hey guys, i made this chess board few months ago as many other projects and due to same reason of bad lighting i retouched this project again n render it out with new lighting and composition!
So have a look n C&C welcome.
created in blender 2.79b
cycles render
500 samples each render
check in HD on artstation:
https://www.artstation.com/nishant_neeraj
For facebook:
Nicely-imagined chess set.
Thank you! i got this lighting idea from ice & fire song from game of thrones… already season 8 is in play…watching a lot of same lighting scenes!
nice work !!!
I’d add some surface imperfections, maybe even mesh damage, and use HDRI lighting for reflections, it will look much more realistic.
i know @Acrivec but i wanted to made it with fire & ice Lighting style like game of thrones!
Kinda dead vs living
Then still - either wooden opening style, that will require some kind of wear-off, and ice/fire means reflections so either hdri or some hand-made hollow sphere with sun model in the middle so that ice have actually something to reflect, not plain background and one lamp. 
it had reflection of Light actually even looks cool… but i felt it might wont look that cool… so i hiked up the roughness… @Acrivec
but if you say then i will let the reflection shine then!
it shine like light is being emitted from intense source of light!
Rough reflection like now is still a reflection.
yea but as per you say i need less roughness!
