"Paint fall" Image Contest WIPs

[robcat2075]

The paint spilling out of the bucket needed to look wet. However, the GI illumination makes it look chalky....

 

 

Add in a specular highlight only helps a little.

 

 

The paint surface needs to have reflections in it but I can't turn on actual Reflectivity since there is nothing to reflect except the house.

 

An environment map will simulate reflections. This is using the same map that I used for the GI. The detail in the reflections is too fussy.

 

 

This next one uses a simpler treatment of "ground" and "sky" that I painted in Photoshop.

 

 

I liked that but I liked it better if I took out the color.

 

 

 

I also tried a blurred version of that.

 

 

 

I decided that did not look as wet and returned to the previous version with the sharp horizon line.

[robcat2075]

Each glass window had a front and back surface and each surface has one slider to raise some of the CPs so it wouldn't be a perfect plane and another slider to smoosh the CPs around horizontally so the bumps weren't all exactly lined up in a grid.

 

As it turned out, I only needed to set a very slight distortion to get the antique glass effect I wanted.

 

GlassPaneSlidersH500.mp4

 

 

 

[Zaryin]

This is amazing! I wish I had the patience to do all the work you are doing for this piece. Simply incredible to me.

[robcat2075]

Thanks! I wish I could model cool characters like you!

[robcat2075]

Here is the actual structure on which this scenario was based...