[JDHill]

...an ominous atmosphere materializes...

[adman]

Sleepy motel.......

Shower curtain........

Norman!...........mother?


JD, its' all looking terribly familiar!

[Tim Ellis]

And I'm curious to see what will you come with a "quite easily be done with any paintprogram" approach. If you have a few minutes please replicate something similar with your paint application and please don't hesitate to post. I would like to know how you make it.

Blender 3D (2.37a) 9mins 25secs @16 samples with Ambient occlusion sample 16 distance 1. (P4 2.8GHz 504Mb ram.)

Bezier curve with 0.001 thickness converted to a mesh & then sub-surfed 2 iterations, raytraced 90% transparent material for hair, BG diffuse white, 1 hemi light for specular & fill.

Hair thickness is probably a tad large and the BG is stepped rather than a smooth tranistion, but for 10 mins work not a bad result.




Tim.

[tom]

Great result Tim, I like Blender... it's a great piece of code.
But as you've said, the thickness is not convincing and Maxwell shadows are priceless.

[Tim Ellis]

Great result Tim, I like Blender... it's a great piece of code.
But as you've said, the thickness is not convincing and Maxwell shadows are priceless.

Ok will have another go today & see if I can improve it a bit.

Tim.

[sebbo]

I am surpriced ?!

tom - i thought we gonna see as many hairs a head will need?

[jdp]

nice one tom, very original subject, lovely shadows..

ps.: may I ask which font did you use?