Fire Hydrant Purging by djfalcon44
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
This is my Work In Progress for an ad I'm doing. The first one was posted earlier. This is no. 2
Just a basic background nothing special, so don't comment on that. I just wanted to get some HDRI lighting on the hydrant with textures.
Now the water and droplets were done with Photoshop. I wish I can make realistic water with C4D but I can't...yet.
Comments welcome :)

Comments (22)
Excellent stuff.
Great hydrant and great job Photoshoping the water. I like this alot!
modeling flowing liquids is one of the hardest and most computer-intensive things going out there, even worse than modeling hair, even in high-end packages..it looks great to me.
hmm, as I saw the image, I planed a comment on the background ... Youre a lucky guy ... I read your text :-) Thats an fantastic Image! The water looks very realistic and the tex of the hydrant ist well done too!
yeah the background is just a temp. Something to plug in there in this WIP until I get something better :) Thanks for the comments, I agree that water is extremely difficult, I just haven't seen it done realistically except in the movies and those are with very high end systems. So for now PS will have to do. :)
Great water effect...
great work! respect!
Wow, this looks fantastic!! Wonderful realism, great water effects too!!! Excellent!!
Nice one thier.
Beautiful render and you should be proud with the water and hydrant realism.
A nice bold water effect in this image. Take a look at the Next Limit site if you would like to try making some realistic 3D fluid with the RealFlow3 demo. http://www.nextlimit.com/realflow/index.html
SUperrrr shaders"super water":)
Why not just use a photo of a hydrant if you're using Photoshop to make an ad?
Whoa! Excellent work all around. Great water effect, modeling and textures.
The water looks great but the red shader on the hydrant itself looks a bit too much like plastic (it's one of Herbert's SLA presets, right? - I use that one myself very often :)
I wanted to do the Hydrant in Cinema to stretch my modelling muscles a bit. :) Practice makes perfect they always say. Yes that shader is from Herbert's Noctua site - http://www.noctua-graphics.de/ I love their shader. I found them a while back and they are in the Goodies section of C4D XL 9. It's the Aged red paint. I could tweak it some more, but my boss loved it so much, that I didnt feel that I had too do much more to it. I want to do that RealFlow water, but the price is a bit high, and I can't justify getting it at the moment, unless we do extensive water stuff. Thanks for the comments, I'll definitely work on the realism more :)
Metal and water simply super!!!!! Tell as water made?:))
So far it's looking great! Keep up the fantastic work!!!
great job,maybe think about an inner city/ghettoish,type background complete with all rich textures and graffitis.
I love the gritty feel! Great job on the rust!
An absolutely stunning render! I like the hydrant, but I absolutely love the water. It looks very realistic.. I could almost feel it.
Super master-piece. 5+.