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Just gonna drop this post here and wish you all a Merry Christmas. May it be filled with Ice Cream, chocolate, steaks, fish, potatoes, vegetables and cutlery. Whatever it is you enjoy, be it Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or simply nothing. One thing is for sure, you probably like ice cream or chocolate. I do

Should use PT or PMC kernel for much more photo-realistic.

I used Pathtracing.

I guess one of the reason you displayed it here is to get some criticism on your work.
First of all it's quite a good start, but you should definately put some more work into it to increase realism.
The Texture of the Chocolate is pretty cool - leave it like that. The chocolate sauce feels like it is floating on the plate - don't know where that comes from.
The plate and the fork are good, the fork could be less rough on the top end. The wooden table is cool, maybe less bump?

The icecream needs more work, or whatever it is I've never seen something like this.. and it's greenish. Do I really want to eat that with chocolate?
Keep it coming, cheers

solidworkattack wrote:
...I've never seen something like this.. and it's greenish. Do I really want to eat that with chocolate?
Keep it coming, cheers

Green Tea or Mint ice cream? both are really good and common flavors to eat with chocolate!


And yeah, I think if you fix the icecream texture and the floating chocolate issue, it'll help the render alot.

Yes, the Ice Cream shader was, and still is a pain in the ass to make right. As for the other suggestions, thank you I will look into those as well, although the roughness of the fork may be related to the resolution of the image I shared with you guys here. The full res I have stored locally, has all the details intact and sharp on that part. Hmm, sauce may actually be floating, haha. Better check it out.

i would make a different bump on the ice cream. It should have horizontal cracks in the ice cream. here's a sample photo i found.