Object: Chess Pieces

[zachgrachan]

I got two things, 1 - tone down the DOF a little bit, not much tho. 2 - add some back light to highlight along the edges.

[Virum]

Well, here is an updated version. I hope this is better:

http://joshuanitschke.saber-x.com/images/maya/ChessShortStill2.jpg

Please, I beg of you, tell me what you hate and what you like!

Thanks!

Cheers! :beer:

[eddy-3ddy]

YOU'VE GOT 4 posts!!!! (red from the effigy post ;-))

Maybe take another camera view, so we can see more of you're scene, also take another background, I never seen such play board where you have to turn you're pions into the sky. ;-)

Mostly are those stone chess pieces more massive, to prevent from breaking when you touch them. Make them more massif by creating is more wider. Also some not polished spots may appear.

So here where my comments....

Good luck

[Virum]

Pk, I might fool around with the environment more. Thanks for the comments. So you think the pieces should be larger? I might do that, but more than likely not. You see, this was really more of a chess still for an animation I am making. Its going to be Pixar-"ish" and I jsut finished rigging the characters. :) Thank you for your opinion though; I really appreciate that.

The reason for the checkerboard as the backgroudn was mainly because I was trying to picture what kind of house chesspieces would have if they were actually alive.....So I decided that a chessboard textured house would be cool.....If you guys have better ideas, I would LOVE to here them.

Again, thank you for the post.

I'm also confused. I'm don't nomally post WIPs so I work until I think the image is complete, and then I post it asking for comments......I get comments saying I should improve things in such a way, does that now make it a WIP? So should I post posts like this in the WIP part of CGTalk? Just trying to be a good citizen of CGTalk. ;-)

[PsychoSilence]

wow ! nice DOF !

did U use HDRI for lighting or just a mirroring material ?

[Virum]

Originally posted by PsychoSilence
wow ! nice DOF !

did U use HDRI for lighting or just a mirroring material ?

I'm not sure what HDRI is, but I think its using an image for lighting. I did not use that. Mirrroring material? Not sure what that is, unless you mean like reflective shaders with raytracing on.

However, I rendered this with the Maya 4 default renderer (so I don't have Mentel Ray <boo hoo>). I have very few lights in this seen, I think 2 or 3. The reflections are just raytracing. :)

[PsychoSilence]

yes hdri is an image with a lighting channel...

i ment the reflective shader :rolleyes: well done !

[phoenix]

too much depth of field:cool:

[zachgrachan]

I'd love to see the rest of the chess board house.

[Virum]

Originally posted by zachgrachan
I'd love to see the rest of the chess board house.


You know, I never modelled it because the project didn't require a lot of it to be seen. All this is is a cube with a domed roof.....

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