Opponent Force - (Personal Work)

[ElBloko]

Hi everyone.

I spent some time doing a simple illustration last week for a present. It ended up being a lot more challenging than I initially expected. I think the biggest fight I had was with the lighting which had me almost tearing my hair in the end. Finally, bound by time and memory restrictions, I had to give in and add the incense smoke in post process with Photoshop and did further color grading.



And a quick preliminary rough particle test for the 3D smoke I created for the scene. I think I will take the time to revisit the scene to integrate it properly and gather all the knowledge I can possibly squeeze out of this scene.

[Seekerfinder]

Amazing as usual ElBloko. What did you use to create the incense smoke?

Seeker

[ElBloko]

The one on the main illustration isn't 3D. It's unfortunately a 2D composite.

The smoke in the render at the bottom though is created in Maya using particles bound to a fluid emitter affected by a simple turbulence field. Then the cloud was exported to Octane by using particle instancing.

I need to make a bigger render and will try the full 3D approach again.

[Seekerfinder]

The one on the main illustration isn't 3D. It's unfortunately a 2D composite.

The smoke in the render at the bottom though is created in Maya using particles bound to a fluid emitter affected by a simple turbulence field. Then the cloud was exported to Octane by using particle instancing.

I need to make a bigger render and will try the full 3D approach again.

Thanks EB
Seeker

[Bendbox]

I feel like I say this will all of your work, but this looks awesome! Really, really superb!