First WIP!: Tealight Winter Scene

[SReid]

Hi everyone!

I am very new to using Blender, have been looking through the forum, and learning as much as I can for about 3 weeks. Today I felt tired with learning, learning, learning…so I decided to try and make something :yes:

I hope this isn’t too basic to be posting in here, but I feel like I need a little advice. This model is going to be used as part of a picture I want to render, but trying to make this model properly first before moving onto the full scene.

Basically I live in Northern Ireland and if anyone has heard it has snowed extremely heavily in my area. I love the light blue glow of the snowy scene outside with my tealights at the window, so I want to make that :yes: I’ll continue to post my work on the scene and models in here as I go.

Anyway this is my candle holder (sorry for bad quality i only have a webcam )

And this is how far I’ve got: (took me 4 hours, please don’t laugh lol)

The final scene will be quite dark, but i’m putting the glass pieces in front of a texture to get the IOR and stuff right. Its almost how I want it, but its not dark enough refraction inside the glass, and I don’t think it looks exactly right.

I also have no clue about making the candles lit but I will research that more, if anyone has any tips or advice I would welcome it!

I have (hopefully!) attached my blend file in case anyone wants to look, or wants to show me a better way of doing something.

Thanks!
SReid

Attachments

Dual_Tealight.blend (790 KB)

[3dementia]

Nice start and welcome to the forums! I played with your file for a few minutes, maybe this could get you moving in some good directions.

Changes I made: Disabled Ray and AO (for speed you should turn them back on), Added DOF, Glare, 3-point Lighting, Flame Mesh, Indirect Lighting.

Attachments

Dual_Tealight.blend (898 KB)

[SReid]

Wow! Wasn’t expecting such a quick reply, and with a new file to study! Your changes are awesome and way closer to what i’m trying to achieve! I see you added nodes and things, which I haven’t learned about yet, and thank you for making a flame for me! Am studying the settings for that atm. This is more than enough for me to work on Thank you for spendin’ your time to help!

[SReid]

Ok just thought I’d show what I’m doing so far, have decided to work on the window. Have taken a photo outside my window, and followed Andrew Price’s tutorial on creating a foggy window.

I took his final.blend and altered it to look more like my window here at home. I liked his scene for doing this quickly but I might start my own file from scratch after I’ve learned enough from this setup!