Birthday Cake

[randyrives]

This weeks modeling exercise.

[randyrives]

This weeks modeling exercise.

[Soquili]

Hi Randy,

Great modeling. Did you model the flames, or are they added in post work?

[randyrives]

The flames are from a tutorial I did some time ago. So they are modeled, but I can't take credit for creating them. By the way the are animated, so they flicker and move. The animation is done with the Nickle plugin.

[gidgit]

Hey, this is very nice Randy... my favorite part of this is that glass... wow, that's some very nice glass [thumbs up]

[teknal]

Nice Randy! I have to agree with gidgit, the thing that stood out for me was the glass, it looks very thick on the bottom. Then the flames, they are awesome!

-T

[randyrives]

gidgit - Thanks! The glass by the way came from the glass tutorial in the 2nd edition of 3D Attach e-zine. With a tweak or two and an HDRI map for reflections.

Teknal - The glass is very thick. It is a very heavy glass cake plate. Thanks for looking.

[Mike Bailey]

Very nice image Randy.
How many stars are on that flag?
My favorite part is the thin red candy stripe (for lack of a better name) on the cake, the glass is most excellent as well.
Perhaps more bump on the frosting mat. may add to the realism.

[randyrives]

Mike B - There are only 30 stars, Hey its just a cake I agree with about the bump, but I could not get it the way I wanted in the time I had. I also tried to do a cake texture so I could have a sliced cut and on a plate. So if anybody has any tips on making a cake texture, shoot them my way