These are my first two "serious" works with POV-Ray. I am a newbie, I know I
have much to learn, so criticism is indeed welcome. More pics in my webpage.

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Attachments:
Download 'scab17.jpg' (82 KB) Download 'scab12f3.jpg' (112 KB) Download 'scen12g.jpg' (87 KB) Download 'scen21e2.jpg' (106 KB)

Preview of image 'scab17.jpg'

Preview of image 'scab12f3.jpg'

Preview of image 'scen12g.jpg'

Preview of image 'scen21e2.jpg'

That's excellent, but please, avoid posting larges file-size !!! Try to post
only 1 image per post and not more than 250Ko/image.
However, that's good work.

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"_Light_Beam_" <s.f### [at] tiscalifr> wrote in message
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> That's excellent, but please, avoid posting larges file-size !!! Try to
post
> only 1 image per post and not more than 250Ko/image.
> However, that's good work.
>

Ok, I will. I did not know what is usual, but I noticed another post
yesterday of size 1MB, so I thought this would be ok. My apologies.

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"Miguel Garcia" <mig### [at] telefonicanet> wrote in message
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>
> "_Light_Beam_" <s.f### [at] tiscalifr> wrote in message
> news:3f5f889d@news.povray.org...
> > That's excellent, but please, avoid posting larges file-size !!!
Try to
> post
> > only 1 image per post and not more than 250Ko/image.
> > However, that's good work.
> >
>
> Ok, I will. I did not know what is usual, but I noticed another post
> yesterday of size 1MB, so I thought this would be ok. My apologies.

      It's not your fault. I think we need a short FAQ/Guideline for
this group posted here often.

      Possibly at quarterly intervals.

     ~Steve~


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Nice Chess pieces though!  ;)


  ~Steve~

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Wow! I love the unusual designs. Particularly the picture where the white pieces
are reflected in one of the pawns.

The only things I'd criticise would be the lighting and camera in the pictures.
The lighting seems very dry and lifeless, particularly the shadows. I'd suggest
using slightly blue ambient light or radiosity to add more colour to the
shadows, and a slightly orange light to balance against that. Alternatively
maybe nearby lights with some walls to reflect them to get a cosy indoors feel.
As for the camera, I suggest you try to frame your images in a more intriguing
way, e.g. offset the camera (the fourth image does that nicely), the symmetry in
your images is pretty but it doesn't need to be so obvious. Also there's too
much perspective on the first image (scab17.jpg) which is disorienting,
paricularly when combined with the curved reflection. If you lay out your shots
with just a few points of interest and use the rest of the objects as background
you might get better results.

The modelling and textures are very good. Perhaps a subtle normal map to add
small bumps and imperfections might improve them, but otherwise I can't see much
to improve there. Very impressive for a newbie!

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"Miguel Garcia" <mig### [at] telefonicanet> wrote in message
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> These are my first two "serious" works with POV-Ray. I am a newbie, I know I
> have much to learn, so criticism is indeed welcome. More pics in my webpage.
>
> Cheers,
> --

> http://www.telefonica.net/web/miguelgdz/index.html
>
>
>

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That is indeed impressive! Very artistic images. I've never seen anything
like that before (well, the chess set: yes). I'm no good at chess but I can
see you've done some good modelling there as well. Smooth edges in the
picture "scen12g" are they coded in POV?

Considering you posted 4 good images, 533 KB is not too much... (but I agree
that some people are posting too big files)

Regards,
Hugo

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"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
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> Wow! I love the unusual designs. Particularly the picture where the white
pieces
> are reflected in one of the pawns.
>
> The only things I'd criticise would be the lighting and camera in the
pictures.
> The lighting seems very dry and lifeless, particularly the shadows. I'd
suggest
> using slightly blue ambient light or radiosity to add more colour to the
> shadows, and a slightly orange light to balance against that.
Alternatively
> maybe nearby lights with some walls to reflect them to get a cosy indoors
feel.
> As for the camera, I suggest you try to frame your images in a more
intriguing
> way, e.g. offset the camera (the fourth image does that nicely), the
symmetry in
> your images is pretty but it doesn't need to be so obvious. Also there's
too
> much perspective on the first image (scab17.jpg) which is disorienting,
> paricularly when combined with the curved reflection. If you lay out your
shots
> with just a few points of interest and use the rest of the objects as
background
> you might get better results.
>
> The modelling and textures are very good. Perhaps a subtle normal map to
add
> small bumps and imperfections might improve them, but otherwise I can't
see much
> to improve there. Very impressive for a newbie!

Thanks a lot!, all these ideas are incredibly useful to me. Since I never
tried to use most of the features you suggested, this is a very good way to
organize my learning.

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"Hugo Asm" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in message
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> That is indeed impressive! Very artistic images. I've never seen anything
> like that before (well, the chess set: yes). I'm no good at chess but I
can
> see you've done some good modelling there as well.

Thanks for your support!.

> Smooth edges in the
> picture "scen12g" are they coded in POV?

Yes. Everything was made using POV, and nothing else. The knight is made
using bezier patches, "by hand".

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Hey, nice!

Reminds me of "Jugendstil" (art nouveau). Another style like this can be
seen
in the film "The Lord of the Rings". The elves architecture also looks like
your
design.

Great work.

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> These are my first two "serious" works with POV-Ray. I am a newbie, I know
I
> have much to learn, so criticism is indeed welcome. More pics in my
webpage.
>
> Cheers,
> --

> http://www.telefonica.net/web/miguelgdz/index.html
>
>
>


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