SMC #05 "Thirsty" - Your Favourite Drinks

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

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Subject: Your Favourite Drinks
Deadline - 10:00PM GMT Friday 15th April 2011
Description: What's your favourite tipple? Are you a tea drinker? A coffee man? or a juice or smoothie drinker, vodka, whiskey, beer, stout the list goes on. Here's your chance to model your favourites....... and why not have one with you while you model too :)
Modelling Time: 60 Mins.

Prizes:

1st Place - £30 worth of 3DTotal downloadable products & a gold award badge.
2nd Place - £10 worth of 3DTotal downloadable products & a silver award badge.
Honourable Mentions - Bronze Award Badges

Above All Else Have Fun & Good Luck!

My Starter

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[bgen]

cool topic. will be instresting to see what people come up with.

[GaretJaxSozap]

I tried to go too big for the look out the window one. I got really disgusted because I'm a noob who wants to be perfect. Anyway I'll spend more time with that. This one looks reasonable for me though. shouldn't be too hard.
Good luck everyone

[lonelymonk]

That's a very handsome render!

[GaretJaxSozap]

I know this is simple... but imagine smallish, three eyed, pink skinned, slugs drinking from these, oh the gas would be for their hover chairs... or something....
Anyway done in 3ds max and did the modeling in 35 minutes

[grafi]

Nice Topic! I'm definitely going to be participating in this one, lots of possibilities..

Also, cool Starter :D

[rocneasta]

@ GaretJaxSozap - you can always do better by presenting your work better. Look at starters and you'll see straight away what was made out of a simple bottle, idea and presentation wise.

@ CG - nice idea and cool starter

[Edwiersma]

Just to take my mind of work...

[rocneasta]

i expect a lot of cylinders in this competition :p

drinking tea or warm milk Edwiersma?

[Edwiersma]

Hehe, Tea! It's a little stupid I placed the camera at an angele you don't even see the liquid... It took me quite some time to make a nice Tea-Material but too bad it's not in the render, at least I have a Tea-Material now.

[vicban3d]

Hello everybody! I'll play along in this one, but only have time for one entry so here it is, the Futuredrink, a drink with a temperature regulator.
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[Edwiersma]

Inspiration!
http://www.thedallassocials.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/boat_drinks.jpg

[dantrodgers]

Yorkshire Tea it is

[lonelymonk]

I was contemplating a pan galactic gargle blaster. Not sure what one might look like.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Wahey! some nice entries already!

I'm gonna do a classic juice carton drink in a bit, but gonna create the artwork from scratch again like the Threedy SMC (Pepsi Max) design.

Below is the original artwork I created, I wanted to share as i'm really glad with the results. It's been resized as my original artwork is the correct size of 22cm which is 6600 x 2250 in pixels.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk208/classicgamer-3dt/ClassicGamer-2DFizzyPopLabelArtwork-1.jpg

If anyone would like the original photoshop file to have a play with, I can upload it.

[Edwiersma]

I was contemplating a pan galactic gargle blaster. Not sure what one might look like.

Well, this in fact is quite easy, just a drop of some transparent gel (of which the ingredients are unknown) with ice.
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Wahey! some nice entries already!

I'm gonna do a classic juice carton drink in a bit, but gonna create the artwork from scratch again like the Threedy SMC (Pepsi Max) design.

Below is the original artwork I created, I wanted to share as i'm really glad with the results. It's been resized as my original artwork is the correct size of 22cm which is 6600 x 2250 in pixels.

If anyone would like the original photoshop file to have a play with, I can upload it.

An upload would be awesome, its seem a very nice universal design for a bottle or can entry anyone could use. Although I think the version you got there is already high-ress enough for SMC entry's.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Well it does seem high res but I like to work to real world scale if at all possible. I measure the label and it was 22cm x 8.5cm to wrap around the bottle section so that translates to 6600 x 2250 in pixels, but in photoshop you can also change the scale to cm too :)

Here's the zipped photoshop (http://www.zshare.net/download/88799652c9a14bd8/) file it's 947KB zipped and about an 8mb file unzipped.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Working on my juice carton artwork at the moment, here's what i've got for the front so far :)

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk208/classicgamer-3dt/ClassicGasmer-2DRibenaRaspberryArtwork.jpg

[rocneasta]

i wish Tom would pitch in and get into a making the real juice :) at least to be best served in UK as a start---

[rocneasta]

wires and clay for this type of a model are really simple so i went along with this composition - it's clear, just let me know if it's ok...

nothing special, just some bubbles :)

[GaretJaxSozap]

just redid the modeling to mine after some yard work. There is no lemonade in my house, hence the pitcher of lemonade. Have to texture it before posting... The pan galactic gargle blaster is a very cool idea. Look forward to seeing it completed

[RockstarKate]

Favorite drink is a tough one. But Grand Marnier is near the top of the list. I actually just went and bought some because looking at all the references was making me want it so much! :drool:

I planned to make a glass of it also, but spent too much time messing around with making the red ribbon. Textures and rendering about another 2 hours (mental ray)

I can't actually show the whole wireframe without smoothing because everything is so close to everything else- things intersect. So I'm showing it here smoothed, and then separated and unsmoothed. Hope that's okay! Can change if not.

[grafi]

Well, this in fact is quite easy, just a drop of some transparent gel (of which the ingredients are unknown) with ice.
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An upload would be awesome, its seem a very nice universal design for a bottle or can entry anyone could use. Although I think the version you got there is already high-ress enough for SMC entry's.


Wow, I was actually going to post about this but you guys beat me to the punch. There is actually a real "Pan Galactic Gargle blaster" which was one of my favorite drinks. You can get one at the Two Parrots on Granville st. in downtown Vancouver, BC. It's a multi-colored drink that consists of 151, tequila and melon liqueur. Usually found as a green and red looking concauction. (I think the one I'm talking about is #3)

Anyways, I'll try to find a picture of it, but definitely a great drink with a great name. :drool:

[rocneasta]

@ RockstarKate - lovely ribbon... i once made the AIDS ribbon, and it gave me pain tbh :( did it in 30 min but from third attempt - having said that yours was difficult to craft

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

rocneasta - I would prefer the correct compostioned images that you usually post, just because the model is simplier, does not mean you should/need to post a single/simplier set of images.

RockstarKate - Wow Kate that's a beauty of a model, a really nice shaped bottle actually, great work on the ribbon and the seal, very good indeed.

When or if anyone tries to add water droplets to their bottles or drinks it's a tricky one, I was experimenting for some time and ended up greating a shader & geometry, the shader consists of smaller beads of water, water droplets and water streaks, and the geometry are for the larger droplets of water, the geometry was done fairly easily, you just simply model about 10 little spheres and make them all a little different then bung them into a null object, then into a mograph cloner, set the cloner to object, make a copy of the bottle/glass and hide it from the renderer, add said bottle/glass to the cloner and set the clones to surface and hey presto you've got water droplets, for more realism you can add in a random effector to the cloner and offset the droplets across the surfaces even more.

I'm still working on my juice carton entry, got the designs finished and the modelling, but trying to get good renders out.

[rocneasta]

st bernard keg!!! proven to rescue life's

[bgen]

rocneasta - love the keg - the clean modeling too.
RockstarKate - really neat model, clean and spot on. love the ribbon.
CG - love the render of your starter !
vicban3d - intresting idea with the temprature regulator. @ first i thought it was bomb with a timer though then i read your text... :p
Edwiersma - clean efficent. the giraffes face makes me smile :D

here is my entry.
software: modo
modelling: 23min
texturing: 15min
rendering: 1hr.12min

[Edwiersma]

ClassicGamer-3DT Looking forward to your entry, can't wait.
rocneasta (Entry1) Wires are clear but I had some trouble looking at the render, the perspective gives a very distorted look.
RockstarKate Nice and efficiënt modelling and even including a lovely render.
rocneasta (Entry2) Whow, you really nailed it! Love the cartoony look wires look very clean as well, not too much polys. Great Entry!
bgenNice model and render, only thing I'm wondering is why the render time is soo long. I've done some caustic scene tests but even those didn't had render times above 15 mins. What settings did you use?

And yes, I'm also working on an entry, I've modelled 16 mins on it so far but had to lay it aside for some college work.

[rocneasta]

cheers edwiersma, almost done with my other model, but watching some crazy Brit making meat appear fruit like and serving it - he's a chef experimenting with some Victorian and middle ages recipes :)

great stuff

[bgen]

Edwiersma - i messed some settings up and when i hit render i was gone for 4 hrs. so i didn't check back until the render was done. so.. ;)

[BlueIce]

Favourite Drink? Mana Potions!

Note: Since the limit is 60 Minutes this entry is not valid.

[rocneasta]

Blueice, sorry to be the one, but the limit was 60 min. Nice beauty render nevertheless

[BlueIce]

Whops! Did not see there was that limit. I'll edit the post. Thank you.

[rocneasta]

whops! Did not see there was a that limit. I'll edit the post. Thank you.

ok?! try to make another entry - it's all about practise.

[RockstarKate]

Thanks for the comments guys :)

Hey, anybody have an idea or a tutorial to point me to for making the tiny bubbles that are captured in hand-blown glass? I made a Patron bottle last night for my next entry and was thinking of trying to add this detail. I'd like to do it with textures (mental ray, 3ds max)

[rocneasta]

like tiny air bubbles captured inside a glass thin wall?

[RockstarKate]

Yes, like THIS (http://www.phamous69.com/slideshow/bread/Patron_Silver.jpg)

[rocneasta]

i'm having a feeling you like your drinks hard :p

about the question at hand, how about to make inner profile of the bottle - like a plane object in the middle of the thin glass wall of the bottle. Then just apply PArray with some sphere - bloob mesh, play with variations and you'll get it the effect desired (perhaps, since this is a wild guess). You should get a geometry inside the geometry, but since it's glass it will be visible...

[RockstarKate]

That's a good idea, although I would prefer to find a texture option rather than a modeling one (my laptop hates life when it comes to glass!). It would be pretty simple to make a middle of the glass plane- I could just use the shell modifier with half the inner amount I used to make the interior surface of the bottle. Hmm. We shall see. I may just skip it for now and render it from a greater distance.

I used to be a bartender and there are so many beautiful drinks out there! I have a third entry planned that involves my first 2 entries, stay tuned!

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

You can get a pretty cool effect with a shader, but the only result I know is specific to Cinema 4D's noise channel effects.

[Edwiersma]

Not exactly what you need and not done within the given software but very simple.

Done in Modo using replicators, which would be particle based. From the things I remember using Max years ago this shouldn't be to hard.

What I did:
-Create a ball.
-Make a nice glass material.
-Make another Ball and scale it to bubble size.
-Flip the mesh, so the normals point inwards.
-Assign the same glass material.
-Use a particle emitter to spawn balls of different sizes into the glass mesh.
-and render (this one took 2 Mins and 9 Seconds).

[rocneasta]

I'm rendering... boring...

[Edwiersma]

I'm rendering... boring...

You didn't know 3D is only about rendering?

(Edit)
I take that back, I'm creating another bubble test. This one is taking somewhat longer -_-

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

I've been rendering all evening............... so far ive rendered 6 images, 3 clays & 3 beauty shots. While i'm waiting for another one to finish i'm creating artwork for another entry i've got in mind :)

Rendering bottles which look great apart from they don't have any caps, ran out of time :(

[Edwiersma]

These bubbles are looking better already, only thing different is more and smaller bubbles. I really like the effect, so thanks RockstarKate for getting me testing this. 1 Million Polys for all the bubbles, still rendered at 10 mins.

ClassicGamer-3DT Can't you render a little faster? I'm getting really curious now.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

OK 2nd go at this SMC. Fairly pleased with the look of these "Energy Juice Drinks" but still wanna try and nail the chilled water droplets wet look with proper water streaks and condensation, maybe in my next entry. Bottle was modelled high res..... hence no lower resolution wireframes.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk208/classicgamer-3dt/ClassicGamer-3DEntry02WireComposite.jpg
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk208/classicgamer-3dt/ClassicGamer-3DEntry02ClayComposite.jpg
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk208/classicgamer-3dt/ClassicGamer-3DEntry02BeatuiesComposite.jpg

[rocneasta]

CG did you flatten scale the water droplets a bit or are they perfectly round? They look the later

[RockstarKate]

Nice! Thanks for trying to work it out!

I guess I'll see how my crippled laptop likes millions of polys... Not much, I fear. I may have to sneak it into work and use the render farm. I am surprised that I haven't found any tutorials for making a glass material to simulate this in mental ray.

[rocneasta]

Nice! Thanks for trying to work it out!

I guess I'll see how my crippled laptop likes millions of polys... Not much, I fear. I may have to sneak it into work and use the render farm. I am surprised that I haven't found any tutorials for making a glass material to simulate this in mental ray.


daydreaming i had one

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

No sadly the droplets are spheres....... I got lazy and was running out of time :(

[RockstarKate]

rocneasta, the best thing about a render farm, to me, is being able to send the job away and keep working on your computer. It's not waiting for renders that bothers me, it's having my computer all tied up, lol! It is a nice thing to have- and very useful when you have really short deadlines.

I'm in such a habit of finding any render that takes more than 1 minute unacceptable that it's hard to even set up a scene that takes longer. Ok, off to play with bubbles!

[rocneasta]

i managed to have 3 laptops on which i can work, so i don't have an excuse to get a render farm or at least spend money on online one... Still it's slow and painful to watch, but i'm happy as long as i don't have to redo it because of an error, or something i overlooked.

Anyhow, my 3rd entry - i wish i had more time, but i kicked the bucket :) hehe, no the bucket didn't get modeled the way i planned, i spent to much time on the wood planks, making the dovetail joints... Not saying i ain't happy, just that it could use some time on the bucket.

[Vitrux]

Hey guys! nice entries...

Rocneasta, nice barrel, like it

RockstarKate, your entry is very clean clay and render are awesome..

Cg, like that bubbles!
:dance:

[Honki]

My first entry. It's a coffee. In a travel mug.
It's not extravagant, or expensive. But **** it's good on your way to work in the morning.

[Vitrux]

Honki, nice very nice entry, the modeling and beauty composition are superb.

By the way you should change your format for that one 1280x1024, to have a better showcase of your work.

[Honki]

Honki, nice very nice entry, the modeling and beauty composition are superb.

By the way you should change your format for that one 1280x1024, to have a better showcase of your work.Thanks bud.

I added some higher res wires for you... But the renders will just have to stay as is :)

[RockstarKate]

Honki,
Nice model! I like the metal texture!

I ended up taking the cheap and fast way out on the glass bubbles. Maybe some other time. Just used a map in the reflectance channel. size limited due to laptop performance. 2 min not bad for caustics though! Wireframes aren't very interesting on this model, so I opted not to give them their own window. Adding noise and UV mapping included in modeling time.

[Vitrux]

Honki, That´s better. It is not for me, it is just that you could be disqualified if you do not work with the correct format

[Honki]

Honki,
Nice model! I like the metal texture!

I ended up taking the cheap and fast way out on the glass bubbles. Maybe some other time. Just used a map in the reflectance channel. size limited due to laptop performance. 2 min not bad for caustics though! Wireframes aren't very interesting on this model, so I opted not to give them their own window. Adding noise and UV mapping included in modeling time.
Thanks Kate. Lovin the Grand Marnier entry!
Honki, That´s better. It is not for me, it is just that you could be disqualified if you do not work with the correct format
Oh I see. I thought it was no larger than 1280px.... I'll read the rules again :P

[dantrodgers]

Made a Heineken Bottle last night and spent most of this morning trying to make a good green glass texture, but its hasn't really been going to plan so ive sort of given up on it for now. I might try and sort out a beauty render for the end of the week, but ive got too much on at the min.

edit: added a beauty render.

[Honki]

Made a Heineken Bottle last night and spent most of this morning trying to make a good green glass texture, but its hasn't really been going to plan so ive sort of given up on it for now. I might try and sort out a beauty render for the end of the week, but ive got too much on at the min.

Ohhhh ya bugger. I'm about 20 mins away from posting up a beer bottle :)

[rocneasta]

some would say there's no such things as too many bottles :)

[silverflame]

Lots of alcohol on this one hehe. Here's mine a nice pot of tea :)

[lunarion6]

Good to see the speed modeling challenges back!

I'll have a go at one of the next when I'm back from vacation :)

[rocneasta]

Good to see the speed modeling challenges back!

I'll have a go at one of the next when I'm back from vacation :)

hmmm vacation... i forgot what that means :p

[Honki]

Here's my second entry.

Bottle, glass and fluid made with revolved splines.
Foam is just a modified cylinder.
The ugly water droplets are just a sphere scattered over the bottle and glass surface.
The bubbles are a PFlow source with a nice shiny material :)
The labels are just copied faces from the bottle, shelled, then FFD'd!

[heaton1]

i like drinking

[Honki]

i like drinking

http://media.skateboard.com.au/forum/images/wut2.jpg

[Mithras]

Wow,amazing entries so far!

I present delicious Aktien Landbier, brewed in the town where I live
(unfortunately I hadn't time left to fill the bottle with something)

[dantrodgers]

Here's my second entry.

Bottle, glass and fluid made with revolved splines.
Foam is just a modified cylinder.
The ugly water droplets are just a sphere scattered over the bottle and glass surface.
The bubbles are a PFlow source with a nice shiny material :)
The labels are just copied faces from the bottle, shelled, then FFD'd!

Well good this mate!

Urgh, definitely need to get a beauty render done of mine now, does anyone know of any tutorials for making coloured glass material with max & mental ray??


EDIT: Never mind, nearly finished my beauty render now, taken about 4 hours so far to get the glass somewhat acceptable, and mess about with the labels and stuff. Just got to set up the lighting and composition etc

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Superb entries by all, i'm still developing my 3rd entry, again trying to add detailing that might be beyond me but trying none the less.

[Ruofan]

@Honkie: I don't like beer most of the time, but that render tickles my belly wanting it inside of it..

Lovely dutch tilt render

Ps: this is no innuendo..

[bgen]

Well all entries so far look really good.

i thought about a drink, that i drink almost every day once.
since i am a gym/weights rat i usually drink a prework formula so i made this Shaker plus the supplement thingy.
Don't know if i have time to todo a beauty... probably not.

[dantrodgers]

I've added a beauty render to my original post now.. here

http://forums.3dtotal.com/showpost.php?p=852805&postcount=60

[Vitrux]

dantrodgers, Nice Beauty..

silverflame, good work, nice tea pot!! :dance: like it so much

[astroAJ]

Honki: LOL I really wouldnt wan't that gun to go off by accident XD
Nice entries so far :)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

bgen - great modelling there!

dantrogers - sweet beauty shot :)

[GaretJaxSozap]

I know this is incorrect, the post I mean. Trying to save pics without the correct software is difficult. I'll try to post the wire frames before the deadline. Anyway comments are always welcome. Thanks.
Done in 24 minutes in 3ds max. Texture was about 50 minutes

[Edwiersma]

bgen - great modelling there!

dantrogers - sweet beauty shot :)

Who's gonna judge btw? You or do you got somebody else so you can join the comepettion as well?

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

It's me :) I have 5 years experience

[bgen]

It's me :) I have 5 years experience

We trust your judgement, I at least do !! Power to our SMC chief and captain :evil::dance:

[dantrodgers]

dantrodgers, Nice Beauty..

silverflame, good work, nice tea pot!! :dance: like it so much


bgen - great modelling there!

dantrogers - sweet beauty shot :)

Cheers :dance:

[Meauxable]

Here's mine
http://i.imgur.com/nTxMS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JDv1A.jpg
getting the right noise texture took more time than I thought.
The time is an estimate, didn't really keep track, but it's real quick to do.

[Vitrux]

Nice cup of coffee! nice render

[rocneasta]

As seen in green horn. Lovely foam!





P.s. uploading pictures from my htc isn't working... :(

[Mithras]

@Meauxable: This looks really cool!

Second Entry: Paulaner Maßkrug

[bgen]

Mithras - Das Bayernbier :) - nice modeling and composition. i really like the beauty render. weiter so !
Meauxable - simple and beautiful, really nice foam outcome.

edit: here is my 3rd entry - Trinkhorn !

[Rachel vd M]

hey guys, i really would've wanted to put a entry in this challenge, though the time was too much crunching...

anyways finished the essay about a 3d project, modelling a kitchen:
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/8696/compare2f.jpg

[lonelymonk]

Some really great entries this week, and I love the topic. I don't think I've got time to enter, family staying and apparently it's "rude" to ignore them in favour of 3d total.

[Neil_F01]

love the entries guys..

really loved honki's, and silverflames entry..

sorry not been about.. having mental problems again.. so not up to the challenge.. i hope to be back again.. not sure..

[silverflame]

Here's my second entry, a nice warming cup of hot chocolate. Beauty render will follow although it's likely to be put up after the deadline since its still rendering!

Neil_F01 Hope you feel better for the next challenge

Edit: Beauty render added

[rocneasta]

just came home from 4 hours away business trip... still some time, gonna try to make at least one entry without beauty :)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

silverflame - wonderful flair and style to that entry.

[Vitrux]

Nice Silverflame,.... delicious hot chocolatee !

[Ruofan]

Waaah... upload faster..! :P
Same as Silverflame..

My beauty render will come later too ._.

Anyways, here is my entry:

3ds Max
60 min

[JAPO]

Isnt there still 1 hour? 10 GMT is 11 continental... And hello everyone :D

[rocneasta]

OMG JAPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO is here!!!

hi bud, welcome aboard - and yea still 48 min left!!! just about finishing my piece...

[Ruofan]

Isnt there still 1 hour? 10 GMT is 11 continental... And hello everyone :D

D'oh.. ><

Adjusting the entry images then..

I forgot that I lived in a GMT +1 timezone xD..

Thanks JAPO

[JAPO]

Thanks :)
I found out SMCs are back only yesterday. So my entry will be... poorly planned. But I am soooo happy :dance::dance:

[rocneasta]

you're late as usual but always in the nick of time!!! Good to see some things don't change :) hahaha

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

only 25 minutes remaining guys :)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Thanks :)
I found out SMCs are back only yesterday. So my entry will be... poorly planned. But I am soooo happy :dance::dance:

Yay JAPO, great to see you back, always liked your entries. Hope to see some crackin' creations from you very soon!

[JAPO]

So here is my quicky for this round. Like I said, poorly planned, so dont get shocked by 44 minutes it took me to make. Straight run. With preparation I could get it drastically down. Next time.

For what I have seen so far... FANGTASTIC entries everyone :)

So 44 minutes in my good old 3Ds Max 2008.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

No there's a perfect example of what you are capable of, love the entry & especially like the True Blood label design :)

[rocneasta]

won't make it with my 4th entry - still 20 min of modeling time left, but max crashed 7 times while getting reactor going for the ice cubes :(

anyhow, just wanted to show what i created

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Well this challenge is now over, the next one is up & running.

Well done to all who entered, and i'll see you all on the next one :)

[JAPO]

Thank you for kind words ClassicGamer. That logo is from wallpaper. Was it my own, it would have my blood type on it. Which is of course the tastiest there is :D

Rocnesta: Reactor for cubes? Isnt that a bit... overkill? :D
- I mean the mesh on cubes seems way too dense and the glass is concave (more difficult for reactor). My computer is crashing even if it has to think about those and reactor in one sentence. I would have used proxies if I were you.

[dantrodgers]

So here is my quicky for this round. Like I said, poorly planned, so dont get shocked by 44 minutes it took me to make. Straight run. With preparation I could get it drastically down. Next time.

For what I have seen so far... FANGTASTIC entries everyone :)

So 44 minutes in my good old 3Ds Max 2008.

thats a well good idea!

[Edwiersma]

I got all of the glasses of the image I posted on the first page modelled with fluids included under 45 mins, I was doing placement and texturing still had to model so of the extra fruit and mini-umbrella's and I would have been done... It's on my other machine which I will only be able to acces till monday evening, too bad for me...
I might just post a render though... And good luck everybody!

[Neil_F01]

Here's my second entry, a nice warming cup of hot chocolate. Beauty render will follow although it's likely to be put up after the deadline since its still rendering!

Neil_F01 Hope you feel better for the next challenge

Edit: Beauty render added

cheers dude.. great job on that last entry... love the whip on the top.. awesome.. :dance:

[rocneasta]

@ JAPO: about the mesh, it's a speed thing - simple box, 10x10x10 segs and a noise modifier on top, with 1 iteration of turboosmooth...

but yea, will try proxying it

[JAPO]

@ JAPO: about the mesh, it's a speed thing - simple box, 10x10x10 segs and a noise modifier on top, with 1 iteration of turboosmooth...

but yea, will try proxying it

I understand its speed thing. And I pretty much get how you got that cube shape. :)

What I was refering to is that you didnt make things easier for reactor. Whenever there is cavity in object, reactor has problems, or at least slows down. It seems to me those crashes you refered to were caused by this. Interaction of too complex objects with cavities.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Results (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=83823)

[rocneasta]

are in!