Stylized Magic Scene
This is personal work build on iterations from CG Fast Tracks online Blender Course. The course goes in depth with modeling, UV unwrapping and texturing inside Blender. The instructor Robby Branham, does an excellent job conveying the important aspects of 3D fundamentals without overcomplicating it. I Had a lot of fun doing this, and would recommend this course to anyone who wants to not only get a jump start on Blender, but also get their feet wet with 3D fundamentals.
22.500 dust particles are spread across the surface of the table. Blender handled that pretty well, even with semi transparent shader on the dust objects it was loaded into the render fairly quick.
Final Cycle renders + compositing
Ring version 1
Ring version 2
Ring version 3
Magic Sphere
Working Examples
Magic Sphere - Object example
Slide to see before and after examples.
Of course Cycles has much better SSS, Specular, DOF and Diffuse handling over all, but at the cost of render times. Very noticable on the scrolls, candles and the ring. But for LookDev, evee is invaluable. It gives you incredible fast results and I think when you get confident in using both render engines, you can get good results fairly quick with this workflow.
Cycles raw render vs PS Composit
WIP - a few LookDev examples
Magic Sphere
Room
Magic Ring - Blue rings adjusted in final result.
