Renderbricks
Member since 8 March 2016
My name is Michael Klein. I am a German 3D pioneer and LEGO® is the mother of my profession.
In 2014 I started again a research how to render digital LEGO with LDRAW. After the first promising results with the help of a BLENDER script to convert useable LDRAW-data I published some renderings on Eurobricks.
Then I found MECABRICKS and got in touch with SCRUBS for the idea to implement features to make rendering possible. I am working with MODO and shared my knowledge with SCRUBS using BLENDER. We unlocked rendering LEGO in a complete new way and I am excited to watch MECABRICKS growing and getting better.
Thanks to Nicolas Jarraud to make all this possible. To me it's one of the best and most exciting internet-presents in this century.
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Renderbricks
1 week ago
You can't put this on LEGO Ideas because Star Trek isn't licensed by TLG.
Renderbricks
1 month ago
What I like here is the mix of different parts. The website is unfortunately down.
Renderbricks
1 month ago
Nice!
Renderbricks
2 months ago
Looks like Scrubs has some work to do. 
Renderbricks
2 months ago
The miracle of the internet. While I just ordered the set someone already built it on Mecabricks.
Renderbricks
2 months ago
I will do a tutorial with this model to give some tips about lighting and how to use passes (with 2.80) for the glow effects in the Blender compositing. Please be patient. It might take a while.
Renderbricks
2 months ago
The #Mecabricks Advanced addon has been updated for #Blender 2.80.
I made a fast test with the #LEGO® Technic 42083 #Bugatti Chiron. Export and import is super-fast. I added a procedural noise bump texture and cranked up the values for imperfections, scratches and fingerprints more extreme to see how this looks like.
For the second rendering I used a classic three lights technique with area lights and an aditional light to brighten up the left front a bit.
I made a fast test with the #LEGO® Technic 42083 #Bugatti Chiron. Export and import is super-fast. I added a procedural noise bump texture and cranked up the values for imperfections, scratches and fingerprints more extreme to see how this looks like.
For the second rendering I used a classic three lights technique with area lights and an aditional light to brighten up the left front a bit.
Renderbricks
3 months ago
Not bad.
Renderbricks
3 months ago
I saw that your project got funded. Congrats! Can you explain if there is a benefit for you? I haven't checked out the details of this concept yet.
Renderbricks
5 days ago
thanks for your kind words. I have not setup a full material library yet. Just the materials of my imported models. But I can send you a scene with an example to adapt. It wasn't very hard. I just adapted the Mecabricks Principled Shader settings of the Lite Addon to Arnold's aiStandardSurface Shader. Actually I am testing with Redshift. The render speed is fantastic.