anim: Rickenbacker 4001 flyaround

[Entangle]

It looks okay. A little blockish in some places. What happened to frets?

[wayfaerer]

Looks nice! The strings look a bit odd to me, but I seldom see a fretless bass. The materials look a bit to much reflective, perhaps making it a bit artificial.
Otherwise it's a great model, would like to see some close-up!

[wedge]

Originally posted by wayfaerer
but I seldom see a fretless bass.

in funk and jazz, fretless basses are way more common than those with frets.

i've got 3 basses, my first bass, and one fretless and one fret...ful?

any suggestions on the materials? thats what i'm really having trouble with... getting it to look right.

[Stimpy]

people have commented before on the camera move. if you want a simple move that shows off your model nicely i think you could place the model vertically spinning slowly around its y axis while slowly panning the camera from the bottom to the top.

as far as materials go: the chrome/silver stuff needs a far sharper reflection map, one with high contrast to avoid the silver looking so cloudy.. as far as the blue material goes i suggest desaturating it a bit as well as toning down the specularity. those ultra sharp crisp highlights from the light dont look too right.

as for lighting, it looks a bit too even right now, there seems to be light coming from every direction without one mail light. also consider hanging a white grid into your scene for a nice sharp highlight mostly just around the edges of your object.

hope this is all not too confusing.

[wedge]

i'll definately use the camera idea.

the chrome is faked using Pixho's chrome shader. raytracing takes way too long. do you have any alternate ideas?

as far as the body, i can definately tweak the shader. so.. less sharp specularity, also less intense? (i.e. turn down reflectivity)

as for lighting, there are 2 MR area lights and FG. If i faked GI and used more lights, raytracing might be easier to pull off.

an untextured body shot (http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~geddes/images/ricBody.jpg)
and an untextured head shot (http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~geddes/images/ricHead.jpg)

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