Winter Solstice with Nvidia Iray
I modeled, textured, lit and rendered this project using Maya, Substance Designer, Nvidia Iray and MDL. This project went through a lot of changes but maintained the integrity of the original design I developed. It was so much fun playing with every thing in this scene from the ice and snow , to the lights. I really wanted to show off the physical accuracy of Iray so I decided to accurately model the Christmas lights down to the glass bead and wire coil on the inside. Doing this made the lights really stand out and it made the scene pop.
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This is the final beauty render. Check out the video for this on Nvidia's Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/NVIDIA/videos/10154327570683253/
The grey pass shows that there was additional geometry floating inside the Nvidia Ice cube logo.
This grey pass highlights the Christmas lights and additional atmospheric lights in the scene before applying the final materials seen in the beauty render.
A Close up of the light geometry.
The Original Design : I was inspired by frosted bubbles in photography for this project and while I did end up ditching the bubble for an Nvidia Iceblock, you can see that the final render maintained a lot of the integrity from this concept.
This project went through many iterations until we were happy with the design. In the end, wrapping colored lights around the ice block really brought this piece together. I added a dusting of snow as a finishing touch.