Just a little photo-realism test

Artwork Blender Tests
1

I was trying to make a water droplet with photo-realistic qualities. How did I do?

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2

The water droplet looks nice but the edges of the leaf look dead straight for the somwhat bumpy texture. You might want to try some subtle displacement for the leaf.

3

Here’s some tips on water rendering:

  • No diffuse
  • No specular
  • 100% transparency
  • little reflective (actually this two values should be balanced to %100 but this is CG so…)
  • IOR 1.33
  • Some Fresnel for reflection is nice, needs to be more transparent than reflective when looking at it directly
  • Big square emitting diffusers to reflect something in the water, can be lighted with bright spot lights (the planes not the water) for better effect
  • A plane in the back or a sphere with angular map (hidden in renderlayer) can be used for more reflection eye-candyExample Setup I
    Example Setup II