Neil Blevins soulburn3d Location: Corte Madera, USA Member Since: April 2002 Last Updated: 20 November 2009 Portfolio Views: 222972 Chosen as Favorite: 315
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Varanus Panoptes 3ds max, Brazil r/s, Digital Fusion, Photoshop March 2006
A lighting test for my lizard. I scanned a photo, cleaned it up in photoshop and integrated the lizard into the background. Rendering was done in Brazil using pretty standard lighting techniques, and then composited and modified in digital fusion. In a situation like this, you sorta get as close as you can inside of max, and then do all your fine tweaks (lighting, color corection) in digital fusion, since it's got basically realtime feedback. Not perfect photorealism, but good for a test. I also did another few hours of tweaks on the lizard's maps between the model and this image.