May 14, 2012
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Vintage Diving Helmet
A few weeks ago I had the idea to model this vintage diving helmet and thought it is a good object to work on because it is not so commonly seen in the CG-scene. I used Cinema 4D to create the model and V-Ray to set up lighting and materials. What I like about VRAYForC4D is that it can be combined with all native shaders of Cinema 4D. This feature was intensly used when I created the weathered metal materials.
January 15, 2012
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Wine Gums
To learn more about the possibilities of VRay I played around with the FastSSS2 shader creating a winegum like material. I was pretty surprised how fast VRay renders subsurface scattering or DOF. It's not lightning fast but it's noticeable faster than any other render engine I tried. From this point I got the idea to model a plastic bag for the wine gums and some more objects to enhance the scene. After all I put together the whole scene and used the Cinema 4D dynamics engine to place the winegums on the surface in a natural way.
January 7, 2012
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Tunnel
This scene was inspired by a photo I saw on the internet a few weeks ago. Now I created this CG tunnel scene lighten by a dazzling sun light to have a look at V-Ray for Cinema 4D. I have been using the render software recently and this is the first scene I created with this engine. After this short testing session I'm very impressed by the speed and realism of VRay. The tunnel is lightened by only one V-Ray Sunlight. The rest is done by the excellent Global Illumination algorithm.
December 4, 2011
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Merry Christmas 2011
Time flies and it is almost Christmas again. The weather and temperature these days are more like autumn so I created some Christmas lights in Cinema 4D to help the Christmas spirit come by itself.
I hope you have a nice December and wish you the joys and wonders of the Christmas season.
Happy holidays!
October 28, 2011
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Leather Case
I put as much effort into the background of my binoculars image scene as into the foreground. So you might want to take a look. I modeled the case in Cinema 4D and created a leather shader featuring an additional bump map for the scratches. To generate the physical dynamic simulation of the carrying strap I used the Hair module of Cinema 4D. I created just one hair guide as a spline generator and used a deformer to wrap the polygons along in a natural way.