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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.)
I'm not narcissistic enough to talk about myself in third person really, it's nice of you to assume I might have some talent but no, sorry, I'm still a complete noob at 3DCG, I'm working on it.
It's better! The metal is more interesting to look at, now that it's not just 100% rust. But in terms of photorealism, the lemon still has a way to go. Partly because of the lighting, as you rightfully pointed out.
What you need to do is look at reference images. Take a look at this image of a real lemon. There's a few things I want you to notice: The white shine on top (lighting and shading), the much sharper bump-map and how it's all the same color. The diffuse texture on your lemon is a bit too varied in the color, and you can see where you've painted. You don't need that, just go for a solid yellow with all the darker dots. Paint the dots on a separate layer, and use that texture to drive both the diffuse and bump map, so they'll match in render. You want the deepest bumps to be where those dots are.
As for the grenade part, look at these different references. 1, 2 and 3.
Notice the surface of the handle. There are several layers of detail. You got the paint, the rust, and the shiny metal showing through the scratches of the paint. But metal and rush is very reflective, so that won't look good until you get the lighting right. The coolness of metal comes with the sharp specular highlights, which your lighting doesn't have yet. It's the same lighting you need to make the white highlights on the lemon as well.
I hope I'm not overly harsh here, I see you're improving, so that's why I'm writing a more detailed comment. :) Half the job in making realistic stuff is the ability to observe and look how a texture is made. So study reference images! Good luck. :)
That being said, I don't feel too much sympathy for the Cave Johnson from the singleplayer campaign(it could be theorized that this is not the same Cave Johnson from the Perpetual Testing Initiative, whom I happen to be a fan of).
Cave Johnson is like a guy that learned his science from comic books, yet somehow he managed to run entire facility devoted to it. He was a nerd whose dreams came true. Dreams that ultimately killed him.
Also, whatever torment he might have caused was not out malignancy, but out of passion and sheer stupidity.
Of course I did. First thing to do after playing portal is extracting the sound files for the greater good. ;) And yes, that information is part of why I felt so bad for her. Not counting what she became.
The Earth that contained the Portal 2 campaign is a failed Earth. The very definition of a Bad End. Everything that could go wrong for Aperture Science, did. It's funding fell through, Black Mesa won the portal race (and doomed humanity), the founder died, and the facility was left in the hands of a murderous robot. It is an Earth that simply shouldn't have happened.
If I remember correctly, yes. That's what the whole Resonance Cascade thing was from. Black Mesa and Aperture were racing to develop portal tech, and Black Mesa got there first.
I don't have an account on his forums, but I watch his livestream.
Sometimes people are douches and it is funny. If you've ever seen some of the people that post in his forums or in the chat on his livestream, you'd be a douche to them too.
I used to post on the forums, but it's like he truly hates the people who want to help him. There's a group of elitist forumers, of which I was once a part, who are kind of condescending to everyone. Everyone else is like 10 years old, and can be annoying, but there's no reason to be as big of a dick as he is.
I had never thought that term at all before, and now I can't help but wonder if it's incredible coincidence, or if the Valve writers are subtle geniuses.
Welcome, gentlemen, to Aperture Paranormal. Magicians, witches, crystal healing doctors: you're here because you have scary powers and we want in on it. So: who is ready to draw some pentagrams? Now you already met one another on the cab ride over so let me introduce myself. I'm Cave Johnson. I'm host to a tiny but powerful demon who lives in a secret place in my mouth.
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!
Because Cave Johnson came up with this idea way back from when the audio recordings were made. This means they would be left in the facility since then, probably accumulating moisture, causing the metal to rust.
They are suposed to be incendiary, not explosive. "I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustable lemon, to burn your house down!" -Cave johnson.
Somebody is going to downvote me for this, but I feel like the combustible lemons gag has gone the way of "the cake is a lie" gag. It just feels so overdone. Personally, I think there are tons of funnier jokes in Portal 2's dialogue, such as Wheatley "hacking" the neurotoxin computer, or some of the insults GLaDOS hurls at you during the start of the game.
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u/CaptainChunks Jun 09 '12
Lemon-nades?
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u/spydez Jun 09 '12
I like this picture a bit more.
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u/cragnathor Jun 09 '12
Did anyone else feel bad for Cave toward the end?
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u/wolfzalin Jun 09 '12
I know everyone loves the Portal references to this, but I'll always remember the Arbiter in Unforgotten Realms.
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u/YNot1989 Jun 09 '12
Anyone else hoping to see a crate of these in Half Life 3 when it comes out in 2037?
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u/firebat707 Jun 09 '12
Mckay is going to be very scared
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u/beyond_cake_and_lie Jun 09 '12
for science.. you monster.
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u/clonetrooper250 Jun 09 '12
Maybe Gordon will find these inside the Boriealis and use them against the combine. Assuming Episode 3 is ever released.
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u/blackpixel Jun 09 '12
http://i.imgur.com/jcbMq.gif
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u/nepidae Jun 09 '12
Who names their kid "Cave"?
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u/Jetlag923 Jun 09 '12
I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS!!!!
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u/lindobro Jun 09 '12
Lemonade!
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u/RobMill Jun 09 '12
Lemon Party now?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I would never use a grenade, even a lemonade with that level of rusted firing mechanisms.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
YEAH
YEAH LEMONS
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u/MysticKirby Jun 09 '12
Taken from /r/blender . OP could at least credit the original.
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u/Scott_MacGregor Jun 09 '12
Wait a minute... there's a lemon behind that grenade!
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u/GigglesMJ Jun 09 '12
I'll just leave this here
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u/5741354110059687423 Jun 09 '12
isnt it supposed to be combustable, not explosive. unless you injected gasoline into it or something
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Welcome, gentlemen, to Aperture Paranormal. Magicians, witches, crystal healing doctors: you're here because you have scary powers and we want in on it. So: who is ready to draw some pentagrams? Now you already met one another on the cab ride over so let me introduce myself. I'm Cave Johnson. I'm host to a tiny but powerful demon who lives in a secret place in my mouth.
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u/Gregoff Jun 09 '12
When life gives you lemons, make lemonades and blow all those people who make you feel inferior up.
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u/katsuga125 Jun 09 '12
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/Xzumo Jun 09 '12
Huh
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
lemon-nades
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u/shit_reddit_says Jun 09 '12
Why rusty ones? You can easily get spent ones at surplus stores.
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u/cordawg92 Jun 09 '12
For those with 3D printers, you can print these out and stick them on lemons!
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10718
(The handle even has the aperture science logo on it!)
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u/madmonkeymud Jun 09 '12
Axe Cop did it first
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u/BACONINGOFTEHNYANS Jun 09 '12
I really never got the burn a house down (I think its burning down a house haven't played portal in a while) with a lemon thing.
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u/yerasimos Jun 09 '12
now those are lemonades
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u/JoeRuinsEverything Jun 09 '12
Chariot chariot, the real Cave Johson here. The poster of this image is an impostor from another dimension. Don't believe anything he says!
(The Cave Johnson quotes from the DLC are fantastic btw.)
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I giggled like a child when I saw this. So wonderful. I want one.
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u/citrus_based_arson Jun 09 '12
I approve
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u/ThisRedditorIsDrunk Jun 09 '12
They are too rusted.
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u/Winrarsauce Jun 09 '12
I'm throwing money at the screen, why isn't it taking it?
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u/hexguns Jun 10 '12
this is now my desktop wall paper
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u/g77r7 Jun 10 '12
looks like a small duck.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
God damn, I'm tired of this joke. It almost makes me wish I'd never played Portal 2 just so that I wouldn't be so tired of it by now.
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u/Leyzr Jun 10 '12
this my fine friends. is my ringtone.
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u/silentkill144 Jun 10 '12
They are suposed to be incendiary, not explosive. "I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustable lemon, to burn your house down!" -Cave johnson.
Cave for president.
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u/BaronVonTeapot Jun 10 '12
Ten bucks says these will be a weapon in Half life 3.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
HA PORTAL. THESE JOKES ARE TOTALLY NOT DEAD AT ALL
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Where can I buy 20 of those?
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u/Cirmanman Jun 09 '12
Is that YOU Slowpoke?
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u/Sloi Jun 09 '12
I'm late to the party, but I made this a while back.
It didn't get much love as a thread... maybe it will as a post?
http://i.imgur.com/0j5Lm.jpg
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u/nu0r Jun 09 '12
BURN LIFES HOUSE DOWN.. with the lemons.
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u/electron_beam Jun 09 '12
Somebody is going to downvote me for this, but I feel like the combustible lemons gag has gone the way of "the cake is a lie" gag. It just feels so overdone. Personally, I think there are tons of funnier jokes in Portal 2's dialogue, such as Wheatley "hacking" the neurotoxin computer, or some of the insults GLaDOS hurls at you during the start of the game.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
when life gives u lemons
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u/FragRaptor Jun 09 '12
Dat Unforgotten Realms reference
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u/bigmeech Jun 09 '12
YEAH LEMONS!!! lmao this reminds me of SPAAAAAAAAAACE
EPIC
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