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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.

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

Seeker

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.

ElBloko wrote: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

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