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[Max] I need help! / Re: trying to make (partially molten) Stracciatella Ice cream

« on: 2021-11-05, 18:00:28 »

I'm making Packaging where you have to represent the product in a semi-realistic way.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: trying to make (partially molten) Stracciatella Ice cream

« on: 2021-11-04, 18:33:38 »

Thank you, this looks brilliant and very appetizing. But that's more of an Italian handmade Stracciatella in a Gelateria.

But I the ice cream I have received by mail are very industrial and the chocolate chips are embedded in the chocolate. ( such a kind: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTilpKks4_LyPITjWGqlQuBEa0mXLAC5EvofA&usqp=CAU )

the photoshop composing I posted before is close to the real version I have in my fridge (even though the chocolate pieces sticking out are still missing there).

In the meantime I was playing around with Volumetrics (in search of the semitransparent effect) but I don't get a nice result.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: trying to make (partially molten) Stracciatella Ice cream

« on: 2021-11-04, 14:12:39 »

Here are two screenshots.
one of the two different materials I am using and one of a composing I have done in Photoshop.

In the composing you can see the effect I would like to achieve with just one material. that semi-transparency where you can see through the chocolate.

But with only two materials it really lacks of depth and I don't want to mask every single "chocolate chip" individually in photoshop to get that depth.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: trying to make (partially molten) Stracciatella Ice cream

« on: 2021-11-04, 13:47:36 »

I cannot attach the file or an actual picture as it is not released yet. I will try to post some screenshots of isolated parts though.

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[Max] I need help! / trying to make (partially molten) Stracciatella Ice cream

« on: 2021-11-04, 12:16:33 »

Hi everyone, I have built Stracciatella Ice Cream and am almost satisfied with the result.

The only thing I really struggle with is to get that half molten look where you can see the chocolate chips through the ice cream.

in the first iteration I did build thousands of chocolate chips (with poly fx and randomizing) sticking into and out of  the ice cream. That looked great but was very heavy on my mac.

But as I then ended up needing 6 Ice cream sticks in one picture (they are really tiny ice creams) this wasn't feasible anymore. and I searched for a different solution.

I then used different ice cream colors with different water levels on the displacement layer over a chocolate colored base, did multiple renderings and merged three renders into one picture in Photoshop.

I did try everything from subsurface Scattering, Opacity, Volumetrics etc. but I did never get a really satisfying result. (The Corona built Ice cream also didn't work as wished).

So has anyone every had such a task and /or a better idea to how to realize real looking Stracciatella?