btw I forgot to mention the structure of the teeth. When you model teeth just make sure the count goes as follows.There are 4 incisors, 2 canines, 4 premolars, and 6 molars. They are the same count for both the bottom and the top just the bottom being more narrow...

Originally Posted by Chavfister

I actually possess no molars in my mouth and only the pre-molars due to having them taken out as a teenager. I have a small mouth and my braces would have never aligned properly if they had left them in. So you are correct on the deviation if you wish. On another forum a guy did a study on Tom Cruise and he was shown to have a tooth in the middle of his incisors. He's got wicked jacked up teeth....

Originally Posted by Chavfister

Snagged this from a FB friends wall some time ago and always wanted to tackle it. Still have stuff to do but it is just something I messed around with today.

Originally Posted by Chavfister

Built this ship this afternoon. Not a F-ing tri or NGon on it. Still have to finalize the main bits and then get down to the small stuff and ornate siding to make it sell. Oh can't tell you how much I want to UV this thing.... Will UV then send it off to ZBrush for sculpt and texturing. Hoping to make it a three day job total....

edit: I couldn't help but throw something in Vue. Just tryin to make Leon jealous of my atmosphere skills... Actually haven't used it in quite some time so I figured I would pop in for a quick brush up and render. First time rendering on my i7. Popped out the lo-res in 2 minutes... Not bad... The hi-res took 25 minutes. The shadow across the bottom is just the edge of the terrain...

As for the medical stuff I am just messing around with it. Kind of mixing up the layer shader and the effects within the material browser. I know C4D in and out at this point and I just want to see which way I can push it... Thanks for the blog lead though. Will have a read through that when my eyes get some rest.

Later guys....

Originally Posted by Chavfister

That streak is the edge of the terrain. It is a procedural terrain with a fractal map and recursive stratification applied. The boat starts there and sail forward. I just took the still at frame 1 and got the clipping. But whatevs. That stuff is easy to set up...

Originally Posted by Chavfister

Shore effect? Well the water covers the whole scen by default. It never ends. But the procedural terrain is set to 2km x 2km and has a designated height of 400m. Most people who use Vue make the basic mistake of scaling their scene improperly. Like putting a boat scaled down so it fits your whole world in a 250m x 250m landscape with these epic mountains that would be of greater size. This in turn leads to the improper aerial perspective and a feeling of clarity that most never see unless in a mountain range hours after a massive rainfall. It is set up like this to promote small scenes and rich ecosystems but people tend to want to produce mountains and this setting is too small for a scene of that scale. This in itself is what allows for a proper atmosphere. That way you can dial in the fog and haze settings to correspond with the altitude you have set. Not to mention the atmosphere limit can be set to the normal 6km and give you the blues in the sky. The one thing I tend to exaggerate is the height of the clouds. Something gets me when they interact with the mountains. I kinda like it like that....

As for Maya I have no idea on the ocean shader. I know in C4D you add a turbulent water shader and then use a formula effector to produce the "roll" of the waves. Never really liked it that much. If you want believability you have to use Realflow. With the addition of Hybrido you can create excellent results with the addition of particles coming off the impact and the wake. But it takes a long time to simulate and then you have to either have Renderkit or in the case of C4D I would create cloudlets and hair for the foam and spray. Krakatoa has astounding results as well but I have no idea on how to use it since I have never even opened 3DSMax.

Originally Posted by Chavfister