Hair in Cycles—My First Tribbles

I have been playing around with the new hair capabilities implemented in Cycles recently, and it's a lot of fun! One of these days I'll probably talk about how to use the Hair Info node, which provides a lot of flexibility with shading hair strands. Anyway, here are my first tribbles. Enjoy!

Green Bottles

These last few days, I have been working on a new render—a green glass study. No big surprise there, as I'm a big fan of glass, refractions, reflections, caustics, dispersion, and anything related to rendering glass. There's something that just makes it never grow old. I used a photo I found on Facebook as reference, something I've been doing a lot recently. I find that real pictures taken by regular folks sometimes are more inspiring than perfect, professionally groomed pictures.

Also, for those interested, I gave a different subtext to the whole composition. I renamed the bottles to 1714-2014, in honor of the recent political events in Catalonia. Catalans are trying to have a referendum on independence in 2014, which marks the 300th anniversary of Spain's invasion and occupation of Catalonia. My bottles are literally freedom-water bottles! Not a bad reason to drink to.

As a side note, my blog has experienced a great increase in visits. As a way of saying thanks, I am including a link to the blend file and custom textures created by me. For the HDR image I use for the background, I would suggest using any that can easily be found online. Cheers!

Green bottles. Rendered in Cycles, modeled in Blender.
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This is the reference photo.