Pistachios!

My first Cycles render! Textures are procedural (same material as in my previous post) and it all renders fairly quickly with one large light to light the background plane and 3 more light planes to produce the reflections and add some sky light.
Some basic noise reduction was applied afterwards to clean up the image and the bokeh blur was simply a tick box in the render settings (interesting feature!).

Hope you like.

My adventures in Cycles

I was reading the latest post of World of Level Design (check it out!) post about practising your skills at level design it really made me stop and think I should do more than "projects". To that end I decided to a series of studio renders in Cycles, where the goal would be to improve my rendering skills in a controlled environment (Studio render).

So here goes: