A little inspiration

[ashwinjain]

With a little inspiration from Ric Heaton's "in the works" card, I ouldn't help but make this ...

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[ashwinjain]

With a little inspiration from Ric Heaton's "in the works" card, I ouldn't help but make this ...

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[Steve Newport]

I like the pic Quaker, but again, I have to get into the technicle criticism (I can't help it!!)
The reflection in the window of the glass sphere is wrong. For a matter of fact, you probably wouldn't see one at all! If you did, it would be just a little bit to the right of the real glass sphere (Sorry, the word for that escapes me!?), your's is way to far to the right from the angle the viewers looking at it.
Also, the reflection suggests that the "globe" is transparent (The reflection shows that from a back view you can also see the snowman) but the actual globe shows no sign of transparency. Try making the the center a little darker/transparent. And maybe add some distorted window panes.
I love the rainbowish highlight on the upper right part, very nice!
Good work, I hope this helps

Steve Newport

[gwpriester]

Great looking snowperson. And very nice design, too.

Gary

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[ashwinjain]

Is this what you meant mr. newport?

[ashwinjain]

for mr.heaton's comments also

[ashwinjain]

Thanks a lot for your comments. The snowmans nice clothes have been flicked from Corel 9 clipart cd.

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[gwpriester]

That's OK, Quaker. The snowperson image was from the December 97 XaraXone tutorial :-)

Although if I were to do the image today, I would do it much different.

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[rheaton]

Sorry for the delay in responding. I've been incommunicado for the last couple of days.

Very, very nice interpretation of Gary's snowperson from his tutorial. (and my apologies to Gary for not crediting & linking it in my post.) Really like the "life" you added to the snowperson & the rainbow glow on the globe.

Steve, you are right. The transparency of the globe itself is one of the tweaks (of several) I know I have left to do. Between out of town guests, work, and holiday "stuff", no time for doing fun things. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

[Erik Heyninck]

Steve is right: in perspective, everything becomes smaller as it goes to one (or two, or three) vanishing point(s). So, a reflection being further away from us (the viewer), it has to be smaller and show the back side of the globe.

This does not mean that your pic isn't well made, far from that, but simply that it does not belong to this world with its typical laws, that's all.

Merry Xmas too.

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