Generated many variations, then selected the best.
A raw render. It took about eight hours to finalize.
Depth Map.
I applied a Frischluft Lenscare plugin to simulate depth of field effect.
Background added.
Some color shift to green tone and more saturation and more warm tone. Add new layer to fake sub-surface-scattering on fibers.
Applied Frischluft BoxBlur to simulate fake chromatic aberration. In the end I use Grain Surgery filter.
NVArt 2008 — Amazing Creations winner
Growth of Cubic Bacteria
For „Growth of cubic bacteria’, Vaclav wanted to create an interesting form that looked like a photograph of small structure micro-organism. “It is all generated in Xenodream 1.5 and done by so-called six holons. I use fourteen lights to light up the object. Then I rendered straight into it. Xenodream has something like voxel rendering technique, so it can feature very tiny details. I take this raw render into Photoshop and resample the image. Next I create a background, simulate depth of field, simulate fake chromatic aberration, make some color correction and finally I add digital grain.
