Its all just Balls!

Doug Armand · Post by **Doug Armand** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:12 pm

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Post by **OnoSendai** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:35 pm

Another fantastic image, well done.
Would also make a great DOF demonstration image.

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:45 pm

Yes, very nice indeed.
I like this kind of shots. Minimalistic and styleish.

Pibuz · Post by **Pibuz** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:48 am

I agree with Suv and Ono. Great image! I'm starting to really like DOF

Doug Armand · Post by **Doug Armand** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:03 am

Thanks for all the nice replies guys. For myself coming from a photography background Indigo is becoming a real delight to use. I was always a fan of real motion blur and DoF and now I can add those in digital images as well.

Thank Ono

dakiru · Post by **dakiru** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:38 am

Doug Armand wrote:
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Great image, Doug. Very nice scratches.

Zom-B · Post by **Zom-B** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:54 am

nice image Doug, but I have some points here:

For my poor eyes it seems that the scratches are extruded from the spheres... Also the scratched parts are as reflective as the rest of the sphere... using exponent map and generally blend a phong with a diffuse (for the scratched parts) is a good idea

Doug Armand · Post by **Doug Armand** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:15 am

ZomB wrote:nice image Doug, but I have some points here:

For my poor eyes it seems that the scratches are extruded from the spheres... Also the scratched parts are as reflective as the rest of the sphere... using exponent map and generally blend a phong with a diffuse (for the scratched parts) is a good idea

Thats because they are not scratches but rather brush marks from a very old paintbrush - any more questions?

juan_irender · Post by **juan_irender** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:56 pm

Very nice image, Doug, I like it.

Doug Armand · Post by **Doug Armand** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:16 pm

Well as ZomB correctly pointed

out my scratches were more like embossed lines

So here is a redone version with a revised scratch bump map and a few other tweaks as well. I made the scratches look nore like random marks/bumps as I thought with hindsight that the scratches a were a bit OTT in the earlier version. I also used displacement for the continents in gold.

Phr0stByte · Post by **Phr0stByte** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:57 am

I don't know - I like the first version a lot more!

Doug Armand · Post by **Doug Armand** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:01 am

Phr0stByte wrote:I don't know - I like the first version a lot more!

Too bright and brash?

How about this one?

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Phr0stByte · Post by **Phr0stByte** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:05 am

Doug Armand wrote:
Phr0stByte wrote:I don't know - I like the first version a lot more!
Too bright and brash?

How about this one?

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Nope - I love the brush-strokes in the original! IMHO, the original intent on the first visualization is right on the money.

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:11 am

I also prefer the 1st one.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:35 am

I like all of them (different color moods)! But your copyright writing needs some styling

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