While I learn Blender 3D doing boring tables, chairs, teapots, vases, etc., I take a break to clear my mind doing other things. In this render (blender internal)I applied other things that I had done in other works:
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Of course while this is not the "Art" section, anyway you can freely opine/critique this work

PS: You'll notice that there are no shadows of the cube over the snow. I still can not make the shadows look like I want with Blender internal. So I try to learn as much as possible about lighting with internal render and then thus I can appreciate all the advantages of cycles.

They are both excellent. I would be tempted to hide the bottom of the ice cube behind a small mound of snow.

Very nice. Needs a newspaper design around the image now with the headline, Archeologists discover prehistoric wilber frozen in ice at the north pole.

Very realistic looking PC YAFU; funny too. lol

Let's try to genetically resurrect the Wilbermoth. lololol

@Erisian: Well, that will not to look very good since the snow is not generated, because it is the same picture used in the background. Here I make an attempt, but it makes my lack of shadows even more noticeable


@he4rty, lylejk: That is so, apparently scientists are preparing for cloning. But being this related to the software, technique is called forking

Thanks K1TesseraEna!
As I had said in the other thread, I have downloaded these two materials for blender internal:
http://matrep.parastudios.de/index.php? ... now-packed
http://matrep.parastudios.de/index.php? ... al=277-ice
Then I mixed them in different ways and I have changed many property values. I have learned a lot analyzing these two materials and to experiment by changing the values.

Edit:
Sorry, this is the "ice" that I had used:
http://matrep.parastudios.de/index.php? ... ial=32-ice

Wilber looks so surprised. That kinda made me smile.

Very cool YAFU!
No pun intended. Those renders are really good.

The lack of shadow isn't too noticeable as the ice block appears to be already sitting in a shaded area, the foreground snow is slightly darker around the block. Good job on both images but I think the second one with the more frosted look has the edge and the snow around the base is a nice touch.
I hope that's not evil Wilber in there as I I keep thinking about the movie The Thing.

Thanks for your comments!
Here I've added some bubbles.


@K1TesseraEna: Sorry, this is the "ice" that I had used:
http://matrep.parastudios.de/index.php? ... ial=32-ice

If you analyze the material, texture called "soft displace" makes the magic about cube deformation. But this deformation has no much effect if you do not modify the mesh surface of the cube.
Edit: I have realized that subdivide the mesh is what makes the geometry displacement takes effect, and not to modify the mesh...

@Caz, Wilber is a good guy. But I do not know about their prehistoric relatives

YAFU do you mind if i use one of these as a splash screen image?

@Rod, you (or anyone) can use the images for whatever you want.
Tell me if you need it in PNG format, and if so which of them you prefer.

I just clarify that I do not know the license of the background photo I have used.

Thanks YAFU!
No need for a PNG file.

Rod - I think your Gimp has frozen...

Good one!
Must be Windows.

You know what would be really cool is a mountain climber climbing the ice Wilbur block.

@he4rty, Rod:


Good idea! But that task I leave it to you to compose it in GIMP. Unless I find a climber 3D model for Bldender, I'm still far away from human modeling and clothing

You could always have the linux penguin (Don't no the name) standing on top of the ice block.