In an earlier thread on Paralumino’s HDR Capsule, I said I would show what I was working on. So here are some small stills from my animated turnaround of a Sony T2 camera.
I modeled it in EIM, textured, illuminated, and rendered it in EI, and touched it up in AE. The flower image is off the Net (from a Sony ad of the actual product). There’s room for improvement, but it was a good learning experience.
Jim Mulcahy
Looks great James. 
I think you nailed the green “anodized aluminum” finish.
Maybe you could try it on a white ground plane to get some of those nice soft HDRI shadows?
Dave
If you have not already- try adding the Anisotropic shader and apply only a blinn layer.
You can slightly color the blinn and set the amount above 1.0 to get the highlight to blow-out to white in the center.
This can add some nice sheen to metals 
Post your edits, we like seeing them!
Dave.
Mforge is great for any type of gloss, reflective, metalic type surface with the added bonus of rust n corrosion FX and can be controlled reactively, highly recommended plugin.
Thanks everyone and sorry about the late response.
IÂ’m super busy.
Miguel:
Thanks. No mforge. The green texture is a repeated scan of the actual product texture plus my first real attempts at a metallic material.
David:
I initially played with the Anistropic shader but couldnÂ’t get the hang of it. Specifically, I couldnÂ’t see much difference when using it. I plan to play with it again and get the effect down. I probably went about things all wrong. First I used one of your small Studio HDRIs and rendered the animation, taking advantage of the new Glossy GI feature and the same small HDRI as an RT Reflection. I decided later that I should have used lower brightness settings and an additional conventional light with fallof on the right side. Rather than re-render (it took 30 hours for 150 frames on my Power PC imac), I did a quick render of another light on a black camera and added the lighting in AE. Then I tweaked everything like hell to arrive at the current result. Aliasing increased in some of the specs, which I found difficult to get right with Glossy GI in the first place. Various details like the lens parts, lens flares, glass, and logos were also rendered separately and added/tweaked in AE. It was quite a learning experience with errors in judgement that I hope not to repeat.
Reuben:
Thanks. IÂ’m not sure that IÂ’ll be touching up this test animation any more. But I may start using the same model for a more interesting animation. If so, IÂ’ll strive to improve the look and will post my efforts. I may also get ahold of Mforge. Am I right that it doesnÂ’t work with the Anistropic Shader? Does it work well with GI, Glossy GI specs, and RT reflection?
Thanks again everyone.
Jim Mulcahy
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