Austrian emperor crown

Artwork Works in Progress
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Thanks moxstudio, yes details are one of this projects goals :slight_smile:

update:

I played around with the pearl material and think I am now settled (again) on something quite plausible.Still only procedurals used.

And after a lot of experimenting I found a workflow for extracting all the necessary maps for the ornamented border around the mitra from the few low quality reference images.

See below for a first test how it works. There are still stretching issues, but that is easily corrected. I am glad I found a good general technique so the fine tuning will come later.

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This stuff is amazing, great work! Did you say you’re using Luxrender? Or is this BI?

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Thanks Soter.

This project is rendered with luxrender only.

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Very nice pearl material. What is the verts/poly count for that project?

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Thanks Javier_Bonanza. I am quite pleased with the pearl material too.

Modelling wise the vertex count is currently at ~1.6 million including the subdivision. Without it should be around a factor 16 less so 100000 is a good guess.

During rendering the subdivision is applied to you end up with again 1.6 million.

This project is quite demanding on the rendering hardware, because besides the high polycount I will use several lightgroups ( 6 at the moment) to fine tune the lighting situation, which takes up a lot of memory. Memory consumption is at the moment at ~3GB :D.

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Its taking up shape now.

Main material phase now almost done. Then I will start tweaking lighting and minor modeling and material variations.

I played a little bit with the lightgroups to find how the image responds to different lighting setups. I have to say this is an extremely powerful tool :smiley:

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Umm, I think you posted the wrong image, all I see is a reference photo.

OK, So that looks really good, good enough to be a reference.

Keep it up and this might be a featured one.

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Thanks HJ05, I’ll try my best :slight_smile:

next update:

The modell is now complete again. I still have to get the materials in balance to each other ( some light materials are too bright) and find a nice lighting setup. I may also experiment a little bit with different angles.

I hope to be done with these topics tomorrow, so I can start a first high res render over night.

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It looks like a real picture, i am totally amazed. No more words for this.

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Wow, this is photorealistic, nothing to crit about the model, but you should try a lighter background, this one is too dark IMHO.

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Perfect, no complaint.

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Thanks guys. Your comments are very much appreciated.

next update:

  • lighting update
  • composition/camera angle update
  • quite a lot of minor tweaks on the materials

right now I am rendering a first highres version (2000x1600) to see any remaining issues you only notice at this resolution.

See below the render after 40min ( some denoising applied). This forum doesn’t allow higher resolution to post directly, so this is a downscaled version. The final post in Finished Projects will have a link to the high res version. If all goes well, this will be this weekend.

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This is looking really awesome, but what will the final scene be? Will it be like it is now? I would like to see it in a realistic museum setting, maybe in a glass case, will a marble wall and a plaque.

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Unbelievable. This deserves to be featured.

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The scene will be as you see it here. I intentionally do not want to build anything around, just a clean studio shot with the only focus on the crown, like an image from a museums pamphlet.

Thanks adamsucks :slight_smile: