Bee closeup.

I figured I'd throw in this image as well. Just a closeup on the bee itself. It's not the best image but I'm far from being able to do very good looking renders. I tweaked this image in Photoshop after render. Not much to say, but I'm glad this is over so I can finish other projects. While I have cleared some projects up I will be studying lighting and rendering methods cause I badly need that.

Cheers!

Bee final composition.

I'm gonna end it here. I need to study up on lighting and shading a lot more in order to make this image look good. Currently I am just playing with lights not really knowing what I'm doing but hoping the result is good. Such method is not good to go by, it eats a lot of your time.
Thus, I'm gonna look for tutorials and other enlightment in this area so that I can evolve.

I will later post an image of the actual bee after I've redone some stuff. Just because I'm planning to send it to www.3dmodelsheets.com, but only if it's good quality of course which it currently isn't.

Cheers.

Bee update.

I've made a rather simple scene to place the bee in. The bee is not finished yet but this is the general mockup. I'm playing around and trying to create a nice light setup, but for a novice like me it's hard. This is a quick post-image that I took to Photoshop (and clearly visible PS effects), this is not the final version, plus the final version will be higher resolution.

Basically I'm struggling with getting a nice environment so that both the bee and the background looks pleasing.

Bee model update.

I guess I continued to work on this model, I'm gonna post my updates for today. Gonna continue tomorrow or something, I'm going away for the rest of today.

Cheers.

EDIT: I added the two AO and wire images, as a request by a dude over at CGTalk.com. Because I did those I figured I could add it here as well. Just didn't wanna create another post for that.

Spontaneous model.

Yo.

Today I was browsing the CG Society forums like any other day, then I found a thread where someone posted a link to a new site called www.3dmodelsheets.com. It's sheets (image planes) of various insects, animals and plants. Well, that's what I think it will be, as it's rather new there isn't too many things there yet.

However, I took a look at those sheets and when I saw the bee I just couldn't help myself, I modeled it out. It's still a WIP I think, I want to create real bee textures and such, and possibly work on it in ZBrush. I slapped on a temp texture just so that it looks a bit more pleasant than plain gray stuff (or AO/Clay render).
Well that's all I had to say today, I'll probably continue working on it.