Category Archives: luxrender

Fake lighting tests

Posted on July 8, 2009 by loramel

I started a project which I had in my mind for quite some time now. Triggered by an article about product visualization, which uses fake lighting, I decided to finally give it a try myself. I created a thread in … Continue reading →

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Material Breakdown – Gold

Posted on March 31, 2009 by loramel

For this material breakdown I chose a gold material based on the material I used in my crown project. The goal is to make a gold material, which can be seen on old jewellery exhibiting some worn look and is … Continue reading →

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Material Breakdown – Pearl

Posted on March 26, 2009 by loramel

I will start a series of material breakdowns, where I show  step by step the principles of how I created the materials from the Austrian Imperial Crown. This is by no means an absolute guide to the lux material system, … Continue reading →

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Austrian Imperial Crown finished

Posted on March 23, 2009 by loramel

Its finally done. This project took me the better part of the last 3 weeks to finish in my spare time. It was an exercise in modeling and an  exploration into the possibilities of luxrender, especially now as the new … Continue reading →

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Luxrender observations – part III – postponed

Posted on March 6, 2009 by loramel

During preparation of the final part of my luxrender observations I found out, that I had to learn quite some more about luxrender before continuing in a sensible way. So I postpone the final part and use my current project … Continue reading →

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Luxrender observations – part II

Posted on February 11, 2009 by loramel

This is the second part of my obervations on luxrender made during my last project. Materials This is the area where I spent most of my time in getting the blender scene transferred to lux. The material system is quite … Continue reading →

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Luxrender observations – part I

Posted on February 10, 2009 by loramel

As previously announced, here is my report on the use of luxrender during my project ‘The other day in the forest’. This is more a description of the things noticed and done during the process than a real tutorial. I … Continue reading →

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Blender/Luxrender comparison project finished

Posted on February 5, 2009 by loramel

I just finished my project to learn the different workflows using blender or luxrender. The blend files including the textures (low res version as the high res would take ~60MB) are available from my showroom. A document describing all the … Continue reading →

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New Project: Blender vs. Luxrender

Posted on January 20, 2009 by loramel

I have started a new project with the goal to have the same scene rendered in blender internal and luxrender. I hope to get some insight how much additional work has to be done to get the luxrender image done. … Continue reading →

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Luxrender splash screen competition – entry submitted

Posted on December 28, 2008 by loramel

I have now submitted my final entry to the luxrender v 0.6 splash screen competition. I did not change any things regarding composition, but tweaked the material settings of the bubbles and background a little bit. The entries are not … Continue reading →

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