Its all just Balls!
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:12 pm
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Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:35 pm
Another fantastic image, well done.
Would also make a great DOF demonstration image.
Would also make a great DOF demonstration image.
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:45 pm
Yes, very nice indeed.
I like this kind of shots. Minimalistic and styleish.
I like this kind of shots. Minimalistic and styleish.
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:48 am
I agree with Suv and Ono. Great image! I'm starting to really like DOF 
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:03 am
Thanks for all the nice replies guys. For myself coming from a photography background Indigo is becoming a real delight to use. I was always a fan of real motion blur and DoF and now I can add those in digital images as well.
Thank Ono
Thank Ono
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:38 am
Great image, Doug. Very nice scratches.Doug Armand wrote:
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:54 am
nice image Doug, but I have some points here:
For my poor eyes it seems that the scratches are extruded from the spheres... Also the scratched parts are as reflective as the rest of the sphere... using exponent map and generally blend a phong with a diffuse (for the scratched parts) is a good idea
For my poor eyes it seems that the scratches are extruded from the spheres... Also the scratched parts are as reflective as the rest of the sphere... using exponent map and generally blend a phong with a diffuse (for the scratched parts) is a good idea
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:15 am
Thats because they are not scratches but rather brush marks from a very old paintbrush - any more questions?ZomB wrote:nice image Doug, but I have some points here:
For my poor eyes it seems that the scratches are extruded from the spheres... Also the scratched parts are as reflective as the rest of the sphere... using exponent map and generally blend a phong with a diffuse (for the scratched parts) is a good idea
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:56 pm
Very nice image, Doug, I like it.
Updated image
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:16 pm
Well as ZomB correctly pointed 
out my scratches were more like embossed lines
So here is a redone version with a revised scratch bump map and a few other tweaks as well. I made the scratches look nore like random marks/bumps as I thought with hindsight that the scratches a were a bit OTT in the earlier version. I also used displacement for the continents in gold.
out my scratches were more like embossed lines So here is a redone version with a revised scratch bump map and a few other tweaks as well. I made the scratches look nore like random marks/bumps as I thought with hindsight that the scratches a were a bit OTT in the earlier version. I also used displacement for the continents in gold.
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:57 am
I don't know - I like the first version a lot more!
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:01 am
Too bright and brash?Phr0stByte wrote:I don't know - I like the first version a lot more!
How about this one?
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Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:05 am
Nope - I love the brush-strokes in the original! IMHO, the original intent on the first visualization is right on the money.Doug Armand wrote:Too bright and brash?Phr0stByte wrote:I don't know - I like the first version a lot more!
How about this one?
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:11 am
I also prefer the 1st one.
Re: Its all just Balls!
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:35 am
I like all of them (different color moods)! But your copyright writing needs some styling 