The inside of energy 01

[Ross Macintosh]

I particularly like your first one. It struck me as having the look of crusted on precipitate and spillover (if those are the appropriate words) as I imagine a old wizard or witch's well-used glassware might look. The only thing I thought it was missing from the image was a moody background.

I hope you don't mind my posting some xara fun I had with your image. I attempted to create the type of moody background I imagined as appropriate.

Regards, Ross

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[Erik Heyninck]

Thanks for the comments...I do find the second one a bit "new" too, but I'll come up with something, ans this beaker is only one element of a kind of Dr Frankensteinian(*)/Faustian scene I have in my mind...

(*) must be pronounced "Fron-kon-steen-ian" of course.

Ross: incredible. Really. Yesyesyes: I give you all my macintosh shares...if I had some that is...you know what: I'll upload an apple one of these days...

[Gary David Bouton]

Erik--

Your second post was right on the money. I see now the energy in the beaker, and the glass looks terrif.

What app are you using and how long did it take you?

Cheers,
Gare

[s.winders]

Erik fresnel in the transparency channel and reflection channel will give you glass with depth.Make 2 copies of your glass material and change the IOR on one,then put one material on the front of the ploys and one on the back of the polys [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]


Stu.

[Erik Heyninck]

I remember being so enthusiast when I saw Stu's first 3Dworks over at Photoshopgurus that I wanted to give it a try. (by the way: thanks mate for the glass fresnel tip!) So I chose the same app, only the non-animation one called Cinema4DArt.
Yet somehow I couldn't "enter" it. Besides: I had other priorities like reading Inside Photoshop (hehee. Still the best!) and making some paintings.
Then came C4D8, and I downloaded a demo, and suddenly "it" was there. Can't explain, don't understand. Of course there's a long, long way to go, and there are so incredibly many options, but I feel how it works, just like I feel Photoshop and never felt Photopaint. (which does not mean that I consider PP not good: it's 100% personal)

The most difficult thing was a question of name-givings. To me there is a points MODE and in that mode you have a live selection TOOL. Yet Maxon calls it a points tool and a selection tool. This made me go crazy. So now when I read polygon tool or edge tool, I replace tool by mode and I avoid the infinite loop.

Here's "The Inside of Energy2". No pretention, mostly a question of setup, materials and lights.
Enjoy!

[s.winders]

Cool [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]


Hahahaha the infinite loop [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] ...good one.



Stu.