Wizard desk

What's about? Wizard deks is a project made during my first Maya course useful to practice on tools and techniques. I focused on photorealistic rendering and shaders, material and lightning details.

What did I do? I made all the scene, modeling books, candle, chair, quill applying then texture and shaders. Particulary interesting was the candle material, made with subscattering shader and the feather texture which was applied using a combination of nodes to make transparency zones and edges to emulate the real feather behavior. The rendering is made with Mental Ray.