I’ve been working on an A4 to complement the other locomotives I’ve been using in renders. It’s complete enough to start showing up centre stage now. The second phase of this project will start adding weathering to the materials system.
A quick clay and wireframe view:
A simple render with garter blue livery.
Great work, congrats…
wooow, amazing
That looks dope! How did you make the snow clouds coming form the wheels, if I may ask?
Hi @Markus-ipse - these are actually (meant to be) the steam escaping from the piston assembly. To be honest, I don’t think it is well motivated - I haven’t fully researched the details of this, but based it on other pictures that I’ve come across.
For steam in general - wherever it is coming from - I currently model the envelope by hand and then use procedural volume shaders (as well as a few layers of displacement to get the finer details). In this image, I’ve also kept the steam in a separate layer and then boosted the contrast a bit in compositing.
Taking out the A4 model on the viaduct scene (Steam Locomotive, Brick Viaduct - #9 by ontogenic).
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
Thanks Bart! Always an honour.
Congratulations, this work has been nominated for the ‘Best of Blender Artists 2022’ award in the #vehicles category! You can vote for it here.
Thanks Bart, and here’s to a good time next year!
