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A bit off-topic: Wet bricks

November 6, 2012
Heya!

Over the last weeks, I have been posting about the tutorial I am working on and while I currently am experiencing quite a bit of difficulty there, it has given me some time to just mess around trying to look for a solution (already prayed and waiting for HIM to reveal it).

While messing around with some of the textures, I came across a combination that works really well for wall tiles, but after playing with it a bit, turned it back into bricks I add the gloss node as well and got this incredible (imo) wet brick look:



Now obviously it doesn't rain in Blender, lol, but since it is a very good 3D graphics program, it is a lot of fun to work with, because you get great results and in not too much time either. This one, imo, has that just rained outside type look, but I don't know how this would respond in a scene, tbh (to be honest). Eitherway, I really like it and for this result at 10 passes in Cycles, it is a very good result.

As usual, all procedural.

Have a great one!

Thank YOU!!!!!!!
 

Ivies now have some leaves

November 5, 2012
Hey all!

This is what the current preview render looks like:


I adjusted the above a bit, because it's lighting isn't finished yet and so it was a bit on the dark side, environmentally speaking, haha. Anyway, just added some brightness and contrast.

The leaves themselves are the most difficult and personally, I have to admit I couldn't get them as close to the real thing as I had hoped, but, I am very happy with the leaf shape:

I've seen this three-point shape not nearly as often as I would like t...
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Started adding some color!

November 2, 2012
Hey all!

Today's post is more a taste of the final (though merely, if even, a shadow):


The inside of the structures needed to have a different color to indicate a different material.

The Viewport (or 3DView as I prefer) can have different colors assigned. It can help you see, to a very limited degree imo, the overall look your scene may have when completed.
   While the branches of the ivies have been completed, the leaves are just at the starting point. While preparing for this tutorial I had cr...

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Ivy is next!

November 1, 2012
Hey all!

What a mission! It was such a task to get this size of ivy in the scene. The generator works extremely well and it has nothing to do with the quality of the software. Blender rocks and the ivy generator too, but I was referring to getting it to render (Cycles is a bit more heavy duty than Blender Render, imo).

BUT! HE came through as usual and I added HIS suggestions to the book as well on how to get it going with a good look and proper detail.

For today's post, I made a clay render (fo...
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