Heya!
Finished the toast today. What a work-out with Cycles!
Here is the final toast:
Only rendered at 100 samples
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I have to say, I really enjoyed this project and I have learned quite a bit on Cycles. Particularly how to layer procedural textures. It was a blast. For the toasted color I think it is too black, but I tried getting it lighter (didn't wanna budge). Oh well. Would still look good as a prop for a scene's background, so in that sense I believe it works. For close up it only works for me if your toast fell on the ground and you tried to dust it off, lol!!! I am very critical of my own work, especially in music. For now, I do believe I am not going to get a better result and so I'm calling this experiment completed.
Just for interest sake, this is how it developed:
And then finally:
I like the way the crumbs lay. It just looks right, but personally, I still would've prefer the toasted part more brown. I do have to add though, that the toast I had as reference had black toasted areas, but not for such softly toasted areas as on the above image. Those needed to be more of a golden brown.
Overall, I am happy with the project and especially with what I learned. Gotta say, this little piece of bread's node system got a little big:
Doesn't form much of a picture now that it has grown as much. For now it can look like head with a very pointy nose and cut off pony tail looking that way --->. Hahaha.
There is an image of a bird flying if you were to take out the top three rows of nodes.
Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!
Hey! I'm having an incredible learning experience, not only learning how Blender works (yes, still learning), but also about Open-Source and the incredible software available. Stick around!
