andy wants some glowing orb

the rendering part of my brain is collecting cobwebs and dust. here's a little scene to shake the dust off.
i think i'm a little bit rusty though.

grass-o-matic was used for the grass and with the proxy script of Master Zap for making things a lot "lighter" to handle. the main lighting is only a HDRi plugged into the sky slot. mental ray glow material for the orbs and for andy's eyes.

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Irradiance Particle (update 3)

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Work has suddenly picked up again and this is the only update I have to offer for this particular scene since my last post. And one "extra-income" (some sketchup modeling stint) which I could never pass up also came along the past weeks. That's the reason why this got bogged down a little. It feels like forever to finish. I really hope to finish this like it should be. 

Here I added some grass using the grass-o-matic and plugin some trees using Onyx trees.

Production Shaders

Here's my shot at mental ray's production shaders.

Modeled in 3dsmax.