I wanted to create a construct that looks like a piece of jewellery. I had the idea that it could become an interesting picture if i build a dandelion out of screws. This would turn around the gravity for the parachutes so that they fall down fastly than fly away like in zero gravity.
I modeled this Dandelion in 3DSmax an Rhino. I´ve used Rhino to model a "free sizeable" main screw out of nurbs. In 3DSmax I used an XRef scene structure to be as flexible as possible. (And to be able to use proxys in the viewports,cause the polycount is about 2 million) The most difficult part was the lighting and shading. this was done in 3dsmax, too. This picture rendered about 5 hours on 2 P4´s (3Ghz + 1 Ghz) Finally i´ve added a DOF Filter thats able to create bokehs to underline the intention of a piece of jewellery.
The final resolution is A4 @ 400dpi. You can watch a zoomable highres version on
www.ak3d.de
"Dandelion of screws" is available as print in different postersizes:
dandelion of screws poster
Hope you like it.