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# 1 05-10-2004 , 02:39 AM

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Ball Scenery

This is my first project done completely in Maya, all my other submissions here were just created in other programs and rendered in maya or such.

I needed a wallpaper for my computer and I was playing with my chinese iron balls and got inspired. This picture looks alright, but it looks alot better full size on my dual monitors!!

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# 2 05-10-2004 , 04:02 AM

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interesting picture...

are you talking about those ball things that relax you..? They make noises, that trigger something in the human brain...

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# 3 05-10-2004 , 06:00 AM

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either or that its the balls he always wore around his neck... i'd fondle those balls all the time user added image

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# 4 05-10-2004 , 07:32 AM

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Very nice. I love those balls. They do have a calming effect.

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# 5 05-10-2004 , 08:03 AM

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yes, they calm me quite a bit also, and i find it hard to put them down after awhile. got bored and did some more stuff with BALLS

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# 6 05-10-2004 , 02:49 PM

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That's Cool. I Like!

Did you use After Effects for the sparks? Or are they just polys?

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# 7 05-10-2004 , 03:43 PM

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i just used the lightning dynamic effect within maya to create them, found it extremely simple to use to my delight user added image

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# 8 05-10-2004 , 06:56 PM

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I think this shall be my never ending thread of ball pictures, for some reason I find it very interesting to work with balls and effects.

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# 9 07-10-2004 , 06:18 AM

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what this is going to be a never ending post of is dirty misinterpreted ball jokes

cool balls man.. cant wait to see more of them (see what i mean user added image

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# 10 09-10-2004 , 03:45 PM

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how can you make those balls whit that effact?
how can i do that?

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# 11 14-10-2004 , 02:30 AM

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Nice balls.

...I had to.

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# 12 15-10-2004 , 07:56 PM

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i know how he did it, its a very simple effect, but very cool, see simple stuff is cool.... user added image

ok, anywho, to your question, just made transperency shader(for the 2 ones above this) made a sphere(of course) then made use of the lightning in Maya, works great as u can see, i used it for podracer, like the way he used it though too.

Great work, abstract art, kinda storta ish

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# 13 16-10-2004 , 07:31 AM

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do you have a tutorial for that because i dont know exactly what you mean.

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# 14 16-10-2004 , 08:13 AM

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to create lightning all you have to do is select two objects, in my case two small spheres, and hit the lightning button. then i simply placed the small set of balls inside a big ball with a transparent shader. just play around with the effects for awhile, it can become quite amusing

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