awesome work

cool

wow,amazing work author...well done

Nice work. How did you achieve that effect on the light? the little stars? Also which contest was this for?

thankss to all
hey ory i used point light in maya and name of the star effect is lence flare effct. u can get easily

Excellent. My only suggestion is that you lose one of the 'sparkles' on right or left. Having two makes them look filtered or the same. Does that make sense?

I think the light stars are a bit too intense, all the rest is perfect, very good scene.

Incredibly realistic work, great job, author!

Congratulations this piece, in my opinion, deserved a higher score than it got very good work.

Congrats a really nice work

congratulations...

congratulations Nice work

wow Abhi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! congrats!!!!!!!!! so happy for u

thnkss to all thnkuuu so much for liking my work

Congrats for 1st, great job

Very NICE! Great concept.

Excellent concept and brilliantly rendered! Love the texture.

Excellent rendering. Good luck.

Awesome work!

excellent!! only complaint would be the chain not quite resting on the clock, but thats just me being picky.

Thanks for your comment farsite...but if you had looked at the S.B.S (step 18) you would see that the chain is actually touching the sphere. Although in the final render is looks like it is not. Will have to put this anomaly down to camera angle and the bouncing of light.

Nice literal entry.

Wow author,amazing work...i had similar idea and work but in PS contest ages ago...and to be honest,yours is way better...well done

congratulations...

Congrats for 2nd

Jewels Contest Entry.

Incredible renders!

Lovely. Just wondering how long one render took?

Can't quite remember, the top 2 took about an hour or so each. The last about 4 hours or so. Their was another more complex scene I had to stop after 20hours so I could make the deadline.

An hour! ...and four hours!!! You are very patient I have to say.

what a great complex work author...well done

congratulations...

Congrats for 3rd

This looks nice. What is it like with ambient occlusion on?

I tend not to use ambient occlusion, global illumination, area shadows works fine for me. But the render took like 25 hours, glass behind glass behind glass etc, thats a lot of refractions, plus the reflection, my computer wasn't happy, so unless its a massive change I won't do another render.

I haven't had a chance to check this out, this might be of some help.
http://mvpny.com/R11GITutorial/R11GITutorial_Part1.html

and this is worth a good look
http://vimeo.com/11380324
look at his global illumination settings, this will definitely reduce your render time and still give good results.

Thanks Richie, I was actually meant to give some credit to you for this image since your one that won a short while back was my inspiration.

Love this, especially your step 15, really clever shapes you've got!

Fantastic piece author...Instant fav from me...

gee thanks!

Re-published after removal of dodgy source texture - sorry Mods!!

well thank god this came back.. I was going to warn you about the source.. but I was sure who ever was modding this would catch it... (3d mods are a weird group.. unique.. I've heard they sneak around in the middle of the night and steal passion out of the inner thighs of pop stars) but that is a total rumor... good LUCK.. fun image

(just kidding mods.. don't kill me... smooch)

author! i'm not sure if you made the face of model(mask) because from your SBS don't resulting that).... but maybe, my opinion doesn't metter....and if you made the face of model(mask), Congratulations!!!!...nice work!

Indeed I did. I can upload some more wip's if required.

Pretty cool, glad it never made it into the masks contest to be honest, it would have been competition for my 1st

@ Ory :P

Looks amazing! Great color choice.

Beautiful job.....well done......G/L Author.

Thanks

A shame the ear(s) that were 'hard' don't show, but this is very cool work! Love the way the mask is 'broken apart'.

Thanks, the broken effect was done using a copy of the mask that was blown apart using a geometric/deformable Bomb