Comments on: Create a Colorful Apple Wallpaper

By: Antti Lehtinen

Antti Lehtinen — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:50:12 +0000

Beautiful result. What a creative way of combining 3d and 2d graphics!

By: Dr.Phail

Dr.Phail — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:34:45 +0000

Can you send me the apple…I dont have 3dsmax, and i cant make a apple etc..
So could you send me the apple so i can make this wallpaper, i need a new wallpaper

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:38:02 +0000

ok, i’ll give it a try. thanks for your help.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:26:25 +0000

My image from 9th step is exactly what I got after rendering this apple (with V-ray’s default settings).

You could try to replace your cubes with cubes that has rounded edges (use ‘Shape Instance’ for that instead of ‘Shape’ in 8th step). If that unusual method won’t do the trick then you’ll have to play with photons/shadows inside Mental Ray (try decreasing contrast at first). Alternatively, you could try to fix that in Photoshop by rendering different passes and compositing them together.

Unfortunately, I don’t know Mental Ray so I’m sorry but I can’t provide you exact solution. Maybe some other reader will answer your question more precisely.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:10:51 +0000

Thanks a lot Paul, it looks much better now! Not nearly as good as your render quality wise though. Cubes have very hard/sharp edges, anything i can do to fix that? Or was that just V-ray’s quality?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:33:26 +0000

Hey Ryan, thanks. I’m not a Mental Ray expert but I’d suggest to use some kind of global lighting (like sky, HDRI). I used HDRI map in Vray (everything with standard settings) and that worked just fine. I turned on GI which causes ‘photons’ to bounce and light up even darker areas inside apple a bit.

If that doesn’t solve your problem, let me know and I’ll look for particular solution for you.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:00:35 +0000

Hey Paul, nice tut. thanks
do you think you could give me some settings for rendering in mental ray? i cant get mine to look even close to yours, its dark regaurdless of how many lights i use. thanks in advance

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:43:05 +0000

Thanks! I’m really happy to hear that you like it!

By: MochiGon

MochiGon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:26:09 +0000

Hoh!!!))) Thanks!!! )) Cool tutorial!!!))