kurtz le pirate <kur### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Not very happy with the floor.
> Do you have any ideas and suggestions for me?
>
>
> --
> Kurtz le pirate
> Compagnie de la Banquise

Is the intent rather dramatic/uncanny or a dreamy mood? (dreamy would suggest
using something like media while "uncanny" could demand to make light more
contrasted and from directive source).

If it's like an apparition from another world, why not give it a glow with
slight "emission" influencing radiosity? what about having it hover over the
floor?

Or is the object rather supposed to blend and appear common like a decorative
ceramic? Why would it be on a kitchen's floor... I guess it would be falling
towards it, then tilt it and create an even more tilted version with the
ghosting feature to make it like a motion blurred instant capture of its fall,
the moment before it breaks...

The colored object can change very much the composition of picture depending on
its rotation around vertical axis, make sure you pick the most satisfying to
your need: warm (redish) colors tend to appear closer than cold(bluish) ones...

Before setting up (not too strong) Uberpov blurry (roughness keyword) reflection
with fresnel, and if it's not already used, I would also give a try  at some 2
bounces Radiosity because it might behave better at the tiles' joints and in the
shadows around the colored object.

I would lower reflectivity of the colored object or moderate it with a fresnel
as well... unless you want to make it look wet, but then some kind of puddle
below would have to be modeled


adding a very small depth of field using aperture would make it slightly
photographic.

I would try to tint very slightly the light to give a clue as to whether it's
tungsten, neon, sunlight? with a blush tint from a sky sphere to balance it? or
sunrise, sunset?

That's all I think about right now. :-)

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