Pelvic anatomy

[Stimpy]

im no pro at anatomy, but the model looks fine to me.

only thing that you might be wanting to look into is the specularity of your object(s). right now it all looks clay like. not there is much wrong with it, depending on what look you want. either like a model, or like the real thing :)

[MartinNH]

Very nice indeed :).. I can't really see anything wrong with it. Are you going to moddel more of the body?

[Backenbotten]

MH:
:) Thanks! I don't know, but there will definately be more modelling and animation in the medical field, not only anatomy. Im curious why you ask! Are you maybe into organic modelling yourself?


Stimpy:
:) thanks for the comment! we would like to make it look like a model more than the real thing, but some subtle specular highlights would indeed be very interesting to add. right now i was only using one skylight, giving this matte look. i'm not at my workstation now, but as far as i remember the skylight alone couldn't provide speculars. is that because speculars would be all over since the skylight is really a lot of pointlights in a hemisphere over the scene?

when i add a spot light, what strategy would you recommend with the diffuse/ambient/specular settings, and shadow casting? i'm trying with only specular on first. i'll upload a new render tonight! i will have to work a lot with the materials' specular properties to make use of that spot light.

FYI i'm using the max5 internal renderer.

[MartinNH]

I'm working on a character at the moment, not anatomical correct or anything, but I'm doing my best :) http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53035

[Stimpy]

hmmmm.. i dont use max so i cant give you a specific answer to your problem. in XSI you can just disable the diffuse component of a light for example, so it will just contribute to the specular of a material.

another way would render a specular pass, and then later on comp it.

OR what i think might give the most interesting results, is just too use reflectivity. make your material a tiny bit reflective (prolly by using a map for that as well, like where the muscle strands (?)are) and put some constant white grid in front of it into your scene. hope i am making sense here. to increase the brightness of the reflections, dont increase the reflectivity but just the brightness of the white grid. depending on your software either by increasing luminosity, or putting the color settings at higher than white values.

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