First WC for me, and even my first real scene ever (I’m not counting all the ‘glassy spheres/cubes with HDRI’ doodles).
Theme for WC 123 is ‘oxymoron’.
Needs a little postprocessing, but I wanted to keep the image pure.
C&C still welcome.
EDIT:
New render, size 1280 x 1024.
Changed the DOF a bit and made it a little brighter.
Oh man! Great! Priceless!
Awesome render! Love the expression on the knights face.
BgDM
heh! thumbs up, great work!
.b
Very nice work! I like the use of DOF, 'cause it brings the knight character into focus… erm… yeah! Too bad the gopher’s not in focus, too… winning work!
That is so cool!!! 
I love it man! Great knight You used yafray with the sun sky lightning? How did you set it up?
Wow! That’s awesome! You’ll definately win 
Thanks for the comments so far.
Too bad the gopher’s not in focus, too…
Yeah, that’s what I thought after 2 1/4 hours rendering. 
You used yafray with the sun sky lightning? How did you set it up?
I used GI-method on full, quality on high. Added 2 lamps to get some specularity.
Very nice, very expressional.
Yeah ! Great realisation ! The expression of the man is very good modle.
That’s really good! The facial expression fits perfectly - such a bold guy ;).
2 1/4 hours render-time? Uff.
i love that face! you should make more gophers, like Whack-a-Mole! great job!
i just love it.
the expression is perfect, and the contrast of the nicely done diffuse shading with the strong reflections is a very nice touch.
All of the above
also do you think you could render one slightly larger so I can use it as my background?
I love those kind of cartoon styled renders. Very nice. I was going to say it was the first image I’ve seen here to use DOF properly until I saw the gopher. Someone else mentioned it.
If you fixed that, I would say it’s one of the best images I’ve seen on Elysiun. IMO, I could see this on a Blender showreel. I look forward to seeing more of your work. An animation would be awesome. Like making him bash the gopher.
I love it ! very good work !
Correct the DOF and you enter directly into the pantheon
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Thanks all for the replies.
I’ve added a link to a new render on the first post, size 1280 x 1024.
You can also find it here:
Less DOF and slighly brighter.
Still not perfect, but I’m happy for now.
I love this style of rendering! Seriously impressive!
Any chance you could post what settings you used? The knight’s face material and the lighting setup would be the parts I am most interested in… The knight’s face material because it’s looks so damn good, and the lighting rig, because I am having problems balancing the lighting for the Yafray export.
Please don’t be offended! I just want to learn, not copy…
Ben
Please don’t be offended! I just want to learn, not copy…
That’s okay dude, I’m still learning too.
I can surely show you some settings.
Some settings are proberly waaaay to high, but with this I give my new computer something to do.
Remember that those (high) AA-settings (passes, samples & threshold) are only needed when creating DOF.
The 2 lamps are normal lamps with energy around 2.1. They give the materials their specularspots. The main lightning comes from the GI-power + the worldcolour.
Hope this helps
Huh! I didn’t realize Yafray images were allowed in the Weekend Challenge. Beautiful render I love the eyes! Such personality! Reminds me of some of the characters from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
