Posts by Kontramax

DaniMun said
Oh… my mistake !

Not a problem, thanx, DaniMun. My name is Max

DaniMun said
Congrats, Dimitry! As always, well done!

Dani, thanx a lot, but I am not Dimitry…:) or you congrats other man?

Also thanx to jrd89, CreatingDrew, SplitV, VF, loziosecchi, readactor, Pdesignx, revaxarts and others for your congrats.

ian said
COMPETITION ENDED !

Congratulations to Kontramax for this winning entry:

Thank you very mush! Thanx to all who supported me. Thanx to Pdesignx for worthy competition. Also congrats to all participants for they creative submissions. I got badge and got da money – that’s so cool! How I can send you sources?

Pdesignx said
i suggest you to shrink that shadow a little bit, because at it turns around, some part of it goes out of the frame…

Yeah may be, now I just fade shadow out, but it possible turn hdri environment a little to move the shadow… The fact that I don’t want to use the shadow exactly under the leaf. On side it looks a bit more lively I think.

Added sharp to big version:

no sharp: with sharp:

Pdesignx said
no other submissions? need more to feel like a competetion…

and as already mentioned, i would prefer a “won a competetion” badge instead of the forum superstar.

actually it’s the only reason i participate.. i did not noticed it before

Agree with Pdesignx, if it can be discussed, then I for a “won a competetion” badge too! And credits not needed

SportTipsWorld said
LOL your english is fine, it was the indepth complicated instructions and method I couldnt understand, was all gobbledegook to me. Keep up the great work. Ste

Understand, in such case here we says: now in Russian please

SportTipsWorld said

Could you please post this in English too !!! LOL

I am sorry for errors, have a poor english, was badly in school

Okay, reveal cards…

With my first leaf I am too use couple 3DS Max + Photoshop and add shine effect just with frame-by-frame hand-draw and it looks not so smooth and not satisfy me and then in older leaf versions I wanted to use more controllable effect on leaf and use this scheme:

Logo shape from Illustrator to 3DS Max with Extrude+FFD (to make leaf not just flat but with thickening of the middle), then rendered to sequence with alpha channel – Vray with GI + Gamma 2.2 + matte floor plane to correct back colors with this gamma, then I correct leaf colors + gradients and add fake shine and reflections effects in AfterEffect with animated shape layers, then render to sequence and load files into stack in Photoshop, make frames from layers and create final gif. To make version with sharpen edges I use High Pass with overlay mode for each layer with simple action in Photoshop.

DaniMun said
It would be interesting to know how you made this one

which one?