Hello, my dear FPNers
I want to publish Offtopic today. These two pictures made last year, I think when I was studying at school. I had only Parker Reflex and did not really like it, so you can not see FPs here. However, I still have this Parker Frontier BP (the only BP I have) and this pencil (which I'n going to change soon).

I used 3D Studio Max and VRay to create these pictures. Second picture (Parker Jotter) is... hm... not the best one I've made. Look at this clip  The first one is quite good though. I will have summer holidays soon (after I pass two exams on Monday and Tuesday), so I hope to change lighing and composition of the first picture and also make one of my FPs.

Enjoy these middling pictures.

Great!

Looking at my pens, they seem to have a special reflection. You can render that gleambetter in pictures like this than a photo ever shows.

Thanks for sharing.

Very nice. I used form-Z for awhile, but I haven't done any 3D modeling in at least 5 or 6 years.

That is very good work. I've experienced how much work goes into making a 3D model like this.

May be not so much as you could think  The first picture took me about 2 days to make. I should have spent one more day on lighting though ;-) Now I think, I could make it in about 8-10 hours, and I'm not professional in modelling.
Nice to see that you like it.

Emil

Hehe... Well of course, I'm not very experienced so I'd be a bit slow... Just had to play with an engineering 3D modelling software called Pro Engineer in my first year of undergrad, I remember drawing a holepunch with moving parts.

I guess it took me about 3 days work....

But it's not nearly as detailed as what you have.

nice work!

Very nice, Emil, very nice. I love those 3D pics.

Ah, you kids today. I tellya, back in my day we had to write code to feed to the raytracer and all we had to work with were primitives and anything we could build out of repeated primitives. And having more than two light sources made our rendering times shoot into days instead of hours. Uphill both ways through the snow! And we liked it!

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Seriously, yours are much nicer.

artaddict, glad you like it
Sonia, thank you
Spicer, even I remember these days, even though I was... hm... young :-) 3D Max in Dos was something. I don't have any works from these days (truely, there aren't many even from last year on my laptop), but it was really funny. Did we like it? Yes, sure. Could we spend time in it now? No, not for me, thank you Nice pictures and I'm glad you like mine

I've got exam in 1 hour, so just relaxed a little bit in Photoshop... Click to see full size image