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Arawana

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:16 am
by ivox3

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:23 am
by rivoli
get out of here, that is totally brilliant.

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:35 am
by glebe digital
stunning! :shock:

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 1:07 am
by NicoR44
But....that is......I mean.....is that????.......woooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:19 am
by michaelplogue
very cool!

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:42 am
by insomnia3d
wOw, THAT COULD REALLY PASS FOR A REAL FISH TANK MACROSHOT.

GREAT JOB

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 7:02 am
by simmsimaging
Amazing! Perfectly real.

b

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 9:06 am
by iker
Is that a render? :shock:
Perfect ivox!

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 9:20 am
by Jozvex
If only it were too grainy I could say "your fish need to cook more"...

Great great work! Catch of the day!

:D

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 9:50 am
by numerobis
:shock: photo...

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:39 pm
by -Adrian
i'm gonna go ahead and throw in a "whoa" :P

well done sir!

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 2:53 pm
by ivox3
rivoli | Stuart | Curt | Michael | Carlos | Brett | Iker | Jared | numerobis | Adrian ------- Thanks to all !

I know it's a cliché, ..but it's a fairly simple scene, ...just a bit unorthodox.


The other day I was looking at this tank of Koi fish that I inherited from a client (long story there..) Anyway,... I had the screwy thought of placing an entire scene(camera too, ..especially the camera) in a body of water to see what would happen ... I've done it before, ..but forgot the results and I think I've seen others do it too, ...but also forgot the results. Moving along, ..I expected total noise and blackness. Nope, ...pretty clear, ...actually too clear. So next, I added a 1" thick block of glass paralell to the camera target plane hoping that it would start to refract some rays giving the underwater feel.. ?
It turns out that the glass creates a kind of forced vignetting on just the left and right(no corners) and that begins to create the murky quality. So that was good....

The background is a jpeg turned mxi, ..pretty much low-res (1024px), ..the extra grain in the image translates to more murky-ness. If the image was too clear , then I would of had to add blur through f-stop, ...but with the glass in front of the camera (w/slight angle) , ..figuring out what would be in focus and what wouldn't was way too much trouble, ..... hence the low-res mxi. ;)
** There's also a single emitter(cold 20W fluor) plane above the fish (also within the water -- otherwise the fish are just sihlouetted).

* add -ml too, ...definitely.

...that's pretty much it.

Maxwell ! :lol:

..thanks again. :) ....and thanks to JD / Hervé for the private critique .. ;)

C.

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 3:50 pm
by sandykoufax
Wow. really really realistic!!!

Great render, Chris. :D :shock:

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:28 pm
by KurtS
looks great and realistic!
maybe, just maybe - the second fish could be a little bit more in focus though, right now nothing is really in focus...?

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:01 pm
by Hervé
absolutely fabulous.... and 10000 x wowo's :D :wink: