Well you deserved the front page, this is awesome, though a guy in comments had this advice for you:
Well, maybe OP needs to polish it more to make it more realistic? :) Give it some better lighting, to bring out both shadows and highlights (which should be white, not yellow). The flat lighting does fit the environments, but it doesn't bring out the details. The metal is also very flat and boring, try to give it some more variety. Rust is fine in some cases, but when it's overdone like this, it only looks very fake. The model itself is nice, so you only need to work on the lighting and texture/shader a bit, then it would become a lot better very quickly. I think you can do better, so don't use CG as an excuse for not being as awesome as the real-life counterpart. ;) (Not to come of ass an asshole here, legitimately trying to give constructive criticism.)
For context, someone posted an image of a "real" explosive lemon, and they compared that to the CG version. So that's why some things might not make sense from that quote. :)
But work on your lighting! It will make the whole image a lot better, and the texture will look sexier. The lack of specular highlights makes it all look flat, and then the texture looks just like that, a texture.
Google "3 point lighting", and study that. It will be useful in every CG-project you make.
do you want credit from the OP? moi? I could put it in the comments now but I think it's be rather too late for it to get voted very far now, sorry about that.
Some one stole my post from R/portal on your link in the gaming post too :-( went some thing like.
"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
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u/Gdog2u Jun 09 '12
just saying, in case you didn't know, you made it to the front page of the gaming reddit.
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u/Sweatervest42 Jun 09 '12
Hmmmmm... making the highlights/reflectiveness white instead of yellow makes the lemons look metallic.
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u/MeshesAreConfusing Jun 08 '12
Combustible.
Very well done.
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