!, you will be loved!

[guismo]

Thanks people!

I don't think people would like the way I did this. It uses a lot of bad workflow and patches to fix bugs. Plus, both chocolates used very different methods, none of them really good and pretty hard.

I have already a tutorial on the simulation part of the things. And it is still current, because I still have to use blender 2.49 for that part. 2.66 still have terrible problems like not allowing you to put a modifier before the fluid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVZMheMXemQ

I will think of something. But it is going to be like the tsunami tutorial, too big and complex for anyone to care.

[Nico Theb.]

hi! This is really awesome. The chocolate shader is perfect! It's really photorealistic and looks delicious

[Abdullah Al-Dar]

Looks very yummy, great work!

[Evil Resident]

Wow! Your strawberry's look so real and so good.

[Mimiws]

yum yum yum hehe nice work

[gagagiorgio]

Very good! Makes me hungry! The chocolate looks amazing. The strawberries are very realistic.

[victorphellipe]

Amazing guismo! You are a monster, in a good way! How did you do the strawberries? It was a displacement modifier or modeling?

[Damien!]

Really, convicing result

[amogh]

Truly a pro!!!

[guismo]

Oi Victor, valeu!
Yes, displacement with baked occlusion.
The strawberries are simple enough, so I guess I will post them in blendswap, so you can see. Nothing too fancy.

And thanks everyone again

[secretkeys]

too good!!! white bar is very milky,love it!!!!

[thehorseman007]

that is something wow

Great, Excellent, Nice, Good, Wow, Perfect, Cool, Awesome, Good Job, and my words are finished.