Chrome Butterfly

Chrome environments in E3.

Rich

Looks good Rich.

Larry,

A transparent environment that partially colors an object.

Rich

the butterfly should be casting both reflection and shadow on the object below it

I like the design it looks very professional

they're not drawings as such Frank, they're environments - that is: think dispacement map, only different

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Originally Posted by handrawn

they're not drawings as such Frank

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yes, i figured that out, it just looks wrong for the reasons stated, that's all

well only if you think of it as a representation of an insect above a base, rather than what it actually is meant for :)

tell me, what is it actually meant for?

and I quote from the manual [because they put it better than me]:

"While the embossed fill can create a smoothly shaded appearance that resembles an embossed form, Expression 3 currently does not provide a full set of controls for specifying the reflectivity, shininess or material properties for 3D shading. Even with a full set of parameters and controls for 3D shadings, realistic lighting effects would still be difficult to specify without a 3D environment. Expression 3 provides an easier solution: to allow arbitrary photorealistic lighting effects to be applied to embossed shapes using a technique known as reflection mapping. This technique uses a sampled image, called a reflection map or an environment map, which has recorded the appearance of a surface at all normal directions under a particular lighting environment. Such a reflection map serves as a look-up table for the appearance of the surface at any orientation. This technique is commonly used in 3D computer graphics and the film industry to give the most photorealistic lighting effects. "

:)

i know what reflection mapping is, it about creating realism in computer generated art

realism

so, to convey realism, the butterfly should be casting both reflection and shadow on the object below it

the butterfly isn't set apart from the upside down dog bowl, its been purposely posed on top of it

the lack of shadow and reflection breaks any sense of realism

the items are completely deconnected

here's a picture of my zippo and baccy tin

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it's realism on action

I do not want to speak for Rich so I will make it clear that I am only going by the art that he has posted in the past, which you can quite easily research.

I know what you mean of course, but to me it's rather like saying Yogi Bear is wrong because he does not walk naturally. Yogi Bear would not be Yogi Bear if he walked naturally, it misses the point of the style...

i like yogi bear, i bet in real life he smokes roll ups too
thats one cool bear
squirrel

It is just an image to test environment design. I am using an unknown capability of reflection maps in E3. The idea is to add color to part of an object and transparency to the remainder. I depends on the design of the environment and embossing value. The environments are rotational as well.
It would work with erase blending as well because erase blending depends on opacity.

It is just a test.

Rich

thanks rich
my "thing" with the image wasn't the butterfly , which is nicely rendered
it was the positioning of it on top of the bowl without referencing one to the other
but i think we've flogged this horse to death anyway
cheers for now