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Remember chaps, don’t let the little ladyfolk stray too far from the parlour: the world is full of absolute blighters, all bally foreigners to boot!
(Had to break my own rules with this one: In addition to reflection I had to use the dreaded, and mostly useless, "specularity" setting. I prefer blurred reflection to specularity but unfortunately that blurred out the details on the brass....Ho hum! Nonetheless I managed to do a whole pic using only 4 different materials....And 20 bump maps)
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Comments: 23
madaigual In reply to Phyl-CGI [2016-01-24 22:45:23 +0000 UTC]
Basically "brass" and "alabaster" and bump maps, and it rendered extremely quickly (in just 5 or 6 minutes) .... I just have to continue experimenting
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Phyl-CGI In reply to madaigual [2016-01-24 22:47:28 +0000 UTC]
Now that I have translated both words, I better understand
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madaigual In reply to Phyl-CGI [2016-01-24 23:14:54 +0000 UTC]
Alabaster >>>> albâtre (it must be a French word)
I was taught that the circonflexe "^" in French almost always becomes an "S" in English: Côte/Coast, Forêt/Forest, Île/Isle, 2^4/Sixteen
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Phyl-CGI In reply to madaigual [2016-01-24 23:22:54 +0000 UTC]
Do you know that in old French, "forest" was used, instead of its actual version?
It's the case with most cases where in French you find nowadays "^" on vowels.
and yes: "albâtre" is French
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madaigual In reply to Laspe [2016-01-24 22:23:25 +0000 UTC]
An interesting experiment to say the least! A picture that relies entirely on bump maps
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Laspe In reply to madaigual [2016-01-25 04:34:03 +0000 UTC]
Indeed! I was amazed yesterday when I read your description for this piece.
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phraught [2016-01-20 15:00:21 +0000 UTC]
I'm not gonna even attempt to jump into that discussion - ill equipped as I am! Lovely, as always. What a strange skin tone she has though (I suppose he does to, but I'm looking at her). Almost blue - like she doesn't get out much.
I think the specularity worked out just fine.
I've heard of having a pair of brass balls, but a trio of brass apples?
Cheers!
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madaigual In reply to phraught [2016-01-24 22:20:18 +0000 UTC]
Ah phraught....the strange "skin tone" was my attempt at a cheap polished alabaster I remember from many years back, a poor man's ivory if you will and usually found with brass. As a child I spent many a happy day rooting through London junk shops and jumble sales with my mother, who had a penchant for art nouveau/deco. My home was literally full of jingoistic trinkets from the Empire and the Raj
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phraught In reply to madaigual [2016-01-25 23:47:02 +0000 UTC]
Actually - alabaster is what I thought - so I see now - yup - I think you got it! Well done!
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radaVid [2016-01-19 21:53:15 +0000 UTC]
Oh . . . a self portrait. cool.
kidding.
go Maggies!!!
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radaVid In reply to madaigual [2016-01-25 14:22:57 +0000 UTC]
why, the foreign cad
of course.
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Blades-123 In reply to madaigual [2016-01-19 15:35:52 +0000 UTC]
Not even the decency to offer the lady a cuppa. What a bounder!
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Tomokatu In reply to Blades-123 [2016-01-19 18:10:54 +0000 UTC]
Decidedly second-rate, By Jove!
(...and brass, too! Not a glint of gold anywhere.)
Damned poor show all round, eh.
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Tomokatu In reply to madaigual [2016-01-20 06:26:00 +0000 UTC]
Bounder would never be invited to join the club.
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Tomokatu In reply to Blades-123 [2016-01-20 06:27:08 +0000 UTC]
Just Not One of Our Kind, really. Not a sound chappie at all.
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