Christmas Scene

by Falk Johnke on Dec 17, 2011

Image is: finished (?)

made with blender (cycles), 2000 samples

I had to render with cpu, because with cuda the scene was to complex (out of memory)

rendertime: 10 hours

breakdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80kxHSLeno

Discussion

35 Responses to “Christmas Scene”
  1. bert van den bosch
    Posts: 121

    Wow, you have to entry to the christmas competition on blenderguru with this image!
    Great job :D

    -bert

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 6:18 am
  2. Scott Shepherd
    Posts: 40

    Awesome Job!

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 7:01 am
  3. Frédéric MARIE-JOSEPH
    Posts: 128

    This one is _REALLY_ great. My preferred with the locomotive.
    Out of memory with Cuda enabled? what’s your graphic card?

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 7:08 am
    • Falk Johnke
      Posts: 48

      Thank you very much Fredmj. My graphic card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460. In this scene there are over 300 objects and especially the tree was sucking my card ;)

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       Dec 17, 2011 at 7:22 am
  4. daren
    Posts: 64

    Beautiful. This is one that can only bi nit-nit-picked — but I think if you rounded the edge on the barrister a little bit — it would help a lot!

    Excellent!

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 8:10 am
  5. Duane Baldish
    Posts: 9

    Good concept and can tell much thought and work was put into this… am curious to see what feedback Andrew provides. Just a few suggestions and observations on this excellent scene:
    - Check your lighting scheme; it seems you have a very powerful off scene lighting source(s). Generally, an open fireplace such as this when lit would tend to dominate over any background lighting. Also, the xmas lights seems too powerful given this same scheme. Suggestion: tone down the off camera lighting and tint more toward yellowish-orange.
    - Focus 1; Believe the main focus is intended to be the tree. If so, there are just a few detractors; namely the candle lantern – this seems a bit out of place given location, the wall paper which may be a bit over displaced and lacks the typical sheen common on wall paper, and finally the presents which seem too tight if you know what I mean. (The tree is fantastic by the way – perhaps the best I have ever seen done with blender).
    - Focus 2; Think you did incorporate a bit of DoF but maybe just a touch more would add to the realism of this great scene.
    - Odds and ends; The reef appears to somehow be covering up part of an unlit candle on the mantle (not that placement is incorrect but just looks a bit off); I will bet you would have added an AO pass if cycles already had render passes – this scene would be even better with AO.

    No doubt about it, you have talent and hopefully you continue to provide fine works such as this to the community. My favorite element was the vent on the left wall, which though simple I believe truly adds to the life of such scenes.

    Cheers,
    Duane

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 8:37 am
  6. Jerry Doherty
    Posts: 42

    Very nice…

    I am just wondering what is all made in blender.. any post editing?
    what was modeled or just textured in or faked?

    Just wondering what whent into this scene?

    the fire looks like an image.. or modeled flames not a particle sys..

    just wondering .. I see many outstanding images.. and the blending of real modeling and inserting images are normally mixed..

    either way good work!~

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 10:00 am
    • Falk Johnke
      Posts: 48

      It’s 100% blender. Post editing only with node editor. And you are right, the fire is an image. All the rest is modelled

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       Dec 18, 2011 at 9:38 am
      • Jeremy Deighan
        Posts: 263

        Let’s see some particles!!!

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         Dec 20, 2011 at 1:44 am
  7. Zach Newton
    Posts: 34

    whoa

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 10:14 am
  8. Joe Manns
    Posts: 28

    This is ridiculously great!

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 10:40 am
  9. Andrew Finegan
    Posts: 173

    A very great job….you should be proud of it!

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 12:35 pm
  10. NoTalent
    Posts: 1

    Are You Kidding Me?? I can’t even get a cube to do what I want it to.
    100% Awesome.

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     Dec 17, 2011 at 2:40 pm
  11. Jonathan Williamson
    Posts: 2952

    Featured! Very, very nice work. I’m sure people would love to see a breakdown of this scene.

    -Jonathan

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     Dec 18, 2011 at 12:36 am
  12. Falk Johnke
    Posts: 48

    Thank you so much guys and thank you Jonathan! You really made my day by making my render “Featured!” YES…. i’m so happy :)

    I’m going to make a breakdown soon.

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     Dec 18, 2011 at 9:44 am
  13. Gareth Frankland
    Posts: 87

    EPIC!
    An excellent image to show the power of Blender and Cycles!
    Not to mention your skills and dedication, top job!
    How long did this project take?

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     Dec 18, 2011 at 2:43 pm
    • Falk Johnke
      Posts: 48

      Thank you so much! I worked the last 3 weeks partially on it! I think at least 3-4 days. It was totally worth it and cycles is so powerfull, making half the work ;)

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       Dec 19, 2011 at 2:06 am
  14. Keith Turner
    Posts: 3

    Amazing work, sign of true talent here!

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     Dec 19, 2011 at 9:35 pm
  15. Fabian vargas
    Posts: 70

    this is awesome..!!! regards..!!

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     Dec 20, 2011 at 6:06 pm
  16. verticies
    Posts: 228

    I think I found a new christmas card :)
    Awesome work!!

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     Dec 20, 2011 at 11:06 pm
  17. Falk Johnke
    Posts: 48

    Thank you all for those lovely comments! :)

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     Dec 21, 2011 at 4:46 am
  18. chrisww
    Posts: 7

    I was watching some Christmas music on youtube and I saw the picture you made this from and I was surprised how much it looked like the original! Great job!

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     Dec 23, 2011 at 1:21 am
    • Falk Johnke
      Posts: 48

      Thank you Chris! Nice you found the original reference ;) But this scene was to complex and i din’t had enough time to make it all.

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       Dec 23, 2011 at 4:54 am
  19. Mitch
    Posts: 8

    Wow that is incredible

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 9:54 pm
  20. Mitch
    Posts: 8

    Wow that is incredible

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 9:54 pm
  21. Mike Taylor
    Posts: 5

    Truly raw talent!!

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 11:30 pm
  22. Falk Johnke
    Posts: 48

    Thank you guys! A friend of mine made a little breakdown of this scene. Have a look :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80kxHSLeno

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     Jan 4, 2012 at 9:36 am
  23. Frederik stubdrup
    Posts: 13

    hey, i just try to submit one of my pictures, but i most only be 1mb, what can i do? i ask you becase that picture must be more than 1mb and because you seems like a pro to blender.

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     Jan 11, 2012 at 12:28 pm
    • Falk Johnke
      Posts: 48

      render panel/output: you have to change the type of your image from *.png to *.jpg and then you can also decrease the level of quality, if necessary. Then hit F3 on your Image to save and compare it with your png!

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       Jan 12, 2012 at 4:41 am
  24. Frederik stubdrup
    Posts: 13

    thx :)

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     Jan 13, 2012 at 1:37 pm
  25. charlieczech
    Posts: 2

    Hi Falksen85, very nice job! I do Christmas for living. Could you tell me how did you make the tree? Just rough idea. I tried particle system, but result was far away from yours.
    Thank you nice inspiration

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     Mar 20, 2012 at 3:28 am
  26. Falk Johnke
    Posts: 48

    Thank you Charlieczech :) …try this Tutorial I found:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qm8ARq1aK5Y#!

    i made it nearly the same with some improvements!

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     Mar 22, 2012 at 4:48 am

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