From the album: Rasputin Gallery II
Physical render, 46 passes. Here, my goals were to see if I could:
paint my own orange-peel material in Photoshop, just to see if I could manually recreate the look, instead of sourcing a real photograph
match the 3D objects as closely as possible to the existing light of this HDRI for a convincing composite
use EMBREE SMALLER, just to see what it does
use Volume Mesh to create that little "navel" object on the orange
play around with different anti-aliasing filter settings to gauge the effect... finally settled on 2+2
use three layers of Reflectance in order to best simulate a naturalistic falloff on the orange (as a sphere)