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Yeah, snapping is brilliant, especially where he shows you to click on certain axes of the gizmo to move points in just that direction, and snapping points to points. Excellent.
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I'm not really a fan of the plane either. if it was curved with a bend deformer it would have been nicer. so you don't have the straight black to white/grey contrast horizon line.
model looks good tho, great work under pressure which is pretty much what people want in their department. as far as commercials go, its such tight deadlines that you sometimes find yourself working flat out for most of the night.
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Genny: thanks. I found it akward because I knew kind of what I wanted the phone to do, but I didnt want to overcomplicate it by animating the camera also, so I had to keep the camera panned back to fit it all in. I told the company via the recruitment company that I couldnt/didnt animate, so im hoping just the fact theres any at all might count in my favour. I think the text is naff too, font and fade wise.
I used fg because of the skydome half sphere. What do you mean by 'studio lighting set up'?
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re: the floor plane. I did bevel it up good so there was a curved gradient in the back like you mean. But - I much preferred the phone against a black background. when I had walls back there too, it didnt seem as visually strong.
I dont understand what you mean about HDRI lighting 'cutting it' Genny? Im still pretty new to using HDRI, need some new hdri images cause I find myself re-using the same ones alot. What are the pitfalls do you think of using HDRI then? This is about as photoreal as I've ever done anything so I see no drawbacks to HDRI as yet.
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What I meant by HDRI domes not "cutting it" is that often you get ambiguous lighting and undefined shadows if its the sole source of light (unless you use really expensive settings). Their strong points are environment reflections and ambient/fill light. That's just my opinion of course :3
Edited for the weird red smiley and later again for spelling lol :s
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Well, then I shall jolly well give that a try if and when the need so next arises.Originally posted by GecT
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imo the IBL is just there for environment reflections but doesn't do any actual lighting. turn off FG and light it manually. I try not to use FG ever, and you will find that most people try to avoid it.
for a situation like this i.e studio lighting, it doesn't make sense for the reflections to be a kitchen or the uffizi probe or whatever.
I used to do the PC World adverts (the chrome numbers and letters) the light rig for that scene is generally spot lights in a 3 point lighting setup and a bunch of reflection cards. (these are just planes that are animated to move in front of the numbers. the primary visibility is turned off and they have ramps plugged into the colour of a surface shader or lambert or something. if you make the ramp black and white and grey and kind of stripy like a barcode or something, you could have a diagonal ramp or something.) i would have an IBL but it would just be black with some white spots on it where the studio lights would be.
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back on topic, i get your idea of using just a black and white ibl.
i take it then that you dont ever set the ibl to 'emit light', or 'emit photons'? i have experimented with this a couple of times but unless the scene is extremely light, intricacy wise,mr usually just crashes.
point 2: i thought, seeing as i have this maya scene/animation now, id play with it a little. i have animated the camera and added some spinning lights in the background. its no longer for the job application so im just playing, but as a quick fix i switched on the 'optimize fg for animation' in the render settings. seemed to work ok,less flickering, but def loss of lighting quality. any views on this approach?
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