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Finis · Post by **Finis** » 07 Jul 2015, 04:21

I'll attempt a Mexican Bird of Paradise flower. caesalpinia pulcherrima. I have Yellow Bird of Paradise plants in my yard. If I can't finish in time then I'll make a flower sculpture from the parts I have.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 15 Jul 2015, 03:09

Working on this. The petals are difficult with their complicated edges.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 17 Jul 2015, 05:21

Here it is so far. More parts to model. Modeled in Hexagon. Rendered in Daz with Iray.

clintonman · Post by **clintonman** » 17 Jul 2015, 14:32

Looking good.

jamesmc · Post by **jamesmc** » 17 Jul 2015, 22:26

Pertiful! Like the color spectrum on the petals, looks natural.

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 18 Jul 2015, 01:21

Wow. I am impressed. I want to compete with you!

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 18 Jul 2015, 03:02

Thank you Mr. Clintonman. Thanks James. The texture is made from part of a photo. Thanks Draise. I'd like you to enter the challenge but I know you are doing 100 things now so understand if you don't. Steinie is doing something.

More participants! Theme is Flower Art so there's plenty of room for what you're good at so enter the challenge.

Due to lack of time I won't individualize the parts or add imperfections. Still needs green leaves, stems, and outer petals. I might not do the pistil. The stamina grow from a fuzzy thing in the middle. Not sure how to do fuzzy.

Also known as Red Bird of Paradise and Pride of Barbados.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 20 Jul 2015, 03:25

One flower modeled. Now green parts, flower clusters, ...

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 26 Jul 2015, 17:54

A few more stems, unopened flower pods, then shading/texturing. Hexagon modeling. Iray render in Daz. 14 minutes. 450,000 polygons.

I hope to have a flower cluster as the main focus with another in the background and the green leaves placed to fill the background and work with depth of field. After rendering something good I might try another render with subsurface scattering for a translucent effect.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 28 Jul 2015, 16:44

Over one million polygons. Depth of field. Now to arrange the leaves and do textures.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 28 Jul 2015, 17:44

Finis,
You could almost post the black and white rendering for the contest because it is so cool!
After checking out all the entries I have a feeling mine should be renamed "Compost"...(horse manure)

Good job guys!!!

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 29 Jul 2015, 01:49

Thanks Steinie! I like yours. It is floral but also abstract. Draise's has the hand drawn appeal. Mikom's has the concept and characters.

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 29 Jul 2015, 14:24

I agree, the black and white one is MORE than good enough as is! Beautiful, the DOF and the flowers are all very very very great.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 01 Sep 2015, 16:06

Thanks.

I thought I would continue this project in Blender but since I haven't started learning it, have little free time now, and it will probably take a while to be able to do anything in Blender, I'll finish this with my current tools.

I plan to get some leaves and petals from these plants around town and scan them for textures. Then fix modeling problems. I probably won't individualize the bloom copies or model the shriveling of the redder older blooms. Maybe some displacement can do that.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 21 Jun 2017, 13:24

These flowers are blooming around town now. I'll get samples and photos for reference and scan petals for textures.

I was going to avoid using CG programs other than Blender until I was competent with it but I'll go back the the Daz programs to finish this one. Then it's all Blender during the learning curve. Then Blender as my main thing plus whatever gets the job done.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 12 Sep 2017, 03:49

I got samples of the flowers and leaves and scanned them for textures. It will be a while before I can work on CG again but I am eager to finish this one.

v3rd3 · Post by **v3rd3** » 12 Sep 2017, 04:53

Really nice work Finis....

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