Principia Discordia

Principia Discordia => Bring and Brag => Topic started by: CynicalCichilid on December 06, 2008, 02:02:23 AM

Title: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 06, 2008, 02:02:23 AM
Here's a 3D sacred chao I rustled up today:

(http://xs234.xs.to/xs234/08495/sacred_chao283.png)

Still messing with lighting, textures and stuff. This is a low resolution render so it could be a lot more realistic.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Xooxe on December 06, 2008, 03:30:02 AM
I like the reflection in the apple. What about a bit of reflection on the tiled floor too?
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Cramulus on December 06, 2008, 03:40:45 AM
That's awesome! That apple is so shiny, I want to have sex with it.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Elder Iptuous on December 06, 2008, 05:07:51 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 06, 2008, 03:40:45 AM
That's awesome! That apple is so shiny, I want to have sex with it.
But there could be anything inside of it!!
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Agrippa on December 06, 2008, 10:48:14 AM
Quote from: Iptuous on December 06, 2008, 05:07:51 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 06, 2008, 03:40:45 AM
That's awesome! That apple is so shiny, I want to have sex with it.
But there could be anything inside of it!!


A worm, when Cramulus has sex with it.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 06, 2008, 05:43:40 PM
Quote from: Xooxe on December 06, 2008, 03:30:02 AM
I like the reflection in the apple. What about a bit of reflection on the tiled floor too?

Yeah x00xe, I knew you'd ask for excessive raytracing.  :D

(http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1228585156028163100.jpg)

Pity it doesn't really make much of a difference. I changed the texture of the floor a little, gonna pimp that out later. Changed the texture of the drapes but I turned the transparency down too much before the final render. That's annoying because the cloth looked pretty realistic before that.

xs.to uploads are fubar at the minute, so I found a new image hosting site: www.imagechicken.com. Its better than imageshack with its evil thumbnail limitation.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Telarus on December 06, 2008, 08:39:50 PM
This is excellent work.

What are you using? (My school focuses on Maya and stuff like ZBrush)
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 07, 2008, 09:59:18 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 06, 2008, 03:40:45 AM
That's awesome! That apple is so shiny, I want to have sex with it.

Here's a tasty offering for you to corrupt.
            /
(http://xs234.xs.to/xs234/08490/apple_spin514.gif)

Quote from: Telarus on December 06, 2008, 08:39:50 PM
This is excellent work.

What are you using? (My school focuses on Maya and stuff like ZBrush)

I'm using blender (www.blender.org (http://www.blender.org)) for this, it's the only 3D tool that doesn't profit from making its features impossible to learn without paying top dollar for books. Since Autodesk bought Maya I've lost all love for that once kickass piece of software. It's a shame, Maya used to be my hot topic for wooing artists.

I'm thinking of running these models through yafray (http://yafray.org/ (http://yafray.org/)) or LuxRender (http://www.luxrender.net/ (http://www.luxrender.net/)) but they take forever. Yafray is generally slow for what it does (which will be sorted out soon). LuxRender is an unbiased raytracer so it simulates billions of photons which will probably take 3 days to draw maybe 50% of the first image.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 08, 2008, 02:48:28 PM
Update.

(http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1228747150035196500.jpg)

After very nearly crashing my machine, I decided that upping the resolution of the apple wasn't a solution for applying writing. This is using bumpmaps which don't use 1GB of RAM and 2GB of virtual memory within 2 seconds. Now the leaf needs veins.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: hooplala on December 08, 2008, 04:02:11 PM
THE BLACK LODGE!!!!!
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Triple Zero on December 08, 2008, 06:38:54 PM
Quote from: CynicalCichilid on December 06, 2008, 05:43:40 PMI changed the texture of the floor a little, gonna pimp that out later.

i liked the checkered black/white better, for contrast.

but you should use that stripey zig-zag floor pattern they have in Twin Peaks!!!
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on December 08, 2008, 10:35:19 PM
Quote from: BAWHEED on December 08, 2008, 04:02:11 PM
THE BLACK LODGE!!!!!

:omg:

That's what I thought of too.


And I agree with 000, the first checkered floor looks better.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 08, 2008, 10:47:48 PM
Quote from: BAWHEED on December 08, 2008, 04:02:11 PM
THE BLACK LODGE!!!!!
:D Indeedy.

Quote from: Triple Zero on December 08, 2008, 06:38:54 PM
i liked the checkered black/white better, for contrast.

but you should use that stripey zig-zag floor pattern they have in Twin Peaks!!!

(http://xs234.xs.to/xs234/08501/golden_chao_test796.jpg)

Oh, and:

(http://xs434.xs.to/xs434/08501/out275.gif)
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on December 08, 2008, 11:05:00 PM
These are kickass.

Have you taken a look at the Intermittens project?
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 08, 2008, 11:10:22 PM
thankyou, and nope.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Triple Zero on December 08, 2008, 11:11:23 PM
is it me or is the chao's reflection in the wrong place? [shouldnt happen with a raytracer, right??]
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Xooxe on December 09, 2008, 06:57:54 AM
Quote from: CynicalCichilid on December 08, 2008, 10:47:48 PM
(http://xs234.xs.to/xs234/08501/golden_chao_test796.jpg)

That's looking good. Now to purge the plastic-like curtains of their specular shading?
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 09, 2008, 12:34:52 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 08, 2008, 11:11:23 PM
is it me or is the chao's reflection in the wrong place? [shouldnt happen with a raytracer, right??]

That's what I thought while it was rendering. I checked, it is in the right place. It's just the wonky angle I put the camera at which makes the distance between the chao and the floor deceiving.

Quote from: Xooxe on December 09, 2008, 06:57:54 AM
That's looking good. Now to purge the plastic-like curtains of their specular shading?

I know, I stupidly moved two lights really close to the chao for this render and forgot to compensate on the curtains texturing. I'm a little reticent about perfecting this scene because I have no idea how to import the new Kallisti embossed apple. I want to recreate the curtains with a higher resolution cloth sim so I may as well start from scratch.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on December 09, 2008, 07:25:46 PM
Quote from: CynicalCichilid on December 08, 2008, 11:10:22 PM
thankyou, and nope.

Would you be interested in making anything for an Intermittens issue?
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 09, 2008, 08:05:57 PM
Quote from: Net on December 09, 2008, 07:25:46 PM
Would you be interested in making anything for an Intermittens issue?

I could do, it seems that I'm having a creative outburst right now which is unusual. I'm happy to create something random, or anything you guys request (within reasonable limits).

Here's my first test render with a totally new environment. The cloth isn't as ruffled up as I'd like it to be, but I got fed up of rerunning the cloth simulation after the tenth time. I forgot to rotate the floor 45 degrees and I finally sorted the specular on the curtains XooXe. Shame I forgot to texture it.

(http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1228850297077620100.png)

Finally, I can see what the embossed writing looks like reflecting the floor:

(http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1228852734022391000.png)

You can't see it in this render, but the apple leaf has rudimentary veins.  :D
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Triple Zero on December 12, 2008, 09:21:13 PM
how about applying a vertically ridged bumpmap to the cloth? to make it sort of corduroy-looking?
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 19, 2008, 01:11:52 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 12, 2008, 09:21:13 PM
how about applying a vertically ridged bumpmap to the cloth? to make it sort of corduroy-looking?

(http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1229652905063035200.png)
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Cramulus on December 19, 2008, 01:27:50 AM
awesome! Can I get one in widescreen size for wallpaperish purposes?
Or will that take eleventybillion years to render?  :wink:
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on December 19, 2008, 02:40:38 AM
Quote from: CynicalCichilid on December 19, 2008, 01:11:52 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 12, 2008, 09:21:13 PM
how about applying a vertically ridged bumpmap to the cloth? to make it sort of corduroy-looking?

(http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1229652905063035200.png)

:mittens:

I like this one a lot.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Triple Zero on December 19, 2008, 12:17:22 PM
yeah great job on the bumpmap!
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 19, 2008, 12:22:04 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 19, 2008, 01:27:50 AM
awesome! Can I get one in widescreen size for wallpaperish purposes?
Or will that take eleventybillion years to render?  :wink:

I can leave it running for as long as it needs. What resolution do you want it in?
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Cramulus on December 19, 2008, 01:09:16 PM
my monitor runs in glorious 1680 x 1050

Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: bds on December 19, 2008, 02:03:18 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 19, 2008, 01:09:16 PM
my monitor runs in glorious 1680 x 1050



Uhm, can i put in a request for a 1024x768? Please?

And it looks really good, btw :)
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 21, 2008, 09:57:42 AM
Here's two wallpapers: Cramulus Res - 1680x1050 (http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1229856237034933600.jpg) & BDSimp Res - 1024x768 (http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1229856205094450700.jpg).

It took 5 hours 35 minutes to draw, so not long then.   :)
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Cramulus on December 21, 2008, 02:11:40 PM
700 x 437 pixels
hmmm... looks like imagechicken scaled that first one down a bit... :-(
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: bds on December 21, 2008, 02:31:33 PM
Quote from: CynicalCichilid on December 21, 2008, 09:57:42 AM
Here's two wallpapers: Cramulus Res - 1680x1050 (http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1229856237034933600.jpg) & BDSimp Res - 1024x768 (http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1229856205094450700.jpg).

It took 5 hours 35 minutes to draw, so not long then.   :)

THANKYOU!

:mittens: :mittens: :mittens:

I'm not sure if the resolution is exactly right, but it looks good anyway, so thanks :)
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Fractalbeard on December 21, 2008, 07:01:58 PM
Hey, Cynical;
I'm putting together a Discordian Calendar.  Can I use this image?

http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1228747150035196500.jpg

I'll give credit, of course.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Fuquad on December 21, 2008, 07:07:47 PM
And thanks
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 21, 2008, 11:07:44 PM
Quote from: Rurouzaru on December 21, 2008, 07:01:58 PM
Hey, Cynical;
I'm putting together a Discordian Calendar.  Can I use this image?

http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1228747150035196500.jpg

I'll give credit, of course.

All the stuff I post in this thread is completely public domain / kopyleft. Eventually the blender files will be posted up too. Use this stuff for whatever you want.

Quote from: Cramulus on December 21, 2008, 02:11:40 PM
700 x 437 pixels
hmmm... looks like imagechicken scaled that first one down a bit... :-(


Yeah, and it used a poor quality jpeg compression on it too. I've crossed over to the photobucket darkside:

1024x768 (http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww116/cycid/bg_1024x768.jpg) & 1680x1050 (http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww116/cycid/bg_1680x1050.jpg).
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Cramulus on December 22, 2008, 03:01:43 PM
BAD ASS!

:mittens: :mittens:
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: bds on December 24, 2008, 02:34:55 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 22, 2008, 03:01:43 PM
BAD ASS!

:mittens: :mittens:

I CONCUR!
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on December 29, 2008, 05:42:14 PM
Thanks.  :D

(http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww116/cycid/default.jpg)

This is a test render using Luxrender which is one of those evil unbiased raytracers that doesn't simplify anything. It took 16 hours and 16 minutes to look like this and it still wasn't finished. I need to buy about 4GB of extra RAM if I'm going to keep using this because 1GB isn't handling the insanity. Luxrender destroys my PC for about 15 minutes while it's starting up and shutting down!
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Cramulus on December 30, 2008, 12:56:18 AM
I said it before and I'll say it again.

I want to have sex with that apple.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Honey on December 30, 2008, 02:07:20 AM
These are beautiful! 

(& maybe this is sacrilegious of me to say but I prefer hexagons to pentagons - I know there's the 5 bit thing & all but I associate the pentagon with, well, the Pentagon - & the thing always looks lopsided to me)

But Holy Fuck I do love those dimensional renderings!   :)
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Triple Zero on December 30, 2008, 12:12:57 PM
the lopsidedness is part of the point of it, for me.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on December 30, 2008, 09:33:00 PM
I'd also have sex with the apple, as well as the pentagon, yin-yangy thing, the curtains, and would dry hump the floor.
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Triple Zero on January 05, 2009, 11:43:58 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 30, 2008, 12:56:18 AM
I said it before and I'll say it again.

I want to have sex with that apple.

Quote from: Net on December 30, 2008, 09:33:00 PM
I'd also have sex with the apple, as well as the pentagon, yin-yangy thing, the curtains, and would dry hump the floor.

um, guys ...

(http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/2577/reptilianspaceherpesgk0.jpg)

sorry
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Cramulus on January 05, 2009, 03:32:16 PM
:cramstipated:
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Telarus on January 07, 2009, 12:40:31 AM
 :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Ziggy Odyssey on January 07, 2009, 08:48:20 PM
ermz... how to for post the picturingz in theez realmses?

<img src="http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l82/mistermumbojumbo/oshee3.jpg">
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Ziggy Odyssey on January 07, 2009, 08:49:59 PM
yerp? like with the buttony thang?

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l82/mistermumbojumbo/oshee3.jpg)
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Ziggy Odyssey on January 07, 2009, 08:51:31 PM
oooh.... yerp. buttony thang. wootza wootza hey...

now there will be trouble.

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l82/mistermumbojumbo/goldenapple.jpg)


Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: AFK on January 07, 2009, 08:52:44 PM
it's very shiny. 
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Cramulus on January 07, 2009, 08:57:00 PM
Quote from: St. Lorenzo Lavacado on January 07, 2009, 08:49:59 PM
yerp? like with the buttony thang?

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l82/mistermumbojumbo/oshee3.jpg)

awesome! :mittens:
Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: Ziggy Odyssey on January 07, 2009, 09:00:20 PM
all my artz is up for grabz in yer zine thingy. please gank them at will.

i just downloaded the first issue of intermittenz and will read it while my boss works very hard.

Happy Snervleblort Day!!!
:fnord: :fnord: :fnord:

artz is serious. this is not an artz.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l82/mistermumbojumbo/pics%20for%20group%20wirks/notmagritte.jpg)



Title: Re: Sacred Chao antics.
Post by: CynicalCichilid on January 12, 2009, 02:49:38 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 07, 2009, 08:57:00 PM
Quote from: St. Lorenzo Lavacado on January 07, 2009, 08:49:59 PM
yerp? like with the buttony thang?

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l82/mistermumbojumbo/oshee3.jpg)

awesome! :mittens:

I'll have to second that. It's an almost flawless representation of my rendering studio. Minus the coffee serving midgets of course.

Back on topic though. There's been a lot more workings happening on the 3D chao. After many hours of tireless slaving over emulating the gold shader from Luxrender in blender, here's what it looks like now. (Yes, there was no good gold shaders available on the internet for blender).

(http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww116/cycid/blenderrender.jpg)
This was rendered as a test, it turned out OK. Should have turned the lights up a little though.

(http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww116/cycid/chao_blenderhires_AO.jpg)
Here is the finished shader with a white sky lighting everything up.

So now this means that I don't have to wait five days to see how it looks anymore. WOOHOO!