Chester

Artwork Finished Projects
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A character I think has always been missing from the standard chessboard - the Court Jester!

I could do more, sculpting etc but this was just a play around with Cycles.

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A jester. Why of course!

Pretty badass chess piece you made there. Really awesome design.

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Chester would be perfect for Blendswap. Good work.

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It looks awesome, great job. The textures look pretty amazing.

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awesome! :slight_smile:

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yes upload to blendswap!!!
pleaasssee? its just going to be forgotten now that you have made use of it :stuck_out_tongue:

any way beautiful…would love to see it so i can see how some of the controls in cycles work

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How come I never thought of it. Great idea indeed. Great render too, it just seems like the texture is too flat, from his “neck” to the bottom.

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Thanks everyone.

I can post up to blendswap but then you will see how lazy I really was with the texturing :slight_smile:

Its not even UV unwrapped - just a photo I took of some concrete projected using the “Window” vector across Chester, and “Camera” projected across the chessboard.

DOF is the real magic and Cycles excels at it.

*** edit - didn’t upload to Blendswap because they only have categories for stable Blender releases and this is using Cycles which isn’t in stable yet.

JesterQueenChess.blend (1.73 MB) - CC-BY

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Nice!!! Well done on the scene and camera setup. I like it.

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Blendswap allows stuff using Cycles to be uploaded. Thanks for the .blend.

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This very well, I like the surroundings as well.
I in particular, of course … if my project in such a case, would give more bump and ambient occlusion.
But this very well.:wink:

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Cycles doesn’t do Ambient occlusion yet and because I was being so lazy :slight_smile: I couldn’t be bothered rendering as a separate pass in BI and compositing.

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Nicely done, goosey!

A while ago I had thought the Jester / Fool would make an interesting addition to chess, along with another piece (the Knave) on a 10x10 board.

ChessVariants.com archived my alternative chess proposal with these pieces at their site back in 2000: http://www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/chess2/

I still think it would be cool to have that piece jumping around the board :wink:

Very nice work on the render!

RobertT

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Hey that’s awesome Robert. Did you ever try playing a game of Chess 2 against someone?

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Thanks. No, it was just a fun little conceptual project at the time =)

RobertT

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Looks awesome! Though the texture loses some detail, or layer below the head. (also stated in a previous comment)

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I love it.

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This is certainly very cool, Goosey. Reminds me a little of a chess board I was wanting to build ten years ago in Chicago.
The textures look great.
Anyhow, I wanted to drop in on a recent thread of your’s to thank you for posting that awesome new punkin render in Cycles Museum. I like it a lot. BTW, I could be wrong, but I think Cycles does support volume at this point. I think. At any rate, it’s something you should bring up in the Cycles Tests thread, because that issue has been a running discussion in there before.
Anyway, thanks for adding your cool render, and future Cycles renders you want to hang up in there, in A Cycles Museum.
Have a great one! :slight_smile:

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Thanks AdamEtheredge - there have been some volume enabled builds - but I didn’t think they were enough to make a decent flame yet, and watching Brecht over the stream from BConf11 he said both Volume and SSS were to be done in the coming year.