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Indian monitor Zbrush & octane standalone 3.0

Zremesher / Dynamesh / UVMaster and a little 3dsmax for the water. Then all maps exported into Octane 3.0, combining 3 HDRI maps and image emission from the background to spread a green tint on the lizards skin/scales. Render time with 2 x gtx 980 1hr 10 mins per light pass. Pathtracing 72k samples to remove any hot pixels without using the hotpixel removal tool to retain image sharpness. Texture polypainted in Zbrush. Background image purchased from textures.com then processed in CS6.

Hope you guys like Nice and quick ( ish ) from start to finihs took 5 days, could be quicker but was a learening curve too.

That displacement looks real nice! I feel like the dark value between the scales in the diffuse map could be toned down maybe? To me it's flattening out the displacement alot and making it feel more just like a phototexture (with backed lighting) in some places.

wow amazing detail

itsallgoode9 wrote:That displacement looks real nice! I feel like the dark value between the scales in the diffuse map could be toned down maybe? To me it's flattening out the displacement alot and making it feel more just like a phototexture (with backed lighting) in some places.

Thankyou!

Thats a great observation, something i totally overlooked, i will give that a try, thanks for your feedback

Terryvfx wrote:wow amazing detail

Thankyou dude !!!

amazing！

itsallgoode9 wrote:...I feel like the dark value between the scales in the diffuse map could be toned down maybe? To me it's flattening out the displacement alot and making it feel more just like a phototexture (with backed lighting) in some places.

itsallgoode9, very intuitive of you! I was admiring the rendering but kept thinking something was just a tiny bit off. But I don't have the experience or vocabulary to pinpoint what was bugging me the way you seem to have zoomed in on it.

Would love to see this beautiful render improved even more if Lokken can work on what you suggested.

pegot wrote:

itsallgoode9 wrote:...I feel like the dark value between the scales in the diffuse map could be toned down maybe? To me it's flattening out the displacement alot and making it feel more just like a phototexture (with backed lighting) in some places.

itsallgoode9, very intuitive of you! I was admiring the rendering but kept thinking something was just a tiny bit off. But I don't have the experience or vocabulary to pinpoint what was bugging me the way you seem to have zoomed in on it.

Would love to see this beautiful render improved even more if Lokken can work on what you suggested.

Agreed, you guys are invaluable for noticing things like this.

Once my current project is completed i will revisit this and implement the above suggested changes, will post in a few days.

Thanks again gang!

Adam (Lokken)