Cappuccino, anyone ?

Here's my latest Blender/Xara combination.

Comments welcome, as always.

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Hello Guy,

I like it very much. Bonus points for the great idea!!!

I like the sky reflection in the hemispheres, but I think I would make the table extend (or roll up a bit) in the back so that you don't actually see any sky except in the reflections.

Really cool, Guy

Thanks for sharing!

James

Good work Guy, however I don't know if it's just me because I don't understand the spherical objects, and the lower right shadow does not connect up properly to it's casting object. :o

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I don't understand the spherical objects

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These are the lids on the glass containers.

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the lower right shadow does not connect up properly to it's casting object

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You're right Larry. I didn't notice. The shadows are completely Blender, I will have a look at it and see how I can change (right now, I don't have a clue...)

@James - thanks for the comments - I'll try the roll-up, but I'm not sure it will work with the wood-texture

Hello Guy,

You're welcome!

The roll-up would be way in the background and only needs to be slight...so will probably work, even though it's textured.

Peace

James

Thanks for the explanation Guy, a simple reply from me is Oh! Don't you just hate it when someone else just doesn't see it, which, I still don't. If I might make a suggestion though, would it be clearer to the viewer if a hole were cut in the spherical objects, sort of like a slurpee lid.
You guys are just awesome in what you are doing with Blender. I just hope that if I keep working I too will get close (but may not ever equal). Right now I have other irons in the fire so can't devote any time to it.

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Don't you just hate it when someone else just doesn't see it, which, I still don't.

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That's allright Larry. Life would be boring if we all agreed on everything.

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If I might make a suggestion though, would it be clearer to the viewer if a hole were cut in the spherical objects, sort of like a slurpee lid.

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I prefer it the way I did it, so that I have a nice reflection on the spheres.

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the lower right shadow does not connect up properly to it's casting object. :o

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Looking at it from different angles, I found that the shadow does connect, but under the angle shown here, there is a reflection from the glass on top of the shadow.

Made a few "adjustments"
- resized the table, and added a bit of bump
- reduced the size of the coffee-beans to bring them more in proportion I think
- made the foam a bit fluffier

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Guyke, did you try rendering this scene in Blender Cycles. I bet you'd see a good improvement with very low effort.
Cycles did make the difference on how much I enjoy using Blender in the last months.

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Guyke, did you try rendering this scene in Blender Cycles.

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I didn't. For one reason other other, Cycles is not my thing. I tried out a number of things, but it never really worked for me, so after a few trials (read: failures) I gave up and returned to Blenders internal renderer.

I'm still doing most of my playing in Blender Internal until they get the bugs out (ie. full feature set added) for Cycles.

Take care

James

this is nice :')