Gently Reflective Plastic Surfaces

[EricChadwick]

The way I'd do it...

Raytracing shader for the reflection, lower percentage contribution. No bump map, or else very clean bump. Quad cards arranged around the object, using a fully-emissive white material, with the rendering status setup to be invisible to the camera.

Here are some tips about reflections, from a traditional photographer.
http://www.arsmachina.com/photography.htm

Info about CG reflections from Neil Blevins.
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/metal_and_refs/metal_and_refs.htm

[soulburn3d]

I'd also suggest checking...

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/glass_chrome_pottery/glass_chrome_pottery.htm

The pottery shader is pretty much what you want, even if you don't use brazil you can take a look at the file (if you have max) and get some ideas.

- Neil

[stew]

Looks to me like a sky dome rendering with an environment map on the surface.

[Ian Jones]

Just for a different point of view, I actually think that this is more than just white cards. When I look closely at the surface I think I can see that this object has been placed in a simple box room with one (or more) walls made to emit. This is something I do when making test renders, because it is quick and is great for bouncing those indirect rays around. Anyway... just my 2 cents.

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