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As John Rayner didn't have time to create a vector version of his jewellery photo used for his Christmas Card, I hand traced a wire frame version of it for him.
Your mission, (should you choose to accept it), is to create a fully rendered version of John's photograph using the wire frame .xar version as your starting point.
You may choose to fully render the project within Xara Xtreme or export it for further work in a graphics program of your choice.
Download the XAR file
A couple of variations.
Rich
Brilliant Rich.. I can almost touch them!
Silver and Saphire in E3. I separated the fill and reduced the transparency. Then made a blend from the fill in XXP.
Rich
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A variation on St. John's cross, with a Christmas ornament in the back. :)
I added a little bling!
Just love molucca's version and angelize "bling."
Here's a different view of mine with some HDRI lighting. If I can post it, it failed upload earlier.
A few crosses more. :D
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Triple cross
Excellent submissions from everyone, a great variety of ideas and styles.
Just as well I didn't specify a 'replica' ;)
I'm still in awe of Rich's post#2, especially the all silver version - stunning!.
Frances' (post#7) has given her version more colour and some jewels making it real jewelery and very realistically done also.
Mikes (post#9) is very interesting and looks to be carved from a soapstone.
Lead Crystal and Gold.
Rich
Amazing Rich
So many great versions of Sledger's cross. Wish I was a bit better at doing metallic stuff.
A wonderful way to spend some time.
It is indeed a fun way to spend some time, but I have SO many other things that must get done! :eek:
Left: inlaid - Middle: wood chips scatter - Right: carved
There's some great crosses here, so I thought I'd have a bit of fun and make a version of it - rose coloured cross. :)
Michele
Really nice Michele
Agreed, an excellent rendition Michele.
This one is 100% pure Xara, no bitmap fills, no live effects.
Very nice...Quote:
Originally Posted by molucca
You mention E3? & XXP? what do these refer to?
E3 is Creature House Expression 3 (I believe a free version is still available - Check Out here) and XXP is Xara Xtreme Pro .....Quote:
Originally Posted by morphonius_821
E3 = Creature House Expressions 3
XXP = XARA Xtreme Pro
Keith jumped the queue while I gathered the link :P
I added the link on an edit ...... at least we both added the same link ......
E3.3 is that last of the Expression series to support reflection map fills of vector objects.
The method is unique and only available in E3. You need to export out as a bitmap for use in another application.
In general, E3 uses reflection maps as used in other applications. In a unique sense, E3 can use transparent reflection maps. Being an unknown capability, this isn't in the manual. You would never suspect the capability because of the on screen view. I found a way (actually stumbled across it one day) to reveal the effect on screen.
So, I have lots of maps of various types. The effect is adjusted with an embossing value. The maps can be rotated as well.
Time for a dog walk. More later.
Rich