Jacob Sears - Artistic Render

Concept:

My main design inspiration is a website that been around for about 15 years now called the scp wiki. Its a collective creative writing project about a foundation dedicated to containing "anomalous" objects, one of which, scp 714, is a jade ring that when worn results in exhaustion, slowed reaction, reduced mental capacity, resilience to mental influences and increased chemical tolerance. For my model i thought it'd be cool to do a different take on 714 and make it less of a typical ring and more of an anomalous ornate type object that could still possibly be worn as a ring.

Techniques and Materials:

For my techniques I first rendered out a beauty layer to use as a base and then a diffuse layer using a rough white plastic with no refractive index, I then adjusted the colors making the mid tones a fluorescent yellow tinged green and then adjusted the colors of the highlights and shadows to better fit the environment the object. After which i rendered out two specular layers, one rough and one smooth, using black chrome that i the set to the add blend mode in Photoshop and placed above the diffuse layer (with the rough specular above the smooth to give the model a sort of translucent look). Similar to the specular layers i rendered a reflections layer to add to the shininess of the model. Finally i created an occlusion layer to help with the shadows and add to the contrast of the model, i also adjusted the shadow colors to be a sort of reddish purple to add further to the contrast of the model.

Additional Photoshoping:

For the model in the science lab scene (which i chose to make it seem as if it was inside the foundation i mentioned earlier) i used the same techniques however i adjusted the colors to be much more red/ yellow with deep purple shadows and yellow/ orange highlights to match the scene better. I also made a copy of the clown layer, color picked a shadow from the background image and painted the second clown layer with that, increased the selection size, blurred it and then used transform tools to manipulate it to look more like a shadow.