A Work in Progress: Ice cubes



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Ice cubes
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step 1 of 7

Started with a box, added noise, spherify and turbosmooth modifiers

Creation of Ice cubes: Step 1

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I then created some small spheres and used boolean to extrude the spheres inside the box. The box was places on a flat plane

Creation of Ice cubes: Step 2

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Cloned the box 2 times

Creation of Ice cubes: Step 3

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I added a bunch of white planes around the scene for some reflections on the ice cubes

Creation of Ice cubes: Step 4

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The materials I used. All original and the hdr material "KC_outside_hi" comes with 3ds max 2011.

Creation of Ice cubes: Step 5

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An ambient occlusion render for shadows, added to the image in photoshop.

Creation of Ice cubes: Step 6

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A zdepth pass. I used it with lens blur in photoshop to give blur to the image.

Creation of Ice cubes: Step 7

Final result

Creation of Ice cubes: Final Result

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