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Thanks! ✌️

Thanks! I look forward to hopefully seeing some of your stuff on here 😊

Blender has a steep learning curve and it can be pretty disheartening at the start (or certainly that’s how it was for me). But the important thing is to stick with it, try to enjoy the process even if the result isn’t what you hoped, and eventually you’ll get there with enough tutorials and messing around.

In case anyone is interested, this was actually a remake of an old render of mine (which was also a lighting test). I wanted to take the same scene a year later, and give it a totally different vibe.

Which do you prefer?

The older version:

Yeah I went for a value of 2 on caustics because I liked the magical effect, even though it’s not physically accurate. Maybe should’ve stuck with 1 😅

Thank you! It’s a plane with a marble texture from Poly Haven, and then I mixed the roughness with a custom grunge map for some imperfection

Thanks! 😊

Thanks! I used Cycles.

Originally I did have more grunge / dirt on the floor and glass, but I found it was taking away focus from the key parts of the scene so I ended up removing it entirely. Maybe there’s a more subtle middle ground somewhere

And a few more variants of this scene. Let me know if you have a favourite

And here’s the original one I made back in 2020 😊