Nice to see that you've pulled finger and are starting to stretch yourself. You have to keep it up. I hope that if any people spot this that they add you to their favorite's list. I will be keeping an eye out to see what new and exciting work we will get to see. Thanx fore the inspiration and for switching me on to this great community.

nice work dude

Very, very nice concept, I never would've thought to take an idea like that and model it. I don't know much about the '3D lingo', but here's my best shot; the glass on the fall element seems, strange? It doesn't seem to have as smooth a transition as the rest of them; and if the glass were reflecting the other elements around it, shouldn't the summer element appear on the right side of the fall element, and the spring element on the left side?

Sorry, that was quite a mouthful, but that's the one thing that I seem to notice that throws me off. I could be completely wrong, because I don't have nearly enough modeling experience to do something like this. So if I am, feel free to kick me and tell me to shut up.



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Thank you for the comments!

Ok, the refraction on the jars are a bit grainy, seeing as I had to make do with the best HDRI files I could aquire. These unfortunately are even still a bit too low rez.

As for the summer (red) jar being reflected in the fall one, I had a look at it again, and noticed that its actually refracting, that's why the spring (green) jar is in the right of the fall (yellow) jar.
The fall jar wouldn't reflect the summer one, seeing as it's (fall jar) positioned in front of it (the summer jar).

Thank you again for the comments!

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I like this one more than the original myself, but that's just because I prefer 3D renders.

Cool wp !

Interesting Concept and well put together nice one bud , at the bottom of the jars under the Surface you have plain black as the texture for the soil pressing against the glass but in reality outside light will light up the earth against the glass giving a layered look to it or in this case even a simplified noise material as a bump map set to a low amount say 0.1 and fractal for a grain look,

the glass aswell looks highly refractive but non reflective, try in it's material slot to change from blinn to Multi Layered which opens up another highlight section in the basic params , set the top set to 160 Highlight 85 - 90 Specularity then the second one to say 50 H 35 - 40 S , little adjustments should give a sharp high reflective band fading out slightly depending on where the light source is... you may need to adjust the lights if using the brazil GI though

hope that helps

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Thanks for this one man!
I really appreciate it when people give construtive comments. (But people just putting in the effort to mention that they like your work is also awesome)

I'm still wondering about these reflections though, shouldn't their be less reflections, seeing as the environment theyre in isn't exactly filled with stuff?

Thanks again, now I can try to fix it up some more!



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Thank you!

I Really like your Icon though...

gives me an idea...

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jackintomymatrix

very cool concept. well executed

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