A Work in Progress: Hourglass



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Created the "feets" of the hourglass. I created a simple line and used lathe on it.

Creation of Hourglass: Step 1

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Created the up and down side of it. it is a simple cilinder with some modification.

Creation of Hourglass: Step 2

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Created a sphere and pushed it a bit together.

Creation of Hourglass: Step 3

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Created a line and used lathe on it, this is the body of the glass.

Creation of Hourglass: Step 4

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For some realistic sand i exported the body to realflow program and after some tests simulations i created some particle flow in it.

Creation of Hourglass: Step 5

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As you can see on the picture it took 2 hours and 5 minute until the simulation finished.

There were about 60.000 particles in the scene.

Creation of Hourglass: Step 6

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After the simulation i imported it back to 3ds max and placed the particles to the right place.

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Then i setuped the scene, putted 3 lights in the scene, the one in the middle had the strongest light.

And i have putted a vraycam into the scene.

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I have created the glass material in 3ds max.

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This is the material of the feets. Just a dark brown color with some reflection.

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This is the material of the sand.
Nothing special just gave it a light brown color.

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Final result

Creation of Hourglass: Final Result

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