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Pardon the pun :whoot: I spent a week modelling this vice, why? no particular reason other than I though it looked interesting and had some challenging curves etc. I'm trying to do a studio or catalogue shot for it but I'm not sure how it looks. There's still a couple of artifacts in the materials t...

Done!

Final looks like this, unfortunately my renders never look this real. I think I can learn a bit more about brick textures from this and try to get the CG looking more like the pic

My 10 year old son's "Bird Table" project. He had some idea from a book about a bird table to build that he was thinking about in lego or cardboard which wouldn't have worked too well outside in the rain. We designed something similar to the book made of plywood that is sitting around and ...

Busted ! :clap: I'm shocked that you noticed that actually :hat: I chucked it in at the last minute from the warehouse, it's one of the few parts I didn't model myself (along with the saw and the vice) and the material is one texture and for some reason wouldn't break up so since I was in a hurry I ...

I'll probably get banned for spam soon

I always wanted to do one of these... sorry for the gawdy colour

Done! Render time was 12 hours, not too bad for the res.

The light is a point light made slightly larger than the bulb and then the bulb's outer material was a light emitter set to fake.

thanks for the tips... getting there!

(There is perhaps a thread about this already but I didn't notice it in my somewhat rushed search) I'm wondering what post pro tools people use that are free or cheap. I generally play with PainShopPro (v9, pre corel) which seems to be able to do most of what GIMP can do but I'm more familiar with t...

but, but, but .... you cheated! you did it in post pro!

That kind of throws down the gauntlet I think, there has to be a way to do this 'for real'

I'll be back!