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Published: 2015-07-13 17:41:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 4596; Favourites: 150; Downloads: 92
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Morphing polyhedron.technical: Done in 3DSmax, rendered with MentalRay. While the geometry is morphing, something similar is happening with the surface materials (there are two materials, one for the edges, one for the faces). Most of the work went on the finding the right sweet spot between the brightness and the contrast on the materials (i.e. lighting and rendering setup). The final animation is pixelated because the reduction of colors in the .gif format (255 colors only).
UPDATE: Thank you very much for all the faves! I cannot possible answer individually to each one, but I want to thank you nevertheless.
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Yes I tried several times until I got the right effect.
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Oh my god the shinies in this make me so happy. 
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This was the intent, I always associate colorful shining things with flamboyant happiness. You made me happy with your comment, thank you!
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Thank you, I am glad you liked it!
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I do!
There is no postwork? How you made it glow?
(I use Max and MR as well 
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No postwork, everything is as rendered by MR; the key is as always, in the lighting setup - I used strong photometric lights and MR Photographic Exposure, and activated Camera Shaders - Read on specifically about the "Glare shader" in the MR documentation. Also, I used the tips about the metals written by one of the MR programmers: mentalraytips.blogspot.com/200β¦ (I highly recommend the past articles on his blog also).
Hope this helps; with patience and willingness to experiment one can achieve stunning results with MR.
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Thanks a lot for your helpful answer!
The missing key was the glare shader. I never used any camera shaders until today
Thanks also for the link to the mentalray tips. They are very useful and I have to take a closer look on the other tips at his blog. Very good described!
MR rocks!
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Thank you, I am glad you liked it!
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................. ....yeah. ..
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whoa very cool, i am curious with the shining gold material, what kind of material in max did you use?
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Thank you!
I started with Arch&Design chrome metal as a base and followed some of the great advices from Zap's insights on MentalRay mia material, here: mentalraytips.blogspot.com/200β¦
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Thanks !
....and please please keep doing your wonderful videotutorials!
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Thank you very much! I am really glad you liked it, you have some beautiful sparky works.
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You're welcome and thank you! Β
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