Yes usually I would agree with you, however there is a good reason for the lack of bump mapping. The ground and the background grass and sky, are seperate to the snails. The image is a composite, using Matt/Shadow material to cast the shadows.

If I had bump mapped the ground texture, I would have needed to exactly match that bumping for the Matt/Shadow. Again usually not a problem, however in this sequence I have moved the background along, creating the rolling backdrop, so that I can animate the snails, lip synch and so forth, without having to repeatidly render the backdrop, which is pretty memory intensive, taking 1 min a frame to render at best.

Once the animation is composited, I will be overlaying a final 'foreground' layer, with appropriate depth of field settings to wrap up the scene. This should include some additional details to further mask the floor....

I realise you didn't ask me to explain Y.... and I have just rattled on

Thanks for the feedback

Bah, I'm nerd enough to enjoy the rattling

Just thought Id add my new render here. Nothing much... originally the sword was based off a tai chi sword... but slowly turned into a more mid evil theme so decided to go with a king arthur type feel... Anyhow heres probally my best render to date... Not sure thats saying much but im pleased.

Thats great!! Kind of Pink though... too pink for midevil

Thanks, I just used lights to color the image. I was going for a evilish look but didnt really turn out as I wanted tho the gold spot light on the shield I thought looked great so just left it as is.

It just felt pleasing too look at in fact has been my desktop since I rendered it

Heres a few more renders I did... One almost identical to above except the spot light has volumetric effect... I guess thats the word im lookin for.

ups, didnt know this thread was still alive:) i did this last night:


btw, who won the contest? or wasnt there any judgement? or, is the initiator still alive??
...questions, questions

I just want to show a few of my renderings

This is my Viper:

It is the Viper Mark II from Battlestar Galactica

I also build a Cylon Raider:

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ups, didnt know this thread was still alive:) i did this last night:

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Just call me Dr.Frankenstein ITS ALIVE!!!

I like the ant very much and also the viper thingy great work both of you

here's my first blender render: (i love this tool!)


hope u like

julz