I’ve been experimenting with Vue a bit lately. Was getting frustrated with some of the lighting and shadow bits. I decided to jump over to Blender and quickly do something to compare. This was the end result. I was pretty happy with it so I thought I’d share it and consider it a finished piece.
Rendered with Cycles. No post work.
Pretty solid. Did you ever consider putting a logo on the golf ball? I think it could enhanced the ball a little more. The grass looks great.
Pretty good work… might wanna scale the grass plane a bit, I can see the corner. I’m not sure if clipping is another alternative to that.
Very nice! I would suggest adding a more reflective material to the golf ball.
Thanks for taking a look and thanks for the comments. There’s definitely a few areas that need a little work. It’s given me a lot of ideas of more polished and thought out projects for the future. I’ll be grabbing a ball to have on the desk as reference when I do.
Really nice grass, could you share with us, how you achieve this effect of grass :)) Most of the examples the grass is really long… and not like a golf grass… but this is really good example of it!
Congrats, for the render! Well done! 
@ivaydesign, Sorry I just got back from the weekend. I’m not at my computer with the file on it, so no screen grabs, but I’ll try my best to remember and explain what I did.
I started with proper scaling the ball so that when I put the grass in, I had a proper reference. I started the grass with a single vertical blade which started as flat plane. Made it nice and slender and pointy. Ha. Technical terms I know. Then I duplicated and started to make a “clump” of grass with 30+ individual blades. I made it so it wasn’t very tall, but as the blades radiate from the center, they bent over towards the ground arching away from vertical. Maybe only 1 or two blades actually were standing up straight. Sort of like this reference but a lot shorter in length and density (http://goo.gl/SKcN1E). Grouped all that together.
Then I used a hair particle system with 50k instances or so which gave the density that felt good to me. Same material for all the blades. I suspect that the process isn’t terribly different than most people but I probably put a lot more variation into the starting object/group and had very few straight and vertical blades to start with.
If you wanted to take it one step further you could “cut” the grass off and give it a flat frayed top to make it look cut. Wouldn’t be terribly difficult to do. If I get a chance today I might try out doing some cut grass. (reference http://goo.gl/PNcrWK)
The grass is nice!
