Moved from Focused Critique:- https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?405232-Chess-Pieces
I think this is the final version. I rebalanced the shadows, lightwrap and lichen, and enhanced the indirect lighting.
Yafaray_v3.1.1 and Blender 2.78
(The photography is my own)
I love it! Loved allready the first version in works in progress. Why did you use yafaray? Just to try or do you like something of it in particular?
I really like the lighting, you clearly took a long time on the shadows.
I have used Yafaray for some years, since even before Cycles was created:- http://stoneage.cgsociety.org/art/blender-gimp-abandoned-camera-3d-920987 (2010)
Now I render mostly with V-Ray, but I still love Yafaray for its simplicity of use, speed and quality. Sometimes I will render ‘sketches’ with Yafaray, before moving the project to V-Ray.
I decided to finish this entirely with Yafaray to test using the recently introduced render passes. The composite includes direct and indirect lighting, reflection and shadow passes.
I was also testing Troy’s wide dynamic range LUTs(https://github.com/sobotka/filmic-blender/tree/master) to see how they work mixing photography and renders in compositing.
